sworksone

The memory buttons on the door are associated with a person and are handy if the wrong settings are accidentally stored on a key. Say for instance someone else drives your car with your key and then store their settings to the key when locking the car upon exiting. The next time you go to use the car all you have to do is hit whatever button on the door to get your settings back and then lock the car when finished driving to store them back on your key.

redrocker55

Great info...very smart. I like this approach much better than what Infiniti does. They try to link a specific key fob to a driver via their memory system. Limiting you to 2 drivers...or spend ~$250 on another key fob.

The Audi system is just much more flexible and better engineered. Love it.

Thanx...

AlA4

The memory buttons are for when you give your key to someone else, i.e. the service department. If they move your seat and lock the doors, you can use the memory buttons to get your seat and mirrors back to where you had them set to. I'm not sure about the radio stations and climate settings. I know the key does remember them if it is turned on in the MMI.

seinsmeld13

Let's say you have the memory set properly to #1 and hand the key over to a friend for a ride. No worry even if he locks the door. When you go to drive the car simply unlock the car press and hold the number 1 setting and you are back in business.

Avant_to_remember

There are two keys and two buttons on the door. Does each key store the settings for both door buttons? If I unlock the door with my key, does the car apply my settings immediately, after starting the car, or only after pressing one of the door buttons?

I've read the manual and I still am unclear on this.

Muray

You let your girlfriend drive your car?

Nighthawk

lol... concur...

NWS4Guy

The buttons on the door and totally seperate from the keys.

Think of the buttons as a permanent setting holder, unless someone purposely changes the memory on these using the Set button. These are what you can use to restore your settings if you let someone borrow YOUR key.

Here is how the keys work. Whenever the doors are LOCKED, the key remembers where the seats, mirrors, etc are. EVERY time it's locked with that key - so if they don't change it still logs those settings and overwrites whatever was there the last time it locked the car. When it unlocks the car, it tells the car the settings for when it last locked the car, and to restore those.

This is why you need to use YOUR key when you drive. Likewise, if your girlfriend/wife has her key on her and unlocks the car for you but you are driving, it will set things to whatever it last was when SHE locked the car with HER key. You will need to unlock the car a second time to get your settings there. Also if you lock the car with your key and she has been driving it with her settings, you just saved her settings to your key.

This is why the memory buttons exist - to restore what you want the key to remember when you lock the car the next time.

Avant_to_remember

NWS4Guy,
Thanks, that helps a lot; but I am still unclear on a couple of things. Does the car restore my settings when I unlock the car, when I start the engine, or ?
So far I haven't been able to confirm that car sets itself on unlocking after turning on the setting for key memory in the MMI.
Also, the manual says the seat, the steering wheel, side mirrors, individual drive select settings, and radio preferences are all stored in the key. I suppose the seat memory buttons don't store all those? And can the car really adjust the steering wheel position? The manual latch mechanism under the steering column doesn't seem to be something the car could open and close again by itself.

zims2730

Let me make sure I'm still understanding properly too - does the premium plus have memory keys? I know it doesn't have memory seats, but, now this has has me curious... Side note, I'm pretty annoyed a 50k plus 2010 car doesn't have memory seats standard, its the ONE thing I want from the Prestige package.