[Carrera Dave]

I recently received my 2018 F33 440 and noticed some interesting things about the interior. Please allow me to brag a bit on the car. I call it a unicorn with the set of options as I've been looking for a LCI F33 for months and this popped up - truly unique.

The CPO car is very well optioned, including M Sport, 704 19" wheels, adaptive LED, Active Cruise Control, Active Driver Assistant, Adaptive Suspension, wireless charging, Individual Merino leather interior, wrapped in a beautiful Estoril blue exterior. Interestingly, no Blind Spot Detection?

I absolutely love the full leather interior and surprised by the variety of leathers used in various places of the interior: Kashmir Beige Merino leather (a bit darker than Oyster) on the seats (both front and back/pockets), head rests, door panels and arm rest on center console, lower dash board, glove box; Nappa on the hand brake lever; and Dakota on the dash and capping of the door trim side panels. This is not the same Dakota texture I had on my F10, but nice smooth leather.

Since this is a convertible too, the leather has what BMW calls: "Sun Reflective Technology" I have no idea how effective it'll be here in Texas.

Fun to be back in the sublime BMW inline six.

Happy motoring guys!

[Carrera Dave]

This thread is worthless without pics:
(these were taken from the dealer lot)







My improvement list is long, some already installed.

Okay, can you tell I'm excited about the car? No more 'promo' pics.

[eluded]

Originally Posted by Carrera Dave

Just saw your posts history, you bought a G20 340, well carry on spreading how bad the F30 is, makes sense now. I rest my case.

Nice. Love the white interior.

[Elvisfan]

I looked all over for adaptive cruise. I couldn’t find it. Finally settled. I do have blind spot and heads up display though.

[Carrera Dave]

The interior looks white in the pics, but it is more beige than white.

I looked all over for adaptive cruise too. The only options I wanted this car did not have was Blind Spot Detection and M Sport brakes. ACC and individual interior trumped BSD and brakes.

Oh well, happy with the entire features/option combination.

Regards,
Dave

[Londoner]

Originally Posted by Carrera Dave

The interior looks white in the pics, but it is more beige than white.

I looked all over for adaptive cruise too. The only options I wanted this car did not have was Blind Spot Detection and M Sport brakes. ACC and individual interior trumped BSD and brakes.

Oh well, happy with the entire features/option combination.

Regards,
Dave

Congrats! Jealous of that Merino leather, just couldn't find one with it in mineral grey!

[Elvisfan]

Originally Posted by Carrera Dave

The interior looks white in the pics, but it is more beige than white.

I looked all over for adaptive cruise too. The only options I wanted this car did not have was Blind Spot Detection and M Sport brakes. ACC and individual interior trumped BSD and brakes.

Oh well, happy with the entire features/option combination.

Regards,
Dave

Congratulations. I’m happy with mine. Until I get stuck in stop and go traffic. Would also like brake hold. My wife’s car has both ACC and brake hold.

[CMAC’s ‘Vert]

Car is a ‘bute,my must when looking was heads up display...don’t think I’ll ever get another car that doesn’t have it...congrats

[Carrera Dave]

Originally Posted by Londoner

Congrats! Jealous of that Merino leather, just couldn't find one with it in mineral grey!

Londoner - Since you in Europe, and assuming you have LCI LED tail lights, could you please verify if/how the rear fog lights work? A picture with them on is great. I want to code mine to enable this (US cars have this feature disabled).

Consensus here is the LCI LED rear lights do not support rear fog light.

Appreciate your help.

Don't know if your 340 will differ from my 440?

Regards,
Dave

[chowser51]

I coded mine and modified the button. I never checked to see if it worked. Will do it now and report back.

Yeah. Mine works. I have an ‘18 F33 LCI




FEM 3060
NSL_VERBAUT set to verbaut

REM 3063

MAPPING_NEBELSCHLUSSL_L_FUNCTION set to nebelschlusslicht
MAPPING_NEBELSCHLUSSL_L_OUTPUT set to custom value of 0x20
MAPPING_NEBELSCHLUSSL_R_FUNCTION set to nebelschlusslicht
MAPPING_NEBELSCHLUSSL_R_OUTPUT set to custom value of 0x21

[JayFar]

Congratulations on the beautiful convertible! I agree that the Adaptive Cruise is impossible to find. My wife and I searched for 2 years to find one in our colors and finally gave in and ordered a new one. It is a seriously great option in traffic and if you got the cold weather stuff like neck heaters it's very comfortable having the top down in the mid to low 40s.

[Carrera Dave]

Originally Posted by chowser51

I coded mine and modified the button. I never checked to see if it worked. Will do it now and report back.

Yeah. Mine works. I have an ‘18 F33 LCI




FEM 3060
NSL_VERBAUT set to verbaut

REM 3063

MAPPING_NEBELSCHLUSSL_L_FUNCTION set to nebelschlusslicht
MAPPING_NEBELSCHLUSSL_L_OUTPUT set to custom value of 0x20
MAPPING_NEBELSCHLUSSL_R_FUNCTION set to nebelschlusslicht
MAPPING_NEBELSCHLUSSL_R_OUTPUT set to custom value of 0x21

Chowser51 - Perfect - thanks so much for verifying and providing the coding details.

[Elvisfan]

Originally Posted by JayFar

Congratulations on the beautiful convertible! I agree that the Adaptive Cruise is impossible to find. My wife and I searched for 2 years to find one in our colors and finally gave in and ordered a new one. It is a seriously great option in traffic and if you got the cold weather stuff like neck heaters it's very comfortable having the top down in the mid to low 40s.

I haven’t had the top down in the 40s. Because I’m a snow bird,I get cold fast now. However, heated seat,heated steering wheel and neck warmer make it nice and toasty.

[amancuso]

Originally Posted by Carrera Dave

Chowser51 - Perfect - thanks so much for verifying and providing the coding details.

Thats not how it's supposed to work. The LCI should have a red LED strip next to the reverse lights.

And PS: OP beautiful ride, enjoy!

[chowser51]

That’s weird? I didn’t physically change anything in the back?

Maybe 2018 is different than 2016?

[JayFar]

Originally Posted by Elvisfan

I haven’t had the top down in the 40s. Because I’m a snow bird,I get cold fast now. However, heated seat,heated steering wheel and neck warmer make it nice and toasty.

You'd be very surprised how many extra top down months you can get with the cold weather options. Just put the wind deflector up and turn on all the warm bits and you'll barely feel cold at all. Check out this video I found on YouTube

[Carrera Dave]

Originally Posted by amancuso

Thats not how it's supposed to work. The LCI should have a red LED strip next to the reverse lights.

And PS: OP beautiful ride, enjoy!

Amancuso - Thanks for your kind words.

On the rear fogs, I hear ya, however, my lights do not have the red strip next to the reverse lights. These would be noticeable to the naked eye.

The plot thickens!

Thanks guys for shedding light into this as I understood others have had difficulty coding the US LCI rear fogs.

Best,
Dave

[mike@x-ph.com]

Congrats!

[sinopath]

Congrats, what a rare find!