2015 BMW X6 Owner's Manual

▷Operating mode of system components, fill
levels for instance.▷Status messages for the vehicle and from
its individual components, e.g., wheel rota‐
tion speed/vehicle speed, deceleration,
transverse acceleration.▷Malfunctions and faults in important sys‐
tem components, e.g., lights and brakes.▷Responses by the vehicle to special situa‐
tions such as airbag deployment or engag‐
ing the stability control system.▷Ambient conditions, such as temperature.
This data is purely technical in nature and is
used to detect and correct faults and to opti‐
mize vehicle functions. Motion profiles over
routes traveled cannot be created from this
data. When service offerings are used, e.g., re‐
pair services, service processes, warranty
claims, quality assurance, this technical infor‐
mation can be read out from the event and
fault memories by employees of the dealer’s
service center or another qualified service cen‐
ter or repair shop, including the manufacturer,
using special diagnostic tools. You can obtain
further information there if you need it. After an
error is corrected, the information in the fault
memory is deleted or overwritten on a continu‐
ous basis.
With the vehicle in use there are situations
where you can associate these technical data
with individuals if combined with other infor‐
mation, e.g., an accident report, damage to the
vehicle, eye witness accounts — possibly with
the assistance of an expert.
Additional functions that are contractually
agreed with the customer - such as vehicle
emergency locating - you can transmit certain
vehicle data from the vehicle.
Event Data Recorder EDR
This vehicle is equipped with an event data re‐
corder EDR. The main purpose of an EDR is to
record, in certain crash or near crash-like situa‐
tions, such as an air bag deployment or hitting
a road obstacle, data that will assist in under‐
standing how a vehicle’s systems performed.
The EDR is designed to record data related to
vehicle dynamics and safety systems for a
short period of time, typically 30 seconds or
less.
The EDR in this vehicle is designed to record
such data as:▷How various systems in your vehicle were
operating.▷Whether or not the driver and passenger
safety belts were fastened.▷How far, if at all, the driver was depressing
the accelerator and/or brake pedal.▷How fast the vehicle was traveling.
These data can help provide a better under‐
standing of the circumstances in which
crashes and injuries occur.
EDR data are recorded by your vehicle only if a
nontrivial crash situation occurs; no data are
recorded by the EDR under normal driving
conditions and no personal data, e.g., name,
gender, age, and crash location, are recorded.
However, other parties, such as law enforce‐
ment, could combine the EDR data with the
type of personally identifying data routinely ac‐
quired during a crash investigation.
To read data recorded by an EDR, special
equipment is required, and access to the vehi‐
cle or the EDR is needed. In addition to the ve‐
hicle manufacturer, other parties, such as law
enforcement, that have the special equipment,
can read the information if they have access to
the vehicle or the EDR.
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Vehicle identification
number
The vehicle identification number can be found
in the engine compartment.
The vehicle identification number can also be
found behind the windshield.
Reporting safety defects
For US customers The following only applies to vehicles owned
and operated in the US.
If you believe that your vehicle has a defect
which could cause a crash or could cause in‐
jury or death, you should immediately inform
the National Highway Traffic Safety Adminis‐
tration NHTSA, in addition to notifying BMW of
North America, LLC, P.O. Box 1227, West‐
wood, New Jersey 07675-1227, Telephone
1-800-831-1117.
If NHTSA receives similar complaints, it may
open an investigation, and if it finds that a
safety defect exists in a group of vehicles, it
may order a recall and remedy campaign.
However, NHTSA cannot become involved in
individual problems between you, your dealer,
or BMW of North America, LLC.
To contact NHTSA, you may call the Vehicle
Safety Hotline toll-free at 1-888-327-4236
(TTY: 1-800-424-9153); go to http://
www.safercar.gov; or write to: Administrator,
NHTSA, 400 Seventh Street, SW., Washing‐
ton, DC 20590. You can also obtain other in‐
formation about motor vehicle safety from
http://www.safercar.gov.
For Canadian customers
Canadian customers who wish to report a
safety-related defect to Transport Canada, De‐
fect Investigations and Recalls, may call the
toll-free hotline 1-800-333-0510. You can also
obtain other information about motor vehicle
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At a glance
These overviews of buttons, switches and
displays are intended to familiarize you with your
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CockpitVehicle features and options
This chapter describes all standard, country-
specific and optional features offered with the
series. It also describes features that are not
necessarily available in your car, e. g., due tothe selected options or country versions. This
also applies to safety-related functions and
systems. The respectively applicable country
provisions must be observed when using the
respective features and systems.
All around the steering wheel
1Rear window safety switch   492Power windows  483Exterior mirror operation   594Opening and closing the tail‐
gate   405Unlocking central locking sys‐
tem   40Locking central locking sys‐
tem   406LightsFront fog lights   104Lights off
Daytime running lights   103Parking lights  101Low beams  101Seite 14At a glanceCockpit14
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Automatic headlight con‐
trol   102
Adaptive Light Control   103
High-beam Assistant   103Instrument lighting  105Night Vision, switch on/switch off
heat image   1247Steering column stalk, leftTurn signal   74High beams, head‐
light flasher   74High-beam Assistant   103Roadside parking lights   102On-board computer  958Steering wheel buttons, leftStore speed  148,  142Resume speed   148,  142Cruise control on/off, interrupt‐
ing   142Cruise control on/off, inter‐
rupt   148Cruise control, reduce dis‐
tance   142Cruise control, increase dis‐
tance   142Cruise control rocker switch   148,  1429Shift paddles   8010Instrument cluster   8211Steering wheel buttons, rightEntertainment sourceVolumeVoice activation  26Telephone, see user's manual for
Navigation, Entertainment and
CommunicationThumbwheel for selection lists   9412Steering column stalk, rightWiper  75Rain sensor   76Clean the windshields and head‐
lights   7513Start/stop the engine and switch
the ignition on/off   68Auto Start/Stop function   6914Horn, total area15Steering wheel heating  6116Adjust steering wheel  6117Unlock hood  220Seite 15CockpitAt a glance15
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All around the center console1Control Display  182Glove compartment   1803Ventilation  1674Hazard warning system   238Intelligent Safety button   1155Automatic climate control   1646Radio/CD/Multimedia, see user's manual
for Navigation, Entertainment and Commu‐
nication7Controller with buttons   198Parking brake  719Automatic Hold   7210DSC Dynamic Stability Con‐
trol   135Driving Dynamics Control   139PDC Park Distance Control   151
Rearview camera   153
Top View   156
Parking assistant   160Side View  158HDC Hill Descent Control   13711Transmission selector lever   78Seite 16At a glanceCockpit16
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