Veight

Just curious.... have you test driven the car you have on order? All E60's have had the "fob" system and the push button start since late 2005/early 2006 even on the non comfort access fobs.

Rudy

Atta boy, I knew you would get it eventually!

SLORider

Hotlap,
First-- Get Your BMW!!!



Then all will become clear.





J/K But seriously it will all become clear soon. Hope it gets here a day early!!
jb

Westcoast M5

As others have mentioned, you can slip the silver metal key out and use it to lock the glove box. I do this all the time when I valet park as I keep my ipod and usually a camera in the glovebox. But most importantly if you have a house key or office key attached to your fob this also allows you to keep your other keys secure since I attached them to the metal key and only give out the empty fob to the valet.

I see people give their whole key ring to the valet all the time. While a BMW key is harder to replicate, a copy of my house key involves $2 and a trip to the local hardware store. A simple opening of the glove box will reveal your address from the registration, then they you can come by at their leasure (which will probably be the next time they see your car pull in, knowing you will be there for a 2 hour meal).

Now days everyone covers their pin number when entering it and schreds their mail, but people will had over their house keys to a valet without any thought whatsoever.

Just paranoid? Maybe, but here's a true story that happened to my neighbour. She was shoping downtown trying on clothes and realizes her purse is gone. She retraced her steps and couldn't find it anywhere, so reported it missing and when home. About 2 hours later she got a phone call from the store she was shopping at saying someone had turned in her purse and could she describe it. Sure enough, her purse had been found. She confirmed that she would be down directly to pick it up. When she got to the store the manager assured her that no one from the store had called and no purse had been turned in. Frustrated and puzzled she returned home to find everything of value cleaned out of her house.

The police said it was a scam that has been repeated many times. The thief watched her leaved and knew how long it would take her to get downtown and back.

Rudy

Westcoast M5 brings up some good points about protecting your identity, etc. with valets. One thing I'd like to add is to not use the "home" feature on the navigation system since it doesn't have a PIN code (like other cars do). Without a PIN, the valet can display your home address just by looking up the home entry in the nav address book...

(I actually haven't double-checked my LCI car to see if they added a PIN to the home entry but I'm doubtful they did. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong...)

HotLap

I know, I know...the only hope this forum has for getting rid of me is if the car ever arrives I was hoping to pick it up this week...but not looking good now. It would have been sweeeeet to have had my new BMW with 4 days to play/tinker around with it Wonder if my g-friend would mind serving me turkey in the garage

How's your new BMW doing...are you enjoying it and how many miles do you have on her so far

SLORider

Damn man, sorry it won't be here before the holiday. We've got just about 6k mi. on it since 9-1-07.
As you can tell we bought it to drive it. Just went down to Woodland Hills on Sat. to visit an Aunt in the hosp. Down and back 340 or so miles less than a tank of gas, avg. 26.7 and cruising pretty well.
On that trip I got my first ticket with my V1 (over 5 years) CHP around a turn, instant on. Clocked me at 85, wrote me for 80(I was very polite ).

Hang in there and have a great THANKSGIVING!

Cheburashka

Nope, no PIN required. I set the location but didn't enter a house number so they would still have to guess between about 6 houses as to which one is mine

HotLap

Way to put on the miles!! Sorry to hear about your ticket - that's NEVER a nice surprise. Luckily, you can take the class and keep it off your record! Have a great Thanksgiving day as well and perhaps sometime we can get the central coast BMW drivers together and make a trip up through the Santa Inez Pass for tri-tip sandwiches at the Cold Springs Tavern? Beautiful countryside up there and nice roads!

Westcoast M5

Thanks Rudy. I forgot all about the "home" location in Nav. I think I will set it for some address a couple of blocks away like the gas station on the corner....I'm sure I can make it home from there without Nav.