Know your G29
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Scubaregs said:
Do you have the app on another device, mine is on my phone and iPad. It downloaded the RSU to both devices might be worth seeing what another device says?
Scubaregs said:
Just a thought because you’ll be using your own id login and won’t experience the issue I had when I tired to add yours to mine last night
I never noticed that, until I read this post and checked all options in the app. When I opened the app, I would click on car photo and it would take me to "Services", so I never bothered to check it again, since nothing changes there really. I didn't realise, I have to click on "Check status" to go to other tabs of Vehicle Status.q96169we said:
Unfortunately, my winter tyres are not recognised by the car, so I can only see tyre pressue and that's it. Will check if they have QR codes on them.
What I'd like to see in the app, is information about my journesy, mpg, etc. Cupra app shows me info about every journey I take.
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Roadster_Surrey said:
Interestingly, as an aside, the BMW bike app provides all that information and other stuff, including lean angles! That being the case, it is surprising the BMW car app does not do the same (excluding lean angle perhaps
).millview22 said:Roadster_Surrey said:
Interestingly, as an aside, the BMW bike app provides all that information and other stuff, including lean angles! That being the case, it is surprising the BMW car app does not do the same (excluding lean angle perhaps
The lean angle could be substituted with a G meter for the car app?
Anyone know how the auto handbrake works?
I have it on auto hold which is much better since my last g29 and doesn’t kick in unless you press the pedal further so you can creep along in traffic smoothly.
However, when I switch off engine, sometimes in engages the parking orange and other times it doesn’t. Any ideas?
I have it on auto hold which is much better since my last g29 and doesn’t kick in unless you press the pedal further so you can creep along in traffic smoothly.
However, when I switch off engine, sometimes in engages the parking orange and other times it doesn’t. Any ideas?
ori said:
I'm not 100% sure whether this is the difference but pay a little bit attention to the idrive shut off after turn off the engine and door open. First of all, the car will detect whether you have passenger or not. If you have, then both door must be opened after the engine shut down then the idrive will be shut down as well. If you don't have passenger, then only driver door is opened after engine shut down will shut down the idrive. However, I find that if the gap between engine shut down and the door open is too short, then the idrive will not be shut down. Now, I think when auto hold is activated and you shut down the car, with the door open and idrive shut down, the auto hold will be converted to apply parking brake. If the idrive is not shut down after engine off and door open, then the auto hold is still activated and will not be converted to apply parking brake.
I apply handbrake after switching engine off and only when it's applied, I remove my feet from the brake. Otherwise, my car would move down a bit on driveway, before stopping.
I guess, it's a habit, which may not be necessary on even ground.
I guess, it's a habit, which may not be necessary on even ground.
If you find my previous comment about the relationship between idrive shut down and auto-hold to handbrake conversion is correct, then I think this is a typical scenario which the one who know the tech detail doesn't want to write the user docs while the one who actually writes user docs doesn't know the tech detail.ori said:
In that case, the manual should say "upon system switch off ..." instead of "upon engine switch off ...". Just like when we still needed to turn the key to start the car where there were usually four key positions: OFF, AUX ON, ON, Crank the engine. Engine off in g29 is kind of like move the key from ON -> AUX ON. What it needs is to move the key from ON->AUX ON->OFF so that the auto hold will be converted to apply hand brake.
q96169we said:If you find my previous comment about the relationship between idrive shut down and auto-hold to handbrake conversion is correct, then I think this is a typical scenario which the one who know the tech detail doesn't want to write the user docs while the one who actually writes user docs doesn't know the tech detail.ori said:
In that case, the manual should say "upon system switch off ..." instead of "upon engine switch off ...". Just like when we still needed to turn the key to start the car where there were usually four key positions: OFF, AUX ON, ON, Crank the engine. Engine off in g29 is kind of like move the key from ON -> AUX ON. What it needs is to move the key from ON->AUX ON->OFF so that the auto hold will be converted to apply hand brake.
In translation, is that there is a logic to the system, we just haven’t figured it out yet.
As an aside, I’ve noticed two quirks, sometimes the left hand mirror drops when parking sometimes it doesn’t. And the other, sometimes the idrive shuts down when I open the door and the engines switched off, other times only when I lock the car.
As I say there’s probably logic there to explain it, I’m just to blonde to figure it out
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