I’d like to give an initial report on the ID4Motion digital cluster now that I’ve driven the car for a few miles.
I shot a couple of videos to illustrate it in the car working.
So to address the obvious point..the reflection you see in videos really doesn’t present itself as a driver..yes if you change your focus then you can see a reflection of yourself ..you could address this with a matt overlay they provide …I tried it and yes no reflections but the crispness and clarity of the display is diminished somewhat.
The graphics are truly fabulous, the animations are nice without being tacky..it just oozes class.
After some misunderstanding on my part about the menus I got the unit set up ..there are many configuration options.
I set up a modern take on the traditional E90 cluster for my normal day mode, a night version in a lovely blue for lights on and a more modern later M series style for sports mode. The day versions I didn’t like as much as the night version..you can see both in the videos.
You can only have one sports theme assigned at the moment…so pushing the sport button, left push on the DCT shift or sports+ all trigger the same theme..you can choose that the theme is selected only with either the shift DCT or pressing sport/sport+…I’ve done it with both..
So much pain on the journey..if it had been discussed I’m not sure how that would have influenced my views.
It appears that despite numerous complaints from others that in the E89 the cluster seems to play ok with most of the rest of the car the new Mr 12 Volt MMI box causes more issues with the CIC unit…
So yes, it’s lovely but not without issues..