Audi mmi

[Michael Murphy]

Brett Dikeman wrote:
> On Sep 18, 2006, at 1:52 PM, Taka Mizutani wrote:
> 
> 
>>I missed Steve's original post, but to follow up on Jon's comments,  
>>I agree-
>>MMI is a bit
>>better than iDrive, but it still sucks.
> 
> 
> Agreed.  The #1 complaint from my folks: "That #$@!ing disclaimer I  
> have to acknowledge!"  If we can find someone with the CAN-bus VAG- 
> COM, that's getting removed ASAP.

Gone in 2007 cars but I don't think you can remove it in pre 07 systems.
> 
> 
>>The seat heaters are not even all that bad
> 
> 
> If you press "setup" (I think?) on the CC head, you then get an MMI  
> menu for stuff like whether the unit goes into auto-recirculation  
> mode.  Except...the MMI controller does bupkus.  It took us 5 minutes  
> of flipping through the manual (never found anything) and fiddling  
> before we realized we were supposed to use Mini-MMI on the CC head.

Oh come on now, just how intuitive does it have to be?  And the Owner's 
Manual, not the MMI manual has fairly extensive instructions on the CC's 
operation.
> 
> 
>>- try manually tuning the radio-
>>go into the radio screen, select tuner, then turn the knob to  
>>select the
>>forward or backward icon and then push the knob to move a step (or  
>>more)
>>forward or backward. It's infuriatingly stupid.
> 
> 
> Isn't that what the buttons surrounding the MMI knob are for?  I  
> haven't used it -that- much so I don't recall off the top of my head.
> 
> The bigger complaint from my folks with the radio (aside from the  
> asinine disclaimer stuff) has been that too many keypresses are  
> involved to get to the memory screen.  The rightfully argued that the  
> entire point of the "memory" function is quick and easy access to  
> favorite stations, but the "dynamic station list" is always the  
> default main page of the radio.

What year is your parents car?  In 06+ cars, radio memory is accessed 
from the scroll wheel on the left spoke of the steering wheel. 
Regardless, press the radio memory button on MMI and use the steering 
wheel scroll wheel mentioned above to wade thru your presets.

In general, it would help if customers RTFM, just a bit before going on 
a rant.  Jeez, you guys are like an automotive lynch mob.

Oh, BTW, I'm an ABS in the NE so I've had a bit of exposure to MMI.  If 
it really stunk then the 200+ customers I have driving around in 2005+ 
A6s and 2004+ A8s would have killed me by now.

Take a collective breath folks.
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mjm