To me, this seems a waste of my time, not to mention the inconvenience. The “permission” came through a few days later, but still involved me having to take the car back to the dealership. I was told only after the service (at 5:00 pm) that I would need special permission to do this from BMW (WTF?). In the first place, it took more than a month to get a service booking for my first year inspection and oil change and, at the time, I had asked (insisted, actually!) for the software to be updated to 03/2021. I was a bit peeved that it took two visits to the dealership to get the problem sorted.

I know this can be fixed in previous versions by changing 6 lines of code, but this is a problem that is well known by BMW and I can confirm that the issue has been addressed in version 03/2021.

With limited driving, I can’t see any major improvements apart from the tachometer now works in Sports Mode (automatic setting on the iDrive). I’ve just had my car updated to software version 03/2021 at the dealership.

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