[CanadianGOLD2010]

Ok let me start by saying overall I love my 535. my two annoyances are the stop button and the gear shifter. With the stop button, I hate having to hit it a second time. if you do it quickly and your foot is still on the brake, you will restart the car instead of turning it off. Does anyone know of a way to change this to a single stop button. Also with the gear shift I have accidentaly put the car into neutral on numerous occasions while sitting in traffic. It just seems to go into neutral so easily. I am used to having my had on the shifter as my last car was a manual M3.....
Also my car is pulling slightly to the right aswell as per other posts....and one more thing, the delay on the outdoor handle car lock is frustrating as I have to wait a couple of seconds until it works when I get out of the car. After reading the above post, I sound pretty spoiled but oh well they are minor pains....
Again, overall love the car.

[ibimmer954]

Originally Posted by CanadianGOLD2010

With the stop button, I hate having to hit it a second time. if you do it quickly and your foot is still on the brake, you will restart the car instead of turning it off. Does anyone know of a way to change this to a single stop button.

Hold down the button. The car will turn off after a few seconds. At least that's how it worked on my 335i. I assume it'll do the same on the 535i.

One annoyance for me is that the climate control will always turn on when you start the car. Even if you had it off when you turned off the car.

Another is that it takes the car 4-5 minutes (I'm not making this up) to read my USB flash drive when it starts before it will read any music off of it. I think it started when I copied my entire iTunes music directory to the flash drive. Seems like it takes a long time for the car to get through all of the directories. Either that or I confused the computer indexing all of the media information. I have to listen to Sat radio for the first 5 minutes, at least. I know it's 4-5 minutes because I timed it once. 4 min, 36 seconds. I only have MP3 and unprotected AAC files in the directories on the flash drive, so it's not like there's something the car shouldn't be able to read.

[wonderbread]

The cup holders do it for me. When anything larger than a "tall" from Starbucks is in there - no climate control access. Oh, and if one hasn't taken delivery, Get the Trunk Closer. The F10 5er has the worst trunk mechanism of any car. You have to slam it down to close. Other than that - happy sailing!

[ibimmer954]

I had the soft-close trunk on my E93. It was nice. I agree, I should have just gotten the whole convenience package rather than just the Comfort Access. You have to beat the back end of the F10 to get the trunk to close. It's almost like I'm spanking the car.

[alex_c]

Originally Posted by ibimmer346

Another is that it takes the car 4-5 minutes (I'm not making this up) to read my USB flash drive when it starts before it will read any music off of it.

Why don't you just import the files directly to the hard drive?



Regarding the trunk, I also hate having to slam it down... at least it opens up by itself

[dpwr]

about trunk, I had same issue, dealership said it's not normal and they adjusted something and trunk closes very smoothly now

[ibimmer954]

Originally Posted by alex_c

Why don't you just import the files directly to the hard drive?

Because I have at least 22gigs of music. It's not going to all fit on the hard drive. I guess I could put some it on the hard drive... but what a pain to split up your collection.

[gatoman39]

Originally Posted by wonderbread

The cup holders do it for me. When anything larger than a "tall" from Starbucks is in there - no climate control access. Oh, and if one hasn't taken delivery, Get the Trunk Closer. The F10 5er has the worst trunk mechanism of any car. You have to slam it down to close. Other than that - happy sailing!

The trunk does take more effort than it should to close. It's not herculean, but It's harder to close than it probably should be. It's one of the reasons I got the whole convenience package.
Side note the soft close doors which are awesome especially in my tight garage. Unintended consequence, I end up doing this on other cars, forgetting that it wont work.

[petros15978]

Try to switch off the "AUTO" buttons on both front passengers' sides of the A/C controls. That way when you start the car the A/C will not turn on automatically.

Originally Posted by ibimmer346

One annoyance for me is that the climate control will always turn on when you start the car. Even if you had it off when you turned off the car.

[CanadianGOLD2010]

Tried holding the button down but it did not turn off completely. Thanks anyway

[tk005x]

Originally Posted by ibimmer346

Because I have at least 22gigs of music. It's not going to all fit on the hard drive. I guess I could put some it on the hard drive... but what a pain to split up your collection.

Well I only have 9 gigs of music but it always reads it right away. But I manually created the folders and imported the files (I don't like Itunes). So maybe give that a shot if it isn't too much trouble.

[AMP]

Although I haven't tried this in our F10 the push and hold on the start button has worked in other cars. I'm so used to the double tap that it's muscle memory now. Even if you shut it off with a single tap getting out and locking the doors will shut it down completely.

Look in the climate control settings of your iDrive. IIRC there is a way to get it to remember climate control settings for each driver/profile. Although I never turn mine off I would assume that this would allow the system to remember the "off" setting.

As for the gearshift going into nuetral, well there's not much that can be done about that. As an aside, you should never rest your hand on a manual shifter as even the slightest motion from your hand will be transmitted to the gearbox. In the best case you'll wear out the shifter bushings faster and in the worst you'll wear out the synchros.

With a USB device the car will re-index the entire drive on start-up. 22GB of mp3/AAC data is likely 6000 songs or so. The car needs to traverse all of these files and pull the metadata from each one to build its index. To make this worse flash drives are inherently slow to begin with.

With an iPod it relies on the ipod's index and with the internal hard drive it can build and store its own index.

[PoleApart]

Originally Posted by AMP

With a USB device the car will re-index the entire drive on start-up. 22GB of mp3/AAC data is likely 6000 songs or so.

Mine is slow when I put the flash disk in but once it's in there's instant access at each start up.

[ibimmer954]

Originally Posted by PoleApart

Mine is slow when I put the flash disk in but once it's in there's instant access at each start up.

I agree, I think the car is supposed to keep the index on the hard disk so it doesn't need to re-index it each time. That's the impression I got from the owner's manual. Maybe there's something screwy with the software or the car isn't doing it right.

Come to think of it, I really started seeing this issue when I changed from manually putting the songs on the flash drive to just copying over my iTunes folder. iTunes stores songs with lots and lots of directories and I'm wondering if the car's software just takes a long time traversing the directory tree. Previously, I had far fewer directories and it took less time to initialize.

It's going to suck if I have to manually keep track of what songs I've added to the device each time. I'll have to think about how to 'solve' this issue. Maybe it's time to write some perl scripts to flatten the directory tree a bit.

[bm323]

The toggle button does not remain in sport mode after switching off the engine. Any method to keep it in sport?