Greenberg

I had that happen to me I folded them on my ex E70 X5 because the space was quite to little to pass between a big truck then I was like "WTH? I fold them so I wont scuff them against some truck they unfold?!" Was a nice surprise for me

Palmo

He's been around - see this recent thread from earlier in the week HERE!

southgate

lmao good one! but a good trick indeed i know better next time

MiamiPhill

I guess this should go here.... http://forums.e60.net/index.php?s=&sho...st&p=763713

Nitrodaze

I tried the Anti-Car jacking feature on an 08 520d LCI, it works. Interestingly, after you have started the car without the key, you can push the start/Stop button to switch the engine off and back on again as many times as you want. As long as you do so within 10 seconds of stopping the engine. Another thing to bear in mind is that, when you switch off the engine from a keyless start, the electronics and computer remain on until you stick the key into its slot and remove it again. This is a handy way of having things like communication (so you can make hands free calls) still on after the engine has been switched off while also having the key in your pocket.

neoe60

i think it's been mentioned that this only works for non-US models.

neoe60

Does the DVD MP3 trick work on the standard 10speaker audio system audio player w/o nav? My 2006 Alpine White 530xi isn't being delivered till next week so I can't test it.

Jambers

I've found that if you leave too much of a gap between your car and a car next to you, you have a greater chance of being dinged. The leverage of a door swinging open over a great distance means it's at maximum speed or accelerating as the edge of the door hits your door skin...

The best thing to do is park miles away from any other car, in the last space (as mentioned above) or next to new clean cars (quality marques) where that drivers door would open towards your car...driver's of those are more likely to be like you...

The other alternative is to hope for the best and budget for one visit to the ding repair man every 6 months....

As far as neat tricks are concerned, switching on DTC in slippery conditions really really works...it makes DSC less sensitive, but appears to "detune" the car for a slower and more controlled take of. No matter how slippery it is, you get traction. I was amazed at how easy this car, with standard UK tyres and an auto box, has been to drive in really icy conditions, even up hill on roads with an evil camber.

My last rear wheel drive car was a Lexus, which was evil in the snow...on the same stretch of road, my Lex was atrocious...

melimel

lol im gonna try that today..lol

MisterE

Why mess around with dvd's that only hold 4.7gb of data? put all your mp3's on a thumb drive and stick it in the USB port.(not sure if this is standard though) I dont have the nav/premium sound. I ripped all my cd's that I have around here, about 200 or so and it took just over 8gb on a 16gb thumb drive. Would imagine the 32 and 64 gb thumb drives would work too. And if you are a music junkie, you could have unlimited music with multiple drives.

It works just like an ipod at a fraction of the cost. You control it with your car controls and you can play via directorys, playlists, genre(sp) I used windows media player to rip the cd's to mp3(change from defaulted .wmp file)