I just loaded something in the rear hatch of our ID.4. The vehicle has been parked all afternoon, and the charger is attached and set to charge tonight. I did not have the keys with me nor did I open any of car doors, only the rear hatch. When I closed the hatch, the radio started playing. I am not sure if it would have stopped. I let it go for a couple minutes thinking it would shut off, but it did not. The only way I could get it to shut off was by sitting in drivers seat, and then getting out of the vehicle. This has never happened before and I haven't changed any settings recently, so I'm not sure what is causing it now. Any ideas?
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It's probably just another @^#!* software bug.
Honestly, everything about the ID.4's entire interlocking collection of Power-on/Power-off, Gear Shift, Auto-Hold, and Rear Collision Alert systems is just complete chaos: an excessively-complicated mess and anyone who tries can easily pick out a half dozen poorly implemented features and/or outright bugs in this mess.
Honestly, everything about the ID.4's entire interlocking collection of Power-on/Power-off, Gear Shift, Auto-Hold, and Rear Collision Alert systems is just complete chaos: an excessively-complicated mess and anyone who tries can easily pick out a half dozen poorly implemented features and/or outright bugs in this mess.
When we first got our 2021 red ID.4, we could not figure out how to turn off the radio.It was on all the time. I posted the question to this fine forum and was soon rewarded with a solution. But still, now and then, the car likes to listen to the news from the radio or to some music from my wife's iPhone, and turns it back on when I am not looking. This must be an undocumented feature. But then I suppose the car needs to sit back and enjoy the soothing sounds every once in a while. ..
This is just an aside, nothing to do with the ID.4...
In 2021 I traveled to Texas to pick up my other car, a BMW i3. It was brand new, around 20 miles on it, and the dealership had been in possession of it for six months. I had already spent two years in an earlier model year of this same car, so was familiar with it, but this one I was purchasing had a new version of iDrive software so the screens had a different appearance from my i3 back home.
The test drive went fine, but I remember when I parked it something seemed "off" (this will end up being a pun) but nothing I couldn't chalk up to the new software that I wouldn't resolve later. I went inside to sign the papers and an employee took it to do a last minute detailing and plug it in to a charger.
I set off on my drive home to California and the first thing that pops out at me when I stop in town to pick up a phone charger is the radio doesn't turn off when I park it. I didn't have the radio playing during the test drive, so that not the "something" I picked up on earlier at the dealership.
Then later I noticed the air conditioning wasn't turning off (the "immediate climate control" option wasn't appearing upon exit, so I figured maybe this was activated differently in the new software). And then as I'm driving in to nightI notice the headlights don't turn off when I park. Even further in to my drive I found that some of the auxiliary screens I'm accustom to -- charging timer, reduced rate, door beep, some media screens that were there on my old iDrive version -- they're simply not there!
Because I (more or less) drove straight through, I never really left the car. When I did, it was plugged in to a DC charger, or if I needed a nap, I was in the car. So it wasn't until a couple days later that I arrived home that I realized what was really up: the car didn't power off until the clock ran out. I had to mute the radio and manually shut off the headlights and climate control. The center screen showed whatever -- nav, menus, audio menus.
When I took it to my local dealership they ended up keeping the car for days and eventually reloaded the entire software package. Something must have been terribly corrupt. They also swapped the 12 volt battery. That could have been the original culprit, but just as likely it was being abused by the system that just didn't want to quit.
In 2021 I traveled to Texas to pick up my other car, a BMW i3. It was brand new, around 20 miles on it, and the dealership had been in possession of it for six months. I had already spent two years in an earlier model year of this same car, so was familiar with it, but this one I was purchasing had a new version of iDrive software so the screens had a different appearance from my i3 back home.
The test drive went fine, but I remember when I parked it something seemed "off" (this will end up being a pun) but nothing I couldn't chalk up to the new software that I wouldn't resolve later. I went inside to sign the papers and an employee took it to do a last minute detailing and plug it in to a charger.
I set off on my drive home to California and the first thing that pops out at me when I stop in town to pick up a phone charger is the radio doesn't turn off when I park it. I didn't have the radio playing during the test drive, so that not the "something" I picked up on earlier at the dealership.
Then later I noticed the air conditioning wasn't turning off (the "immediate climate control" option wasn't appearing upon exit, so I figured maybe this was activated differently in the new software). And then as I'm driving in to nightI notice the headlights don't turn off when I park. Even further in to my drive I found that some of the auxiliary screens I'm accustom to -- charging timer, reduced rate, door beep, some media screens that were there on my old iDrive version -- they're simply not there!
Because I (more or less) drove straight through, I never really left the car. When I did, it was plugged in to a DC charger, or if I needed a nap, I was in the car. So it wasn't until a couple days later that I arrived home that I realized what was really up: the car didn't power off until the clock ran out. I had to mute the radio and manually shut off the headlights and climate control. The center screen showed whatever -- nav, menus, audio menus.
When I took it to my local dealership they ended up keeping the car for days and eventually reloaded the entire software package. Something must have been terribly corrupt. They also swapped the 12 volt battery. That could have been the original culprit, but just as likely it was being abused by the system that just didn't want to quit.
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