Yahoo Autos 2022 BMW 330e Long-Term Update: Tuning in, turning off, locking up
While Autoblog's 2022 BMW 330e xDrive long-term loaner is a pleasure to drive, I’ve got some complaints about the car’s behavior when the drive is over. There are three specific problems I’ve been having.
First, if I’ve got audio playing, it keeps playing until I lock the car. I have to manually pause it or turn it off when I turn the car off, or I’ll lose my place in my audiobook or podcast. Admittedly, this is something BMWs (and Minis) have been doing for many years now, but it's still annoying. Sometimes, seemingly while using Apple CarPlay, it will resume on its own between me exiting the car and locking it, even if I’ve pressed pause or powered down the audio. That's even more frustrating, and nothing in the manual or menus (that I could find) can change it.
Second, the car always turns off when I open the door while the car is in park. There doesn’t seem to be a way to keep the car on — and thus keep the A/C going — if, say, I have to get out of the car to grab something I forgot, to make sure I’ve locked the house or to grab the mail. I checked the menus and the owner’s manual, and located a setting in the “Doors/vehicle access” menu with a toggle-able checkbox marked “Turn off vehicle after opening door.” A solution! Nope. Even when I uncheck it, the car still turns off when I open the door.
