cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/68907829
BMW Is Showing Full-Screen Ads on Its Cars' Main Dashboard Control Display
https://consumerrights.wiki/w/BMW_Spider-Man_in-car_advertising
https://consumerrights.wiki/w/BMW_Spider-Man_in-car_advertising
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/68907829
21 Comments
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 32 pts · 2d
BMW just went from "cars for the rich" to "cars for the rich white trash".
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2d
🌏👩🚀🔫👨🚀
tempest@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 2d
This will just be 'poor' people BMWs. The 200k M whatever will likely be free of this.
It's just a last ditch effort to mine what little is left in the middle of the glorious k shaped economy.
Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 2d
I haven't had a car that has tried this with me, but it will result in an instant selling of the vehicle or replacement of the infotainment system.
knobbysideup@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 2d
Good luck on the latter. Nowadays the can bus is wired straight to the infotainment system and there is no more simple square din for a drop in head unit.
Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2d
I'm sure there will be some creative hacking or something of the like...
albbi@piefed.ca · 7 pts · 2d
Even back in the day there was stuff like this going on. I had a 1986 Pontiac 6000. I replaced the head unit with a cd player and the cruise control stopped working. The cruise control wires went through the head unit.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de · 10 pts · 2d
BMW will dry their tears with the money you already gave them.
Aeao@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2d
Are you paying for your cars in cash? It’s not like ime ever going to own a home. A car company pisses me off they got to repo the damn car.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 1d
I pay cash for my cars.
Aeao@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
Oh never mind then
HeyJoe@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 2d
Remember when reputable brand names cared about hurting their name and image by not doing certain things so they could be held to a higher standard leaving your expectations high that you will get a higher end product?
deacon@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 2d
To the extent I am forced to have a car, I am committed to avoiding anything later than 2014.
Pre-Harambe cars only.
Trampampoline@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 2d
They can have my 9th gen Si when they pry the steering wheel from my cold, dead hands.
I'm almost at 200k miles. That's a teenager in Honda years.
Aeao@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2d
Chevy S10 “amateur!”
Trampampoline@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2d
Well, at least the engine's running.
I do get the blessing of going through ball joints and bushings like candy tho, so, tit for tat. I did recently also have to do the AC unit. I do all the work myself that I can. The AC unit was more fun than hard, had to borrow a buddy's vaccum pump tho. The suspension can be... trying at times.
Eternal192@anarchist.nexus · 13 pts · 2d
Jfc as we didn't have enough to think about when buying a new or used car when did you put new tires on it, check if there are any leaks, check the paint oh does it display fucking ads while driving.
bier@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 2d
The ad was on startup not while driving
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2d
Tell that to jeep (when stopped at traffic lights)
Trampampoline@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 2d
A Cheap Heap lmao
newton@feddit.online · 5 pts · 2d
You guys buys BMW ? 🤣🤣🤣