BMW and M Power Owners

[[TW]Fox]

I really wouldn't pay for RTTI - it's utterly rubbish compared to the level of detail you get with Google maps. It only works when there's loads of traffic (I presume because it only crowd-sources data from modern BMWs). Compare that to Google Maps which often knows how many yards long the queue at the next traffic light is!

I wish BMW would just licence Google's traffic info.

RTTI is not perfect and has many flaws but it’s well worth the 50 quid a year it costs and is genuinely useful on long journeys. So much so that I find the fact my GF’s Mini doesn’t have it is absolutely infuriating – a navigation system with no traffic flow information is frustrating to use.

Google’s feed is not perfect either, in-fact I’ve almost given up using it to predict long journey travel times now because of its over zealous prediction algorithms which means it seems to assume every serious motorway crash will obviously have eased up by the time you get there. It also constantly seems to route me through closed roads – it doesn’t seem to handle closures very well at all and numerous times I’ve had RTTI tell me a road is shut, Google try and route me through it, trusted Google over RTTI and found RTTI was right.

Google is absolutely great for regular commuting and city driving as generally in this sort of environment the prediction model works very well indeed but for a long trip where an accident could be anything from 15 minutes to 15 hours before its clear its pointless having any sort of ‘guess’ that it might have cleared by the time you get there, RTTI just assumes it won’t have and alerts you to the entire delay regardless of how far away you are which whilst not perfect is IMHO more useful for forward planning than the opposite.

 

[IC3]

Has anyone on here done a turbo build on an E36 with the 2.5 or 2.8 6 cyl engine by any chance? Or has had a drift ready E36?

 

[ShivP]

Check out dannydc2s youtube channel he used to have an E36 drift car iirc & he is quite active on pistonheads

 

[IC3]

I've watched a few of his videos, I can't stand most vloggers though... Have nothing against him, just can't watch his vlogs.

 

[Rimsy]

I really wouldn't pay for RTTI - it's utterly rubbish compared to the level of detail you get with Google maps. It only works when there's loads of traffic (I presume because it only crowd-sources data from modern BMWs). Compare that to Google Maps which often knows how many yards long the queue at the next traffic light is!

I wish BMW would just licence Google's traffic info.

I don't really have an issue with rtti but some of the route choices BMW pro nav suggests are utterly useless whereas Waze/Google maps gets it spot on.
Also with partial lane closures BMW nav completely routes around it as if the entire road is closed. This has happened more than once so not a one off.
BMW supporting android auto would be ideal but since they see themselves as some kind of automotive Apple beings it's unlikely

 

[ShivP]

I don't really have an issue with rtti but some of the route choices BMW pro nav suggests are utterly useless whereas Waze/Google maps gets it spot on.
Also with partial lane closures BMW nav completely routes around it as if the entire road is closed. This has happened more than once so not a one off.
BMW supporting android auto would be ideal but since they see themselves as some kind of automotive Apple beings it's unlikely

I was wondering what's up with that - why is android auto not supported? Some kind of dispute?

 

[Scania]

Got chatting to an e65 760li owner last night at a petrol station, he was asking lots of questions about my e38 - and wanted to know exactly where I lived which concerned me a bit - basically he gave me his number (already written on a piece of paper) and wanted to know if he could come round and have a good look at it because he wanted to do a straight swap.

Basically told him I wasn’t interested - hate the styling of the e65 for a start - never mind I don’t see a 54 plate 95k mile 760 doing anything other than deprecating, he seemed quite put out when I wouldn’t give him my address and basically had to tell him to do one!

Took a round the houses route back home to make sure he wasn’t following me, found it all rather odd, especially him wanting my address....

Had a few similar discussions about it with others but this one stood out and didn’t feel right, maybe just paranoid, I don’t know...

 

[Minstadave]

Prepare yourself for the love of another man.

 

[Scania]

Prepare yourself for the love of another man.

Think he loved the car,not I. - hope not anyway!

