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      04-24-2017, 01:19 PM   #12
mjsaville
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Originally Posted by ZPrime View Post
Get in the habit of locking the car in your garage. It's safer (it's ridiculously easy to break into a garage), and it also helps prolong battery life in the car - locking tells the car to shut off everything ASAP, while leaving it unlocked will allow various bits to keep drawing power for a while. The car assumes if you're not locking it that you might be getting back in / starting it again right away, so it leaves a bunch of systems active & drawing power for some indeterminate period of time.
Excellent advice, I've already coded the seat belt warnings today with Bimmercode so I guess I will need to do audio off on door open sometime this week too.

MJ
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