Passenger mirror tilt in reverse

[Patrick Bateman]

I've always found that the mirror tilts far too much to be useful but looking through the manual just there it says 'for each key you can have a specific angle set to which the passenger side mirror will tilt down'.

So, how do you change it?

[PJ S]

At a complete guess, select Reverse, and with the selector switch already on the passenger setting, adjust it up to your preferred position.
Storing its position may be the tricky part, if it's not automatically. Might be a case of putting the car into P or moving the selector switch to the null position, and then back again.

[markc123]

To position the mirror:
1. Push the mirror selector switch to the passenger side.
2. Put the car in reverse. (The mirror should tilt down)
3. Adjust the mirror position to what ever makes you happy.
4. Put the car back into N or 1. (The mirror should tilt back up)
That's it. Now when ever you back up the mirror will adjust to your custom settings, instead of all the way down. Please note that the mirror adjustment selector switch must be set to the passenger side for this to work. This is opposite of the way it works by default.

[Patrick Bateman]

The passenger mirror will only dip automatically when it's the driver's mirror that's selected.

[essayer]

Patrick Bateman said:

The passenger mirror will only dip automatically when it's the driver's mirror that's selected.

iirc this is a car/key memory option that has to be enabled by a dealer


http://www.e38.org/B090398_Att2_CKMSet.PDF

Mirror memory:

The position for the passenger-side exterior
mirror for the automatic parking function can
be stored for each key individually.
If “active” is selected and the mirror
adjustment switch is set to “passenger-side”,
the passenger-side mirror will be
automatically moved to the pre-selected
position when in reverse gear.
To store the “pre-set” position, adjust
manually passenger–side mirror while
reverse gear is engaged.
If “active is selected and the mirror switch is
set to “driver’s-side”, the automatic parking
function is deactivated.
If “inactive” is selected and the mirror
adjustment switch is set to “drive’s-side”, the
passenger-side mirror is automatically moved
to the lowest possible position when in
reverse gear. Selecting the “passenger-side
mirror” with the adjustment switch,
deactivates the automatic parking function.


so it looks like on your car it was not activated.

[Patrick Bateman]

What cars would actually have it like that though?

Mine has it as the manual states it, can't imagine many will be the other way.

[essayer]

It probably has a * by it in the manual indicating its an option. The way it works on your specific car indicates that the option hasn't been enabled.

I've had a few e46s and they've all had it activated, but it depends on what options were set sometime in the car's life. It's not a difficult job to enable it if your garage has the software, BMW would probably want £100 to do it ..