Air recirculate automatic selection

I haven't tried this, but maybe: go to the climate screen, select OFF, then select a fan setting, then select outside air ? Having done that it should stay that way until you change it OR select Auto.

 

I've got exactly the same gripe Peter. I also like to just use fresh air instead of A/C when the weather is mild or warm, but almost every time I restart the car it set's it back to recirculate. I also find it really annoying, especially after I set it to fresh at the start of the trip then stop for three minutes (for fuel or food etc) and resume driving ... after ten minutes I notice how uncomfortable and stuffy it is and then it's like oh yeah I forgot that I've got to push that recir/fresh button EVERY time I start the car.

While it often does this sometimes it doesn't do it and I'm not really sure why/whynot. Maybe it's got something to do with the external temperature. I'm guessing that if the external temperature is over some threshold then it just assumes that you should have A/C on and so sets it the recirc.

BTW. I find the little recirculate icon on the dash useful, you have to look for it every time you start, and the little half circle button on the upper right side of the steering wheel to toggle recirc/fresh is a lot easier than using the multifunction display.

 

Yeah I've had that happen too, it's like it's almost like it's always trying to catch you out. Sometimes I think little things like this are just so annoying because you've got a mindless piece of electronics constantly trying to override your settings and your preferences, and getting it wrong every time of course! What ever happened to Asimov's second law of (science fiction) robotics, grrrrrr. [ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics]Three Laws of Robotics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

Anyway I might try a test this week. I'm thinking about setting my "auto A/C" set point to something ridiculously high (like 30C or something but with A/C off of course), so that the outside temperature is lower than the set point, and see if that causes it to leave the air setting on "fresh" where I set it.

 

Hang on I think I just remembered that I tried the above before (I complained here about the same problem here a few months ago Peter). If memory serves me correctly I think the dammed thing just kept heating up the air (even though auto A/C was off) when I used the high set point (like 30c for example). In other words, what I seem to remember is that when I set a high temperature there was no way to stop it trying to achieve that. Unlike with a low temperature setting, where you can just turn A/C off and at least it won't override you on that, from what I remember I just couldn't find any way to turn it off when a high temperature (which required warming rather than cooling) was selected. I'll have to double check this again though, since my recollection of this is a bit hazy atm.