Originally Posted by aquarian

I am glad that I don't have a 13 A7. The shutting of the engine with the door opening would drive me crazy. Do you ever try to parallel park or back up and you open the door to check how far your car is to the curb or the side of the wall? Can this "feature" be turned off?

Originally Posted by snagitseven

When parallel parking, I use the back up camera to see how far I'm from a curb or wall - works well. I haven't had the need to open the door yet for parking. That said, once in awhile, I can see where I might want to get out of the car for a moment for some other reason, i.e. leave the car running in winter to clean the windows and leave the defroster running.

While I'm not aware of a Vag mod as of yet, there's an easy workaround. You turn the engine off with the Start button and start the car again and it now stays running when the door is opened. As long as the car has not moved since the last engine turn off, opening the door will not turn it off. Not perfect, but no big deal either for the once in awhile I need to keep the engine running when the door is opened.

Originally Posted by aquarian

I can think of many occasions where you have to open the door while the engine is running: when you have to pick up a parking ticket from a gate where lowering the window isn't enough; at my dealer's free car wash area where they scan the vin from the b-pillar; emission's test where you get out and let the engine running; etc etc.

Originally Posted by snagitseven

I just timed how long the it takes to hit the start button twice when opening the door to keep the engine running. About two seconds. In any case, the vast majority of the time, I enjoy the convenience of the engine turning off automatically when I open the door and can use the restart workaround on those rare occasions when needed. As I wrote previously, it's really no big deal. Based on the very few complaints on the C7 forums, we 2013 owners mostly are not bothered by this. Anyway, since you have a 2012 C7, you shouldn't be either.

Originally Posted by aquarian

As I mentioned before, I am glad that I don't have a 2013.

Originally Posted by snagitseven

Not sure what you mean by "properly". There is more than one way to stop and turn off a C7; I've used all of the following:

1) Open door to turn off engine (MY2013 feature); dash lights go off; all exterior/interior car lights turn off after "coming home" time setting in MMI is reached
2) Hit Start button turning off engine; open door then same as #1 re all the lights
3) Hit Start button turning off engine, hit Start button second time to turn off car, open door; all lights same as #1
4) Open door turning off engine (or hit start button first), lock car to turn off all lights

In all cases, after a period of time, all systems eventually go to "sleep" to conserve the battery. You can tell that this has occurred in several ways; i.e. if you have Advanced Key, it will take two pulls on the door handle - first to wake up the car, second to unlock the door; another way is the MMI has to go through a complete start up vs. a quick on in standby mode. The "sleep" state is described in the manual.

Originally Posted by Sccpmusc26

The coming home feature is working for the LED Headlights/Xenon lights, but the LED DRL seem to stay on when not pressing the vehicle "stop" button. I also don't see where to set the coming home timeout on my MMI. I remember it in my S8 but can't seem to find it in my A7.

If you open the driver door (at night) before pressing the stop button, the xenon/led headlights stay on for a few seconds before cutting out. It seems the DRL lights stay on for a much longer period.

Originally Posted by snagitseven

The sequences seem to be dependent on how various exterior light settings are configured.
Car/Vehicle Settings...

Originally Posted by Sccpmusc26

I don't remember there being a way to set a timer on the coming home feature (like I could in previous models). Perhaps I'm mistaken.