F10 M5 Sport Display??

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I have a feeling this may be a feature that simply isn't on UK models, but I've seen it mentioned on M5Board so thought I'd check.

Basically it's a screen option that displays power & torque on the iDrive split screen. Seems it's accessed from Vehicle Info settings. Also appears it was only introduced on MY15 (which mine is).

That said, US cars don't have the Dynamic Gearshift Display which was also introduced on MY15 so perhaps that's the trade off.

Anyone aware of this feature & if yes then where can I find it & how do I access it? Thanks in advance.

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Found a youtube clip of said feature in action & whilst it's unlikely to offer any real world benefits, i don't like knowing something may be on my car but not knowing where the hell it is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjhfg8bo6Ro&fe...

Got a feeling it's a US feature, however oddly enough my wife's new Mini Cooper S Countryman has a very similar feature.

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Thanks. If possible, could someone let me know where in the iDrive menu this feature is?

Now raised a 2nd question regarding the Assigned/Unassigned buttons. I had (wrongly) assumed these were purely used for Radio Station presets & as i rarely listen to the radio i never use them, however above i see you've assigned Sports Display to a button so i assume these buttons are more a shortcut to change features/displays & not radio presets? Please could you explain how you assign these buttons & what can be assigned to them?

I know i could RTFM, but it's cold in the garage

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chris5150 said:

Easiest way to programme the shortcut buttons is to just select something you want to do and then when that is displayed on the screen press one of the SC buttons and hold for a few seconds & it assigns it to it
It is really useful...my button 1 is assigned to call the MRS mobile ( as it needs to be no 1! ), home is no 2, sports displays no3, bang & olufsen settings 4, home postcode for nav 5, etc etc ...I assign no 8 to switch off the display..that is really useful one button to just turn it off and on
if you lightly touch any of the buttons you can see what function is assigned without actually going into it, =handy so you don't have to remember where you put them all!!
SC buttons are one of the great useful ideas ,get them used!
Try anything, once its on the screen press a sc button, if you cannot allocate a sc button to it, it tells you ' cannot assign button to this function' so really just muck about with it and see whats what

Thank you Sir, I'll be giving that a go. Love learning stuff about my Car I had no idea about.

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I think I may have found (been told on another forum) the answer.

Me thinks it's only CP & Jahre M5's that have this functionality as far as M5/6 goes, so nothing to do with MY which would naturally make sense.

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RichardM5 said:

My M6 has the Competition Pack and no Sport Display.

The plot thickens. Is yours one of the 1st CP's? Perhaps it's still limited to CP's but was only applied in later software updates.

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Andy M said:

640bhp??

Funnily enough this is the figure my dealership indicated - off the record- that the M5 may have.

I can concur that 600+ is the norm & approaching 640 stock isn't unheard of. Seems crazy that BMW didn't state a more accurate output but i'm sure their's some EU reason or gentlemen's agreement with other German marques for that.

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Jazzer said:

I have this on my May 13 F10, but only noticed it recently!!

I can only think it was added as part of a software upgrade when the car was being serviced!

May 13 F10 M5?

Has it recently been serviced & do you know if it received a software update?

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Cheers. Will seek out a Software update from a friendly Indy