04-17-2017, 10:34 PM | #1 |
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Drive mode going to Comfort on its own?
Can the drive mode switch itself back to comfort after you flick it up into sport?
Was surprised a few days ago when I thought I was driving in Sport, but turned out to be comfort. Didn't shut off the engine in between. Maybe I just forgot - switch has worked fine since. But assuming that's not the case, could it be an electrical gremlin of some sort? ZF8 M235i has about 33.5K miles. |
04-17-2017, 11:14 PM | #2 |
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If you get a low tire or other major code it will lock into comfort. Did temps drop enough to maybe trigger low warning then tires warmed up bringing it back above threshold?
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04-18-2017, 02:18 AM | #3 |
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Ah right I remember reading that. No, didn't see any low pressure warning - temp was pretty warm outside and tires had good pressure.
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04-18-2017, 06:58 PM | #5 |
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I've had the same thing happen on two occasions which I can recall. No warnings, errors, nothing.
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As far as I can tell, yes. There's certainly been times when I've found myself in comfort mode thinking I was in sport, but most of those occasions I can't be 100% certain I remembered to switch to sport on startup.
However, on one roadtrip, I found myself in comfort 10 minutes or so into the drive so I switched to sport (thinking I forgot). Half an hour later or so, I found myself back in comfort. I KNOW I had changed to sport. Well, I switched back, and sure enough, I eventually found myself back in comfort mode. Put it back in sport a third time and it stayed there for the last hour of the drive. I have no clue why it changed on me those two times. That was about two months ago now. It hadn't happened in the previous 5 months since the car was new, nor in the 2 months since.
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Not that I know of. It's not like I constantly look at iDrive, but I'd say I look at it every few minutes or so (almost every time a new song comes on). There was definitely no error that required confirmation. It's possible something came up that cleared itself, but even though I'm not looking directly at it, I think I'd likely notice if the screen changed without me doing it; it's pretty hard to miss even when you're not looking directly at it.
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So I ran a diagnostic with Carly Pro about a week ago and no errors reappeared after clearing the faults. I'm guessing if something was weird with the drive modes, the diagnostics should have picked it up.
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