I asked the local BMW dealer if I had to take a class to unlearn how to use a turn signal.
He did not find it funny, which I found even more hilarious.
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My partner rarely uses her blinkers, and she wonders why people honk at her. Not BMW driver, but pretty much any car lol
when my BMW is reset, the soft turn signal only blinks once. I have to go and set it for 3 blinks. Ever since, I see BMW drivers sometimes only give one blink and if you blink you might miss it lol bad engineering on such great engineering
I did not know about soft turn signals until I saw this post.
I question why this feature exists. Drivers should be aiming to signal 10 seconds ahead. When making a lane change or turn, you should be keeping your signal on until the maneuver is completed. I can't think of a circumstance where 3 blinks is enough. 1 blink looks more like a mistaken signal.
I use the three blinks when exiting a roundabout.
three is good enough for lane changes on the freeway, sure 10 seconds would be optimal but it's not always realistic
idk about 1 because I think it's absurd too
What do you mean by "when my BMW is reset"?
There is a tiny pinhole under the driver side door. If you put a paperclip in it for 5secs the horn honks and the BMW is reset. Afterwards you have to resync your key through the authenticator app and change your blinkers from one to three.
If you hear a continuous honk. Your BNW is actually a transformer and you just sounded it's urethra.
Incredible reply. Simply brilliant.
if the battery is disconnected, it loses some of the memory settings. like there's two available seat memories that get reset. plus saved radio stations and blinker preferences
Smoking gun
That and the water pumps
A good friend of mine was a BMW mechanic for years. His favorite joke was: "You know what the most sole crushingly pointless job is? The guy who installs turn signals at the BMW factory."
The peasants don’t need to know where I am going.
Step 1: Please pay your Signal Light Subscription of $36/month to enable the bulbs.
I can only imagine the frustration of engineers in BMW having to deal with finance people.
Engineer: "...So you want me to route the functionality of heated seats to a PCB to check for a payment variable, to prevent the person, who bought the car, to not be able to use a function already built in... Is that correct?"
Finance guy: "Yes! You got it!"
Engineer: "I know the answer is money but still... Why?!"
Why pay if not used
Fr that seems flagrantly wasteful
“Before I begin, I recommend paying your heated seat subscription before bothering with stuff like the turn signals.”
12 years ago. Back then shit was less dire.
2013 was plenty dire. We had Ted Cruz's friends in the House trying to dismember social security and medicare while Obama kept explaining away why we needed more troops in Afghanistan and fewer labor organizers in Ohio.
The '08 Housing Crisis was still echoing through the US, the economy was stalling in the face of Congressional austerity, and people ringing the big "Climate Change is coming for us" dinner bell were once again getting told to shut up so we wouldn't scare away moderate republican voters in the 2014 midterms. Israel and Gaza had broken out into a brief shooting war, the recently-debunked Lancet "Vaccination-Autism" study was gaining traction among reactionary politicians, Jeffry Epstein was hanging out with Bill Gates on Palm Beach, and a fresh-faced NYC landlord with political aspirations was all over FOX News saying how he was on the verge of uncovering Obama's real birth certificate.
The fuse was lit. We were all just in the fucking around phase, rather than the finding out part. Extremely dire situation.
With respect to subscription hells. Not your "colonial" policies.
Why are the comments turned off 😭 ......
429k views
And yet no progress. So sad.
Bravo! I'll need to have a look, do they also have a video with helpful hints for overcoming the blind spots that prevent you from fitting your BMW into a single parking space in crowed parking lots?
I never knew it was common knowledge. I always wondered why BMW drivers use the turn signals less often than drivers of other brands.
I know that Peugeot drivers can't help it, because the electronics are shit.
It's because they're entitled dickbag drivers. Which is funny because where BMWs are more common, Audi drivers are the entitled dickbags.
If I see a black Audi, I can guarantee that it will be a dangerously bad driver.
Where I live, bmw drivers suck but Mercedes drivers are way worse.
As a Munich resident (home of BMW), I kindly disagree. It really is BMW.
This has spread to more than BMW drivers. Just this morning I saw a Lexus, a Chevy, and a semi not bother with them.
Look man, when I'm in my RC F, that V8 ought to be turning your head so you anticipate I'm going to pass you. Otherwise you're clearly not paying enough attention to my sick expensive car. (/s)
Are you sure you weren't just in Houston?
When will people learn BAD DRIVERS ARE EVERYWHERE!!!
Look up most dangerous highways and when it is limited to a certain distance, the most dangerous highways are in Texas or Florida.
Teletrac: Most Dangerous Roads in America Infographic (2016-2019)
Bad city drivers are what I'm afraid of, I'm a pedestrian.
Fair.
Everywhere in Houston, yes!
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Absolutely love the "comments disabled" bit. Did this video at any time had comments allowed? I would love to see the troll fest
Where are these 429k people?
They didn’t view the entire video. It was too complex
Drivers of other vehicles curious to know if BMW turn signals are supposed to work.
Why tho? Is it the mindset of “my car looks so good everyone has their eyes on me so they’ll see me turning? Because every time I see a bmw it’s without fail merge/turn without a signal
I’m always reminded of the scene in Alice in Wonderland where the talking flowers explain to her that they can talk because they’re planted in firm soil, while those planted in soft soil are asleep all the time.
I have a growing personal hatred of people in white pearl-coat cars right now. They are the new BMWs for me.
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