Hey again everybody. You ever buy a used BMW and don't really know your key fob
is going to do for you? Well BMW has a lot of key fob tricks so let me walk you through
how this works. It's going to work on my BMW X5 diesel, this is a 2009 it also
works, most of these tricks work on my e60 m5, and these tricks almost all work
on all the other lineups in the 2000 model years, 335, 328s, and so on, and so
forth. So let's get started. Now the first thing is the soft touch,
this is the comfort now that unlocked it, and of course I hit
it again, now it's locked. So then we have two keys, two key fobs, one for him, and
one for her, and this is going to give you the presets that you left it at last.
So last time the female one is what actually locked up the car, so this seat
had her preset. Now I'm going to use the his key and I'm going to unlock it and
you should see the seat move. So I'm going to hit this open that up, and you'll
notice the seat sliding back to my position. That's the his preset, so you
can either do them manually here on the seats of course, or you can use the key
fob here to operate that as well. Now the next BMW key fob trick happens to be unlocking and
opening the windows and the sunroof. So I'm gonna press and hold this for at
least three seconds. Now the windows as long as you hold this, the windows will
open, and keep holding it, the sunroof is actually opening. I'm holding this, and
you'll notice the sunroof is actually moving as well. Now here's a trick, this
will not work in the North American market. I know there's a lot of guys on
the internet that say this will work. This will not work and in most
jurisdictions like here up in Canada, probably the US market, I would say you
can't re-close with the button. Some markets you can. You could possibly get
it re-coded, but if I press and hold some markets will allow you all the windows
to re-close and the sunroof to re-close. When you hold this down, obviously it's
not working here, you have to do it manually and a large part of that has to
do with the fact that liabilities. They don't want
you accidentally closing a window on somebody hanging outside the window.
Let's assume that the car is locked, just lock that up, so we're coming along we're
going to go unlock the car. We're going to go for a drive. I'm going to
open the door, got the key in my hand of course, now I don't need this key in some
cases, if you don't have the comfort version, you need the key in the slide
here. I don't need that key in the slot I can put the key up here. I can put it
kind of wherever I want, put on the brake, press the start, it'll start. Now what I
like about this, a lot really has to do with the fact that now I can grab this
key, I can leave that, everything's running but I can walk away, put the key
in my hand. Now I can go in the house let the car warm up, and of course I can lock
it while I'm doing this, so I can put this in my pocket, nice and safe and
sound, and I can go and let the car warm up somewhere else. So did you know these
cars also come equipped with a tilt sensor, and also with an interior motion
detection? That's great if you want to protect it from thievery.
What problem I typically find often with these BMWs is when
you're washing the car at the car wash, this thing starts beeping all the time,
in the car wash. Now there's a way to disable that, and it can be done through
this, so if you're going, you want to go wash your car or you have a pet in the
car for some reason, you want to leave the pet in the car or you've got kids in
the car, of course you're not going to leave them far back, you're going to be sitting
outside watching your children. Let's say it's raining out, but you do want the
kids to be protected and they're inside the car. There is a way to shut off that
sensor so the thing doesn't start beeping just because somebody's inside.
They're a dog or your kid, you can actually you use this, you actually
use the lock, you press it once when you get the light, you press it again.
Okay so we're going to try it now, normal style. We're going to lock it up, somebody's
in the car of course, they're gonna start moving around and we'll see if this
motion detector sets off
with the normal mode of operation. See now there's the alarm, so know what
we'll do just to turn that off, disable, it will unlock the car, now we'll make
like we're going to rescue the church person, close it. Now we're going to try to
disable the actual tilt system. Wo we're gonna hit this, we're gonna hit it again,
there's another little click in there, now we're gonna test that,
and you'll notice there's absolutely no response to the system. The tilt alarm
has been disabled by basically pressing the close button once and very shortly
after pressing the close button one more time you'll hear a very small audible
click, and that disables the system. Then this gets re-enabled once you unlock, run
the car, and re-lock it again, you'll be back to normal operation. Now there's a
few other little generic things of course, so this is typical as I explained
before, unlock, lock, the car is locked, also if you want to open the hatch,
pretty straightforward.
You'll notice this car also has the option of having the nice little light
shining down off the handles, that's a nice feature, so this of course has
another couple features. You squeeze this tab, you pull that out, this gives you a
mechanical key. Now which, if your battery dies, you got an issue with the fog battery, or
some other problem with the electronics, it allows you to get into the car. You can
lock or unlock with this so that gives you that flexibility, that's your
saving grace right there. Of course that's also how you change the battery
is on the back here. A very simple process if you guys would like to see
that very simple but I can show you that if you really really would like to see
that on the next one, button that down and we're ready for action. So just remember
that will work on virtually every BMW. Some have a few options that others
don't have and such, like the soft touch or the comfort operation, some of these
you know will have it. Most BMWs of that era will have some form of this
functionality, and so this really does apply. It doesn't matter if you've got
the e60 m5 like I have. It doesn't matter about the X5 here. How about a 335, or a
328, or a 320? How about any of the other models that you have during that
generation. You know in the 2000s, into the you know, 2011, 2012, that generation
with this particular key fob, is consistent up to around, 2011, 2012. In
which case then they actually added a another third little button at the
bottom which gives you further functionality, which will illuminate the
headlights, for example temporarily if you need some light, if you're in a dark
spot and you need that ligh,t you can actually press this, there's a third
button that this one doesn't have on it. That's on a later model. So everybody I
really hope you enjoyed the video. Mark here again checking out with Exotic Car
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