BMW, I am so discovered with you

I want to be clear from the beginning. I have never been a car enthusiast. My driving story includes a handful of hand with a hole in floors and a series of practical vehicles aggressively and a golf and a mazda dad at age 12. Then I rent a BMW I4 electric car.

What attracted to i4? Unlike other electric vehicles, bmw does not appear something out of the jets; I like that they are underlined cars that happen to be electric. I liked that they are very less common than other Evs in the northern California. Plus, the i4 vens in a single shower “including” which-have they don’t have to be in my own bmwhathers. Thems. Those and adopting the basis. smooth, and I feel like we go to places.

Almost two years later I have something I never thought: waiting for an end of a car in a luxury car because his disaster that makes my comparison.

A love story is gone

Let me tell you the ways this relationship went wrong, starting with the most basic feature: put it in my car. At the next occasions, I stuck in parracy if you are unlocking his ports with my phone disrespecting the Digital BMW key specifically for this purpose. This sounds trivial until you judge the merge of merge while looking what you are trying to steal your car.

Digital Keywords have become so generalized that BMW owners have in the Departed Elaborate times Multi-Peck workarounds that read as instructions to disarm a bomb: “1. Open your BMW Tray in your brave ID. 5. Remove your vehicle button.

User profile system is another exercise in futility. I couldn’t create host’s profiles without being democoned to the bottom of the user’s hierarchy. What does this in practice is that someone else does not drive my car – even – the vehicle will catch their phone and playlist the moment I’m in bluetooth range. Bmw bolked his profile system to the point where the spilling bonding steps that should actually occur automatically.

The integration of the car’s car is poor by the poor for dangerous actively. The software update breaks the functionality of the folder, which requires complete reboots of its infotainment system. The reverse camera problem is particularly grazing; Put the car in reverse while using Carlay’s navigation, and when they moved to drive, you are sudden on the house screen instead of returning to your directions.

The backup camera is virtually worthless under conditions of low brightness, and screen becomes frequently warm scratching to the touch.

Then there is the Lights issued. I am Unless I remember to manually block the car after walking away from her, I have to occasion to occasions later than external lights are still ablaze in my driveway. I think it could be a human error the first time that happened. At the third time, I understood that it is a “feature” where the I4 enters “Pseudo-Sleep” modality that keeps the lights and other indefinite systems. Multiple owners report the same problem: park the car, walk, go back to you after finding their vehicle lowers as a fan and draining the battery.

Beyond the feeling about a daily basis that the car has Amnesia, there are legitimate security concerns. 2022 I4 was subjected to six reminder in his first year, including his utn and advise him to lead this vehicle. “Since, other memories they included battery control units that can cause a sudden loss of power.

BMW released software updates for the I4 about every few months but the process is horrified of trouble. The updates breaks the connections connected, causing the owners to lose traffic information, climate data, remote parking functions, as well as the mlibmw app connection.

The UPI-the-The-the-AlIGER update is reliable, with the updates to represent that they are stuck in various percentage for days, forced by decay.

What is particularly galling is that bmw positions these vehicles as premium products. If you buy rather than in leasing, the i4 begins than $ 50,000, with well estate patterns that push $ 70,000. Meanwhile, the less expensive vehicles, including Honyais and Lexus patterns, signal the user’s connection and users connection.

I’m not going to, besming these cars to try to prove of digital discs, after making their clients without taking their welfare, but I am also not not saying that.

I really wanted this relationship to work. I4 is gorgeous, drives well, and represents all I thought you wanted in a electric vehicle. But I can’t go on a relationship where the most basic tasks – Dooring Dooring, connect my phone, get directions – requires the patience of a saint. (I don’t have the patience of a saint.)

Even my technical fruit, which one is usually the first to love username, divert by the car after a particularly frustrated software and has noticed it would have a little. ‘

The car ownership should be a constant source of aggravation. Should not have to maintain a mental database of functions for features that have to work alone. Should not be afraid of the software updates because they can break something that was (mainly) functional.

So BMW, I had it. You have made a beard, then sabotage with the software so crumy that is almost comic. I thought we will be driving in the sunset together. Instead, I’m driving my I4 Back to the business as my rent is over. I am surprised to say I can’t wait.