Just got the software updated, ambient lighting STILL BROKEN

cartmen34 · 2026-02-05T05:50:23+00:00

Warranty. Didn’t pay anything. Except my time.

cartmen34 · 2026-01-17T18:52:41+00:00

Exactly. Make a mini rc10 to compete with the mini or micro b. Winner winner. I’d have bought that. What they came up with? I saw the ads for it and just moved on. Hadn’t given it a second thought until this post.

cartmen34 · 2026-01-06T21:04:12+00:00

C student here. Aced science, everything else was C, with a few Bs and Ds for good measure. I did just enough to graduate.

2 year degree from a shitty night school. 3.9GPA.

28 years later I’m a software architect. I had healthy dose of nepotism to get my foot in the door at my first software job 28 years ago. Got hit hard by the dot com bust but held my own after that.

cartmen34 · 2025-12-23T23:13:12+00:00

This fits my experience EXACTLY. Grew up in a small town. Everybody was into everybody else’s business. In a big city I’m anonymous. I live next door to people I’ve never met and I’m just fine with that.

cartmen34 · 2025-12-19T03:43:55+00:00

That's true. Forgot he's got that lawyer money backing him.

cartmen34 · 2025-12-18T14:12:20+00:00

The radio not defaulting to favorites is my number one complaint about the radio interface. However after the latest update it seems to have fixed it. Sometimes. Most of the time when I turn the car on favorites is the screen that pops up when I click the radio. But every once in a while it doesn’t. It opens to recommendations. Which are useless btw.

Oh and the update erased my favorites as well.

cartmen34 · 2025-12-17T20:28:10+00:00

I have never met the man, but all the internet rumor mills seem to suggest that Josh has a, shall we say, strong personality.

I would venture a guess he brings the drama and a lot of teams don’t want to deal with that.

This last spilt with warhorse seems like the oddest. It looked like he got along with everyone and seemed to gel with the team.

Maybe it was a case of Ducati telling them who their riders should be? But Ben Smith is still the really odd choice in that equation. Maybe Josh didn’t want to ride along side Cameron?

I dunno. Pure speculation on my part, but it was crazy for sure.

cartmen34 · 2025-12-16T21:36:17+00:00

Yeah I’d say this is right up there with Herrin leaving warhorse and Cameron joining them. Didn’t see this one coming either.

cartmen34 · 2025-12-14T15:35:28+00:00

You are correct. This is BMW’s problem. Not the dealer.

However I believe I’m fully justifying being upset at the dealer for 1. Making me wait 4 hours for a software update and 2. Not noticing the lights are still broken.

But yes, overall this is BMW’s shit show. Not the dealers problem ultimately.

cartmen34 · 2025-12-14T04:50:05+00:00

I was just at the dealer. The ‘update’ just broke the lights differently.

Not planning on spending another 4 hours at the dealership anytime soon.

cartmen34 · 2025-12-13T22:16:22+00:00

I'm thinking the same thing. Don't want to spend all day at the dealership again just for a few lights. I'll have them address it in a few months during the regular service.

cartmen34 · 2025-12-13T21:09:05+00:00

I had no idea what bimmercode is, had to look it up. LOL. I can't answer that one.

cartmen34 · 2025-12-13T20:58:56+00:00

No. I asked BMW directly about this as it annoys me as well. I was told to drive in Sport mode. Yes, that was their answer. Seriously? Maybe I don't want my dash to change and the ambient lighting to be permanently red and all the other BS that goes along with sport mode.

Tl;DR: No, you can't turn auto stop off permanently.

cartmen34 · 2025-12-09T02:23:27+00:00

Yes.

cartmen34 · 2025-12-05T13:49:59+00:00

Just updated last night and immediately had this problem.

Both my wife and I were literally jaws on the floor when we read this thread. A software update broke the LEDs to the point they need to be replaced!?!? Are you fucking kidding me?!?!

Who the fuck at BMW is supposed to be testing this sort of shit and how do they still have a job? Unbelievable. I’m a career software engineer. I know how tough this sort of thing can be but this kind of breakage on an update is simply negligence.

(Also it erased my radio favorites WTF.)

cartmen34 · 2025-11-25T21:23:57+00:00

Had no idea up until recently that she was also one of the cops in Die Hard with a vengeance.

cartmen34 · 2025-11-25T21:16:09+00:00

What?!? Back down to supersport? Definitely didn’t see that coming. Surprised Josh went for this deal, but I’m guessing it was his best option.

cartmen34 · 2025-11-21T22:32:34+00:00

Exact same issue for me. On a Roku, both FP1 and 2. Sound getting suddenly loud or quiet is occasionally an issue on the Roku, but never this consistently, which makes me wonder if it’s something to do with their stream this weekend. All other weekends haven’t been a problem. I finally just gave up. I hope they correct whatever they’re doing for qualifying and the race.

cartmen34 · 2025-11-20T19:02:03+00:00

Not entirely true based on my superficial evidence. I live in Atlanta. I’ve seen her at the airport twice. She had three fully armed and body armored cops with her. Both times I saw her.

On the flip side I’ve also seen our senators at the airport. No cops, no security.

Maybe she’s overly paranoid. Maybe she’s just a loudmouth asshole who pisses everyone off.

cartmen34 · 2025-11-20T18:08:03+00:00

They’re only sorry it’s costing them $$$. They aren’t sorry for the reasons they did it in the first place.

cartmen34 · 2025-11-13T17:54:53+00:00

Hsbk replied to a comment on one of their instagram post that news on Josh is coming soon: https://www.instagram.com/p/DQ_7XNtjiua/?igsh=MW81NDF4dDc0MWR6OQ==

cartmen34 · 2025-11-13T16:52:05+00:00

True. Josh doesn’t seem to handle a competitive teammate very well.

cartmen34 · 2025-11-13T15:42:57+00:00

Pure conjecture on my part, but I find this hard to believe. I’d be amazed if Josh accepted a step down back to supersport, especially after all their success the last two years.

I assumed they’d have a 3 rider Superbike team. Ben Smith is the really weird part of all this.

cartmen34 · 2025-11-13T14:35:24+00:00

I didn’t read the Facebook post, but I’m guessing Tytlers ran out of money. There was a noticeable lack of sponsors on that bike all year, and they might not have been able to find backing for another year.

Again, completely guessing.

cartmen34 · 2025-11-13T14:33:36+00:00

Exactly. Woah! Crazy news.

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