Esser

Hi!

I've been having a problem with the heads up display on a 535D. Normally, when you used the navigation to guide you somewhere, there would be arrows on the HUD, telling you where to go.
The problem is, after the car has had a tracking device fitted by a shop, the navigation wont show up in the HUD? I've tried going into the iDrive settings and turning it on, but it wont work, and everytime I check, it has turned itself off in the settings menu?

Does anyone know how to solve this?

DavidF

Yes, undo whatever was done when a "tracking device" was fitted.

Esser

So you think the shop did something wrong when they fitted that tracking device thing? It's for insurance by the way. You have to have one of them fitted, or else they wont insure the car.

Excession

Where are you that they mandate monitoring and tracking for insurance?

As far as I know (in USA) Progressive's Snapshot device is optional (although if you want to attempt to get lower rates then that's another story - and dependent on your driving style; if they don't think the data proves your a "safe" driver your rate will go up).

cryptical

And that thing I believe just plugs into your OBDII port.

Esser

Well I'm from Denmark, and it's because the car is CRAZY expensive here! It was around 265.000 USD when it was new a couple of years ago. So the insurance companies demand that you have a tracking device fitted...
But, do you guys think that the device was somehow fitted wrong, or is messing with the car somehow...?

Excession

Esser, Is it safe to assume that the nav screen still provides the proper directions but they won't show on the HUD? That would help to determine if it is a signal problem or just limited to the HUD.

paulie

Best thing would be to go to the guys who fitted it and ask to temporarily disable it, then you can compare if the HUD-navi is influenced by it.

A tracker is usually a simple device hooked up to an antenna source (usually near the rear of the car to hook up to the mobile shark-fin antenna) and a power source. So in theory there should be no influence to the HUD-navi working.

Perhaps when they connected it, some module started to work erratically (power glitch) or they tried to hook up a tracker which somehow sources its signal from the on-board navi computer and screwed up something there.

Ben535xi

$265000 US for an E60! Just for fun, what is the price of a BigMac in Denmark?

Esser

265000 USD for a nice spec E60 535D, AFTER you've paid 60% income tax!
It's a horrible country!

But I think a BigMac meal here is around 12 USD...