Document Outline

• Contents
• Notes
  • Using this Owner's Manual
  • Symbols used
  • The individual vehicle
  • Editorial notice
  • For your own safety
  • Service and warranty
  • Reporting safety defects
• At a glance
  • Cockpit
    • Around the steering wheel: controls and displays
    • Instrument cluster
    • Indicator and warning lamps
    • Around the center console: controls and displays
  • iDrive
    • Controls
    • Operating principle
    • Status information
    • Switching the Control Display off/on
    • Programmable memory keys
  • Letters and numbers
    • Entering letters and numbers
  • Voice activation system
    • The concept
    • Saying commands
    • Notes
• Controls
  • Opening and closing
    • Remote control
    • Personal Profile
    • Central locking system
    • Opening and closing: Using the remote control
    • Opening and closing: Using the door lock
    • Opening and closing: From inside
    • Luggage compartment lid
    • Alarm system*
    • Convenient access*
    • Windows
    • Coupe: glass roof*, electric
    • Convertible: retractable hardtop
  • Adjustments
    • Sitting safely
    • Seats
    • Head restraints
    • Entering the rear seats
    • Heated seats*
    • Seat and mirror memory
    • Safety belts
    • Mirrors
    • Steering wheel
    • MDrive*
    • M Key settings
  • Transporting children safely
    • The right place for children
    • Installing child-restraint systems
    • LATCH child-restraint fixing system
  • Driving
    • Ignition lock
    • Start/stop button
    • Starting the engine
    • Switching off the engine
    • Parking brake
    • Manual transmission
    • M dual clutch transmission with Drivelogic*
    • M Engine Dynamics Control
    • Turn signals/ headlamp flasher
    • Wiper system
    • Washer fluid
    • Cruise control
  • Everything under control
    • Odometer, outside temperature display, clock
    • Tachometer
    • Coolant temperature
    • Engine oil temperature
    • Fuel gauge
    • Computer
    • Settings and information
    • Units of measure
    • Service requirements
    • Clock
    • Date
    • Check Control
    • Speed limit
    • Settings on the Control Display
  • Technology for driving comfort and safety
    • Park Distance Control PDC*
    • Driving stability control systems
    • Electronic Damper Control EDC*
    • Drive-off assistant
    • Flat Tire Monitor FTM*
    • Tire Pressure Monitor TPM*
    • Servotronic
    • Brake force display
    • Airbags
    • Convertible: rollover protection system
  • Lamps
    • Parking lamps/low beams
    • Adaptive Head Light*
    • High beams/roadside parking lamps
    • Instrument lighting
    • Interior lamps
  • Climate
    • Automatic climate control
    • Parked car ventilation
  • Practical interior accessories
    • Integrated universal remote control*
    • Digital compass*
    • Coupe: Roller sun blind*
    • Glove compartment
    • Center armrest
    • Storage compartments inside the vehicle
    • Cup holders
    • Ashtray, front
    • Ashtray, rear
    • Connecting electrical appliances
    • Coupe: Through-loading system
    • Convertible: Cargo loading
    • Storage compartments inside the cargo bay
    • Folding up the floor panel
    • Lashing eyes
    • Coupe: ski bag*
    • Convertible: through-loading opening with integrated transport bag*
• Driving tips
  • Things to remember when driving
    • Break-in period
    • General driving notes
    • Cargo loading
    • Coupe: roof-mounted luggage rack*
  • BMW M3 engineering
    • High performance V8 engine
    • Compound brake
    • Drive train
    • Driving on a race track
• Navigation
  • Navigation system
    • Updating the navigation data
  • Destination entry
    • Entering a destination manually
    • Address book
    • Last destinations
    • Special destinations
    • Entering the destination via the map
    • Entering a destination by voice commands*
    • Trip planner
    • Word-matching principle
  • Destination guidance
    • Starting destination guidance
    • Terminating destination guidance
    • Continuing destination guidance
    • Route criteria
    • Route
    • Destination guidance through voice instructions
    • Map display
    • Traffic bulletins*
  • What to do if …
• Entertainment
  • On/off and tone
    • Controls
    • Switching on/off
    • Adjusting volume
    • Tone control
  • Radio
    • Selecting a station
    • Storing stations
    • Radio Data System RDS
    • High Definition Radio*
    • Stored stations
  • Satellite radio
    • Enabling or disabling channels
    • Selecting a channel
  • CD player and CD changer
    • CD/DVD playback
    • Audio playback
    • Random play sequence
    • Fast forward/reverse
    • Video playback*
    • CD magazine
    • Notes
  • Music collection
    • Storing music
    • Music, playing
    • Managing music
  • AUX-IN port
    • Connecting
    • Starting audio playback
  • USB-audio interface/mobile phone audio interface
    • Connectable devices
    • Connecting
    • Starting audio playback
    • Track search
    • Random play sequence
    • Fast forward/reverse
    • Notes
• Communications
  • Telephone
    • The concept
    • Using the telephone inside the vehicle
    • Suitable mobile phones
    • Operating options
    • Start-up
    • Operation via iDrive
    • Switching between mobile phone and hands-free system
    • Operation by voice commands*
    • Notes
    • Inserting/removing the snap- in adapter
  • Contacts
  • BMW Assist
    • Concierge service*
    • Activating BMW Assist
    • BMW Search*
    • Internet*
    • Activating TeleService*
    • Customer Relations
    • Service Request*
    • Automatic Service Request*
    • BMW center*
    • Data transfer*
    • Service status*
• Mobility
  • Refueling
    • Fuel filler door
    • Fuel specifications
  • Wheels and tires
    • Tire inflation pressures
    • Tire identification marks
    • Tire condition
    • New wheels and tires
    • Snow chains*
  • Under the hood
    • Hood
    • Important parts of the engine compartment
    • Engine oil
    • Coolant
  • Maintenance
    • BMW Maintenance System
    • Socket for On-Board Diagnosis OBD
  • Care
    • Care products
    • Exterior care
    • Interior care
    • Vehicle storage
  • Replacing components
    • Onboard tool kit
    • Wiper blades
    • Lamps and bulbs
    • Repairing a flat tire with the M Mobility System
    • Changing wheels
    • Vehicle battery
    • Fuses
  • Giving and receiving assistance
    • Emergency Request*
    • Roadside Assistance
    • First aid pouch*
    • Warning triangle*
    • Jump starting
    • Tow-starting, towing away
• Reference
  • Technical data
    • Engine data
    • Dimensions
    • Weights
    • Capacities
  • Short commands for the voice activation system
    • Useful short commands
    • CD/Multimedia
    • Radio
    • Telephone
    • Navigation
    • BMW Assist
    • Vehicle information
    • Settings
  • Everything from A - Z
    • Index