Recent content by mister_caroline

I had a similar experience to @PKress (mentioned in another thread) with the difficulty getting a hold of someone at the Costa Mesa service center - called repeatedly at all hours on and off between September and October, left call back requests, left voicemails, never received a response...

Maybe you can try disabling CarPlay from the phone side after pairing it and see if that helps? On your iPhone, go to Settings, Bluetooth, then click the (i) next to your car in the device list, then turn the CarPlay toggle off. Then I believe it will just behave as a generic bluetooth...

According to Thomas from Autogefühl, he achieved 3.45 mi/kWh at 60 mph, 95 F ambient (albeit on a prototype iX5). So that’s 490 miles real world (BMW EPA est. 435 miles). Pretty impressive figures and yes it is a large 144 kWh pack - which you get at the $80k starting price. Might I add that you...

It appears 3.6.5 is more about correcting/working around unexpected pinch protection activation than the issue I shared, which is more about intermittent up/down command confusion. I have had other windows intermittently go down when commanded to go up from the driver’s door window switches...

3.6.4 here with no update yet… I’m going to get 3.6.5, right? …right? 👀

The first interior pull unlocks the door (also presenting the exterior door handles) and the second pull unlatches it. You can configure this behavior by enabling unlocking the doors when shifting to Park. Then the handles will present when shifting to Park, and the first interior pull will...

I would imagine it’s due to there being more oncoming traffic on the left side of the road than the right side of the road. It might be surprising but left and right beam patterns are not the same, and are further adjusted for the market the vehicle is sold in (e.g. mirrored for RHD countries).

Another factor, comparing the percentage shown on the car’s screen and app (integers) vs. what the API reports (1 decimal place) - it’s evident that the end user-facing interfaces round down, probably as a safety margin. It might underestimate by 1kWh at most (a few miles). The trade off is it...

One efficiency factor worth checking (if you have not already) is tire pressures. When I took delivery in Nov, tire pressures were set to 46. I have not touched them since, 9 months later they are at 39/40.

If it makes it easier to conceptualize why high regen might be surprisingly inefficient, one way to think about high regen is equating it to making hard braking available. You may already intuitively understand that hard braking is not good for efficiency. High regen is great because it allows...

Echoing others, the dark spots in your pictures are not the matrix functionality. In fact, the high beams/matrix lights aren't on at all. Those are the low beams. I too have noticed the dark spots on the low beams since taking delivery last year, well before matrix was enabled. What you are...

Out of curiosity, when you get the notification that Auto Unlock is temporarily disabled, have you (or your fob) spent time in proximity (e.g. 2-4 car widths, even through walls) of the parked vehicle, e.g. walking back and forth? Anecdotally, I too receive this message when the car has...

I had this issue - valid SiriusXM subscription (verified in the Gravity's interface) but no channels worked. In your case, since you are still in the trial period, you may need to either wait for the trial to expire or see if you can reach out to SiriusXM support to merge...

I’m sorry that happened. In my first few months of ownership, I kept accidentally opening the frunk/trunk from inside my house with the fob in my pocket while the car was parked in the garage. I created an automation in Home Assistant to send a critical notification to my phone every time the...