Neat things I did not realize the M3 does/has ...

jeff.m3 · 10-30-2008, 09:20 PM

Hey guys, I saw this on another thread but wanted to see if anyone on this board had any additional input to add in!

I didn't notice until a few days ago that my car could do so many neat things.

If you hold your finger over the rivets of the outside door handle, the doors lock and windows closes (i'm assuming this is only applicable with the Comfort Access feature)
If you hold the Start/Stop button for two seconds while the engine is on, it will completely shut off everything -- including the engine, radio, etc.
The center armrest piece closest to the driver's seat can be adjusted forward and back.
There's a handy small flashlight in the dashboard glove compartment.
There's a little leather pouch to hold your ipod/iphone I assume? in the center armest compartment

skierman64 · 10-30-2008, 09:25 PM

Wow, your BMW CA (salesman) really didn't do his job at all.

Atny286 · 10-30-2008, 09:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by e92 M3

Hey guys, I saw this on another thread but wanted to see if anyone on this board had any additional input to add in!

I didn't notice until a few days ago that my car could do so many neat things.

If you hold your finger over the rivets of the outside door handle, the doors lock and windows closes (i'm assuming this is only applicable with the Comfort Access feature)
If you hold the Start/Stop button for two seconds while the engine is on, it will completely shut off everything -- including the engine, radio, etc.
The center armrest piece closest to the driver's seat can be adjusted forward and back.
There's a handy small flashlight in the dashboard glove compartment.
There's a little leather pouch to hold your ipod/iphone I assume? in the center armest compartment

Besides the CA... these are all 'new' BMW features, all 1er and 3er have them... Did you find the cash under the drivers seat already??

flyinbrian · 10-30-2008, 09:34 PM

My 06 330I had the flashlight, I don't believe my 08 M3 came with one. Bummer but no big deal.

skierman64 · 10-30-2008, 09:38 PM

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Originally Posted by flyinbrian

My 06 330I had the flashlight, I don't believe my 08 M3 came with one. Bummer but no big deal.

Mine did, I believe it was in a plastic bag wrapped up with the owners manual.

nusevad · 10-30-2008, 09:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by skierman64

Wow, your BMW CA (salesman) really didn't do his job at all.

Race_Doc11 · 10-30-2008, 09:54 PM

I agree...if I was him I will ask for the training fees back. Both my XI and M came with flash light

Quote:

Originally Posted by skierman64

Wow, your BMW CA (salesman) really didn't do his job at all.

FStop7 · 10-30-2008, 09:56 PM

I didn't know about the LEDs on the door handles that light up when you unlock the car after dark. The bluish lights look sick.

The salesman (Will@LBBMW) showed me all of the stuff listed in the OP. I can't think of anything I didn't already know about except for the LEDs.

ILLCOMM · 10-30-2008, 11:39 PM

I couldn't find the flashlight in the glove compartment. It certainly wasn't where it used to be in my e46 330.

BTW, I love that it's still called a "glove compartment". I guess that's a hold over from the days when you had to wear gloves when driving. I might need to get a part of racing gloves just to put in there.

spyderco10 · 10-30-2008, 11:43 PM

the armrest can move back and forth? leather pouch? i don't think mine has one. where is it supposed to be?

DarkstarZero · 10-31-2008, 12:44 AM

My 95 e36 M3 came with a rechargeable flashlight in the glove box. Pretty awesome for 1995, car charges your flashlight. That and since it was a 95, I used that flashlight a lot on many a breakdowns.

watrob · 10-31-2008, 01:12 AM

Hi fellas, hope you are all having a wonderfull day. Have been reading this thread and yes it is quite funny and although a lot of us know of these features, new owners don't.

But do all of us know all the features & some tricks.

There is one feature not known to many and I have owned BMW for over 25 years. I have since spoken to my service dept to confirm what I am about to tell you, which was told to me by my father just before he passed away.

After being sat down in back office at the dealership and strangely enough the State manager was also there, he apparently was called in to look at warranty problem they were having. Anyway a couple of coffee's later they ask, "before we acknowledge or denial" we need to know how you came across this information. They seemed to be worried whether Corporate theft had occurred, I think they were'nt to happy about it.

So I told them the story about my father (who was Dutch) and living still in Holland in those days was taken by the Russian and ended up on the other side of Europe. At the end of World War 2, around 1946 he started his way back towards Holland, a journey that would take him 2 years to complete before he rejoining his wife a family. A family that thought he had been killed, so you can imagine how they felt when he walked back into house after some 2 or more years.

