A4 - Advanced Key and Comfort Pack

[dpm_dpmartin]

Hello all,

I am considering the Advanced Key (which gives you the Stop / Start button and the ability for the car to open the door for you as you approach and put your hand under the handle) and the Comfort Pack (which gives you the ability to use the Advanced Key to memorise all the driver positions for stuff like seat and mirrors).

You get some memory capabilities, of course, without the Advanced Key and Comfort Pack but, in concert, you get slightly more personalisation with both it seems.

So - for a car that would have two drivers (me and our lass) who would use it equally - does anyone have any experience of how the Advanced Key and Comfort Pack options would work if, for example, both I and my girlfriend were approaching the car from either side and I had my Advanced Key in my pocket, she had her Advanced Key in her handbag - how would the car know which of us was going to be the driver and, thus, set positions of the driver's seat and the mirrors accordingly?

Is it clever enough to know which Advanced Key is closest to the right-hand-side of the car? Is there some kind of master / slave relationship with the keys, so it makes a decision if both keys are close by when people get into the car? Is it as simple as which Advanced Key it hooks onto first? Or which Advanced Key it connected to last?

Does anyone know how the Audi A4 with Advanced Key and Comfort Pack works in this kind of common situation, especially in our house?

What would be quite galling, it goes without saying, is buying a new A4 with Advanced Key and Comfort Pack and the car getting it wrong all the time - i.e. both I and the girlfriend approach the car at the same time - we both have our Advanced Keys about our person, I'm going to be the driver and the car thinks it should set the air con. to hot and the seat closer to the steering wheel... I know from experience, we do this a lot - we both go out and I drive there and she drives back - with a proper key it obviously has a good idea which person is in the driver's seat - with all this Bluetooth / RF / magic stuff - how does it work?

In that scenario, if it could ever work like that, i.e. hit and miss, it would then become a really annoying option and one that I would regret. Does anyone have experience of this and can you reassure me about how it works if so?

Cheers, DpM

[dpm_dpmartin]

OK - got some help and figured out how it all works.

Point number 1 - I have been told you don't get driver's seat memory position even with the Advanced Key and Comfort Pack - you still have to press a button to get the seat into position. I thought this was a bit cack.

Point number 2 - with two people approaching the car with two Advanced Keys with different memory settings, the car will definitely know which of you is in the driver seat because the 'zone' it has is very small.

So... partially good and partially bad. Although it helps me in that I don't think I should be considering the Comfort Pack as part of the new A4 setup. Advanced Key for sure, but not tying it in with the seat memory.

Cheers, DpM