Firstly Fraser is there something you need to post pics of

I looked into this a lot and the answer is no, still no way to change the default driving modes on startup. I had the Europe coding expert code my car recently and he said he is asked all the time and thats its currently not a changeable setting on the car. You can easily code the start/stop function to be off by default or default to the last setting used. I did that.

I dont know why they default to sport suspension, efficient throttle, efficient gear change, and sport steering. It seems an odd setting, but because its sort of a half way position you usually only two or three button presses away from whatever you want. I set M1 to fully sport plus and m2 to fully comfort. I assume that the defaults are there for engine warmup reasons and to ensure that test drivers dont bin bin the car immediately, starting in sport plus on cold tyres can be hairy.