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Try this, move the seat to a different position. Leave and lock the car. Unlock the car, open the door, and press the memory for 1. Seat should move by itself. When you have the ignition on, or engine on, you have the hold the button. I believe it’s done that way because if you’re in the seat, the seat could crush you if it’s automatic. |
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09-20-2023, 05:12 PM | #46 | |
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09-20-2023, 05:36 PM | #47 | |
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Tested and confirmed...works exactly as you described. How on earth did I ever survive all my previous vehicles? |
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09-20-2023, 07:00 PM | #48 | |
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09-22-2023, 03:18 PM | #50 |
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19- Key eating seats
Why is it whenever I leave my key fob in my trouser pocket, it finds itself under the seat where I have to surgically extract it? Never happens with any of my other cars. Last edited by Trogster; 09-22-2023 at 03:25 PM.. |
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09-23-2023, 08:42 AM | #51 |
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Hah! Never had my seat "eat" my key but I've had to fumble around and move the seat to retrieve a pocket knife. Only in the M2.
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09-23-2023, 04:42 PM | #52 |
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20- Mystery Stains
Not exclusive to the M2..... But never park in the garage with your sun roof open after lubricating the hinges on your garage door. You may return to find the most mysterious looking stains on your center console. |
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09-23-2023, 04:50 PM | #53 |
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all the more reason to opt for CF roof
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09-26-2023, 11:22 AM | #54 |
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21- My Kingdom for a Dipstick
I've always done my own vehicle maintenance, so not having a dipstick to check motor oil is anachronistic to me. Does anyone know what the oil volume is between the Min and Max markings? Plus, any idea what's the oil capacity of our engine? Last edited by Trogster; 09-26-2023 at 12:05 PM.. |
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09-26-2023, 01:36 PM | #55 | |
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I came across this document which gives the oil capacity but I can't say the amount is correct for your engine. See attached PDF. No interaction with the BMW techs yet and may not ever have any as I don't have any plans to service my M2 at home. But I had considerable interaction with Porsche techs and I was told by the Porsche techs the electronic oil level measurement system was not intended to be used to know how full to fill the engine. The amount of oil added to the engine was measured by the service bay oil gun. Once the tech had added the specified amount of oil the engine was started and the electronic oil measurement system was activated to *confirm* its reading agreed with the amount of oil *known* to be in the engine. While my ~500K miles of time spent with car engines (3 Porsche cars and 3 MINIs, oh and 5K miles with my M2) fitted with an electronic oil level system was problem free I was told the system could fail and not deliver any reading or read low or high. (Curious I bought a used electronic oil level measurement sensor and cut it apart to see what it consisted of and with the help of an EE how it worked.) Also the system was not really intended to show how much oil was in the engine over a certain level. The techs impressed upon me the importance of not overfilling the engine as the electronic oil measurement system did not have the measuring range to show how much above the max oil level the oil was. One couldn't know if it was 1/4 a liter or a liter or more. Dipsticks don't have to be any better. For example, the dipsticks fitted to my 2 Scat Packs and Hellcat always showed the oil level high, above the max line, when I got the car back from the service department. I was told I was not measuring the oil right. That was BS. What I learned was the word was because Dodge changed the amount of oil the engine should be filled with (increasing it from 6 quarts to 7 quarts) and instead of trashing a boxcar full of wrong dipsticks/tubes used them. For the Hellcat there was a newer dipstick/tube that would show the oil level right with the right amount of oil in the engine. I ordered the new dipstick but the tube was on back order. I never got the tube before I traded in the Hellcat. The oil level was high because the tech put in the right amount of oil and the dipstick was not relied upon to gauge that. |
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Groan. It's all the dumb exceptions and resupply quirks and penny pinching like this, that made me kinda give up wrenching my own cars. The day when you could just buy a Chilton's and figure it out yourself are long gone.
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09-26-2023, 01:47 PM | #57 | |
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From the digital owners manual: Only add engine oil when the message is displayed in the instrument cluster. The top-up quantity is indicated in the message shown on the Control Display. When I checked my M2's oil level some miles after buying the car it was low. Not as low as your engine's oil level. (See attached pic.) I seem to recall coming across some documentation that said the amount of oil to add would only be displayed if it was necessary to add oil. (But I can't find where I came across that.) I didn't care. I had bought 2 bottles of the oil before I left the dealer with my car and opened a bottle and added just a bit of oil. By a bit less than I suspected was needed and checked the level and stopped with the level was good. |
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09-26-2023, 02:29 PM | #58 |
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A solution may be at hand:
https://www.bimmerworld.com/Engine/B...t-F8X-S55.html https://www.facebook.com/sctsracetea...6963744492936/ Installation is DIY simple. |
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09-26-2023, 04:32 PM | #59 |
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A simple bolt-on solution. However it wouldn't take much effort to design a flanged insert that would allow the M2 to keep the OEM level sensor in addition to a traditional dipstick.
https://www.apmotorsport.co.uk/produ...235iR-dipstick |
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21- Back to the dipstick issue
It would appear that it's not only the Beemer community that's concerned about the lack of dipsticks in modern cars. One elegant solution I came upon was swapping the engine pan oil drain plug with a banjo fitting. The banjo fitting could then interface with a dipstick assembly. Of course you would have to calibrate the dipstick to suit the vehicle. I like this solution. You get to keep the electronic oil level feature, no need to mod the oil pan, and no added complexity to oil changes (with the exception of needing two crush washers instead of the one). Merits further investigation. |
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22- Anti-reflective sunglasses
Broke my favorite pair of sunglasses and had to quickly find a replacement. Picked up a rather nice pair of MAUI glasses. Perfect fit. Their anti-reflective qualities are so effective, they make my heads-up display virtually invisible ..... regardless of the brightness level. Be warned. |
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23- Digital Tire Pressure Gauge
With the cold weather upon us, it's time to increase the tire pressure to compensate for the lower air temperatures. Imagine my surprise when my Digital back-lit tire pressure gauge refused to work when the air temperature was below freezing. A couple of hours indoors got it up and running again...but it serves as a good remined to keep as old school pencil style air gauge in the car. |
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