"Memo" button - United Bimmer Community

**Rooz** · 06-10-2005, 09:37 PM

I was wondering what does that "memo" button do? it's right next to the "SET/RES" button, all I notice it doing is when you press it a litte "signal" show next to your clock

**jrhaile** · 06-10-2005, 09:44 PM

I don't know what it does, but it should be programmed to say CHANGE YOUR OIL ASSHOLE after every several thousand miles

witeshark · 06-10-2005, 10:06 PM

On my car it sounds a chime just before the top of the hour, so you don't miss on the hour news or weather on the radio

**komodo** · 06-11-2005, 12:37 AM

Yeah, when it's on it beems twice on the hour. No practical use IMO, but just cool. Friends are in the car. "Beeeeep, beeeeep". "Whoa, what was that?" "Oh, that's just my car letting me know it's 3 o'clock." haha

witeshark · 06-11-2005, 12:50 AM

LOL

No! It's the 007 spy phone you can't hear HAHA

**Phrozen** · 06-12-2005, 10:45 PM

Lol, I remember when I first got my car, I was pushing all the buttons on the OBC, and I turned on the memo, for months afterwards my car would make that sound and I would freak out cuz I couldn't figure out what was wrong and why it did it...

**komodo** · 06-12-2005, 11:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Phrozen

Lol, I remember when I first got my car, I was pushing all the buttons on the OBC, and I turned on the memo, for months afterwards my car would make that sound and I would freak out cuz I couldn't figure out what was wrong and why it did it...

Ha, when I first got it I was convinced it was something with recording memos, like voice notes... so I kept holding it down and tapping it a few times trying to make something else happen. Stuff like that. haha

**///Menace328i** · 06-17-2005, 07:04 AM

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Originally Posted by komodo

Ha, when I first got it I was convinced it was something with recording memos, like voice notes... so I kept holding it down and tapping it a few times trying to make something else happen. Stuff like that. haha

you know you held it down and try to record your voice but you did not know how to play it back

... I thought it was an actual alarm clock thingamurbob...

**TMac325is** · 06-26-2005, 12:08 PM

its just a reminder.. if you press it at 2:30 pm one day, then the next day at 2:30 pm the alarm will chime

**Addicted?** · 06-26-2005, 01:17 PM

mine charms everyhour... between that beep and my radar detector you hear a lot of beep beep beep's in my car..

David

**bmwkhan** · 03-27-2008, 03:10 PM

Hello to all Bimmers... I look forward to learning from your experiences.

Thanks in Advance...

**roadkill** · 04-15-2009, 07:32 PM

LOL I was wondering about that too... but I found out this feature is actually even described in the manual!

Now WHY on earth would you need your car to beep on every full hour you ask? Well, in Germany, traditionally, all radio stations have a newscast on the full hour, which is always followed by a traffic update. (Yes, that's an ALL radio stations! No music for you for five minutes

).

So the beep is to remind you to stop off that tape you're listening to and find out what's new in the world... needless to say this feature is quite obsolete these days and was probably never even needed in the US.

Well, now you can go tell all your friends how German your car is