 

[Scania]

Anyway, I sidetracked myself posting about the e65

I meant to ask does anybody have experience of servicing at either Blue Bell Crewe or Stratstone Derby?

Both have agreed to service my e38 more or less in line with e39 prices (7 series prices are very much higher despite it being largely identical mechanically)

Blue Bell were my initial choice, they are local to me and quoted £540ish despite being part of the same group who own Knights BMW in Stoke & Stafford neither of which would entertain any kind of discount.

Stratstone impressed me greatly when we recently bought my partners 118 and they too have agreed to discount but quoted £580ish (inspection II)

Blue Bell is cheaper and nearer, Stratstone a bit more and further away, willing to go to the better of the two although I’d imagine they’ll all be similar, just thought I’d ask.

 

[[TW]Fox]

never mind I don’t see a 54 plate 95k mile 760 doing anything other than deprecating

Really? It's far more special than a beige 735 as it was the halo model. Look at the values of good E38 V12 models for an idea. It will never be a 900 quid car.

 

[Scania]

Really? It's far more special than a beige 735 as it was the halo model. Look at the values of good E38 V12 models for an idea. It will never be a 900 quid car.

It was far worse than mine, scruffy alloys, scratched bumpers and that’s disregarding it’s bloody hideous to look at!

 

[Peerzy]

It was far worse than mine, scruffy alloys, scratched bumpers and that’s disregarding it’s bloody hideous to look at!

If only there was a way to repair alloys and bumpers.... even better if the cost of this was fairly sensible and wouldn't involve £Thousands on a non Sport rusting e38.

I guess if the 760LI was Mushroom Brown you wouldn't think it was 'bloody hideous'?

 

[Scania]

If only there was a way to repair alloys and bumpers.... even better if the cost of this was fairly sensible and wouldn't involve £Thousands on a non Sport rusting e38.

I guess if the 760LI was Mushroom Brown you wouldn't think it was 'bloody hideous'?

My point was more I found it odd this random guy wanted to do a swap without knowing anything about my car and especially wanted to know where I lived - I didn’t divulge any information about mileage or owners etc, instead of a view on this,I just get digs.

Par for the course in this part of the forums I guess.

 

[Maccy]

Maybe it is a little strange someone approaching you like that, but then you might own something that has forever been his dream car?!

 

[squ1bby]

I really wouldn't pay for RTTI - it's utterly rubbish compared to the level of detail you get with Google maps. It only works when there's loads of traffic (I presume because it only crowd-sources data from modern BMWs). Compare that to Google Maps which often knows how many yards long the queue at the next traffic light is!

I wish BMW would just licence Google's traffic info.

I believe BMW have just changed their RTTI provider to TomTom so you may see an improvement soon

 

[Liquidfox]

RTTI is not perfect and has many flaws but it’s well worth the 50 quid a year it costs and is genuinely useful on long journeys.

Google is absolutely great for regular commuting and city driving .

I think this sums up my thoughts on RTTI perfectly, I really don't like it for my morning commute or for short journeys but it's brilliant for those cross-country 100+ miles drives involving motorways. It saved me from a 2 hour jam on the way to Creamfields last year, a few ahead of us weren't so lucky.

 

[Akagi]

The E65 is hideous. The E38 is not, and Scania's E38 is near immaculate and it is actually a car he wants to own... Can't believe you guys are shocked he didn't swap his E38 for a nail of a 100K mile E65 that some stranger offered him?

 

[mjt]

The E65 is hideous. The E38 is not, and Scania's E38 is near immaculate and it is actually a car he wants to own... Can't believe you guys are shocked he didn't swap his E38 for a nail of a 100K mile E65 that some stranger offered him?

Yeah, but let's bash him anyway coz it's beige and has the wrong V8.

 

[Jez]

Yeah, but let's bash him anyway coz it's beige and has the wrong V8.

You fit in well around here Dont forget that it was far too expensive.