Josh P. said:
save your anti-urban screed
Oh my! I didn't realize my ingrained city-phobic mistrust (based on my childhood near NYC), was so thinly veiled as to be that obvious to people who didn't even know me!
Josh P. said:
If you have kids, then the auto-locking is a nice feature
Sure. But still, shouldn't it be an option that the user can set themselves?
doru said:
a guy tried to open the rear door of the car.
Wow. Never happened to me. I can count thousands of times that I had to go back into the car, lean over to the middle of the console, and press the unlock button ... just to open the trunk or to open a rear door though.
I prefer to leave the locking and unlocking decisions wholly to me, not to a dumb vehicle which does the same thing every time, not realizing I'm in my own driveway just getting the mail, thinking someone's gonna carjack me at any moment between my garage and my mailbox.
Anyway, the point is that we should be able to set whether we want autounlock or not, by ourselves ... sans the stealer.
I should note that ever since I joined Bimmerfest, I have NOT had to go to the dealer (except for minor emergency parts such as the $10 oil-drain plug and $5 radiator nipple). And I don't plan on going just to change the annoying automatic door unlock feature.
Hence the question, which relates, I think, to the following:
- The Peake (all versions, afaik) does not unset the auto-unlock feature
- We all know Carsoft version 6.x does not unset auto-unlock
- Carsoft BMW Home Edition v7.x and 8.x does unset auto-unlock
- From this thread, Easy-DIS (version unknown) can "set" auto-unlock (but I'm not sure about unsetting auto-unlock)
- GT1, I'm not sure if it can unset auto-unlock
- INPA, I'm not sure if it can unset auto-unlock
- EDIABAS, I'm not sure if it can unset auto-unlock
So, it would be nice to have a table which confirms whether these 7 programs can unset the autounlock.
I could (and probably should) do an hour long search to see if it has been mentioned already; but this is an auto-unlock thread, so it's appropriate to mention the sum total of the programs which "might' unset the auto-lock feature.
PS: It would also be appropriate to add pricing information to that table.