![]() ![]() Knowing the 3G shutdown was scheduled for Feb 2022, BMW extended (for free) active Connected Drive subscriptions from whenever they expired in 2020 to Feb 2021. Which is the kind of company you want to buy into? Stop calling." FWIW, Tesla has the identical problem and is preparing $200-$2000 packages for it's customers. I was told in no uncertain terms "BMW is NOT going to provide any hardware or software fix packages for customers to buy. I take that back, they are lifting their middle finger. And, they are not lifting a finger to help you even though they could. I would love to here thoughts and suggestions.Ĭlick to expand.BMW knew this was going to happen but did not engineer cars to be upgraded when it did. Why is this such a difficult issue for what seems to be a simple engineering upgrade. (can the old cell receiver be changed out or upgraded to the newer cell connection modules.) Well the answer I got was a resounding NO!.This was very disappointing considering the outstanding brand and reputation BMW has. ![]() My first question to BMW was, is there a fix to allow connectivity to continue.i.e. This is very upsetting considering my daily commute into the office, now I feel like I'm traveling blind with no advance warning of traffic jams or accidents down the road. This will now affect all cars from 2016 and older. My first stop of course was BMW, and they informed me based on my car (2015 650i Xdrive) BMW has just started disconnecting the 3G cell towers that feed the traffic updates to your car and moving to the new 5G cell towers. As my RTTI updates have just stopped working as of February 2021 I tried to do some research as to what was going on. Hello BMW family, I wanted to share this post and start a conversation around RTTI.
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