Hi all, I hope you are all well!

I thought I’d let others know about my positive experience I had with Precision drive near Southend airport.

 

I was recommended by a friend, who had his E90 updated a while ago.

I had messaged Chris at precision drive about getting my F36 updated & addition of CarPlay.  He replied with the cost & answered any queries I had.

Dropped off car & left it with him.

I got a call after 1.5hrs to say the whole car had been updated but there was an issue whilst installing CarPlay (he doesn’t yet have dedicated broadband at his workshop, phone tethering wasn’t sufficient)

He has kindly offered to come to my house & apply the CarPlay at a later date.

It turns out that my cars never had any software updates applied since new!

Instantly I noticed the shifts were smoother & engine was quieter.

 

Should anyone else require their cars updating give Chris a message/call (search Precision Drive) 

I paid £120 for whole vehicle update, £60 to be paid at a later date for CarPlay activation.

 

So, Chris kindly did CarPlay activation for me late on Friday evening (19:00!) while I waited.

Didn’t work initially, he said it can sometimes need to be turned off and locked for a while.  Next time I drive reboots it pulls in coding.

 

Got home, had a beer and then returned outside after another beer or two & retried.  CarPlay working as expected.

Only thing that doesn’t work is screen mirroring.  According to many online, IPhone doesn’t support this feature sadly, only android.

Must say, although BMW maps are upto date, the nav is a bit woeful (took me down a dead end) it’s nice to have Google maps and/or waze.