Dang Trunk

[Awales74]

Howdy. I've owned my 22 for about a year. And I have to say, of all the little niggles and BMW eccentricities, the one I can't get over is the darn trunk.

List of Grievances

• Sensitive Trigger -- Fob button is entirely too sensitive. I can't count how often I've had to get out of car to close a trunk
• Schrodinger's Trunk -- double latch system allows the trunk to be simultaneously open and not open. Seems to be related to where I am. Inside the car the trunk is open (alert on dash). Outside the trunk is closed (can't get my jacket out of trunk). It's like a thermos, it somehow it knows but chooses to be spiteful
• No External Lock -- Can't open trunk without fishing for my keys or opening driver door and touching my toes. Making the trunk entirely too easy to open AND too hard to open at the same time. Impressive German engineering at work.
• No Handhold -- Literally cannot open the trunk without touching the paint.

I know. Shut up and drive. And I do. Still have a ton of fun tearing up entrance ramps and dead spots in the police coverage. But curios if anyone else has done a thing or two.

I bet, for example, I might be able to Bimmer Code the fob to make it less sensitive. Because I don't use the fob much, then maybe set it to least sensitive setting. But the others, I don't know. Anyway to disable the double latch system, add a button to unlock trunk (tied to fob for security of course), add a subtle and aesthetically pleasing hand hold?

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[J29DB03]

Yes, BimmerCode allows you to set the length of time you hold the button for so you can make that longer. Also, don’t close a door after hitting the button with the windows up. The air pressure causes the re-latch to happen. (In case this is attributing to the Schrödinger’s Cat err… Trunk issue.)

 

[PikkaGTR]

You can adjust the little rubber pieces above the tail lights
It will make it harder for the air pressure changes from closing the door to relatch the hatch

 

[Mr. Jonathan]

Here is a thread to mod the truck. I haven’t read the whole thing but you might find some ways to mitigate a grievance or two.
https://www.supramkv.com/threads/auto-trunk-support-lifts.13861/

Also, driveway labs put out an exterior truck button

https://www.supramkv.com/threads/driveway-labs-best-trunk-button.14748/

 

[tvnguyen]

I feel you, the trunk drives me nuts. Not sure if there is something wrong with mine but I can't get it to fully close half the time. Is there a trick that I'm missing?

 

[mattieewhooo]

And here I was complaining and made Toyota replace my door trunk release button, since I thought there was an issue with the trunk release ?

The fob seemed to unlock the trunk fine, but every time I used the car door trunk release button, got out of my car, it would relatch ..I guess ?

 

[zrk]

The fob seemed to unlock the trunk fine, but every time I used the car door trunk release button, got out of my car, it would relatch ..I guess

Bad engineering. When you close the door, the air pressure in the car increases and bounces the trunk up a little and it slams closed. Use the door bottom, leave the door open, and try it (or leave windows open), and it works fine.

 

[Awales74]

I can't get it to fully close half the time

The not closing thing is most often attributed to the emergency trunk release (kind of silly on this car, but laws be laws). It becomes disconnected and turns and shifts and causes issue with getting good closure. Second are the little rubber grommet thingies near both tail lights. Get those screwed down good and should allow the 2nd latch in BMWs double latch chicanery to work.

I thought there was an issue with the trunk release

Only issue like this I've read, as an earlier poster mentioned, is the air pressure on closing the damn door is enough to relatch the first latch of the BMW ridiculousness. My favorite -- it's open as far as the car is concerned but not open for actually putting stuff in it. Joy.

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