thanks, would love a link if you can find one!
thanks, would love a link if you can find one!
--Wes--
04 330i ZHP Oxford Green/Natural Brown
04 330Ci ZHP Silvergrey/Alcantara (RIP)
nvm found it:
Changing speed sensitive volume control
On cars without NAV
First, don't be driving while doing this procedure.
Turn the radio off then on again. Don't touch any button except the 'm' button - the button you use to tune the radio frequency manually. Press and hold the 'm' button for TEN seconds or until the display changes. IIRC, it shows the serial number of the unit. Normally when you press 'm', the display will reflect that by replacing 'ST' (stereo tuning) with 'm'. When holding the 'm' button for this procedure, the display should not do this - you will continue to see 'ST' for the ten seconds.
Now if the display has changed, you are in a configure mode on the radio. If you press the '+' or '-' button you change modes. The mode you want will display as "GAL (1-6)". This mode allows you to adjust the speed-sensitive volume control. Use the radio preset buttons 1-6 to set the amount of volume change you want at speed. Setting 1 is the smallest change, 6 is the highest.
I use 1 with the windows closed, and 4 when it's a nice day and I drive with the windows open which makes for a lot of ambient noise at speed. The car is so quiet with the windows closed that setting 1 is plenty. On my car the default setting from the factory was 3 and it bugged me too.
Then turn the radio OFF to save the settings. Turn it back on and go for a drive to test it. The other semi-useful test mode will tell you the signal strength of any given station from 0 to 15 (highest). Use the preset buttons to change stations in the mode. This capability is probably used in the automatic tuning functions in the radio.
On cars with NAV
Get in the car, close the door, and turn the ignition to position 1 (accessory. As soon as the monitor comes on, press and hold the RDS button for aprox 12 sec. Using the arrow keys, near the Tone and Select buttons, scroll to heading "GAL" (German acronym for speed depandant volume) The default setting will be displayed. To change, use the number keys 1-6, 1 being less increase, 6 being maximum. Edit: The radio needs to be on when making this change.
--Wes--
04 330i ZHP Oxford Green/Natural Brown
04 330Ci ZHP Silvergrey/Alcantara (RIP)
Totally right. There are two sections to the rain sensor. The actual lense itself is attached to the windshield with some sort of clear glue/silicon. I noticed many aftermarket glasses do not have the said purple lense and many vendors will try and reuse the old lense. Most often than not, they do a terrible job and results in a poor visibility for the lense. It's not really the installers fault, its just what they are given and what to make due with.
They solved it for the newer bmw cars where you can get this:
You need the substitute hockey puck thing below
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My rain sensing wipers don't wipe enough and I always find myself pressing it down to wipe it clean. What's funny is my old Mini had the same feature.... Except it actually worked. My Mini also had a much better H/K stereo. Cheaper car with better working features. Go figure.
Adjust the sensitivity on the stalk.
Funny thing is, I refuse to drive a car now that doesn't have it. Having to constantly manually adjust it is the thing I find the most irritating on cars that don't have auto wipers. Works perfectly 99% of the time for me.
New pilkington glass installed today. I swapped out the RLS for one I got from a guy on e46f. The "new" one works even though it doesn't look as good as the old one. We put both in to ensure the old was faulty.
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I thought I'd update this thread with my experiences from the last 6 months or so.
Late last November I found a small rock chip on my windshield, in a location where invisible glass repair wouldn't take. Because I was unaware of discussions like this one, I let my insurance company's glass installer (Safelite), come to my home and install a third-party windshield and molding*.
As to the windshield, I won't bore you with everything I've been through since November, except to note how amazingly supportive the manager of the local Safelite operation has been. All of the subsequent work has been done at their shop. We are now waiting for a BMW OEM windshield to be installed at their expense sometime in the coming week- they’ve already replaced the sensor and molding,
Here’s what I learned from my indie shop’s owner in the process. He says, as mentioned above, that any tiny flaw in the gel pack sensor mount will cause problems. Here’s why: the sensor is looking for rain. If it sees fake rain (any tiny flaw in the mount) appearing across multiple startups it views it as an event that can’t possibly be caused by rain and triggers a sensor error. Resetting the sensor will fail, because the sensor still sees the flaw.
It’s effectively impossible to install a sensor by itself because of flaws that will be introduced. The only way to install an error-free sensor is to install a windshield with a gel pack preinstalled on the glass: an OEM windshield. (Also, FWIW, the system has to be reset after any new sensor goes in, and at level higher than my PASoft can address. PASoft is giving me messages to the effect of “Sensor still not reset”.)
Not wanting to spring for a BMW windshield (yet) Safelite installed a new sensor, which improved things, but not completely: the wipers don’t respond to steady rain. Upon examining the sensor mount I can see a tiny flaw in the mounting gel.
So we’re now waiting for an OEM windshield with the sensor mount in place to be installed this week. I’ll report on how this goes. I hope this has been coherent- it's hard to pull all this information together.
*Both of these items are critical, as it turns out: BMW molding is required because it's shaped to channel rain up and onto the roof above the windows: an incorrect molding lets rain get blown into the car.
Last edited by Dual; 05-14-2017 at 12:03 PM.
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