Mojito, what you say makes complete sense, but I'm trying to figure why Y8s' keyfob fully opens his sunroof, but in our car the sunroof will only pop up and not open all the way. I want what he has :-)

 

have you tried the obvious?: keep holding the button down after it pops up.

 

Yes, several times, including a few minutes ago. Just call me jealous

 

Y8s, the owners manual says the keyfob will only pop up the sunroof, not open it all the way. So how did you get yours to open all the way?

 

just tried it, held down for 30 seconds. no go. Tried it again with the windows already down, no go.

People have coded it for the reverse to happen with locking, so I'm sure this could be done as well.

 

Just tried it on our R53, the keyfob is able to fully open the sunroof. Then again, the R53 also has one touch closing of the sunroof too, whereas the CM apparently does not.

 

The owner's manual does not seem to mention that the "one touch to close" feature on the power windows is defeated if that door is open. No doubt this is because there is a greater chance of getting a finger pinched while the door is being opened and closed.

 

Sorry to create an uproar or cause sunroof opening envy. Mine only pops but the windows will continue to roll down as long as I hold the unlock button. I'm glad because it uses a lot of power to put the windows down, the sunroof is a lot of power for that big motor. I wish I could do the same by pressing and holding the lock button - may ask about this at the dealer next time in.

 

Don't forget the sun shade for the windshield if you don't have one already. Especially vital for the extra UV rays we get up at 5,000+ feet in NM if you want to keep your dash looking nice

 

Yours seems to be normal per the manual. Still waiting to hear from Y8s as to how he was able to change his car so the sunroof fully opens with the keyfob. I want my CM to be like my R53 in that respect.

 

OMG! Thanks for posting this!! I just tried it and it actually works!!! So completely cool - I had no idea!!

 

so last night after work I went out to my CM with my phone to take a video of my hand on the fob and all the windows and sunroof in the background.

I held the unlock button down while filming....

and I have a nice video of it only popping up.



I guess I was confused between the fob and the interior toggle switch. You can see if it's programmable though I guess.

Sorry about that!

 

Darn!

 

i preface this post by saying my CMS All4 has the manual tranny and i did not read the OM about the automatic tranny ....

i was driving my dad's CMS All4 with auto tranny to do an oil/filter change and rotate the tires ...

sport button ON, shifter to the LEFT in manual mode, cruise ON, motoring on a limited access hwy ... approaching a red light, i pushed the paddle shifter to downshift from 6th to 5th, expecting the cruise to disengage ....

BUT IT DID NOT DISENGAGE, i was now in 5th with cruise ON, downshifted again to 4th, same result

pressed I/O and came to a stop, upon green, i accelerated, shifted to 2nd, hit RES, cruise engaged and accelerating, shifted from 2nd thru to 6th, cruise stayed ON

called the dealer, asked for service, asked them if this is normal, answer "I DON"T KNOW" ...

so ... does your automatic CMS allow you to manually shift with CRUISE ENGAGED without disengaging cruise?

scott

 

Tried the same thing in my Mercedes SLK and Pathfinder, too, same result.

 

interesting, not how i would expect cruise to work

scott

 

I didn't know that SIRI on the iPhone 4S would work flawlessly over bluetooth and y-cable! No MiniConnect or Nav. Just H/K upgrade and bluetooth package. Pretty awesome find! Read txts, send txts, make calls and do everything SIRI does.

 

This is how the cruise has worked in every automatic I've driven. I used to notice it in my sister's car growing up (20 years ago), because it would downshift to go up hills then upshift after the crest.

 

only 1 of the 10 vehicles i have owned had an automatic and it did not have cruise ... but every manual shift car/truck with cruise, touch the clutch (or brake) and cruise is disengaged, so the idea of shifting without cruise disengaging was a surprise

it is different, but i am glad to know it is normal and not a problem with my dad's All4

thanks

scott

 

May have been mentioned here already. . .
When you have the wipers on either of the two speeds, when you come to a stop light/sign they slow down or stop. Then they go back to normal speed as you accelerate. (First drive in the rain since I've had it, if you couldn't tell)

 

Good to know. I will test it out this weekend when I finally go for a real drive. Put on about 200 km in the past 2 weeks and my wife does most of the driving.

 

I didn't realize just how deep the cost cutting effort went on the carpet and floormats. My vacuum spent an extensive amount of time getting close and personal with the CM today and the floor carpets can barely be called that. Forget about complete dog hair removal with that cheap material. The floor mats are no better.

In comparison, the R53 dosen't have the thickest of carpet carpet either, but at least it vacuums fairly easily. The R53's carpet floor mats are in a cool material and at 80k miles look better than the R60's which only have 2k miles on them since I had rubber mats through the winter.

Cost cutting is OK so long as perceived quality is not diminished. This would rate as a fail IMO.

On the plus side I was happy to realize the rubber mat at the bottom of the rail is easy to remove for thourough cleaning. Given theat I have the polar beige color line, that thing was looking a little grungy around the edges but now it looks like new again.

 

I take my stiff bristled tire brush, slightly damp, and brush the mats in all four directions and then vacuum them and they look like new.

 

I love the look of the reflective border, but in just a week of ownership they appear to have picked up every single piece of dirt, leaf, dust, dirt etc.... I may have to get cocoa mats or others mats quicker than I had planned.

Michael

 

I like the look of the black mats but they DO show everything! Vacuuming only goes so far. I shake off, vacuum and then lint roll them when I detail. I don't have a dog, but an occasional hair falls and those are best picked up with the lint sticky. In a pinch I cover the mat with wide blue masking tape. Everything comes right up. No wear points yet, but the car is only 5 months old...