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Originally Posted by Usher9387
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Originally Posted by russelldav
The bulletin in Canada and North America is for all vehicles. There's no disease-al version here 
Hopefully you can get it in the UK for use on your "private driveway" (since it's illegal to leave a car idling without a driver in UK anywhere public). It's such a handy feature. |
In our case here in Canada, until now they did not offer factory installed remote starters on any models AFAIK. With the G05, there was finally a factory installed one and BMWUSA offered it since day 1, but for some weird reason BMW Canada hesitated with the decision (why would we need such a feature when it hits -40  ). They eventually decided to add it to a couple of packages for 500$ and retrofitted the option for people that bought their car before it was available, and this for free.
Basically your local BMW branch has to decide that it is allowed. There may be legislative reasons that can explain why it is not offered, or it may be a choice made by your local division.
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All the cars built before March have remote start in Canada. |
It would appear from the Candian owners, this is a software issue. Hopefully it can be implemented throigh Bimmercode or Carly once they roll out for the go5.
the only issue then will be the connected app and if it is tied to a region, in which case it may be necessary to fool it by downloading a US or CA version or faking your location on install or afterwards (sorry iphone users, android rules here)
my only fear is that it will also be vin locked, in which case we, outside the Nth American continent, are screwed... but given bmw's software implementation to date, i doubt this will be the case.