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Heads up display adjustment
Heads up display in new 550 too low for me. I'm 5'7" & obviously my preferred seat position places my line of site below "average". I know that the heads up can be adjusted, but the service department tells me that adjustments are meant to return the display to the "proper" placement (where it presumably is in my car now) to correct for distortion as opposed to providing flexibility for height and/or seat placement. Unfortunately, as I must lean forward to see the lower half of the display image, it's turned out ot be a disapointing waste of money as I rarely use it.
Any comments or experience with this issue?
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Quote: Heads up display in new 550 too low for me. I'm 5'7" & obviously my preferred seat position places my line of site below "average". I know that the heads up can be adjusted, but the service department tells me that adjustments are meant to return the display to the "proper" placement (where it presumably is in my car now) to correct for distortion as opposed to providing flexibility for height and/or seat placement. Unfortunately, as I must lean forward to see the lower half of the display image, it's turned out ot be a disapointing waste of money as I rarely use it.
Any comments or experience with this issue? | I have a friend who is 5'7" and drives a 5 series. He says he just raises the seat to the appropriate level and it works fine. Regardless of HUD, your seat should be at the proper height. HUD is a hologram. If they adjust upwards it will most likely distort. The optimum location compensates for the windshield angle. It sounds to me your are sitting too low in the car to begin with.
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The HUD can be "slightly" adjusted. Do some searching over at www.e60.net as there are some PDFs over there that tell you how to do this or perhaps you can convince the dealer to do it for non gratis.
I'd start with the seat adjustment and see if you can improve it before embarking on adjusting the HUD. Mind you, the adjustment of the HUD is very, very minimal at best.
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Quote: The HUD can be "slightly" adjusted. Do some searching over at www.e60.net as there are some PDFs over there that tell you how to do this or perhaps you can convince the dealer to do it for non gratis.
I'd start with the seat adjustment and see if you can improve it before embarking on adjusting the HUD. Mind you, the adjustment of the HUD is very, very minimal at best. | The PDF's floating around are for adjusting to factory specs with a test image. BMW will not, repeat will not adjust HUD other than to factory specs. There is no chart for adjusting to specific driver height.
You do not want the dealer touching your HUD unless it is broken. The HUD has very delicate components that can easily break and the adjustment requires more than a screw driver. Furthermore, most dealers do not have exeperience adjusting HUD so you do not want to be a test case. This is why the dealer takes the attitude if it is not broke, don't fix it. They could get themselves into trouble. The HUD cost $1000 as an option, but would most likely cost $2-$3k to replace.
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Quote: Heads up display in new 550 too low for me. I'm 5'7" & obviously my preferred seat position places my line of site below "average". I know that the heads up can be adjusted, but the service department tells me that adjustments are meant to return the display to the "proper" placement (where it presumably is in my car now) to correct for distortion as opposed to providing flexibility for height and/or seat placement. Unfortunately, as I must lean forward to see the lower half of the display image, it's turned out ot be a disapointing waste of money as I rarely use it.
Any comments or experience with this issue? | I'm 6'2" and the bottom of the image (speed) is a bit hard to read for me! BMW needs to improve their next HUD to have adjustable viewing angle (like the HUD in my 2000 Corvette has) as this is a problem for ALL drivers - the narrow viewing angle is OK as long as each of us can position it to our seat position.
I've learned to live with it after going round and round with my dealer. After presenting the pdf files mentioned here they grudgingly admitted they could order the special alignment tool and 'verify' that mine is set to spec. But there is only a few mm adjustment there, and this alignment is just for windshield replacement to put it back to 'spec'.
All in all, its a great option that needs to be made better next version. I also think they should add more display choices to the HUD such as: selected gear, time of arrival, RPM, etc.
-steve-
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Quote: I also think they should add more display choices to the HUD such as: selected gear, time of arrival, RPM, etc.
-steve- | Amen to that!  HUD absolutely, at the bare minimum, needs the selected gear shown. This is one stinkin' number that can' t possibly take up too much room. BMW really blew it not including this.
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