The beauty of having HUD on my E60 is that I normally setup the right screen to display the map, the HUD to display the arrow/directions/upcoming street name, and the main (left) screen to display the Route List. That way I have all the information that I could possibly use dispalyed at the same time. Most of the time the Route list is not that critical, in those situations I use the main screen to display the Audio or Phone screens while I still have the map on the right and Arrows/directions on HUD.

One thing to know about the CIP/Progman software updates is that depending on what they have to do it could take 6, 8 or more hours to update the software of one car. It is also VERY common for the software update procedure to crash before it's done, in which case they have to start over from the beginning. I have heard many stories on the E60 forums of it taking 2,3 or 4 days to update the software because of recurring crashes. Given all this plus that fact that dealers have very limited numbers of equipment needed for (and personnel trained in) software updates, I can see why they would not do it automatically for every car.

Also, it is common for BMW to come up with new software to fix specific problems, and in the process brake some unrelated things and cause more problems. In the last year two of the software updates for the E60 had a bug that caused the "eyebrow" lights above the headlights not to turn on anymore. They broke it in an update, then had to include a fix for it in the next version (which was months away). Then after they had fixed it in that version they broke it again in the next software version. Again, people who got that update had to wait for months to get the next version software that fixed the eyebrows again, for a second time.

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