Tips with idrive?

[Nobbles]

Not got used to it yet, most irritating is have to go through the menus to change from CD to radio.

Any advice or tips????

[Markbishop]

How old is your car? If it's a recent one you could program in one of the eight 'favourites' buttons. Also, does yours have voice recognition?

[Nobbles]

It a late 2006 and does have voice recognition, but also a 2 year old in the back who repeats everything I say and confuses the lovely BMW lady

[Ultraviolet]

Just had the CIP updated on mine (to v25.1 I think)... improved the graphics significantly and also the responsiveness of the iDrive.

Might be worth looking into.....

UV

[Zod]

use voice to change from CD to radio

[StuB]

You can program the two buttons on the steering wheel to perform user selected functions and I have one to change from FM to AM to CD and the other for repeating navigation commands.

Hope this helps.

[CatherineJ]

I think I drive is something that you suddenly just get.

MOH uses it a lot more than I do in his 330D and he describes it as a piece of p!$$

[Hodgson 100]

If you pull and hold the controller to the rear of the car you will find that you can avoid going through all the submenu's and it will take you to whatever your last screen was in the entertainment section. You can also use this shortcut technique to navigate around all the other main menu items.

For instance if you previously used the phone book list in the communications section and you are currently viewing the navigation map you can push the cotroller forward and hold it for 2 seconds and it will take you straight into the phone list, after you have finshed in the phone list you can hold the controller to the right and it will take you straight back to the navigation map, pull and hold it to the rear and it will take you to your last screen you used in the entertainments section, cd radio ipod etc.
To further that if you are in e.g. the navigation section you can get back to the main menu by holding the controller to the right for 2 seconds and it will take you straight back to the main menu.

This function really makes it ridiculously easy to use but a lot of people are not aware of it.

[Nobbles]

I will give it a try good information, thanks

[F355GTS]

Ultraviolet said:

Just had the CIP updated on mine (to v25.1 I think)... improved the graphics significantly and also the responsiveness of the iDrive.

Might be worth looking into.....

UV

UV how did you get this update?


thanks


Mark

[Ultraviolet]

F355GTS said:

UV how did you get this update?


thanks


Mark

Mark

The update has to be done by a dealer. Takes about 4 hours. It took me a while to find a dealer willing to do the work. In the end, I had to 'emphasise' the problems with iDrive being slow, sticking etc. so the dealer could claim the work back on the warranty. It's also worth getting the mp3 retrofit at the same time (if you don't have it) so you can play mp3 files from a CD-R in your in-dash cd player.

UV

[NeVeTaS]

I've also had this done, nice shiney silver front menu now, and a few added features.

[F355GTS]

Thanks UV