I notice when i start the engine, the AC always turns on no matter if I turn it off or leave it on before shutting down the engine. does anyone experience the same thing?

 

Nope. not here...do you have it on auto by chance

 

i am not sure but I have auto climate control and the AC is always on when i use auto. I don't know if this helps but its all I got :-)

 

This makes me wish that I didn't have Automatic Climate Control.

 

its an easy fix....dont leave it on auto lol.....

 

I don't leave it on auto and sure enough, every time I start up, it's on. So if you have a real solution, I'd like to hear it. It's always been off before shutting the car down.

 

Do you have windshield defog, selected?

 

I shut off everything right after startup and leave it that way. It's not that the A/C comes on, but the fan is always on at the lowest level at startup.

 

I have the auto climate control and if shut the AC off, when I turn the car back on the AC is still shut off. This is in my parking garage so maybe the car factors in temperature when deciding to turn the air on or off on startup?

 

I have auto climate control off, but the fan turn on every time, the auto climate control is still off. I may give the dealship a call if i cannot figure this out.

 

If you find anything, don't keep it a secret.

Thanks

 

same issue here. its annoying

 

I haven't had the presence of mind to test this as I'm in Texas and I want it to do that, but have you tried taking it off of auto before turning it off,

 

MAYBE and I say that not having F series MINI, but I had the whole weird stuff would come on when I started and it didn't feel right.

So I asked my MA what gives and he said to put the key into the slot and start the car, make all the setting I wish to have active(?) and all extra stuff like lights, radio, connected, air, heat etc set where I wanted them.
Then shut off the car and remove the key.
Next time I placed that same key in the slot, all my setting were there and the whole air on was gone, as I don't run it that much anyway.

NOW, my wife has the key in slot on her R56 S
I have the comfort access on my R55 fJCW Clubman
She would carry the second Fob when in my car and who ever got in first it seemed that fob took over the primary settings, we found this out with trail and error!

So in short we set up all her fobs the same way and leave the spare in the house.
We set up my two fobs exactly the same and also leave the spate in the house now.

Haven't had an issue since, hope this might lead you F56 folks into the correct fix.

Good Luck

 

F56 doesn't have a key slot!

 

But it does have profiles tied to the fob, and you can select the profile from the car.

 

I read somewhere the automatic A/C will turn on the fan when parked if too hot in the car at certain times.

 

There's an on/off option for that and timer settings also. Mine is set to off.

 

The F30 3 Series I have does this...fan will be on the lowest setting whenever I start the car. The A/C stays off though, unless it was on when I turned off the car last.

Maybe its a new BMW thing.

 

Seems to me my Auto-Climate 2005 MC behaved that way. I just let it do what it did. It could be dehumidifying. It would decide whether to heat or cool (or a blend of the two). Below a certain temp, no cooling took place, in actuality. Is it just the light being on that concerns you? My guess is that it's behaving normally, although I always left mine on "auto" and yet you say you've turned your "auto" setting to off? Hmmm...

 

has anyone noticed the 'comfort climate' setting buried in the settings? Mine is grayed out and i can't select it, but I can set timers, which don't work because of the settings not being available.

 

and disabling the auto AC still has the car start with the system on

 

On comfort climate you have to set both timers, the first is when to turn it on, the second turns it off.

I think.

Once those are set I believe you can enable it. Did it once. Need to try again.

I did test turning AC off of auto, then rotating the dual all the way to off, then turning the car off and back on and it did not start back up. The fan stayed off. But I don't see a way to toggle the AC separately -- the "I don't want the AC on, just blow the fan" type of setting that used to be called "Vent".

 

Ok so I checked in both of these -- you can turn the fan off when you shut down and it'll stay off, but I believe the AC switch will come back on.

As for timers, I wasn't able to confirm one is in and the other off, but if you set times for those you can then enable comfort ventilation even without enabling the timers. Odd, but it works. So with the car off you can turn on the fan.

 

I know that mine seems to start with what feels like cooler air blowing through the front defogger, not the the A/C vents. 'Auto' is off. A/C is off when I shut off the car.