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      05-01-2020, 03:04 PM   #27
Xorbitman
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Drives: 2018 BMW X1
Join Date: Feb 2019
Location: Montreal, QC. Canada

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Waste of time and money on something that's useless IMHO

I've rented numerous cars that have this feature with some of them using camera based systems while others use radar. Even those with lane departure assist. Some of them sway back and forth when the lanes are wide while others are pretty good at it. The ACC is pretty much useless most of the time in traffic which is most of our driving pretty well almost everywhere in the world. The only time is on flat straight highways with little traffic so unless you're travelling a lot on long boring highways... And even then it has problems in rain, snow, fog and anything less than ideal conditions. My advice? Spend your money on other mods. I added a few interior things like a console box under the armrest so that I can hide my stuff. It's contoured and molded that it looks like factory and there's even holes for the USB and power. Other items, BMW logo projector under the front doors. Chrome trim for the rubber knobs, Pioneer tweeters on mounted at the same place as the HK ones and a Pioneer sub in the trunk with a remote in the coin box under the light switch. It also features an active EQ. It was a bit tricky to equalize the sound especially with the two subs under the front seats. Those under-seat speakers are now lower mids and the door speakers are upper mids. I also programmed a bunch of features found on other Bimmer models like the 3 and 5 by hiring a coding expert so that you can program the ECU to accept LED lights. LED Turns in front and back, LED Fogs...and upgrade the engine performance by modifying the turbo-boost to get slightly more HP and TQ along with a BMS CAI. Noticeable performance change enough to bring a nice grin on your face. Bigger wheels and tires are a plus too because of the better handling than with standard 18" wheels and crappy run-flats. Just have an emergency bottle of that tire air and sealant in case. Just these little things. Also for those like us in Canada where the dealers order vehicles from BMW Europe (KMS and optional French instead of MPH) and don't know what they're doing...you can order a BMW mirror with compass with auto dimming and homelink for the garage door from EBAY and they're not expensive. Hope this was useful to some of you out there. Stay safe and healthy and enjoy your life one day at a time. Vaccines and cures are around the corner and today we had some good news from an extensive research study conducted in several Asian countries including Korea that you definitely can NOT catch this virus twice. The virus DNA (RNA) is such that there's not enough difference from the original to the mutations so a vaccine will work better (100%) than with Flu vaccines! And in some parts of the world they're noticing new mutations that are not as easily transmitted and deadly. Keep smiling this will be over sooner than the doomsday prophets are saying.
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