Some BMWs are shipping without Android Auto or CarPlay to avoid delays

Because of the ongoing chip scarcity, BMW is briefly transport some automobiles with out assist for Android Auto or Apple CarPlay, based on report from Automotive Information Europe (which we discovered by 9to5 Google). In accordance with an announcement the corporate gave to Automotive Information Europe, BMW has modified suppliers and begun utilizing a chip that doesn’t totally assist Android Auto or CarPlay. Consequently, the corporate continued in its assertion, affected automobiles will obtain an over-the-air software program replace by “the top of June on the newest.”

As 9to5Google notes, you may test in case your lately bought car is affected by checking for “6P1” within the automobile’s manufacturing code. It additionally appears that all the automobiles in query have been manufactured within the first 4 months of 2022, and have closing locations within the US, France, Italy, Spain and the UK.

This isn’t the primary time that BMW has delivered automobiles lacking sure non-essential options with the intention to keep away from transport delays. Final fall, the corporate omitted touchscreen options from some automobiles, additionally as a result of international chip scarcity. And BMW is hardly the one automaker to take this tack both. Final fall, across the similar time BMW was grappling with the touchscreen challenge, Tesla determined to ship some automobiles with out USB ports. Then, earlier this 12 months, Ford, shipped some Explorer SUVs with out rear local weather controls. 

Within the case of BMW’s lacking Android Auto and CarPlay assist, it might be worse. As Automotive Information Europe notes, when Mercedes-Benz was confronted with an identical dilemma, it selected to not embrace the requisite chips in some automobiles, at which level clients could be pressured to deliver their automobiles right into a ship to have them put in later.