I will have to bring the 6er in to the dealer on Monday, but I fear that if/when the iDrive is fixed a dozen other things will go wrong, most caused by dealer incompetence. Well, it's back to the CL55, a reliable if boring car. I hope it's annoying the hell out of some BMW Assist operator in New Jersey. It didn't work but the green tell tale came on and it's still on. So, in frustration I pressed the BMW Assist SOS button. I was bluetoothed up and couldn't turn the damn bluetooth off in the iDrive. It dialed alright, but everything went through my iDrive so I couldn't hear a damn thing. (That failed later, after I picked my daughter up.) I also got the radio to work with the on-off button. When I tried the radio compass point I got a screen I have never seen before, purporting to be for radio frequencies I had also never seen before! The telephone menu just said 'phone' in the upper control screen, but nothing would work. WHen I tried the navigation compass point I got the ventilation menu, but nothing would work. But when I tried to go to each function I couldn't get anything to work. I pressed the iDrive button and the familiar compass screen came on. So, at a stoplight I turned off the car and then turned it back on.

I tried to reboot (CTRL, ALT, DEL) and while it recycled, all that came on was the BMW screen. I went to pick up my daughter about 45 minutes ago and the iDrive never came on. I was feeling pretty sorry for myself until I saw the post just started about the 645Ci owner in San Diego whose engine has failed after 10,000 miles.

Eight weeks and 1 day after taking delivery the iDrive has catastrophically failed.

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