Remove self park disclaimers

[NoPII]

We have a Mini Cooper S and our X6M. Both have the $500 "self park" feature.

Using it on the Mini is a breeze. You turn on the park sensors, drive until it finds a space, slap it in reverse, and control the brake. No long delays if you've got cars piling up behind you. (Also no comments on the fact that the mini is really easy to park anyway....)

On my X6M you start with the button to find the space. Then you stop. Then you hit accept on the disclaimer about self parking (waiting while it animates in and out). Then you take hands off the wheel and put your foot on the brake. More animated dialogs tell you how to use self park. Then you hit OK again and take your foot back off the brake. Then you hold down the button.

By this point cars behind are really frustrated and usually getting too close. Self park panics and aborts....

Has anyone found a way to disable the INFURIATING self-park disclaimers via coding? I've disabled all the others I found, but this one persists... The irony is that I use this feature on the easy-to-park car, and I don't on the one with $2000 rims and zero visibility.

[Coelho]

I am sorry, but this is hilarious... I am glad I didn't order this option now.

[AlexLou1222]

Your rims cost 2K? stock wheels and tires cost more than that >->

Or you mean each?

[NoPII]

Originally Posted by AlexLou1222

Your rims cost 2K? stock wheels and tires cost more than that >->

Or you mean each?

I'm talking the OEM 21 rims alone, each...

[NoPII]

Originally Posted by Coelho

I am sorry, but this is hilarious... I am glad I didn't order this option now.

Yeah, we had this on our mini "anyway" and a prior Range Rover - and it's great. On the X6M? Utterly worthless.

I expected to find the night vision the "pointless option" (I ordered everything but rear entertainment) and it's actually really useful.

[tastelid]

I won't be using it again after my i3 curbed its own wheels and BMW refused to pay for it.

[Coelho]

Originally Posted by tastelid

I won't be using it again after my i3 curbed its own wheels and BMW refused to pay for it.

Wow...

[UrbanExtant]

I, too, would be interested in getting the answer to alistairg's question. I ordered this feature on the X5 M at my husband's insistence, and it's such a pain to use, we've only ever attempted it once. It's sad, because he was excited about it, having grown-up in Oklahoma, where they don't teach parallel parking, he's not particularly adept at it, now that he has to attempt it frequently.

I'd hoped this feature would be useful, too, because we always end up stopping, and switching drivers right before we get to an area of parallel parking. I grew-up in NY, where parallel parking is begun to be taught in the womb, so frosting a cake is more difficult for me than parking a gigantic SUV in a small spot.

Can anyone from another country report if this feature works without all the disclaimers in their country? Is it just in the USA that we get bombarded with confirmation after confirmation when attempting to use this feature?

[Alberta]

I do have that option on my X5M , I'll try it and will let you know how does it work here.
The BMW saler's men warned me that if the car in the front of me is badly parked (like one wheel on the side-walk) , my car would park the same way :roll eyes:

Here in Europe , I would say that parallel parking represents 80% of the parking places in big cities.

I've never scratched a wheel on a side-walk while parking , I hope that try with the park-assist won't be a fail

[DeltaFX1942]

If you have surround view I find that it helps a lot with parallel parking. Right before I go into reverse, I hit the surround view button and then just use a combination of that and my mirrors.

[PhantomCypher]

Originally Posted by DeltaFX1942

If you have surround view I find that it helps a lot with parallel parking. Right before I go into reverse, I hit the surround view button and then just use a combination of that and my mirrors.

+1

[vince7870]

You guys parallel park...I usually fishtail right it!