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04-07-2010, 03:44 AM | #1 |
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My Experience With And A Couple Of Questions About The X1
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I was in the process of purchasing a brand new 2.0d X-Drive but then stumbled on a demonstrator with all the optional extra's for £8k less than what it would cost new. So I snapped the dealers hand off. I have now picked up my car and I have to say I am very impressed with it. I was a little worried about going from my £90 to this but I'm glad I took the plunge. It's in white and has the following extra's: 18" Y-Spoke Alloy Wheels - Style 322 Fine Brushed Aluminium Interior Trim Panoramic Glass Sunroof Sun Protection Glass Electric Folding Exterior Mirrors Front Sports Seats Front Seat Heating Park Distance Control - Front & Rear Rain Sensor & Auto Headlight Activation Xenon Headlights USB/iPod Audio Interface Professional Navigation System BMW ConnectedDrive-Assist BMW ConnectedDrive-Online Voice Control Bluetooth Telephone Preparation & Telematics Harmon Kardon Surround Sound System Just have a couple of questions if anyone can help me with: 1) Can I replace the standard door handles with ones that have the LED's in them that you get as part of the comfort package? Why the dealer never order that I don't really know seeing as they put everything else on it. 2) With the HDD based sat nav pro, do you get a DVD also with it? 3) When you order the USB/iPOD option. Do you get the iPOD cable with it as standard. My iPod Touch won't work with it and I've read that I need to order the cable from BMW to get it to function correctly. The cable costs £46 which I think is a tad bit steep. I've had the car now for a couple of weeks and can say that indeed the engine is noisier than my 320d SE E90 when idle but I kind of expected that as I've had 1 series diesels in the past when my E90 has been in for a service and they have been noisey too. Motorway driving is fine.[B][U] The 18" run flats are very hard and noisey. They only quieten down on newly laid road surfaces. This has always been a trade off when using run flats. I choose to keep them on though because I know if my wife and kids were in it on their own and got a puncture at least they can still get home ok. One annoying thing though is on my 3 series when I held the lock button down the exterior merrors would fold in. This one does do it. I rang my BMW dealer who said that BMW decided not to include this function as it was deemed surplus to requirements. SHe said the new X5 doesn't doe it either. Well done BMW for the though process on that one. Another thing I do miss is the rest option on the climate control. On my £90 you could press the rest function that the car's climate control would still operate for a set time which was great when popping into a shop for 10 mins and the car would stay warm. For some reason this has been replaced with the ALL button and all this does is make the passenger side temperature settings match the drivers side. Pointless. Apart from that it's fantastic. I suppose the above aren't issues/moans, they are just change. |
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Cheers Darky, that's cleared that one up for me.
Do you or anyone else know if you can get a non branded BMW iPod cable. As soon as BMW put their name to it, they seem to take the p and charge over the odds. Thanks again, Tim |
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The iDrive Computer controls the iPod via USB , the audio gets out only analgue (DRM etc... well in short terms: apple suxx). Some Bimmers (e.g. the current 3series built in March or later) and from Sept. 2010 onwards all bimmers with the USB-Audio-Interface get a new revison of the interface. You can then use every Dock2USB cable. The new revision of the CIC also feature some neat specials like showing cd-covers on the nav-screen... If parts of those feature will be available as a software update is undetermined till today. bye Darky |
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Thanks for the info. So fingers crossed we should be able to get a software update to enable some of the new features? The one thing that frustrates me is how BMW keep all this info so close to their chest. Tim |
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04-13-2010, 01:10 AM | #6 |
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You might be able to answer this one for me. I was under the impression that the new HDD based Sat Nav Professional had full postcode entry. I might be doing something wrong but it seem to just allow say LE3 3 and doesn't let me enter the full postcode in. Any ideas? Thanks, Tim |
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No, they don't fold in when you lock the car. Very annoying. BMW in their wisdon decided that it wasn't a facility that we needed anymore. So the only way to fold them is by pressing the button before you get out.
I was talking to my local dealership and non of the new models from the new X5 onwards have had the facility removed too. You might as well save your money and spend it on another rip off option. |
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Originally Posted by beeker
1) Can I replace the standard door handles with ones that have the LED's in them that you get as part of the comfort package? Why the dealer never order that I don't really know seeing as they put everything else on it. Hi beeker I myself asked for a retrofit of these leds in the door's handles and the answer was that such modification is costly unadvisable. (although if you ordered this option with the order of the car, is cheap enough) |
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