[vaihinger]

Hi all,

Greetings from a cold and rainy Stuttgart, Germany. I recently relocated out here from the DC area. I purchased a new m240i here, and I absolutely love it. It's a US-Spec vehicle so if/when I'm sent back home I can take it with me. Shout-out to BMW Military Sales here in Vaihingen for making the process all too easy.

However, I can't seem to enable "My Trips" in the My BMW app. I'm stopped at the "Data privacy check" step in the app. It instructs me to "Go back to 'System Settings', scroll down to 'Data and Devices', and select 'Data privacy'".

The problem is that the "Data Privacy" menu entry...doesn't exist. (This is iDrive 8)

The app instructs me to select "All services incl. analysis", but again, nowhere does "Data Privacy" exist.

The thing is, Android Auto works perfectly, and while separated from the car my phone's My BMW app displays the car's current location and status reliably.

I took the car by my dealer the other day but he couldn't seem to make any headway. Though as a test, he attempted to send a destination to the car's nav system from the app, and it never arrived.

I've been troubleshooting as I could, including resetting the car to factory defaults and then re-linking it to my BMW ID cloud account and to my phone. Everything works except My Trips.

I wonder if this might be a gotcha of having a US-Spec car over here in Europe? Perhaps the in-car cell connection is not fully compatible with the networks here? Or is there something else going on?

Any ideas or pointers you could offer would be most appreciated.

Thanks!

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GDPR

[vaihinger]

I grok GDPR. I suppose BMW, as a German automaker, would have a plan to address those regulations(?)

So is my issue endemic to every BMW being driven in Germany, or to every US-Spec BMW being driven in Germany?

[RockCrusher]

Originally Posted by vaihinger

I grok GDPR. I suppose BMW, as a German automaker, would have a plan to address those regulations(?)

So is my issue endemic to every BMW being driven in Germany, or to every US-Spec BMW being driven in Germany?

I'm going with the problem is having a US spec'd BMW in Germany.