The BMW Thread

[Herdfan]

Whoo-hoo! In production, and got my VIN number.

myBMW app won’t accept it yet, though.

Not sure how BMW works, but with Ford even if you have the VIN, you have to be in the car with it running and acknowledge the pairing on the touchscreen. This keeps other people from putting your vehicle on their app.
And don't know if any of you have seen pics of the new 2025 Expedition/Navigator's interior. It's going to be a love/hate thing. Here is a pic:

Now look at the steering wheel controls. They have no lettering and that is because a diagram of them comes up on the screen and they change functions depending on what you are seeing on the screen. Not very user friendly, at least not the 2 I have delivered. I spent an hour learning/playing with this and a customer asked a question I didn't have an answer too and couldn't find out during the delivery. Had to go back our and show them AFTER it took myself and 2 sales guys 30 minutes figuring it out. Also, the shape of the wheel is odd. I have a "D" wheel in my SXS, but this it too much. This is the Expedition. The Navigator screen goes all the way across.

Also, the vehicle has a built in Karaoke system.

 

[Cmaier]

Not sure how BMW works, but with Ford even if you have the VIN, you have to be in the car with it running and acknowledge the pairing on the touchscreen. This keeps other people from putting your vehicle on their app.

The BMW app asks you if you have the keys yet (and, if so, you have to do stuff on the touchscreen…. If not, you can enter your VIN and it gives you SOME functionality, but nothing that would cause trouble if a bad guy added it to their app. (Mostly, I am told, it lets you track the build progress, which I can already do from their website). It might also let you view the manual.

 

[Cmaier]

And…now it let me add it to the app. Let’s me do stuff like watch a video of what the car will look like, prompts me to do profile stuff like sync my contacts and calendar, set up my home and work addresses (weirdly those don’t “stick,” but setting other favorite locations does. Bug?), track production status, and play around with some app features like maps/charger overlay, etc.

The app is very cluttered and confusing, at least compared to the Tesla app. Of course I knew that already, since I’ve been using it for years with ICE BMWs - weirdly, each BMW has had a completely different set of screens in the app, with the same thing being found in different places depending on the car.