Newbie questions from a former BMW owner
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I tried searching, and I tried reading the owner's manual, but haven't found answers to the following (and I bought the car used):
- If I want my settings associated with my key (not just seats and mirrors), and if I want my wife's settings associated with her key, do we both need Porsche Connect accounts? In the current BMW world, both drivers should have BMW Connect accounts (yes - they use the same name for the service).
- If over-the-air updates are enabled, are most/all infotainment (or other?) updates delivered over the air? Or just things like Maps? In my 2020 5-series, only one user-selected region of the US was updated over the air. Any other updates required a trip to the dealer. From what I can tell, there are definitely updates that need to be handled by the dealer, so I was curious what was generally provided over the air.
I'm in the US, if that helps...
- If I want my settings associated with my key (not just seats and mirrors), and if I want my wife's settings associated with her key, do we both need Porsche Connect accounts? In the current BMW world, both drivers should have BMW Connect accounts (yes - they use the same name for the service).
- If over-the-air updates are enabled, are most/all infotainment (or other?) updates delivered over the air? Or just things like Maps? In my 2020 5-series, only one user-selected region of the US was updated over the air. Any other updates required a trip to the dealer. From what I can tell, there are definitely updates that need to be handled by the dealer, so I was curious what was generally provided over the air.
I'm in the US, if that helps...
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I tried searching, and I tried reading the owner's manual, but haven't found answers to the following (and I bought the car used):
- If I want my settings associated with my key (not just seats and mirrors), and if I want my wife's settings associated with her key, do we both need Porsche Connect accounts? In the current BMW world, both drivers should have BMW Connect accounts (yes - they use the same name for the service).
- If over-the-air updates are enabled, are most/all infotainment (or other?) updates delivered over the air? Or just things like Maps? In my 2020 5-series, only one user-selected region of the US was updated over the air. Any other updates required a trip to the dealer. From what I can tell, there are definitely updates that need to be handled by the dealer, so I was curious what was generally provided over the air.
I'm in the US, if that helps...
- If I want my settings associated with my key (not just seats and mirrors), and if I want my wife's settings associated with her key, do we both need Porsche Connect accounts? In the current BMW world, both drivers should have BMW Connect accounts (yes - they use the same name for the service).
- If over-the-air updates are enabled, are most/all infotainment (or other?) updates delivered over the air? Or just things like Maps? In my 2020 5-series, only one user-selected region of the US was updated over the air. Any other updates required a trip to the dealer. From what I can tell, there are definitely updates that need to be handled by the dealer, so I was curious what was generally provided over the air.
I'm in the US, if that helps...
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I tried searching, and I tried reading the owner's manual, but haven't found answers to the following (and I bought the car used):
- If I want my settings associated with my key (not just seats and mirrors), and if I want my wife's settings associated with her key, do we both need Porsche Connect accounts? In the current BMW world, both drivers should have BMW Connect accounts (yes - they use the same name for the service).
- If over-the-air updates are enabled, are most/all infotainment (or other?) updates delivered over the air? Or just things like Maps? In my 2020 5-series, only one user-selected region of the US was updated over the air. Any other updates required a trip to the dealer. From what I can tell, there are definitely updates that need to be handled by the dealer, so I was curious what was generally provided over the air.
I'm in the US, if that helps...
- If I want my settings associated with my key (not just seats and mirrors), and if I want my wife's settings associated with her key, do we both need Porsche Connect accounts? In the current BMW world, both drivers should have BMW Connect accounts (yes - they use the same name for the service).
- If over-the-air updates are enabled, are most/all infotainment (or other?) updates delivered over the air? Or just things like Maps? In my 2020 5-series, only one user-selected region of the US was updated over the air. Any other updates required a trip to the dealer. From what I can tell, there are definitely updates that need to be handled by the dealer, so I was curious what was generally provided over the air.
I'm in the US, if that helps...
It seems that most of the software updates primarily revolve around the Nav maps. In the BMW realm, the software updates were primarily around bluetooth and phone updates. Software updates that were non-media related were still done at dealer, I imagine this is similar in Porsche's world (and not Tesla)
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