Anyway, back to my father, on his way back to Holland he worked as a security officer in an Art galley in Vienna for a period of time so to have money to buy his way accross Europe as it was a dangerous place between 1945-1947.

After leaving Vienna he was partly taken along the way by a gentlemen fleeing the Russians and the occupying American, English and so on, oh I forget he meet this person at the Vienna Art Gallery, a patron. This person was high up in BMW during the war, of course they built airplanes & munitions and was wanted for aiding the German's during the war.

Well after travelling together for some days and both of them trying to elude the occupiers of there country and the Russian, the car they were travelling in stopped. It was a BMW of course but everybody in those days drove BMW's, what was different was what was hidden in the boot, gold & art works.

It was then that this gentlemen showed my farther the special feature the BMW had under bonnet and had been built in every BMW before and is still there today.

Well you should have seen the looks on these fellas in this back office, one got up walked out, on the way out he said I will be back don't say anymore, OK I said and then asked for another coffee.

Back to my father again, he was Police Commissioneer in Holland that's why the Russian took him, he was luckly they did'nt shoot him on sight and that's why he got the position in the Vienna Police as security detail for the Vienna Art Gallery. They would not let him leave by not issueing papers to him so not to be able to leave Vienna as people like him were hard to come by, so he had to escape Vienna as he did Russia.

I am not sure if this part is true but my father said this gentlemen told him a story about the gentlemen (Mr Diesel) who invented the Diesel engine which ran on vegetable oil (later converted by the oil companies to run on there product but still retained the engine name and fuel name Diesel). Anyway he was found floating face down in the English Channel, he said BMW did it and not the suspected oil companies.

Ok, 30 min goes by and the state manager comes back into the room and says, how do we know it was your father that told you this and not an employee of BMW, only head techs and state mangers know off this and we need to know for sure. I said I have one of the paintings from the boot of that BMW that the gentlemen gave my father for helping him flee Vienna and it had his name on the back.

The state manager walked out of the room, he came back 20 minutes later with a piece of paper in his hand, sign this he said and I will give you an answer.

So I signed the letter and the state manager confirmed what I had said was true, all of it and yes it is still there today under the bonnet.

I turned over the letter and there in big black letters it read at the top : NON DISCLOSURE NOTICE.

There is more to this story to follow as I have since beaten the Non Disclosure Notice.

Part 2, The Secret is revealed

DarkstarZero · 10-31-2008, 01:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by watrob

There is more to this story to follow as I have since beaten the Non Disclosure Notice.

Part 2, The Secret is revealed

spyderco10 · 10-31-2008, 03:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by watrob

There is more to this story to follow as I have since beaten the Non Disclosure Notice.

Part 2, The Secret is revealed

torredresen · 10-31-2008, 04:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FStop7

I didn't know about the LEDs on the door handles that light up when you unlock the car after dark. The bluish lights look sick.

The salesman (Will@LBBMW) showed me all of the stuff listed in the OP. I can't think of anything I didn't already know about except for the LEDs.

As for the first post on this thread... Dude, who was selling you the car?
Was it like: Here is your car, Bye?

bazmandude · 10-31-2008, 04:21 AM

The suspense is killing me!!!!

04S · 10-31-2008, 04:59 AM

Come on mate, spill the beans

alpineweissM3 · 10-31-2008, 05:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by skierman64

Wow, your BMW CA (salesman) really didn't do his job at all.

Neither did mine.

alpineweissM3 · 10-31-2008, 05:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ILLCOMM

I couldn't find the flashlight in the glove compartment. It certainly wasn't where it used to be in my e46 330.

Mine wasn't there either. I called my CA, and he had one mailed to me within 5 days. It's not in the same place as the e46 as it is not rechargeable.

Phoenix 21st · 10-31-2008, 05:25 AM

I cant believe i spent all that time reading it with no answer. how many parts are there?

I hope this is an interesting answer, bc you've bigged it up huge amounts.

MMMorish · 10-31-2008, 06:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by watrob

There is more to this story to follow as I have since beaten the Non Disclosure Notice.

Part 2, The Secret is revealed

What is the ANSWER!!!!!!!???

AwesomeM3 · 10-31-2008, 07:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by skierman64

Wow, your BMW CA (salesman) really didn't do his job at all.

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