That's correct. There is this physical barrier when the door starts to fall into the lock. Without the feature - like it is on many vehicles - a door can actually be locked or closed without it being completely shut. This feature should prevent that.

I was surprised by the high number of members on this forum complaining about their doors being difficult to close while I experienced the opposite.

Almost all doors have the right technique to closing properly. Once you get the right pull and force, its always easy. I remember how hard it was when I first got my 5 series, or this Q, but closing the doors without slamming is a breeze once you get used to it. I tried the Q's soft close door feature, and felt is was way too much work that just closing it normally. But I suppose the idea is to close the door in case someone doesn't close it properly, so no accidents happen

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My techniques for closing
 

I have three techniques for closing the doors:
1. From the inside, i simply pull it closed... if i dont pull hard enough, it closes by itself.
2. from the outside, if i don't care about noise, i just close like a regular car.
3. from the outside, if I want to be nice to my neighbors (late at night), i simply slowly push the door till it is almost closed, and the car does the rest.

I initially tried finessing my close by closing it like a regular car, only softer, but sometimes I just didn't get it close enough to start the autoclose feature. found method 3 above just worked amazing.

That's pretty scientific. Cant argue that :)

It's the type of BS you use to explain when you have no clue why it's not working. It's the problem with magnatomic wave disperser which causes parabolic muon warp sensor array to incorrectly identify gluon filament flow accelerator reading in turn this creates a back pressure in the tritonic resonance prism chamber and if you are not careful the whole space ship can explode !!! What a bs....