Pressing "P" while driving??

[soldmystang]

i remember what the message was now. the light showing the need to apply the brake to put the car into park.

[gipper]

I thought that too, but i rolled it forward a little bit and pressed "P" with out the brake and it went into park. I was only rolling not even 1 mph though.

[brian5]

Originally Posted by gipper

My wife and I were on our first relatively long road trip (2 hours) in the x5 yesterday and I noticed that when I reached for my drink my hand would graze over the gear shift joystick. I noticed that I was actually grazing over the PARK button. So I asked her what she thought would happen if I hit the button at highway speed, or any speed for that matter. She looked in the manuel but couldn't find anything. We decided we didn't want to find out the hard way. Now the whole ride home I had this urge to just hit the button to see what would happen.

I figure its electronic so there must be a speed sensor that wouldn't let it engage or something. Does anyone have any insight so I don't have to go crazy and finally just end up locking up the tranny at 60mph???

Going back to your original question.

I tried it three times while driving home and it did absolutely nothing. No braking; no lights on dashboard; etc.

[buschy]

pressing P while in motion makes a tone and tells you that brake must be engages to put car in park. or something to that nature. the electronics are not going to let you destroy the trasmission,.
on my 335 I had a different shift lever on it that had the button diengaged the entire time and I put the lever into the N,R P position while driving and it did nothing. don't even ask why.

[brian5]

More test results:
1. At speed, absolutely nothing happens (as I posted above)
2. At low speed, you get the tone (that buschy mentioned above)

[y5choi]

I did actually press the P button while moving.

I have HUD and when the button it pushed, it chimes (like the seat belt warning sound) and the HUD displays, "P cannot be engaed when travelling more than 4 km/h" and it will not do anything else. I pressed it while travelling at around 7 km/h.

[X5CA]

who is kaify

[buschy]

Originally Posted by X5CA

who is kaify

I think I know, but I didn't know he was banned?

WOW, Mods, you deleted the guy entirely, like he never exsited? no posts left or anything.
anyway he was a younger immature person who made some dumb posts and remarks.

[gipper]

thanks brian for taking one for the team. I figured that is exactly waht would happen but I didn't think it was a good idea to try with my 1 year old in the back. Just in case. But thanks for doing that. You are very courageous.

[whoopy-do]

indeed i tried it too last night, not a dicky bird, it dosent even warn you on the i drive or anything, im now using it a pretend missile launch button, well thats what i told my nephew! ..sorry ill grow up ...