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Dynamic Braking Lights-
Does the F30 have this? I can’t seem to find a video of it. My dealer gave me a brochure but it seems to be a euro 2013 brochure and it lists:
Dynamic Braking Lights with flashing function help traffic travelling behind tell the difference between a light tap on the brake pedal and a hard stop – for increased driving safety. I have not seen any F30’s with flashing tail lights.
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The person would basically have to be standing on the brakes for the additional indicator to come on, i.e. ABS activated.
If you do ever see an F30 with the extra brake lighting action, look out, because they're either about to avoid an accident, or about to have one. |
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Unlike the E90 LCI, the F30 does not have flashing Emergency Stop brake lights. Instead, the outside (normal) brakelights are activated and then the inside brake lights also illuminate brightly. The hazard lights are deployed when the car comes to a stop.
You can see the Dynamic Brake Lights in action here:
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No problem! I think the F10 5 Series still flashes, and the E90 LCI does for sure, but not the F30 interestingly.
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Perhaps the implementation of dynamic brake lights is market specific. In the US an additional light comes on, in the UK they flash? |
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the flashing hazard lights will come on if you didnt turn off any dtc and lose tire grip for over 2 seconds and keeps flashing till traction is restored it happened to mine when i was messing around in the snow with traction control on but didnt happen when traction control was off |
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Very well, but what did you just see in the video?
This should be an interesting topic of discussion! And it can only be solved by us performing and videoing emergency stops. Unfortunately, it's just starting to snow heavily here so I won't be able to get my car going, never mind stopping it!
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I'm gonna have to set up a camera and slam on! Doubt it's going to be this week though what with the snow. But I'm intrigued!
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Maybe it's market specific the way BMW implements dynamic braking? (i edited my post above) but i definitely think they flash in the UK!
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I was close to crashing some time ago, it was raining and my runflats were utter crap.. After breaking hard the ABS came in and i slid across the road for about 8 meters. Then came to a stop, i remember seeing the hazards come on as soon as i lost traction on the 4 wheels, i had to press the hazard button to turn them off when i recovered from the shock.
In any case, the car will warn the ones behind you when you get into trouble. |
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Well, I do hope they flash! I think it's more effective than another set of brake lights coming on. Huh, wonder why they would make such a minor thing market specific!
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someone get some vids up of this !
unfortunately my camera is broken
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Definitely. The question is, why BMW change this?
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I agree that it's better but that is most likely the reasoning for making market specific. |
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01-13-2013, 04:36 PM | #19 |
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It's not really the hazards in question. It's more that it seems in the US the brake lights don't flash (instead, an additional one is lit as in the vid above) and in the UK, the manual suggests the brake lights will flash (though it's tricky to test?!)
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I’m SURE they will understand why haha
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