Any way to stop the air conditioning turning on?
 

Hello

there is any way i can stop the air conditioning turning on every time i turn on my X5?

Thanks!

Have the dealer turn that off in car and key memory, thats where you can turn on/off the daytime running lights, door locking after drive off, remember last radio/ac/seat setting per key (gives you a his/hers with 2 keys) etc. They will probably charge you 0.5 hour labor, but you can have them turn it off.

it sucks that i have to pay to have something that should be natural!

Also , there is an option to open all the windows and sunroof pressing the open button , why there is not an option to close all of then pressing the closing button? Mistery...

The car and key memory settings are set to the customers liking for free when it is purchased new, if you recently bought it used from a dealer, you can probably talk them into setting it for you...

As for the "convenience opening" unfortuneately thats just the way its been on all BMW's with that option, you have to stick your key in the ignition and turn to the lock position and hold it to close all of them. I don't know why they never set it to go up with the remote, probably because there is a "panic" option for the oem alarm that uses that button...

I think turning it off is unnatural. It is designed to be on. Improves ventilation, reduces humidity in winter. I haven't turned an airconditioner off in 20 years.

You can't raise the windows because BMW disabled that feature in the USA. You get it in Europe. They apparently were nervous of being sued by people who got their neck trapped in the window when they sat on their key fob.

AAAH! that explains it... Americans do tend to be sue happy.. everyones looking for that meal ticket.

Conventional wisdom says if I turn something off, I want it off. I don't need the car turning it on for me. But this is just one of several stupid things about the climate ctrl system. Don't get me started on that stupid wheel thingy between the vents.

i've noticed that if i keep turning it off before i shut the car off. Eventually it "remembers" and keeps it off when i start it the next time. But then if I have to use the AC for some reason, the whole process starts all over again.

When I turn off my AC with the * button, my AC Stays off until I push the button again no matter how many times I start the car.. The AC also able to be turned off while in the auto mode too.

Don't blame the people, blame the system!!! If the government made people accountable for their own actions, then they would not allow those kind of lawsuits. But I digress...

Allright, I've got to ask, what about the wheel?:dunno:

Yes, what is wrong with the wheel? Works great for me. Trouble is, people think it is a temperature selector and use it as such. But then, I have left the air conditioning on automatic in 5 different BMWs over the last 6 years, and never had a problem.

but it make no sense : if i want it off it must stay off! :D

With this beatuiful temperatures this summer i love to stay with the sunroof open instead of stay closed in my car with the air conditoning on.

I don't understand the prob? Our '01 A/C is never on, at start...
it's set to 60/60F both sides, with fan to one light, when
I get in.

If I want more fan or other vent outlets I poke the buttons.

If I want A/C I poke the snowflake button. I usually turn
off A/C for the mtn road climb home, as the temps drop 10 degs.
and the 10 min climb, minus a/c, keeps the musty smell
down.

A/C on, A/C off...mine does not come on by itself.
GL,mD

as i said mine turn on by itself every time i turn on the car , even if it is off when i turn off the car

mine does as well. dealer wants $68 to turn it off, I'll get to it eventually.

what does that wheel do? been meaning to find out, lol

That little book in your glovebox tells you all about it.

It provides a temperature offset from whatever you have set on the AC, each red or blue dot is one degree warmer or colder. It only applies to the centre top vent. So, you can have 20 C automatically held in the vehicle, and 19 C blowing on your face, to keep you alert (simply as an example). Some people mistakenly assume it is a temperature setting, set it to full hot or cold, and end up with the vent wheel fighting with the main temp sensor for control; the result is that the automatic temperature control doesn't function effectively then. If you don't want to use it, just leave it at the mid position. I always have it set on one blue dot, and it has functioned perfectly in all my BMW vehicles. Others rant about it endlessly, saying that they can't get the auto temp function to work properly. Hmmm. See the first sentence.

i think this kind of behavior is the same with all BMWs not only X5...

Must be the non-Climate Control/non-auto HVAC system,
because my A/C has never come "on" when I start the car, unless
I left it on when I turned it off. I'm still confused by Panda being
confused, but that's my addled age showing.

Well this is going to bring the thread OT, but I would like to understand the function of the wheel and use it as intended. What the hell does it do, if it is not a temp selector? When I turn it to red, it gets warm. When I turn it to blue, it gets cold. Seems like a temp selector to me.

See my post #17 in this thread.

When i bought my x5 this was happening to me aswell. But when i reprogrammed the seat memory i had the a/c off, and it hasn't turned back on since. Try and reprogram your seat memory with the a/c off and see what it does.

Well that's good information about it only affecting the center vent. I have not heard that before... but everyone keeps saying that it's not a temp selector. Then in the next sentence, turning it to red makes it hotter and blue makes it colder. Isn't that the definition of a temp selector? :dunno:

The problem is, BMW does a piss poor job of explaining the wheel. When I got my E46, the dealer told me "If you want it hot, turn it twd red. When you want it cold, turn it twd blue." I mean we all know most sales people are morons, but this is ridiculous.

As for that little book in the glovebox that "tells me all about it," Here's a quote on pg. 109 in the Air Conditioning section: "With the serrated dial you can adjust the temperature of the incoming air:
>Turn toward blue: colder
>Turn toward red: warmer"

Brilliant.

Has anybody tried this yet? im still at work and cant wait to try this...

and it is working as LivinLoud said it, woohooo.... at last...
i want the the AC off everytime i start it, espcially now its cold outside...:thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

and i celebrated way too early yesterday, this morning when i unlocked the X, got in, started her, AC was on... :loco: :rofl:

i give up, now i believe this feature can only be set by the dealer....

Well it did work for me but it may have been already done at the dealer prior to my ownership as I do believe the previous owner had some other things programmed already such as the DRL's. Sorry that it didnt work for you.

i will try it today ;)

I tried it and doesn't work

CaliColin,
The easiest way to understand the wheel in the centre is this- When in the full red position the centre vent will blow what ever temp air is required to achieve the selected temp on the climate system, in other words, on a hot day it will blow cold air to cool the car and then steadily get warmer when the selected temp is reached and vice versa on a cold day. If you get into the situation where the air blowing out of all vents is too warm (on a cold rainy night for instance) and you would like some cold air to blow on your face (for instance, on a cold rainy night and you are feeling tired), then you just start edging the selector wheel toward the blue direction untill you get the temp to the desired degree of coldness. Note, that this is only affects the centre vent, the other vents will keep blowing warm.
It is designed to keep you awake on long, cold drives at night when the climate control is pumping out sleep inducing, hot air to keep you warm.
Me? I leave it in the full hot position and let the climate control handle the heating/cooling.
I have had three BMW, and every owner's manual has had a very bad description on how this wheel works.
Colin.

i tried , it is working! :thumbup:

is still working??


the first time i tried it, it worked too... heres what happened:
1. put the key on 1 or 2 (not sure), turned off the AC, set memory 1
2. went out of the X, closed all the doors, locked the X
3. unlocked it after 5 seconds, got in, start the X...
and the AC is still off... so i thought it was working....
went to bed happpy :rofl: :rofl:

but the next day, the AC was back on... :(

the same happended with me....
is there any solution for that????

:iagree:in a perfect, accountable world...we can only hope people will actually own up to their stupidity. :rolleyes: CRAP, I just spilled my hot (I know, I wanted cold) coffee...I need 2 million to shut my fat ass up.