Optional extras - seamless integration or just bolt ons?

Interesting thread, especially as what I'm driving right now is my first ever specced-by-me new car. I also drive my daughter's Ka, which has few mod cons and not a lot of grunt but is still a hoot to drive on interesting roads, but awful on a motorway - and with a tinny stereo which is pants on both...

Things that really floated my boat with this F10 compared to the previous one were the engine and gearbox, VDC (no experience of AD but I've no doubt it takes that experience a lot further), upgraded stereo. All used all the time.

The rest is fine but ultimately toys in which I chose to indulge. I must be a standard person, for I have no problems with the standard seats comfort-wise, having done a few 500+ mile days with no issues in spite of a lower back which is less than perfect. Folding/dimming mirrors could be standard. I could live without the HUD as the multifunctional instrument panel doesn't display its full capability when you have HUD as well. ConnectedDrive wouldn't really be missed. Reversing camera similar, even though I've learned to use it, parking sensors are enough for me. Nav and traffic info I can do on my phone. Adaptive headlights, etc, all good fun but necessary???

Conclusion: it's all too easy to spend the last 20% of the total price on things which enhance the overall driving experience by a quarter of that amount.

Having just spent a happy couple of hours switching over to the winter wheels and admiring my pride and joy today, there are still some things evidently missing...
1. A run-flat all-season tyre (which fits my car)
2. Properly chip-resistant and scratch-resistant paint
3. A complete reinvention of the windscreen wiper. It's not changed in a century or more. 2 flappy bits of perishable rubber which are as adept at scratching the glass as they are at clearing the muck.

PS On the HUD, indicators can be coded to show on it.

 

Tried coding mine but didn't work...

NU NBT module: 3001 HUD_TURNSIGNAL = aktiv

I've also tried:
KOMBI module 3008 HUD_PIA_BLINKER = activ
KOMBI module 3008 HUD_BLINKER_ENABLE = activ

Have you managed to code yours successfully? are there other parameters that need to be changed in addition to these?

Thanks

 

Not done it on mine but I understand exactly what you need to change depends to some extent on model and build date. What works on an F10 (as you quote above) with NBT may not work on an F30, F80, etc. I've not heard of anyone getting it to work on one of these models.

 

You'll have to get an M next time!... you get the gear and rev counter displayed

 

If my next car is a BMW I guess it will be back to sport seats, which is no bad thing of course. However, I had a drive in an Audi S5 with the super-sport seats and really liked them. More importantly, so did the wife!

 

The cynic in me says that the main purpose of all the extras is to make money for BMW! There is a very healthy profit margin on 'options'.

The one option that I really would like is a spare wheel in the wheel well, which they've now made impossible by fitting a battery there. I don't consider a loose spacesaver filling the boot space to be a reasonable alternative. My old E39 managed to fit the battery at one side of the boot and a full-size spare wheel in the wheel well. My F10 has a bigger boot but still can't accommodate a spare in a well.

 

Yes, looking at the other BMW forums and associated cheatsheets i haven't heard of anyone that's managed to get this to work

 

I agree that a spare wheel in the wheel well would be appreciated, but unlike you I am (sort of) happy to put up with a spacesaver wheel in the boot. Reason being earlier this year I'd been to a meeting and 5 minutes after I set off home I got a puncture. So I pulled off the main road, fitted the spare wheel and a few minutes later I was on my way home again, albeit at 50mph! The journey home was 125 miles and I doubt I would have made it that far relying on a RFT. Should add I'm running non-RFTs on my F10.

 

Spacesaver is better than nothing. I wouldn't fancy getting a 20" full size wheel on either of our cars in anything other than ideal conditions. Dragging a dead 20" into the boot seems like a day's work on its own. But I'm sure adrenaline would come to the rescue. It's running with no spare that baffles me. I just couldn't afford the consequences of losing a tyre and not being able to resume if it happened on business.

I have tried to code indicators to the HUD without success. I gave up after the fourth or fifth attempt.

I heard you could code the M HUD display (revs and gear) onto a standard HUD. Don't know if anyone has actually done it - Youtube will probably answer that one. Now that I've said it, I should search Youtube for the HUD/indicator feature.

 

Now there's a thought.

 

Agreed. Did the same on my F31.

 

They reckon it's not possible as it needs an M-KOMBI module

http://f30.bimmerpost.com/forums/showthread.php?t=986133

 

I wouldn't mind getting speed limit display on mine.

 

Oh well.

 

Can that be coded in? I would have thought it gets the info from the GPS?