Strange goings on E61 M5

[ecain63]

This morning i took the car over to a local PH Rolling Road event to test the beast after her box rebuild and reboot. I normally use the same key fob in the car every time i drive it as the spare is locked away secure but today i decided to use the spare. Here's the mystery:

I started the car up and i immediately noticed that all my driver settings were wrong. M Mode was all messed up, shif speed setting was in the 'gay' area, the seats and steering wheel were not right and the aircon was in an unusual mode. My question is, 'do the keys record your usual settings?'.

I dont think ive used that spare key since i bought the car last year so could it be that its got the settings for the previous owner on it? If so thats quite cool. Maybe i'll give my wife her own key, programmed with her own settings then. That'll save me having to adjust it for her when she uses the car (yes i know she can auto select the settings on the seat by pressing the numbers but she is a woman after all).

Eddie

[Nedz]

That will almost certainly be the case.On my E46 m3 you can program the key to store seat position settings,auto locking of the doors once driving off and on the smg model you can program which gearshift mode you prefer amongst other things.It should tell you how to store the various settings to the key memory in the owners manual.

Handy as you can program your wifes key to run all the conservative settings and she will probably be none the wiser!!

[ecain63]

Winner, thanks mate.

[MC99]

E92 m3 did, was annoying if you picked the wrong (ie not the usual key), it remembers everything, all nav, radio, m settings etc useful.

[BalhamBadger]

Nedz said:

Handy as you can program your wifes key to run all the conservative settings and she will probably be none the wiser!!

Love this.

[PeterNem]

My partner and I keep a key each and yes - each key stores it's own settings. You actually have 4 seat memories as they're not combined across key's... something which confused us at first as we programmed memory 1 and 2 respectively expecting the settings to be persistent regardless of the key inserted.

[Jonboy_t]

As above, the keys store alomst all of the driver chosen specifications in the car. It should move the seat/mirrors etc when the key is put in the ignition.

Great little game is to nick your wifes key, reset all the settings to the furthest possible away from where they have it, save it, and then manually change things back so it looks normal. When they get in the car, well, you get it.

I need to get out more...