ctC230K

my car has the rain sensing windshield wipers, is the car supposed to close the windows and sunroof when it detects rain? is this something the dealer has to program? my car is going in the shop saturday to have them disable the "no phone" message in the obc, i'm gonna see if they can get the windows to close when it rains too.

i know on most bmw's with rain sensing rearview mirror it closes them.

JeT

I use to wonder the same thing...it would not be a difficult feature to develop, may be in the future. But to answer your question - no, it does not close when rain hits the sensor.

nlpamg

that would be a cool feature. as for the "no phone" message, let us know how that goes, I didn't know that you could disable that. if it works out fine, I'll have them do that to mine as well. tell me more about what they do! thanks!

ctC230K

yup i read it in someone else's post here, dealer said they just have to hook it up and change a setting, no charge.

JeT

From an old post, the steps to go through in Star Diag are as follows:

Control Units -> Info. and comms. -> ICM -> Control Unit Adaptations -> Version Coding -> Optional Equipment

In the optional equipment menu you can set the following to present or not-present depending on what you have:

AUDIO, Tele-aid, Cellular Telephone, Trip Computer, Navigation

Best thing to do is print this out as the SAs often have to stuff around with the menus before they know what they are looking for.

Oh, and this is for the pre-2003/2004 models...it may be different for the 05s.

ctC230K

one more ?
anyone know if the 05 c230 plays MP3s? like mp3 cds?

nlpamg

if you have command, I think it does. but otherwise, nope; I tried it and it doesn't work.

ctC230K

nope no command

CitronC230K_03

yeah you can disable the no phone message. i had mine disabled when i picked up the car, and re-enabled when i had UHI installed.

Deutscher_Wagen

are you talking about disabling the me 'no phone' message when switching thought the MFD?

Also, when I took my car to the dealer last time I asked them to enable the NL chirping for the alarm, and was told that was "impossible" and didn't exist.
Does anyone know where I can find the tech instructions for setting the NL chirp alarm setting? I have been searching around without any luck.

ctC230K

Yes. It's annoying to have extra crap to flip past when you're trying to get to the audio or miles screen.
Thats a good idea, i'll add that to my list! having the alarm chirp when you lock the doors would be nice.

revstriker

Although the windows and sunroof won't close with the rain sensor (frankly, I wouldn't want them to), you can close all of them at once with a touch of the recirculation button.

JohnCL

I have an '02 and I have the chirp activated, so I know that it can be done. The '05's may be different, but someone with more knowledge will have to verify that.

CitronC230K_03

my 03 has NL setting activated. the dealer always says its impossible if they have no clue what your talking about.

the NO PHONE message had to be disabled using a star diag computer. the dealer disabled it, steve enabled it when he install UHI.

Deutscher_Wagen

that is exactly the case.

ctC230K

say you park your car on a sunny day with the sunroof wide open, an hour later it starts to rain. you wouldn't want the sunroof to close itself to save your interior from being trashed by water damage?

CitronC230K_03

say you took your car to the car wash (the kind that goes thru the tunnel). the auto wipers turn on, get bent or damaged. who are you going to blame?

to add to that, where the hell does it rain within an hour of a sunny day?

JohnCL

Leaving your roof open is asking for trouble IMO (punks throwing **** in there). Mine is never open when I am not in the car.

ctC230K

auto wipers do not turn on unless wipers are in intermitent position.
ever been to Florida? lol

revstriker

I'd never park my car with the sunroof open.

CitronC230K_03

exactly, that being said:
your saying, on a sunny day you'll already have your wipers set to intermitent, with the roof open. then an hour later it will start raining and convienently you would like your roof and windows to close because your wipers were set to intermitent on a sunny day?

sounds like a little much to ask for.

then again, im not in Florida so.................

MB-BOB

In the scenario you mention the windshield wipers won't automatically turn on, either.

Any feature that works automatically when you are not in the car would also work when you are driving it. So:

On a humid-rainy day, you might actually want control over your windows when it rains (the ability to crack the window yourself). With an autoclose feature, the flexibility to control window fogging without the A/C would be taken away. You crack the window only to have the sensor close it again.

Further, while no one can get hurt if your wipers sweep when it starts to rain, there is the potential of getting arms, hands or fingers trapped in an automatic window that closes on its own without warning. Yes, the anti-trap feature will activate. But MB wouldn't want the liability of such a feature. They secretly realize how stupid and sue-happy customers can be, especially American customers.

So, at the end of the day, it's far better to take responsibility for closing the sunroof yourself when you leave the car, rather than trust to the whims of weather, pidgeons that ate too many blueberries, or human cretons who hate upscale cars.

GGM

Yep. Live there. And I can confirm that in the summer the rain does come up quite suddenly. But I wouldn't leave the sunroof open anywhere but in my driveway. About 23 years ago I used to leave the top down on my convertible (and the interior got rained on a few times, but it was vinyl). Now, I wouldn't think of leaving the car opened and parked somewhere. Times have changed.

GGM

nicedeboy

Can anyone say, Lazy?

JeT

Melbourne.

Honestly, auto close sunroof using the rain sensor would be simply a novelty...I would never leave my sunroof open.