[snareman]

Originally Posted by ASAP

Definitely a dumb question... and not that I care about this but...

Did the M40i's ever come w the M badge on the front 1/4 panel?

I'm glad the US cars don't have them. I think they look dinky, small, kinda dumb and out of place. There are already too many M things on this non-M car. I probably would have taken them off if they came on the car.

[avi66]

Originally Posted by snareman

I'm glad the US cars don't have them. I think they look dinky, small, kinda dumb and out of place. There are already too many M things on this non-M car. I probably would have taken them off if they came on the car.

Personally, I think they look great.

USA loses out on several thing due to cost cutting or regulatory such as acoustic glass, M Sport seats, Selective Beam anti dazzle headlights, fender badges, no tailgate comfort opening with towing/hitch option etc

[jsh139]

I like the little M badges. I’m a big fan of not messing with the badging on my cars. How it came from the factory is how I like to leave it. I just got lucky in that I have one of the early build LCIs that got the badges by mistake

[ASAP]

Originally Posted by snareman

I'm glad the US cars don't have them. I think they look dinky, small, kinda dumb and out of place. There are already too many M things on this non-M car. I probably would have taken them off if they came on the car.

I agree... the irony here is that it has more M badges than the actual X3M comp lmao.

That aside... does anyone know if remote start can be set to start the car with a specific temperature? It sets to my last default setting... this doesn't seem prudent as the car cools off after you drive a while.

[pasha505]

A question suited for this thread. Does the X3 still come with paper owners manuals?

[SGHCU95]

Originally Posted by pasha505

A question suited for this thread. Does the X3 still come with paper owners manuals?

It should. I got one with my 2022 in June.

[pasha505]

Originally Posted by SGHCU95

It should. I got one with my 2022 in June.

Thanks, With BMW cutting costs I just had to ask.

[6734202]

Can someone give me the basics on ETJA? I have read all I can find and watched a variety of videos, but I’m still not entirely sure how it works from what I understand, I have to have the steering assistant on for ETJA to be triggered if certain conditions are met. Is that right?

[jsh139]

Originally Posted by ASAP

I agree... the irony here is that it has more M badges than the actual X3M comp lmao.

That aside... does anyone know if remote start can be set to start the car with a specific temperature? It sets to my last default setting... this doesn't seem prudent as the car cools off after you drive a while.

I don’t think so. I know you can program the seats and steering wheel to heat if the outside temp drops below a certain point but I don’t think that you can adjust the climate control temp/mode remotely or program it to be a certain temp when remote starting.

[lfdal54]

Has anyone tried adding the BMW Led door light projectors to their 2022's or 2023 X3s? Thinking about where I park in the winter when I travel up north a little extra light would be a good thing.

[avi66]

Originally Posted by lfdal54

Has anyone tried adding the BMW Led door light projectors to their 2022's or 2023 X3s? Thinking about where I park in the winter when I travel up north a little extra light would be a good thing.

Do they not come as standard on the LCI ?

[fulcrum]

Originally Posted by avi66

Do they not come as standard on the LCI ?

Did on mine UK spec- covers a fair distance too

[lfdal54]

Originally Posted by avi66

Do they not come as standard on the LCI ?

I think mine has blanking plates installed. I'll take another look later this morning, but nothing's lighting up on the bottom of the door.

Edit - I looked last night. Blanking plates on both sides. Since BMW USA sells the lights I'm hoping the wires are still there. Glad the car came with tires.

[lfdal54]

After looking in the other threads, fog lights are gone? There's no button for them so I'm guessing BMW figures they're no longer needed?

[jsh139]

Yep, gone.

[avi66]

Originally Posted by lfdal54

After looking in the other threads, fog lights are gone? There's no button for them so I'm guessing BMW figures they're no longer needed?

Afaik with the LCI adaptive matrix LED headlight tech they are no longer needed. I assume this isn’t affected by the selective beam decoding on US spec models which dumbs down the tech.

[lfdal54]

Originally Posted by avi66

Afaik with the LCI adaptive matrix LED headlight tech they are no longer needed. I assume this isn’t affected by the selective beam decoding on US spec models which dumbs down the tech.

The first time I hit coastal fog I guess I'll find out. Interesting that Audi went the other way on the Q5 even including rear fog lights at least in the prestige edition.

[jsh139]

Audi has been including rear fogs in their US-Spec cars for years. I’m not sure why BMW chooses to leave them off of their US vehicles. They are helpful in foggy conditions. I guess maybe because most Americans don’t understand their function and turn them on all the time when they are not needed, which causes unnecessary dazzling of vehicles behind them.

[lfdal54]

Originally Posted by jsh139

Audi has been including rear fogs in their US-Spec cars for years. I’m not sure why BMW chooses to leave them off of their US vehicles. They are helpful in foggy conditions. I guess maybe because most Americans don’t understand their function and turn them on all the time when they are not needed, which causes unnecessary dazzling of vehicles behind them.

BMW does include them on some cars, my 2016 F25 had them, I just had to replace the switch. Looks like they can be a real adventure getting to work on some US models though.

Agreed about people using them unnecessarily. I only needed them a few times on my F25, but was glad to have them. If I knew when I was going to hit fog I'd take the Audi since I don't have a lot of faith that BMW didn't dumb down the adaptive headlights for the US market.

[avi66]

Originally Posted by lfdal54

The first time I hit coastal fog I guess I'll find out. Interesting that Audi went the other way on the Q5 even including rear fog lights at least in the prestige edition.

Uk market has rear fog lights as it’s a legal requirement.

[jsh139]

Originally Posted by lfdal54

BMW does include them on some cars, my 2016 F25 had them, I just had to replace the switch. Looks like they can be a real adventure getting to work on some US models though.

Agreed about people using them unnecessarily. I only needed them a few times on my F25, but was glad to have them. If I knew when I was going to hit fog I'd take the Audi since I don't have a lot of faith that BMW didn't dumb down the adaptive headlights for the US market.

Yeah, on some models they are included, but just disabled.

[ASAP]

Does anyone drive with the driver assistance items off-

I have my car by default set to late collision warning, 0 steering intervention and medium Blind spot. The assistance icon is red in my car... I hate any of the assists which is why I could not get the driver assistance pack under any circumstance.

I also have auto start stop coded out lol...

I think the only useful features with regards to safety (outside of standard items such as ABS, traction, stability) are blind spot warning, rear traffic cross alert and rear camera... everything else really seems like more of a paying attention type of thing.