This appears to be a common problem for people with iDrive.

If I initiate a call from my phone (blackberry, android or iphone) through idrive and the number in my phone includes a pause with follow-on digits, it works fine.

If I initiate the call from idrive, it doesn't recognise the digits after the pause.

The issue appears to be in idrive - nothing to do with the phone.

Does anyone have contacts in BMW who could answer this question? I've scoured several threads - with no answers.......