[Lyndon S]

I took out a one day subscription to BMW TIS to look up a bulletin that my body shop had referenced in their estimate (yes, I got into a minor fender bender). In scanning the recent bulletins I saw what I believe is the first official service bulletin from BMW on this issue. It was released on September 5th.

It is bulletin SIB 84 04 23, with a whole slew of cars impacted. for the G26 series (i4/4 Series Gran Coupe) it shows cars in production from November 2022 as being impacted, but I know cars made before that were too, so this might be an error. The bulletin says "Intermittently the GPS location in 3rd Party Navigation Apps (i.e., Apple Maps, Google Maps, Waze) will drift from the correct location. In addition, the location of the vehicle in the My BMW app may be incorrect. BMW Navigation is not affected."

Sound familiar?

Fortunately, the fix is a software update to 7/2023.35 or later. This is not available for OTA yet, but only at dealers. The bulletin said it should be released to dealers in early August so they should have it or a later version at this point. This is the version @Lyndon S got a few posts back, would be good of him to confirm it is really fixed since it's had it for 2 weeks now.

I have not had an issue since the update. Good so far. 👍🏼

 

[Lyndon S]

yup, as long as your dealer believes/has evidence from BMW that a release will fix an issue, they'll do it as a warranty repair.

I'm a bit surprised that 7/2023.40 was not the version installed, as that is supposed to be latest out (has a fix for the "drivetrain malfunction" issue): Drivetrain malfunction

Did you confirm the version in the iDrive display?

Some 7/2023.xx release should go OTA this month as well (I suspect .40 or later so that the drivetrain fix will get to everyone)

Yes. Confirmed it was 07/2023.35 from the iDrive. Hopefully .40 will be OTA. This is all new to the dealers. They seem to only have one person in the service center that can do this.

 

[Lyndon S]

Just had software updated to 7/2023.35 by the dealer today. It is a warranty “repair”. You have to complain about the gps giving inaccurate location via Apple CarPlay. So far so good. I struggled with every other reset combination. It was basically random whether it would work or not.