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Finally picked her up today! Ordered Feb 10th. Too excited to take any good photos, but here she is. Next steps are spoiler, badges and PPF!
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06-19-2023, 03:41 PM | #113 |
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Very sharp! Do you have any plans to do painted reflectors?
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07-08-2023, 02:10 AM | #116 |
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07-08-2023, 05:34 AM | #117 |
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Had my first proper drive yesterday with a 120 mile round trip and overall it was excellent.
The good: Ride, road and wind noise, handling and overall comfort. Engine is silky smooth in the break in rpm range. Fuel consumption was 37 mpg (UK "g") with a mix of road types and speeds and a few traffic queues here and there. I never had iDrive 7 but iDrive 8 is a major improvement over what I've been used to especially the big screen. As a long term BMW owner I'm familiar with many of the underlying functions so that helps the learning curve but by the end of the 120 miles I'd pretty much got to grips with it. For those, like me, that detest touch screens, the voice commands work pretty well most of the time (once I'd changed the wake up phrase - Hey BMW didn't work for me at all). Using those, a few well chosen short cuts accessed by the iDrive controller and calling up screens with the buttons that surround it, I've found I can do everything I want whilst driving without touching the screen at all. Niggles - nothing terrible just a few specific irritations Doors. I don't know if it's just mine or a feature but the doors make a bit of a tinny noise when being closed rather than that satisfying soft clunk you normally get with a BMW. Nav system. In the route criteria I set tolls to "avoid" but when I set up my journey yesterday it said it couldn't avoid tolls. This was extremely surprising as the journey is one I do regularly and there are no tolls - the nearest one is a tunnel about 30 miles in the opposite direction! Clearly a bug. RTTI. A vast improvement over the iDrive 6 version which was borderline impossible to use whilst driving because of the way the info was presented. This is way better however they still managed to build in a couple of irritations. The traffic info widget shows a graphical journey summary with delay annotations on its tile (which is just what was needed imo) but the text is tiny and hard to read and when you click on the tile and open the app you can't get a bigger version (or even any version at all) which is irritating. Also its categorisation of the delay severity needs recalibrating, things like a 3 minute delay in a 20 minute journey is not a major delay as it claims Manuals. No iDrive 8 Navigation, Entertainment, Communication manual I can find anywhere despite it being referenced in the printed owners handbook that came with the car. That makes learning iDrive 8 a whole lot harder than it needs to be especially for those new to BMW. Overall though very happy so far.
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