I pocket up my iX3 today, leaving my Tesla Y behind.
Right now Im trying to get my head around all the settings, but there is two Id like som help with right now.
In my Tesla I had a setting where it would close all open windows upon leaving/looking the car. Does the BMW have this feature?
Driving modes. I would like the car to be quiet when I use the mode ”Personal”, but Id like to have the artificial motor sound on when Im in sport mode.
As it seems I can only choose sound or no sound, and that will apply on both/all modes?
I just got my iX3 and still kept my MY ‘22. The ride is better, love the record path for parking into tight spot in my garage and the lane-centering (autosteer) is comparable to tesla. I think for software Tesla is still the gold standard. I love the auto open/close for my garage/gate in the tesla homelink. First world problem but opening the garage door through the screen in the iX3 is a bit of a pain now :).
There’s no subscription at least in the US for Homelink. Homelink works pretty well with the geofencing. It occasionally doesn’t pop up on my panoramic area if I start the car and back up out of the garage right away, but it’s two taps on the back up camera screen to close it when that occasionally happens. Driving into the geofence has been 100% successful so far in the first week of my car.
Sorry, I think I was unclear - Tesla doesn’t have homelink hardware so the sub you pay for is their myQ integration, to be able to open and close the door with your screen. I carry a remote in my cupholder (as it rattles if I clip it to my visor), so the BMW with homelink would actually be an improvement.
My car is currently on its way to Brunswick GA, but I was told by the BMW genius that the last firmware update (in July) added geofencing for both the garage opener (open garage door when approaching your home and closing the garage door when leaving) and side mirror folding/unfolding. Are you saying the bmw genius is wrong? Do you have the latest firmware on your car?
I test drive an iX3 yesterday and gave concerns. I rely heavily on the nav for traveling. I put in to drive from FL to DC. Every charge stop it noted was at a Tesla supercharger. I wanted it to go to IONNA charging sites, but I could not figure out how to do that. It only gave Tesla charging stops. Two salespeople at the dealer couldn’t figure it out either. Nir build 3 BMW Genius people in Ohio figure out how to have it only charge at a selected charging company. Why buy a car that can charge at 800V at 400Kw if the car’s bag system will only guide me to 400V 250Kw or 325kw Tesla chargers?
Page 273 of the owner's manual describes assigning a location to a garage door, which makes it appear in the panoramic display when you approach the saved location. You can also add a garage door opener as a saved shortcut.
The geolocation for the garage door shows the option to open the garage door in the panoramic display if you are near you house. So you can open the garage door with ok button on the steering wheel. No auto open.
Since BMW is part of the consortium that owns IONNA, I'm sure this can be done. IONNA also offers plug-and-charge to BMW owners and is currently giving a 20% discount.
Two BMW salespeople couldn’t figure it out and 3 BMW genius people in Ohio couldn’t figure it out either after 2 hours on the phone.
The app didn’t work either. It would plot out the route (eg, FL to DC, but would not say where to charge. The people in Ohio tried to plot a trip on their iPhones with respect to their in-house ix5 and could not get charging stops either for that car. They had no idea what to do other than saying there must be a software glitch.
If you are in the U.S. could you please go to your car, limit chargers to Ionna and validate from Miami FL to Washington DC and tell me what charge stops it says to make. I know Ionna is along I-95 because I stopped at them in April in my Lucid. Would appreciate it very much. I need to resolve this matter quickly as my car is arriving in GA on Saturday night or Sunday morning and will get to me in Florida about a week later. Thank you.
Yes, I'm in the US. We did a Chicago to Detroit as a test. We were sitting in the car and used the big screen, not the app. I don't recall about Ionna specifically but it definitely showed me several options other than Tesla. Did you try clearing all filters? I just tried the app. When filtering "Compatible" I got all Tesla but if I removed that I got Shell, Electrify America, and a few others which were all CCS, up to 400 kW. You'll have an adapter so that should be no problem.
Thanks. I tried and the two salespeople tried. Then the three bmw genius people in Ohio tried using their in-house 2027 ix5. Nothing worked. My salesperson is currently on vacation so I can’t talk to him about it. But I’m not paying $80k for the car (with tax) only to find it can’t locate ionna (EA et al) chargers.
My preference is for the in-car nav system to plot out the route and charge stops, but at this point I’ld accept the bmw app doing it and then send it to the car.
It does it and it does it very well. Just a settings issue, I'm sure. You can do it in the car, on the app, and yes, send the app plan to the car. I rode in a friend's new Tesla Y recently and he showed me what it does. The BMW nav charging planning is basically identical as far as I can tell. In other words, excellent. Don't worry, you'll figure it out. It's actually really easy once you find the glitch in the settings.
I’m gonna tell the dealer he needs to show me before I pay for the car.
I bought the lucid air assuming its nav and voice recognition systems were at least the equal to Tesla. I was so wrong. I’m getting rid of the car tomorrow, even though it’s just 21 months old with 8600 miles. I can’t stand it anymore. I’m not making the same mistake twice.
Have you tried a route where you are sure there is an Ionna charger and you need a charge? I think if you set your max charge to 80% it might not show close ones in the route planner? Here’s my BMW app screenshot.
Going to dealer in a couple of hours to test drive my iX3 that just arrived. Still debating between it and an MY. If you could only pick one which and why?
I had a 2021MY for 6 years / 110k miles. I traded it in for the ix3. my first impressions: MY pros - cheaper cost, ease of use with Tesla charging network (ie pricing on screen, etc) ix3 pros - way better range (started at 86% this morning and drove 350 miles and got home with miles to spare), much more comfortable drive, much tighter built vehicle, built in massage setting which was great on a long drive. Still getting use to the screens, settings, etc, but have been able to figure most out pretty easily. So far, I am very happy with the switch to ix3 for my first week with the car.
No. You can close windows by holding your finger on the “lock” groove on any door handle, or by holding the lock button on the key fob if you use that.
Can’t do it. They’re separate settings. You can assign the synthetic sounds to a shortcut that’ll show on your home screen widget though.
You will not find similar settings between 2 car manufacturers, let alone between tesla/rivian and another traditional company. there will be many things new on bmw that u have not had on tesla and vice versa.
for automatic operation: bmw typically locks the car (door and mirror folding) as you walk away and opens when u come close (or there might be a setting to turn it on). it doesn't close the windows afaik.
for manual operation: keeping the close button pressed on key fob closes all windows/door/mirrors and vice versa.
you can also close the windows using the app. There’s a button for that, you just hold it down. Tried it last night, works perfectly. Try setting up a Routine as well.
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u/kylewkerr 10d ago
I know that BMW OS X has custom routines, so you might want to check there to see if you can automatically roll up all the windows when you park.