Pressing "P" while driving??
 

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???

i dont think it will do anything ..

commonsense :)

If I remember correctly, the car will start braking HARD but you have to hold it in position for that braking to continue.

Also, don't you need to pull it up rather than "hit the button"?

You could look for Kaify's old post on this too. I think he tested it for X5world...

brian, I'm not sure but I think your talking about pulling up the "parking brake" lever. I do remember the sales person telling me I can use that to brake in an emergency. I'm talking about the little "P" button on the top of the joystick. Are we talking about the same thing? Do they do the same thing? Maybe I'm just crazy. No, I'm pretty sure I am. I will check Kaify's thread though. Thanks.

Sorry, you're right. I was talking about the parking brake lever.

Now I'm going to have to research that "P" button sometime...

i think i may have hit the p button once while still rolling and i got a message stating it would not engage.

Presumably the electronics would lock out the "P" mode even if the button is pressed and/or held while the vehicle is in motion.

I once mindlessly pressed the Start/Stop button on the top of the gear lever on my E63 (w/ Keyless Go) while driving and a dashboard warning said that the vehicle must be stopped to stop the engine, so assume the BMW transmission would be similarly intelligent.

im sure the p button would lock out whilst driving but that info on the parking break was very usefull, going to try that out later, very handy to know in an emergency i guess...

Maybe this board's monitors can let Kafy back in so he can try it and report to us.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

I think thats a great idea.

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

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.

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.

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.

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)

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.

who is kaify

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

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.
;)

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.

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! :D ..sorry ill grow up ...

from transmission technical manual it says

Parking Lock "P"

well I believe if there were a missle launch button, that is the exact place that it should be. Maybe BMW should add a machine gun trigger onto the backside of the joystick. I bet that would make driving much more fun!

The same person you called a "tool" a few days ago: http://www.xoutpost.com/lounge/43701-...tml#post439100

i knew who was kaify , i just didnt see what the big fuss about him was

The big fuss was the disgusting PM's that he was sending to a member of this forum. That got Kaify banned.

thats wierd I could not find any of his posts earlier now they are back,
http://www.xoutpost.com/x5-e70-forum/...aving-gas.html

mods must be playing games with me.

All of his posts (except for the ones containing personal attacks) have always been available to search and view.

Damn, I need to catch up on these things. I didn't even know he was banned until now.

me neither....somebody wanna clue me in via PM?
;)

include me in :)