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06-17-2004, 12:13 PM
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PDC is nice. I had it on my '01 E39 but it was limited to one front speaker and one rear speaker as a warning.
With the E60, all four speakers are used independently to audibly indicate what quadrant the obstacle is in. Add to that the visual display on the iDrive screen and all I can say is that it's greatly improved and kind of spoils you. Since I had it on my old car, I wanted it on this one too.
I wouldn't say it's a must have option -- there are plenty of others that I consider "must have" first -- so I wouldn't second guess your decision to not get it.
With the E60, all four speakers are used independently to audibly indicate what quadrant the obstacle is in. Add to that the visual display on the iDrive screen and all I can say is that it's greatly improved and kind of spoils you. Since I had it on my old car, I wanted it on this one too.
I wouldn't say it's a must have option -- there are plenty of others that I consider "must have" first -- so I wouldn't second guess your decision to not get it.
06-18-2004, 12:05 AM
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Sometimes its quick, sometimes its slow. I had to reboot recently - and just switching off and removing the key didn't work :
I was driving to London and I spotted a problem on my route (M4 closed), so I diverted around Swindon.....Nav didn't like this, went beserk, telling me to take a U turn, then locked up, then all buttons failled to work, then the stereo came on at full volume - pulled over into some services, switched off the car.....stereo went off. Was walking into the services to get coffee - about 30 meters from the car I heard a stereo so loud it must have been making the vehicles occupants ears bleed - then I realised it was my car - stereo had switched itself back on. The only wway I could shut it up was to pull the fuse and replace it......then it was fine. Anyone experiance similar?
It was fuse 15 in the glove box by the way.
I share the frustrations about the PDC when driving out of the garage - My car is equipped with "blues and twos" as I respond from home for my job in one of the emergency services, and you just can't wait the 30 secs it takes to get the screen going - I just cringe when I go past the garage door posts and hope!!!!
Hey - on that note - I wonder how many other E60s have (legal) blues and twos - I have a mag-mount light at the moment with a built in siren, but am looking at a solution where the lights are mounted behind the kidney grill - I just don't want to disrupt the dash with extra switches - Dr Diesel - are you on a green light? If so, how do you mount it?
I was driving to London and I spotted a problem on my route (M4 closed), so I diverted around Swindon.....Nav didn't like this, went beserk, telling me to take a U turn, then locked up, then all buttons failled to work, then the stereo came on at full volume - pulled over into some services, switched off the car.....stereo went off. Was walking into the services to get coffee - about 30 meters from the car I heard a stereo so loud it must have been making the vehicles occupants ears bleed - then I realised it was my car - stereo had switched itself back on. The only wway I could shut it up was to pull the fuse and replace it......then it was fine. Anyone experiance similar?
It was fuse 15 in the glove box by the way.
I share the frustrations about the PDC when driving out of the garage - My car is equipped with "blues and twos" as I respond from home for my job in one of the emergency services, and you just can't wait the 30 secs it takes to get the screen going - I just cringe when I go past the garage door posts and hope!!!!
Hey - on that note - I wonder how many other E60s have (legal) blues and twos - I have a mag-mount light at the moment with a built in siren, but am looking at a solution where the lights are mounted behind the kidney grill - I just don't want to disrupt the dash with extra switches - Dr Diesel - are you on a green light? If so, how do you mount it?
06-18-2004, 01:17 AM
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Originally Posted by Guest_Rob' date='Jun 18 2004, 08:05 AM
Dr Diesel - are you on a green light? If so, how do you mount it?
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