Beginning of August I think…. At least, it gives me plenty of time to save. The salesman said I’m high in their list.
I was hesitant with the 8k essentials package, but after trying those electric seats, I’m sold
Thelong wait will make it easier to accept paying for extras.
He told me that in order to use the bmw app to unlock the doors, it needs to synch with the wireless charger… not sure if it’s true?
The salesman also told me the regular lights are bright enough and I didn’t need laser light as they are too bright.
@ShutterHappy , excellent choice, I think the Canadian "essentials" package includes our Premium package, Parking Assistant, Harmon Kardon, and may be the Driver Assistance Pro, which total about the same here down South of you. Y
Your salesperson is almost right. BMW requires that you download the BMW App, set up your account, sign on, connect with your car with both key fobs in the car, then put the phone in the Wireless charger compartment (I don't think you actually need the wireless charger option, but if you have it it will also charge) and wait until the car communicates with the phone and handshakes to create the Digital Key in the phone, Watch
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The comment about the laserlights is also a distortion of reality. It is true that in the US, the Laserlights have to be turned off when there is an oncoming car not to blind the other driver, notwithstanding that in Europe, BMW offers a feature that splits them to the side, around oncoming cars, but that feature is forbidden in the US because the law was written for a single headlight bulb; plus it can't be turned on until you drive at 40mph (60km/h approx). Until then, the headlights are the LED headlights that are still very bright and come with the Laserlight option anyway. But when they turn on, the Laserlights illuminate about twice the distance of standard headlights (600 yards or 540 m) so at night, especially on Canadian highways outside of Toronto, and pretty much anywhere in Texas, they are extremely useful to detect deer or other road-crossing critters. I got 2 cars totalled by deers (including my last BMW) so I'm buying for sure. See the comparison here:
(Audi's though, not BMW's)
The notion that "you don't need the laser lights because they are too bright" is also a distortion of reality. The laserlights are required by US law to be turned off when there is an oncoming car not to blind the other driver, and can't turn on until you drive at 40mph (60 km/h approx). When they are off you are running on the LED headlights which come automatically when you buy the Laser lights. But when there is oncoming car, and at 40mph plus, the laserlights illuminate about double the distance of normal headlights
