I asked the local BMW dealer if I had to take a class to unlearn how to use a turn signal.
He did not find it funny, which I found even more hilarious.
So you’re telling me they’re not an optional extra?
Correct. Blew my mind too.
Nowadays the turn signal is probably a monthly subscription
From what I hear, the car itself beats it out of you.
Based on the number of BMWs I see in the shop there?
Something gets beat, that’s for sure.
Of course, something about the german nature of the business prevents them from finding things funny.
You know, in retrospect, you are totally right.
Coward! Enable the comments.
My hubby drives a bmw and every time he uses his turn signals I point out that he is confusing other drivers
Consistency is important.
Step 1: Please pay your Signal Light Subscription of $36/month to enable the bulbs.
Why pay if not used
Fr that seems flagrantly wasteful
I can only imagine the frustration of engineers in BMW having to deal with finance people.
Engineer: “…So you want me to route the functionality of heated seats to a PCB to check for a payment variable, to prevent the person, who bought the car, to not be able to use a function already built in… Is that correct?”
Finance guy: “Yes! You got it!”
Engineer: “I know the answer is money but still… Why?!”
“Before I begin, I recommend paying your heated seat subscription before bothering with stuff like the turn signals.”
Turn signals only available with the deluxe interior / lighting package.
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For an additional 3 grand.
There are now entire forums dedicated to pirating the turn signal
12 years ago. Back then shit was less dire.
2013 was plenty dire. We had Ted Cruz’s friends in the House trying to dismember social security and medicare while Obama kept explaining away why we needed more troops in Afghanistan and fewer labor organizers in Ohio.
The '08 Housing Crisis was still echoing through the US, the economy was stalling in the face of Congressional austerity, and people ringing the big “Climate Change is coming for us” dinner bell were once again getting told to shut up so we wouldn’t scare away moderate republican voters in the 2014 midterms. Israel and Gaza had broken out into a brief shooting war, the recently-debunked Lancet “Vaccination-Autism” study was gaining traction among reactionary politicians, Jeffry Epstein was hanging out with Bill Gates on Palm Beach, and a fresh-faced NYC landlord with political aspirations was all over FOX News saying how he was on the verge of uncovering Obama’s real birth certificate.
The fuse was lit. We were all just in the fucking around phase, rather than the finding out part. Extremely dire situation.
With respect to subscription hells. Not your “colonial” policies.
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(X) Doubt
Not BMW drivers obviously.
https://youtu.be/GAMCkJvECy8 462k Including me now, which i don’t own a car. Lol
Owned a BMW 320i for 8 years.
I had no idea it could do that…
It is possible, but I had to install the aftermarket turn signal mod to unlock mine
Dated a girl with a BMW and the turn signal was real fucky. Didn’t click right, had no feel. You had to look at the dash to even see if it was on.
German engineering can suck my fucking balls.
On-laws drive a BMW-SUV. Suspension is Like a sports car, it’s just a bad driving experience. It’s a maddive chunk of metal, I don’t want to feel a moose if I was to hit one.
I almost got in an accident with a BMW driver, today. They made it look like they were turning but faked me out and went straight, instead. Then they proceeded to scream something at me in a different language for about 30 seconds, while blocking my turn. I was the only one who signaled. There’s no point to this story, I just felt it added to the vibe here.
I have a BMW and I use my turn signals! There are dozens of us!
Yes I’m a vegetarian. Yes, I eat meat. Yes, we exist.
That’s fucking hilarious out of context.
But that being said, BMWs have the worst blinkers control I’ve ever seen in a car. They tried to innovate on it with software and it’s just bad. Seriously. For anybody who doesn’t know what it’s like, go to a BMW dealership and test drive a car or something. Somehow, they took the stick control and made it worse.
So, that there’s a tutorial video, is depressing and funny, but also unfortunately needed.
I used to ride a motor bike and BMW divers are the reason I sold it. So many of them don’t care about anyone beyond the range of their own knuckles.
Every driver in China is like that. The popular consensus seems to be if other drivers know what you plan to do, they will use it against you.
Bro this is applicable EVERYWHERE 😂
That doesnt really match my experience, every region has a distinct reason they don’t use turn signals; American drivers are too self-centered to signal, Indian drivers don’t use the turn signals because it broke 12 years and 800,000km ago, Vietnamese drivers/riders are too busy on their phones or stretching their legs to use a turn signal (vinfast drivers are just afraid it will drain the battery), South Korean drivers will have already made the turn or merge by the time the light reaches other drivers so they don’t bother.
A good friend of mine was a BMW mechanic for years. His favorite joke was: “You know what the most soul crushingly pointless job is? The guy who installs turn signals at the BMW factory.”
The peasants don’t need to know where I am going.
They should be lucky enough to breathe my exhaust!
It would be funny if the video length was 3 hours
Opening with a disclaimer “the use of this procedure may void your warranty…”
I miss the days when sales reps in hire-purchase and company beamers and Audis were the worst people we had to share the road with.
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