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Suction cup compasses are ~ $10 on amazon if it bothers you. Won't be in the mirror though.
by toast0 2mo ago
Suction cup compasses are ~ $10 on amazon if it bothers you. Won't be in the mirror though.
- OptionOfT 2mo agoI think I should be able to add it to the iDrive. How much did BMW save by removing it from the mirror? $0.05 / mirror?
- cenamus 2mo agoYou'd also need to mount them facing up, pretty inconvenient when driving
- toast0 2mo agoHave you not seen these things? It's a weighted magnetic sphere floating inside a clear plastic outer sphere. Anywhere you can stick the suction cup to, the compass reading will be roughly horizontal. Here's an example https://www.amazon.com/example/dp/B0FZSFWJQR https://www.amazon.com/example/dp/B0FZSFWJQR that I'm not endorsing.
- bluGill 2mo agoThey have been reality for many years. A compass built into the car didn't exist in the 1990s (it probably did in luxury cars - I never drove them), then moved into mainstream cars, and now the fad is dieing.
- toast0 2mo agoThey definitely were in (some) cars in the 90s. Probably in the late 80s too. I did IT work for my school district in the 90s and I remember our vans had them. Realtime (digital) MPG displays were showing up around the same time. My parents had the same model van, but an earlier year; we didn't have the fancy digital compass mirror, just a suction cup compass ball.
- jambalaya8 2mo agothey used to sell the suction cup things in my neighborhood in the early/mid-80s. I remember having one to go take a walk in the woods nearby.