Trip around Europe
07-26-2006, 01:01 PM
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I just came back after my first long trip with my car. I have driven 7000 km in 3 weeks so I have almost lived in my car
. I have also experienced my first "problems" with my car.
When I was driving on the highway in France, near Dijon I got a check control message telling me "transmission failure", it suggested me to drove moderately. After several seconds the message disappeared and we continued driving as normal. After about 3 kilometers the speedometer went down to
zero and so did the RPM indicator when I was driving about 150 km/h... but I kept on driving and after that I got a new check control telling me that the airbags didn't work. Luckily a gas station appeared and I got in and filled up and restarted the car and that was what it needed. I think it was
just some software error but frankly speaking, the transmission failure in 150 km/h scared me a bit... I had
on autobahn a week before been driving 260 km/h and getting transmission failure in 260 km/h could not be funny in anyway. I post a picture as always of my top speed notations . The dealer will check my car on Monday for a regular service check.
Has anyone experienced the same?
Apart from that I had a wonderful vacation
My second picture shows how the bugs have tasted a big bimmer
Cheers!
I just came back after my first long trip with my car. I have driven 7000 km in 3 weeks so I have almost lived in my car
. I have also experienced my first "problems" with my car.When I was driving on the highway in France, near Dijon I got a check control message telling me "transmission failure", it suggested me to drove moderately. After several seconds the message disappeared and we continued driving as normal. After about 3 kilometers the speedometer went down to
zero and so did the RPM indicator when I was driving about 150 km/h... but I kept on driving and after that I got a new check control telling me that the airbags didn't work. Luckily a gas station appeared and I got in and filled up and restarted the car and that was what it needed. I think it was
just some software error but frankly speaking, the transmission failure in 150 km/h scared me a bit... I had
on autobahn a week before been driving 260 km/h and getting transmission failure in 260 km/h could not be funny in anyway. I post a picture as always of my top speed notations
. The dealer will check my car on Monday for a regular service check. Has anyone experienced the same?
Apart from that I had a wonderful vacation
My second picture shows how the bugs have tasted a big bimmer
Cheers!
07-26-2006, 01:09 PM
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start our eurotrip on sunday
tunnel to calais sun eve neat day nurburg then down to rust to europa park throught alps to our villa in southern france for a week
tunnel to calais sun eve neat day nurburg then down to rust to europa park throught alps to our villa in southern france for a week
07-26-2006, 01:11 PM
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Originally Posted by tonye60' post='315449' date='Jul 26 2006, 11:09 PM
start our eurotrip on sunday
tunnel to calais sun eve neat day nurburg then down to rust to europa park throught alps to our villa in southern france for a week
tunnel to calais sun eve neat day nurburg then down to rust to europa park throught alps to our villa in southern france for a week
that sounds very nice
we travelled from Sweden threw Germany and Italy to the french riviera and then back home via Normandy.
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Nice! What about Bucharest-Barcelona and back in 5 days? 
And not in a bmw 
Anyway...my question is how did you get 260 on the scale? Is the limiter removed because for some reason i managed 260 exactly on the line (is yours exactly on the 260 mark?) only once when i gave it top speed for the 1st time. Ever since i keep getting the limiter kicking in at exactly 255.
And not in a bmw Anyway...my question is how did you get 260 on the scale? Is the limiter removed because for some reason i managed 260 exactly on the line (is yours exactly on the 260 mark?) only once when i gave it top speed for the 1st time. Ever since i keep getting the limiter kicking in at exactly 255.
07-26-2006, 01:21 PM
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Hi! May i please see more pics of your LCD screen and how u fixed it to your dash?
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07-26-2006, 01:23 PM
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[quote name='BetterMakeWay' date='Jul 26 2006, 11:17 PM' post='315452']
Nice! What about Bucharest-Barcelona and back in 5 days? And not in a bmw
Anyway...my question is how did you get 260 on the scale? Is the limiter removed because for some reason i managed 260 exactly on the line (is yours exactly on the 260 mark?) only once when i gave it top speed for the 1st time. Ever since i keep getting the limiter kicking in at exactly 255.
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I have not moved the limiter but my external navigation (garmin 360) said that the fastest I had driven was 250,0km/h so I think the speedometer shows 260 you're driving 250.
And yes, it is exaclty 260 on the mark, I have one more picture which i took last year on my the first autobahn trip with the e60 that shows 260.
Nice! What about Bucharest-Barcelona and back in 5 days?
And not in a bmw Anyway...my question is how did you get 260 on the scale? Is the limiter removed because for some reason i managed 260 exactly on the line (is yours exactly on the 260 mark?) only once when i gave it top speed for the 1st time. Ever since i keep getting the limiter kicking in at exactly 255.
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I have not moved the limiter but my external navigation (garmin 360) said that the fastest I had driven was 250,0km/h so I think the speedometer shows 260 you're driving 250.
And yes, it is exaclty 260 on the mark, I have one more picture which i took last year on my the first autobahn trip with the e60 that shows 260.
07-26-2006, 01:26 PM
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Originally Posted by ronald_adi' post='315455' date='Jul 26 2006, 11:21 PM
Hi! May i please see more pics of your LCD screen and how u fixed it to your dash?
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Sure, I only have one picture but I can take some more pics tomorrow so you can see.
PS: Don't look to much at the speedometer
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Originally Posted by ronald_adi' post='315455' date='Jul 26 2006, 11:21 PM
Hi! May i please see more pics of your LCD screen and how u fixed it to your dash?
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Sure, I only have one picture but I can take some more pics tomorrow so you can see.
PS: Don't look to much at the speedometer
07-26-2006, 01:58 PM
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Originally Posted by mr_djurgarden' post='315461' date='Jul 26 2006, 02:26 PM
Sure, I only have one picture but I can take some more pics tomorrow so you can see.
PS: Don't look to much at the speedometer
PS: Don't look to much at the speedometer
Sorry, but can't help but notice the 260kph/161mph...
07-26-2006, 02:40 PM
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Originally Posted by jiio' post='315488' date='Jul 26 2006, 11:58 PM
The Garmin NAV you have probably blows away the BMW NAV and for a fraction of the price.
Sorry, but can't help but notice the 260kph/161mph...
Sorry, but can't help but notice the 260kph/161mph...
I'm really satisfied with the Garmin. The price for it was about 800 euros and it works perfect. The best thing about is that you can store different POI like speedcameras, I have stored 9200 speedcameras and they are located all around Europe
