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Originally Posted by Weiman
You mean the iDrive display? I find it quite useful even without navigation. There's the various settings, contacts & messages, second trip computer, driver's guide, USB music with album art, tire pressures and temperatures, service history etc.. Most of which would be impossible without the display.
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You mean the iDrive display?
Yes I do.
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There's the various settings
I'm not interested to play with: I just recently noticed those service guys dared to change my sound settings (that's besides listening to my music/radio)
half a year ago
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contacts & messages
I am not very sociable.
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second trip computer
I don't think I need even the first one, really.
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driver's guide
They gave me a short one printed for the purpose but I favour the pdf one (from
AusF20 here
) in my phone. No frequent need to look at anyway.
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USB music with album art
I don't store album art: it's redundant, IMHO. Technically it could be any pictures of interest, of course,
but I guess I should look at the road while driving.
By the way, the display quality fell quite far below my expectation: in videos it had looked much better.
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tire pressures
Not yet: there's no pressure detection in mine (rotation speed based warning only) and I'm happy about that (I want no failures).
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temperatures
The ambient temperature is on the dashboard (pictured above). What else temperature might I need measured/shown?
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service history
They gave me a printed version. It's quite some burden to take it to the service (besides the key).
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Most of which would be impossible without the display.
Basic parameters check is there in my "reduced" (no joystick, no screen) iDrive in the Business radio I like the convenience (and looks) of quite a lot.
I just appreciate those "simple things" (a reference to a song sung by Joe Cocker), in general.