About to Pull the Trigger

[erick_c]

Been a lurker for a few weeks now and I'm about to pull the trigger on an US Spec X5 3.0si with the following options:

Monaco Blue with Gray Dakota & Bamboo
Or
AW w/ Black & Aluminum trim (4AD)
or
AW w/ Tobacco & Light Poplar

Options:
CWP
ZSP
RCP
Running Boards (I'm short, I need this so I can wash the roof :eek: )
Heated Rear
CA
PDC
6FL

I'm concerned about the Rear Climate Package. Basically, I'm worried that everytime I turn on the car, the RCP will turn on and I have to go back there (or reach back there) to turn it off. I know you can turn off the rear climate controls through iDrive. I guess my question is, if you turn it off (i.e. "press the little fan until it's off), does it stay off? Or do I just have to live with the fact that I need to turn it off in iDrive when I have no passengers and turn it on when I do.

[swesson]

Originally Posted by erick_c

Been a lurker for a few weeks now and I'm about to pull the trigger on an US Spec X5 3.0si with the following options:

Monaco Blue with Gray Dakota & Bamboo
Or
AW w/ Black & Aluminum trim (4AD)
or
AW w/ Tobacco & Light Poplar

Options:
CWP
ZSP
RCP
Running Boards (I'm short, I need this so I can wash the roof :eek: )
Heated Rear
CA
PDC
6FL

I'm concerned about the Rear Climate Package. Basically, I'm worried that everytime I turn on the car, the RCP will turn on and I have to go back there (or reach back there) to turn it off. I know you can turn off the rear climate controls through iDrive. I guess my question is, if you turn it off (i.e. "press the little fan until it's off), does it stay off? Or do I just have to live with the fact that I need to turn it off in iDrive when I have no passengers and turn it on when I do.

Great color combos and options! I believe the rear resets to 70 F with each car start, but I am not 100% sure. As you mentioned, you can reset it via iDrive, but it resets to what the driver's setting is.

[erick_c]

aw c'mon. Help me out here.

If you have the rear climate package, go out to ur X, turn her on and see if the rear hvac turns on. I'm giving you a reason to go visit your her early in the morning...

[wb488641]

Originally Posted by erick_c

aw c'mon. Help me out here.

If you have the rear climate package, go out to ur X, turn her on and see if the rear hvac turns on. I'm giving you a reason to go visit your her early in the morning...

say "thank you"
then i will check her out, i visit her every morning

[swesson]

Originally Posted by erick_c

aw c'mon. Help me out here.

If you have the rear climate package, go out to ur X, turn her on and see if the rear hvac turns on. I'm giving you a reason to go visit your her early in the morning...

Just checked it out and here's the scoop...

The rear climate package retains the last setting before the car is turned off. So, if it was off, it stays off..if it was set to 84f, then that's how it comes on.

Mystery solved.

[someone]

Actually I've got the rear climate too, it actually remembers which settings were in place the last time that key was in the car and goes back to whatever that was. Also, if you switch the rear off through the IDrive the back will default to whatever settings are on the front.

[rh71]

^ the fronts always turn on to low setting despite being off when you left last. Are you people saying the rears actually remembers when they were off?

[erick_c]

In my E46, the HVAC always turned on (albeit low) whenever I turned on the car.

The only way to have it not do so is to have the dealer turn reprogram the car to keep it off at start. To me, it wasn't worth the $100 reprogram just to save me a single button press.

With the ZRC, it's in the back, so reaching back there to turn it off is a hellavualot more inconvenient.

So, ZRC remembers the last setting.