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Driver Profile Gremlin?
Had my first electronic gremlin in the M850i today regarding driver profile recognition. Drove it this morning to the detailer for a maintenance wash and all was well. Drove it from there to the office and same story. However, on the drive home I at first didn't notice an issue as I followed the well baked in process that takes place now without any thought whatsoever: press sport (sets to Individual), press start and put my phone on the wireless charger (watch to make sure JBV1 starts up correctly and connects to my Valentine 1).
As I drove out of the parking lot I realized my iDrive 7 home screen was wrong (basically the default settings). At the first stop light I looked and the Driver Profile was set to Guest. I tried to set it to mine several times but it wouldn't budge. Stopped at the grocery store and on leaving same scenario. The only thing I could think of is an iDrive update so tried to find that setting but under general settings remote update was not showing. Thought maybe I had the iDrive update setting location wrong so after returning home I checked the forum for the thread on that and sure enough it should have been where I was looking. Just went out to the car and this time it recognized the key properly and had my profile on entry. Checked the remote update under general settings and this time it is a menu option but I'm still at the same iDrive release. So lesson #1 is iDrive remote update is not available to the guest profile which makes 100% sense. Lesson #2 is I just hit my first gremlin. Took the pics when I first arrived home with yet another failed attempt at setting the profile. |
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Raymond, that happened to me from time to time in the early days (about eight months ago), but not recently. Is there any chance your second key was in the vicinity of the car? That throws off the profile recognition system, big time.
My two other gremlins still show up every now and then: 1. The radio presets don't show in the HUD. If I shut off the car and let it reset for about eight minutes, the presets reappear. 2. The embedded garage door opener doesn't close the garage door. I've troubleshot that one from all directions and it still happens about once a month.
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That aside it is one of the things I considered however the 2nd key was nowhere near the car when I drove home from the office. In fact it is buried in the master bedroom closet so not even a player when I'm here at the house. The irony is my wife asked me if she has a key to the M850i as I have one to her X5 (which recognizes my profile flawlessly every time I drive). The answer was "yes" but every time she's been in the M850i with me she's made comments as to it would scare her to drive it. I attribute that sentiment on her part as to although I'm still in the 1200 mile break in and keep the RPM below 4500 and MPH under 100 I still DILYSI. |
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My wife keeps mentioning that, after a year with an 850 in the garage, she still hasn’t driven it even once. I keep responding, “Hmmm.”
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01-31-2020, 03:09 PM | #6 |
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I see you have a 19, how many keys did you get? We received one regular electronic key, a display key and some aux non electronic key.
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Thanks, did they give you the metal aux key too? I did not receive the NFC card from the delarship with my packet.
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I just use the regular key. I would have loved to use the display key, but it's just too bulky.
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Unfortunately no nfc for me, yet another thing the dealer screwed up on. So glad I'll be working with another dealer for service etc, who's already ordered the nfc for me and they even offered (w/o my even asking) to look into getting it paid for since I never got mine. Guess which dealer I'd buy from or recommend to others?
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From that thread I learned the Pixel was out but discovered the NFC card option. Also based on that thread it is apparent that it is totally hit and miss as to whether one will come with the vehicle on delivery. Thus, I was not surprised when I didn't receive one and hence the mention to my SA. Can you snap a pic of the metal long key? It sounds like they are rare and you may end up with a collector's item. |
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I thought I had read the NFC won't work with IPhones, is that correct? One advantage of a 19 appears to be the display key, as I also read here no DK for 20 M850's, only M8's. I would have rather had the drive recorder than the giant key lol
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That metal key looks to be the same thing that is part of the standard electronic keys to lock the glove box for valeting (think the trunk is set within iDrive to disable it for same purpose). |
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You hit the quad-fecta
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No doubt! As for the metal key, the only thing I can think of but could not verify for sure looking at some DK images is whether it has an integrated physical key like the standard electronic keys do. So my theory for now is it is a partner to the digital key. Can anybody with a DK confirm there is no integrated physical key?
That said now that I know a 2019 includes a DK and standard electronic key I feel a bit let down with the 2020. Sure the DK is gimmicky, too large for every day use, etc. but for a grin once in a while I may have used it, e.g., demoing the out of car parking for my older relatives whom have no clue that Tesla Smart Summon even exists. Also, the DK could have been the wife's key as for a woman it works fine in a purse. The added benefit being it would be dead from any battery life 99% of the time sitting in the basket on the master bedroom dresser we store our car keys in. So on the occasion the wife decided to take the M850i to run an errand I'd be like as to why it wouldn't work. Love her to the moon and back but I won't even valet the M850i as I don't want anybody else driving it. Lastly, I'll state the obvious but it is somewhat flabbergasting that BMW cannot deliver a simple thing like a full set of keys for a $115K plus car. For me no NFC. For the 2019 owners at least 1 if not two things missing (NFC and/or physical key). It shouldn't be that hard to deliver a flawless customer experience from a set of keys aspect. |
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For the record my 2019 has regular key, digital key, credit card key and manual key. But to your point, all of your points bloozemanAZ, it's a dysfunctional mess! |
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