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Your review has also gone here. Thank you so much for sharing :thumbs up.

Thanks mate. Enjoy many happy miles with the Ultimate Driving Machine!

My opinion might be different from a lot of X1 and X3 owners, but to me, X3 is whole lot different from X1. Barring those silly omissions from BMW and the diesel motor, X3 is an entirely different character. You get the perfect mix of practicality, opulence and dynamics from X3 and above in X range.


The intensity of shock is less in X3 but still it's addictive indeed :D

Will swap the RFTs with Michelin tubeless soon.

Thanks for the sweet review! Wishing you many happy miles with the Ultimate Driving Machine.

Thanks a lot Aditya for showing trust and recognising the efforts :)
No words can describe the feeling!

Congratulations to you as well and wish you many more happy miles with the X4!

Thank you! Indeed, he is the luckiest person :)

Thank you and a same pinch.
Wishing you many more happy miles!

Thanks mate! Absolutely, forgot to mention about the mute button in the review.

Thanks friend. I would love to write, but takes huge effort to come up with something presentable. Will definitely try to write some travel logs.

Thank you! 3 GT was a very practical car, almost the best family car because of it's character.

Congratulations, f25 3.0d was an outstanding value proposition for BMW enthusiasts! Wish you many happy and fast miles :D

While searching on international forums, I just saw these posts (#9 and #10) in this X3 xbimmers thread. To summarise -
Setting these flags to 0x0 ( Hex Zero ) would do the trick according to the user. Is it that simple?

Do it with Esys only. Whenever you open the Bimmercode expert mode, you have to accept a disclaimer that basically says they haven't tested all the options in this and you are on your own if shit hits the roof. it is surprisingly easy to have the expert mode coding end up bricking your car and to add to it, the backups taken with bimmercode are useless if you end up bricking that ECU, it can't be coded back.

My suggestion is to use Esys to carry out this coding.

I thought it's worth sharing! It's accidental discovery for me but I want to know if all manufacturers are doing the same.


With the evenly distributed speakers, this car is simulating the obstacle location using perfect acoustic imaging!!! Refer to the picture above, I hear the obstacle gong distinctly from rear left :Shockked:

Similar thing happened with front right just a few moments before this snapshot was taken when another obstacle was on my front right.

I haven't realised this earlier as I never drove without music ...

Kudos to BMW for this level of attention to detail :thumbs up

No more annoyance post 120 kmph :D

Remote coded on a rainy night by Dr Code My VAG


After couple of unsuccessful attempts due to availability of a working windows system. If a personal windows machine is at your disposal, it’s breeze, takes just 10 minutes!

Good that you got rid of that annoyance. I meant to ask this in my previous post.

What is with this 120kmph gong alert? Is it there for all BMW cars and also it's for only India versions? Because here in US, we don't have any such restrictions as same number in miles is touched on and off without even realizing it.:D

This is a rule suggested by MoRTH and applicable to all cars sold in India post June 2019 (exactly from July 1 2019) except imports that doesn't need homologation. However the intensity of the buzzer/gong and the exact implementation is quite different across manufactures. Thankfully though, Govt didn't ask manufactures to electronically limit vehicle speeds at 120 kmph.

IMO, BMW has implemented this as a more intrusive and prominent deterrent technique to not go over 120 kmph.

This is a Team-BHP Thread where this topic has been discussed.

Hi, can you please tell if this is supposed to be permanent change or will need to be done again after any SW update during service?

SW update will override this. SW updates are not that frequent and you can always tell the SA to inform you first about any update and take a call based on what the update offers. As a fallback and corner case, if it's overridden, you can get this coded again without any extra cost.

Please PM me if you need any specific details about cost/process and contact :)

@worldcrawler: What tyre size and brand are you looking as the replacement for the bridgestone RFT ones? I do not see anyone selling 245/50/R19, rather the available ones are 245/45/R19.

Good to know. Did you unlock any other features? Doesn't BMW throw tantrums once they find out that this has been tampered with? I heard that they make say that warranties are invalid, what has been your experience? Do you pay a fee for this service or did you do it yourself?

No hope yet! 245/50/R19 is extremely rare in Indian market. Till the time I find an alternative, have to stick with the RFTs.

No. The other options were probably (for iDrive 6 equipped G01) -

• Rear camera zoom
• Logic 7 B&W EQ profile

My car is yet to go for service. As my changes are limited to disabling speed alarms, I hope it doesn't conflict with BRI. However it's yet to be seen what the dealer/service centre says.

Please get in touch with @agambhandari for more details about cost and process.

Folks, I chanced upon a Aug-2019 made X3 20d in Luxuryline spec with ~20k on odo in very good condition inside out. It is under warranty and BSI as well. Need your inputs on arriving at a price I can offer. Is 50L a fair deal? Thanx

Thanks for a such detailed review.

I've been driving my X3 for a little over 1 year and drove 15,000+ km. I am pretty happy with the drive, however, there are few things that I am finding concerning.

1. We never used the cigarette lighter, but found that it wasn't working when we used after nearly 10 months. BMW team shared that the fuse wasn't working and replaced it in the first service.

2. A/c wasn't very effective and noisy, they replaced the air-filter saying it was choked but it is still noisy and ineffective. Now they are saying they'll replace another part to make it work.

3. Yesterday I saw a bulge in once of the tires and am told that it needs to be replaced. I'll have to pay 25% of the price, even though it is under insurance. BMW team didn't notice/flag anything when the car was given for service in December end.

I've never any such issues with my previous cars, even though they weren't so expensive. Is this normal? Anyone else faced such issues? Coz I am just wondering if they've given me some faulty vehicle.