Make sure they show you the 6 preset buttons, they allow you do assign the following commands to any of the 6 buttons:
Radio Station
Sat Station
CD
AUX
Nav Destination (I set this to my home address, so if I am in an unfamilar location I can get home)
Phone Number (set to my office)
BTW- these buttons are touch sensitive, so once they are programmed, you simply touch any button and softkeys appear on the nav screen reminding you of the function you assigned. (check out the photos on my Custom X5 page- They are in the 10th row of photos)

The climate controls are primarily accessed from the two knobs on the dash (driver and passenger). I push the driver knob to turn on "auto" and set a tempature. If you push the auto button again it changes from soft to medium, then a third time it changes from medium to intense..a forth time back to soft, etc. This is all you really need, but if you want to customize the airlow go into the Idrive, you should never have to adjust this on a regular basis.

Check out the steering wheel functions too, you can change sound sources, change cd's, adjust volume, etc.

There are also two programable steering wheel buttons which allow selecting functions like; turn screen on/off, select phones directory (via Bluetooth), next audio source, mute sound system, air circ on/off, and voice command.

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2013 X5 35i M Sport