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I tried this one but it told me my tyre pressures were all OK and asked me if I also wanted to know the tyre temperatures (maybe it thought I said "check the pressures" ). Here's some bonus humour from my car... Oh, I almost forgot: hi |
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04-10-2020, 02:01 PM | #68 |
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Only recently (last week because I was bored during the lockdown) I connected my phone thru Apple CarPlay to the car. Today I was out for my once a week trip to the supermarket suddenly whilst listening to some music it was interrupted by a WhatsApp message. The iDrive even read it out to me. First time with CarPlay and I was impressed.
6 months in and still learning......
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Carplay is brilliant, until you have a mischevous mate in the car who decides to send a message from me to the whatsapp group we are all on....you can imagine it wasnt exactly putting me in a good light
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Probably obvious to most, but I’ve only just twigged 5 months in!!... that on the speedo, the ‘needle’ shows a red line behind it for any speed you are doing over the speed limit. So if you’re doing 33 in a 30*, the backing colour for those 3mph over the limit shows in red...
* actual speeds may have been toned down to not look quite as bad! |
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12 months of ownership and only just realised that the rear seat has the opening flap behind the centre arm rest to allow Skis and lengths of wood to be loaded.
Just shows how many times I have sat in the back of the car!
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Just two days in with my first ever BMW (320i xdrive saloon, mineral white) and it’s things I am not noticing that I’m hoping more established owners can help me with.
A/C. Is there really no single button to toggle this on and off? If not, what’s the easiest way to do it? Same question with the Sync of the three zones. This will be the first car I have driven without single buttons for these functions. Radio station presets. Is it possible to get just the preset stations displayed on the iDrive screen rather than just a massive list of all available stations? Shortcut buttons. How do you assign functions other than radio station presets to these? Thanks in advance to anyone who can help a newbie out. |
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You can sync all zones by assigning one of the shortcut buttons. Go into Menu A/C, scroll to "Synchronise" and long press one of the buttons. You will hear the sound when successfully assigned or "unable to save" text will be displayed when you try to assign something which can't be. You can assign many other things the same way. I've assigned tyre pressure monitor, sports displays, navigation destinations. A/C synchronise and couple more. Go into Media and save your favourite radio stations. Then when you choose "saved stations" it will only display favourite ones instead of all of them. Last edited by hamera; 05-25-2020 at 04:14 AM.. |
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It activates/deactivates by voice command, tested it many times. I find myself still just going into AC menu and doing it there. |
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In the actual spirit of this thread though, I have found something I was not expecting.
My car is M Sport with the Plus pack and comfort pack, so totally manual seats, or so I thought. I was poking around yesterday and I came across a pair of buttons on the side of the driver’s seat which electrically move the bolsters on the seat back in and out. Not quite sure why just that one adjustment rated a motor. |
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Mine (it’s a pre-reg) must have it as an option then. I was playing about with it again last night and I think it is in fact lumbar support. I could hear it inflating. It’s on the passenger seat too.
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Edit: added some info from the manual Last edited by hamera; 05-27-2020 at 02:52 AM.. |
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Into my 8th month and just found out, in another thread, how to put the car into ‘coast’.
Tried it yesterday. See post below.. https://g20.bimmerpost.com/forums/sh...0&postcount=16 The full discussion can be see here.... https://g20.bimmerpost.com/forums/sh....php?t=1643355
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