Hi everyone :-)
This week I picked up my new 420d xDrive M Sport Coupe, ordered with Pro Nav/Media and EBT. It's actually my first BMW and I'm loving it. However, I have noticed a few things from driving it over the past few days that I can't easily figure out.
Parking Sensors
The car is automatic and when I switch into reverse, parking sensors come on as you would expect. However, when I shift back into drive, the parking sensors STAY on. The majority of time I'm moving into drive to drive off, and I have to manually disengage the parking sensors, which seems a little odd.
While writing this, what I've figured out is I've not tested whether they will automatically go off if I speed up, or whether it's not intelligent enough to know that at 30mph, I am not trying to park! ;-)
Is this normal ??
Voice Control - Siri
I have an iPhone and while I know the iDrive and iPhone integration is practically non existent
the Siri integration seems choppy. I can ask Siri to play types of music, but otherwise it's just hell bent on calling people from my contact list. I can't even ask it something simple, like "read my last text message". It just calls someone and I frantically mash the steering wheel buttons to hang up!
Is this normal ??
iDrive Multimedia - scrubbing track position
So I primarily stream music from my iPhone, either via BT (most of the time) or via USB (if it's low on power). BT streaming works AMAZINGLY well, I'm genuinely surprised. All the album art and playlist support is fantastic.
However, on both modes, I can't figure out how to scrub forwards or back within a track. If I hold forward/back down (e.g. on the iDrive controller), it does nothing until I release it, and then it just does a back track/next track.
Am I missing something ??
iDrive Multimedia - shuffle control from steering wheel
Following on from the above, when I'm listening to music I'm usually listening to a playlist (e.g. Gym, Driving, whatever), but I enable the Random mode to get a bit of variety. I can have up to 150 tracks in a playlist.
When I click Next Track on the iDrive controller, I get a new random track within that playlist. Works as expected - great.
However, if I use the steering wheel controls, it seems to drop out the playlist and into the entire music collection. On first use, I can scroll down to see a randomised list of tracks WITHIN the play list, as you would expect. I can select any track - even just the next one - and that works fine. But then, if I try again, it's moved outside the playlist and is now applying random/shuffle selection to my entire music collection.
Is this normal ??
Navigation Arrows
I've noticed that when I'm using the navigation system, once I arrive at a destination, the iDrive screen knows I've arrived and disengages the direction mode. However, I still get big direction arrows in my instrument cluster, even though I'm no longer in navigation mode. I have to go back into Nav, start navigation to a destination and then immediately cancel the directions to stop arrows on the instrument panel screen.
Is this normal?
Automatic Lights
I usually leave the car on automatic lights so they adjust to the external conditions. Works fine, but if the lights come on (e.g. going through a tunnel), they stay on for something like 5 minutes after the car's back in good light.
Is this normal ??
Any help or feedback is greatly appreciated! :-)