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- #Bmw idrive update no usb software#
What's more, a huge number of points of interest are added to the BMW road map each year, including restaurants, gas stations and attractions. Earlier versions of the BMW navigation system map update can include mistakes (even Google Maps has a few streets that exist in principle, but in reality are just empty fields), and each subsequent map version is going to iron out more of these issues. Thousands of miles of new roads are added as part of the BMW iDrive map update every year, so updating your maps means your navigation system is going to work a lot better.īut BMW is also working hard to improve its map data. The last thing you want your BMW GPS map to do is send you down a street that hasn't existed for five years, or let you spend an hour weaving through an unfamiliar town when there's a shiny new bypass that could cut your journey time in half. In some areas, up to 40% of the road network can change from one year to the next. New roads are being built, old roads are being closed or rerouted, two-way streets are being turned into one-way streets. Part of the reason is the fact that roads are always changing.
Why update your navigation maps for 2023? Driving a MINI Cooper? Read about the MINI Cooper navigation update. If it's more than a year old, it's time to update. You will see the region, map version and year of your current map. To check the map version in your BMW, go to your iDrive navigation view, open the settings menu and scroll down to Navigation system version. In fact, Bavarians recommend performing BMW sat nav updates twice a year, or annually at the very least.
#Bmw idrive update no usb software#
Whether updating your iDrive software or doing a BMW map download to the factory navigation system, keeping your BMW's iDrive up-to-date should be a regular task, just like maintaining any other part of your vehicle. But to keep a modern, iDrive-toting BMW at its best, there's a little more to it. Swapping over one or two modules to make it suddenly have SP18 idrive 7.There was a time when regular oil changes and a new set of tires once in a while was all the routine maintenance a vehicle needed. It's not as simple as you are thinking it is. Likely has other different modules too like the BDC. I won't need to do the tweaking though as I am already in purgatory with iDrive 7 "Lite" on MY2020 in my 530e. The switch isn't needed on iDrive 7 cars with the SP18 hardware (like the LCI G30), but it is needed on cars with SP15 hardware (from 2017-2020).
#Bmw idrive update no usb install#
I still need to have my BMW dealer install the valet mode switch in my car because BMW accidentally deleted the switch and wiring in the factory for the first 6 months or so of the MY2020 production. The lack of anything else is why we don't get any other iDrive 7 features and have no Remote Software Updates, valet mode, Digital Key, lane information in navigation display, etc. It is something along the lines of head unit and RAM module and nothing else.
#Bmw idrive update no usb full#
I won't claim to know the full extent of the hardware changes needed, but I do know that the iDrive 7 version on MY2020 5-Series and X3 cars is not the full set of hardware iDrive 7 changes. But if you do try be sure to make a thread. That's really not how it works nor how easy it will be to "upgrade" to idrive 7 from idrive 6. I expect we'll see this stuff happening in a few years. Since the MY2020 cars are basically iDrive 6 cars with the iDrive 7 head unit in theory an iDrive 6 car can actually be upgraded aftermarket to iDrive 7, but the iDrive 7 cars are too new to serve as donor cars to harvest from. It is like they felt like they had way way too many iDrive 7 head units and just needed to desperately get rid of them right before the LCI on the 5 and X3. Yeah they really fucked us over on MY2020 for no reason I can figure out. and i cant buy it in my one model year old car.
#Bmw idrive update no usb upgrade#
I wish they would just sell us what is probably one module somewhere + a backup battery to give us full ID7.Įspecially insulting now that BMW is now selling remote start as a connected drive upgrade feature. Yeah - I have a 2020 G01 M40i and I feel like i was scammed by BMW too.
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