I am glad you are happy with your car but the one thing it will never do is ooze class its just a far east people mover.

Hi I have had an IX35 for the last six months (9,000 miles)

Had a couple of issues, lights come on the dash for no reason but when you re-start it seems to clear them. The dealer cant find a problem and as it only happen every couple of months I can live with it.

Had problems with the sat nav and had its software update a couple of weeks ago. HAS ANYONE HAD A PROBLEM WITH THE TMC FUNCTION. The car initially wouldnt tune into classic FM but since the upgrade now does. I thought this would fix the problem of never recieving traffic info but it hasnt. All I get is "no information"

The car does 35mpg on short routes and if I stick to around 65 over a lonfg period I have had it up top 43mpg. I have looked at an engine chip box which aparently gives you at least an extra 10% on fuel and increases power but unfortunatley at the moment I beleive they havent developed one for the IX35.

Its a great car and although maybe not a BMW (have owned quite a few) value for money and general ride is very good and lets face it you could buy two for the price of the same spec X3 nearly.

Thanks, I was having the same problems with the sat nav and made use of your post to get my ix35 sat nav updated. They, the dealer, didn't know about the dongle for updating the software but when I told them about it they found it in the office but nobody knew what it was for. He said it was updated from version 4 to 5.

It's also a pain not being able to update the Sat Nav yourself like the Tom Tom.

Disappointed the phonebook option doesn't work. Not much point having bluetooth and not being able to access your phone via a phonebook. You can voice enter a number to dial but who remembers every no they dial. Even my wife's Nissan Note has a phonebook option.

I had the same troubles as yourself. I had an upgrade which seemed to resolve this. However there are still big problems with Post Codes and addresses. Half the post codes for Walsall are missing. If you want WS11, it will only accept WS11 1, 2 or 3. It will not accept WS11 4,5,6,7,8,or9. Some house number's are missing from the street's, ie my brother lives at number 393, you can only enter 391, OK it's near enough but it's not right. The blue tooth with the Media Pack is a joke. If you want to ring some one who's name begins with a W or aY the page that comes on the screen begins with A, you then have to say "Page Down, Page Down, Page Down" until you come to the name that you want. All this is while you are driving. There is a Speed Dial which works great, but you can only enter 12 names. A friend of mine also has a ix35 but without the Media Pack. He just says the name of the person he wants to call, he is asked if he wants the persons home, mobile or work. He say's which one and the number is dialed. Brilliant. I have had several other updates, but nothing has worked. Apart from this, I am very pleased with the car.