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      02-22-2012, 08:45 PM   #1
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Sport Display

For those who don't know me, I have a 2012 335i Sport Line, Premium, Adaptive M Suspension, Heated Seats, Heated Steering Wheel on order (Status 152 as of this morning). For those who care, I've had a 2000 323i Sport Premium and a 2002 330i Sport in the past. Since then I've strayed, driving a 2005 350Z Touring, 2008 Cadillac CTS and 2010 Audi A4 (all manual transmissions, except for the CTS).

Now, to my question. Yesterday I stopped by my dealership and had a chance to play with a 328i Sport Line that had the non-nav (small) iDrive display (which is what my car will have). The car did not have the Sport Display (Torque and HP gauges on the iDrive display).

I'm guessing this is only available on nav equipped cars with the larger display?

Can anyone confirm or deny?

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      02-22-2012, 08:46 PM   #2
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Hi

I don't have an answer to your question but I'll add to it:

What would the Sport Display show if the ECU was tuned?
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      02-22-2012, 09:25 PM   #3
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Not sure and I would like to add a relevant question:

On the sport display gauges, is there any way to change the SI units (kW & N-m) to Imperial Units (hp & lb-ft)?
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I cannot remember where I read it but this feature is exclusive to the sport line. I have no idea as to whether it's customisable though.
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      02-22-2012, 11:19 PM   #5
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I asked the same question to my local distributor & they said Sport Display is standard on all cars.
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      02-23-2012, 12:31 AM   #6
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      02-23-2012, 01:23 AM   #7
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You need Pro Navigation to see the Sport Display
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      02-23-2012, 06:04 AM   #8
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True, you will need the pro nav to use the sports display, i dont have i either . I chose the business nav with sport line pack.

Maybe its possible to activate it at some time in a business nav? I do hope so. But i'm not willing to spend €800,- (Netherlands) on a pro nav. It only has a hard drive, bigger screen, sports display and you can split the screen.
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      02-23-2012, 06:48 AM   #9
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Oh well. Except for the novelty and cool factor, it's kind of pointless anyway.

My dealer did say that a future software update would change the units to HP/LB-FT.
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      02-23-2012, 09:00 AM   #10
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Oh well. Except for the novelty and cool factor, it's kind of pointless anyway.

My dealer did say that a future software update would change the units to HP/LB-FT.
I want HP/NM !
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I cannot remember where I read it but this feature is exclusive to the sport line. I have no idea as to whether it's customisable though.
I believe that you only need the Professional Nav to show Sport Display (Sportanzeige). I drove a 328i Modern Line w/ Nav and it had the Sport Display option as well.
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I believe that you only need the Professional Nav to show Sport Display (Sportanzeige). I drove a 328i Modern Line w/ Nav and it had the Sport Display option as well.
It did? That's cool coz I thought I wouldn't get it in my Luxury Line..not that I need it, but with everything else, it's cool to have
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True, you will need the pro nav to use the sports display, i dont have i either . I chose the business nav with sport line pack.

Maybe its possible to activate it at some time in a business nav? I do hope so. But i'm not willing to spend €800,- (Netherlands) on a pro nav. It only has a hard drive, bigger screen, sports display and you can split the screen.
Wow - I don't live in the Netherlands but bigger drive and screen sure sound worth it
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Oh well. Except for the novelty and cool factor, it's kind of pointless anyway.

My dealer did say that a future software update would change the units to HP/LB-FT.
Very interesting.

I'm not surprised that there will be updates -- only that a dealer would know what's in them in advance of BMW releasing it.

And, I wonder, will this be like the E90 updates -- where you had to "prove" you had an issue before BMW would pay to update the car? Or can you simply say, "I want English units display on my sport display, please update the car."?
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Wow - I don't live in the Netherlands but bigger drive and screen sure sound worth it
The Netherlands are a benefit and a downside at the same time. The benefit is that they can still order almost everything option, instead of having to choose packages like we have to (for example, if we have nav, we couldn't even get the smaller screen, even if we wanted to), but the downside is, they pay a lot more for everything (mostly because of taxes).
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I wonder why the displays go up to 430 hp but only 300 ft lbs.
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So you can't change the units from kW to bhp in the iDrive?
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So you can't change the units from kW to bhp in the iDrive?
Yeah, this is just laziness from BMW. How hard is it to write software of these kind of little things? A couple of hours worth of coding.
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      02-23-2012, 10:38 PM   #19
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I wonder why the displays go up to 430 hp but only 300 ft lbs.
It's more of a toy than sth necessary.
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And, I wonder, will this be like the E90 updates -- where you had to "prove" you had an issue before BMW would pay to update the car? Or can you simply say, "I want English units display on my sport display, please update the car."?
+1

i hope they figured out how to update software in minutes instead of hours/days...that is why we had to practically beg to get updates in the past.
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Wow - I don't live in the Netherlands but bigger drive and screen sure sound worth it
The Netherlands are a benefit and a downside at the same time. The benefit is that they can still order almost everything option, instead of having to choose packages like we have to (for example, if we have nav, we couldn't even get the smaller screen, even if we wanted to), but the downside is, they pay a lot more for everything (mostly because of taxes).
Yep the taxes are a big problem in the Netherlands, if i want to buy a 335i i might as wel buy a 5 series. If i would order a 335i with the same options as my f30 320i, i would pay over 65.000 euros. And a 528i touring would cost me 68.000 euros.

But i sure hope that with coding or a software update the sport display will also word on the business nav
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It did? That's cool coz I thought I wouldn't get it in my Luxury Line..not that I need it, but with everything else, it's cool to have
People are forgetting this is all market dependent. For the US it is only on Sports models with Nav.
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