I left work last night, unplugged, strapped in, started up and #BONG# Low Tire Pressure indication pops up immediately.
Sure enough, right rear tire was dead flat.
So question #1 is how did the system know this? Typically these systems require the wheel be rotating for them to function. I didn't have any low pressure warnings when I arrived at work. How did it figure this out while the car was parked?
Question #2 isn't a question, it's a gripe: if iDrive suspects my tire is low, why isn't it pushing a notification to my Connected app? BMW is missing the utility of this service. It would have been preferable to deal with this earlier in the afternoon, not 11 pm.
Final question: why does the i3 take such an awful long time to reset the tire pressure system? I aired up, couldn't locate an obvious puncture, so decided to chance the drive home. I reset the tire pressure monitoring, and it took three miles to "recalibrate" and give me a pressure readout.
Sure enough, right rear tire was dead flat.
So question #1 is how did the system know this? Typically these systems require the wheel be rotating for them to function. I didn't have any low pressure warnings when I arrived at work. How did it figure this out while the car was parked?
Question #2 isn't a question, it's a gripe: if iDrive suspects my tire is low, why isn't it pushing a notification to my Connected app? BMW is missing the utility of this service. It would have been preferable to deal with this earlier in the afternoon, not 11 pm.
Final question: why does the i3 take such an awful long time to reset the tire pressure system? I aired up, couldn't locate an obvious puncture, so decided to chance the drive home. I reset the tire pressure monitoring, and it took three miles to "recalibrate" and give me a pressure readout.