BMW i4

Have you looked into coding it out? I know you can code it to default to off on mk8 Golfs. I never found it annoying on my G20, it was subtle.

No it remembers and stays off. In Ireland where the lines are not always consistently painted its no use anyway. Porsche obviously think its a stupid feature too but add it in to satisfy the soy boys and old people that buy sports cars but cannot drive.

In the model 3 I could not get it to shut off and stay off. Always beeping at me it was, but thats the tesla thing....driving is an inconvenience that must be engineered out of the car.

@Fitz II - "In the model 3 I could not get it to shut off and stay off. Always beeping at me it was, but thats the tesla thing....driving is an inconvenience that must be engineered out of the car."

That was not drivers assist (AutoPilot) in your Tesla, you have to actively switch it on each time and it disengages any time you intervene (steer / brake / accelerate). What you describe is the proximity warnings from the cameras / radar. You must like driving close to objects 😂

As far as I can tell (could be wrong) changes to EURO NCAP scoring from late 2020 onwards means manufacturers get marked down if their Lane Keep/Departure isn't re-enabled by default on start-up.

There doesn't seem to be any way to permanently disable "Lane Departure Warning" on my i4, I have to disable it every time. I've always disabled it on previous cars as they have always struggled with narrow twisty Irish roads. I can change the setting to Reduced (Early->Medium->Reduced) and it will remember, but if I set it to OFF it tells me it will be re-enabled on start-up. The same if I turn off "Steering Intervention". I've added a short-cut (swipe down from top of screen to access short-cuts), but this is a pain.

The warning is annoying enough, but the automatic steering intervention has unintented safety issues.

I have a long straight stretch of road near my house, perfect visibility, with a large pothole that I usually veer slightly over the middle of the road to avoid. I tried that yesterday, and the car actively steered me back over the pothole. I wasn't expecting that! Its not a gentle nudge either, you have to fight the car.

I know this scenario can be avoided by indicating beforehand (the irony of buying my first BMW and discovering I need to use the indicator more often isn't lost on me).

I drive on twisty narrow roads quite a lot, some with road markings, some without. In these conditions I think the feature may be a safety concern. I've read other peoples issues with moving out quickly when encountering a cyclist after a bend and the car autosteering back, or on narrow roads with no marking trying to move to the left to avoid an oncoming truck and the system autosteers back to what it thinks is the centre of a single lane road.

I'm going to try it out on those twisty roads shortly, maybe my concerns aren't justified.

My car keeps getting pushed out a week every single week in the week just before it’s supposed to go into production. How can that fkeep happening? At this stage I’ll get my original order faster than this cancelled order I picked up.

Frank Keane have a lovely 6 month old M440i Grand Coupe, €96k with 5,000km, would have been close to €110k new. I wonder what they would give me for a trade in 1 year from now if I bought it? If we go into a recession I’d say it wouldn’t be worth much.

https://www.carzone.ie/used-cars/bmw/4-series/used-2022-221-bmw-4-series-m440i-xdri-dublin-fpa-202206297276430

Might also be a way to code it off permanently. On my 21 BMW the setting is retained, I’ve had it off since Day 1. There’s a physical button on the dashboard too to access the driver assistance settings which is handy.

90% of my mileage is a round trip to Wexford from Meath each week, 148km each way. Its almost exactly 30 minutes on an 80kph road, 30 minutes on a 100kph road, and 30 minutes on a 120kph road. Did the trip from Meath to Wexford earlier, pretty much ideal conditions for range, and I travelled at the speed limit (GPS) for the entire journey. I left with 86% battery, and arrived with 57% battery, consumption showed as 16.5kWh/100 km for the journey. That would equate to a range of 510km, and the guessometer in the car is showing 297km remaining for my 57% battery.

In short, I'm very happy with the range. Mines an i4 eDrive 40 Sport (not M Sport), 18inch wheels.

That car is financial suicide imo , I know a few will disagree but it’s a very risky buy for a short hold.

Yeah, I tend to agree. In a market where there is not much nice stuff out there you can tend to over value these a bit! I won’t be going for it!

That's a rather decent motorway range, but deduct roughly 15% for 120km/h speeds. The good Cd of 0.25 helps a lot (the 40 is even better at 0.24). Deduct another 25% for the 15mph tail wind. In other words his test is pretty useless 😂

Saw this and decided to call the dealer and guess what, same here, delivery pushed to mid August now 🤬

Apparently it kept on going back and forth in the "system" so I asked them to go and find out wth that means but don't have high hopes they will get anything.

19 or 20" wheels ?

30/07, went up one week, then back down, and now week 33

I'd be happy with that .. 320

Love watching his videos.