Soft Close Doors

[PatrickC23]

Do you guys have problems with people always slamming them? Im assuming slamming them is ok, as you cant expect all passengers to know to let them close on their own.

Do you guys warn passengers? Dont care? Or never let anyone sit in your M5?!

[mwlmd]

Originally Posted by Patsc23

Do you guys have problems with people always slamming them? Im assuming slamming them is ok, as you cant expect all passengers to know to let them close on their own.

Do you guys warn passengers? Dont care? Or never let anyone sit in your M5?!

I have to say I love the soft close doors. My boys (6,8,8) typically slam car doors. Once I showed them the way these doors close themselves they now try to put as little pressure on the door as possible to get them to close. Brilliant!

Also, the doors on the M5 are such that if you slam them they close with a solid thump. Nothing like slamming a Japanese car door that sounds like it is going to break off the hinges. Even my M3 doors didn't "Slam" as well as this car.

[stealth.pilot]

Originally Posted by Patsc23

Do you guys have problems with people always slamming them? Im assuming slamming them is ok, as you cant expect all passengers to know to let them close on their own.

Do you guys warn passengers? Dont care? Or never let anyone sit in your M5?!

I have given a demo of the doors to the people who travel in my car frequently. Others I don't care since it isn't that often that I give a lift to a random stranger.

[Rob///M5]

I never think about it damaging them.

I love the soft close doors! Only downside is that I now seem to be incapable of shutting any other car door effectively.

[m3tofive]

Originally Posted by Rob///M5

I never think about it damaging them.

I love the soft close doors! Only downside is that I now seem to be incapable of shutting any other car door effectively.

+1!! Always doing that with my wife's car.

[UniqueCheese]

Is there a consensus as to whether it is bad for the doors?

[wdimagineer]

Originally Posted by UniqueCheese

Is there a consensus as to whether it is bad for the doors?

It's not bad. They're designed and tested for it. I talked at length about this with a few engineers when I was in Germany.

[NlckyBlack]

don't care, i let them slam it

[MasterDank]

Originally Posted by Rob///M5

I never think about it damaging them.

I love the soft close doors! Only downside is that I now seem to be incapable of shutting any other car door effectively.

No Joke I do this every time.... Damn other cars...LOL

Aloha
Alex

[clriebari]

I now seem to be incapable of shutting any other car door effectively.

[M54ccibo]

Kids play "who can shut the door the quietest". I open and close the door for the wife. Problem solved. Except for my father in law - he's a slammer. I think it's residual from all of the big GM cars from the 60s and 70s he's owned

[PatrickC23]

Originally Posted by M54ccibo

Kids play "who can shut the door the quietest". I open and close the door for the wife. Problem solved. Except for my father in law - he's a slammer. I think it's residual from all of the big GM cars from the 60s and 70s he's owned

This brings up an issue for me - in a country where we dont have the ability to close windows from our FOB because of liability issues I find that soft close doors may not last long.

Have you ever tried to close a door softly while not letting it latch because maybe its running or something? What happens it it latches and one of your fingers are in the way? What if a child tries to close it that way and the same thing happens. Is there a fail-safe in this case like with the windows when they feel resistance?

I did get a disclaimer during my ED - "please be careful with children because the doors can cause injury"

[Bimmer6]

Had soft close doors on my 7 series, and slamming them will not cause a problem. Actually didn't get them on the five wasn't something I wanted this time around due to lack of value for me. Slam away you will have no proplems.

[DesertEagle50]

My girlfriend slammed her door during ED. The door actually bounced out and latched itself. Had to pull the handle to unlatch and then close it again. No harm done but I thought that was odd.

[PatrickC23]

Originally Posted by DesertEagle50

My girlfriend slammed her door during ED. The door actually bounced out and latched itself. Had to pull the handle to unlatch and then close it again. No harm done but I thought that was odd.

My wife slammed the door on ED too!

[BC87]

Originally Posted by mwlmd

Also, the doors on the M5 are such that if you slam them they close with a solid thump. Nothing like slamming a Japanese car door that sounds like it is going to break off the hinges. Even my M3 doors didn't "Slam" as well as this car.

It's funny you mention the solid thump on the door close. To me it doesn't sound all that solid, I actually thought it felt like a crap door the first time I closed one. My previous 10 535i had doors like a tank. The new one not so much imo at least.

[PatrickC23]

Originally Posted by BC87

It's funny you mention the solid thump on the door close. To me it doesn't sound all that solid, I actually thought it felt like a crap door the first time I closed one. My previous 10 535i had doors like a tank. The new one not so much imo at least.

Cutting weight!

[py0413]

That's a nice feature to have but has caused me two problems so far. No. 1, I don't seem to be able to close doors on other cars properly now and many people think I am recovering from some illness again. No. 2, it's a pain to watch how other passengers slamming the doors from time to time, even though, it probably won't cause any damages.