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Originally Posted by Paras Waiba
AUTO/H on my BMW X6 is an electric parking brake! Best used when you stop at Red lights just press the AUTO/H button (you will see a green message in your dashboard). NO need to put gear in N or press your brake! Once you have green light press the AUTO/H button again and drive! It is as simple as that!
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If you don’t want to keep the brake pedal pressed when you’re driving from red light to red light or in a drive-thru lane or in stop-n-go traffic jam…there’s no need to keep pressing AUTO-H on and off. Once you have activated it…it will hold the brakes every time you stop…then just press the accelerator and it releases the brake as you move forward. Physically turning it off and on is redundant because it will hold the brakes every time you come to a stop…then release when you take off…all by itself without turning it off/on…hence the name AUTO-H.
As mentioned early on in this thread..the way this feature works is in the owners manual…and since iDrive has an embedded owners manual it is VERY easy to find using one of the search features iDrve. A KEYWORD SEARCH enter AUTO…should take you right to it.
There might even be an embedded video (animated explanations) in iDrive.