Premium Package & Luxury Seating Package

[Aviator_JPN]

Hi,

Quick question on the options offered on X5. I was configuring and selected the Luxury Seating Package, but the Premium Package ($2,700: Soft-close automatic doors/ Comfort Access keyless entry/ Satellite radio with 1 year subscription) was automatically added to the car. Is it possible to select only Luxury Seating Package? I don't want to have Premium package as it adds $2,700 and I think the price is too high for doors/keyless/1 yr Satellite radio. Keyless should be standard.

Thanks for your help!

[reach.ran@gmail.com]

No. There is no way to do that. During the first 2 months after the car was released, you can do that. BMW closed that loop after first 2 months. Now if you want luxury seating package, PP automatically gets added. But remember you also get dakota leather seats when you buy PP.

[tiburonh]

Originally Posted by reach.ran@gmail.com

No. There is no way to do that. During the first 2 months after the car was released, you can do that. BMW closed that loop after first 2 months. Now if you want luxury seating package, PP automatically gets added. But remember you also get dakota leather seats when you buy PP.

One slight caveat here - if you go with Luxury seating and opt for the dakota leather instead of one of the two napa packages, you only have two dakota colors to choose from: black and beige.

If great seats are all that matters to you, the luxury seating package may be overpriced. You can get multicontour seats for $1,300 and your choice of dakota leather colors for $1,450, so a total of $2,750

But if you like the other things in the premium package, doing the luxury seating package may be a good deal. You'll pay total of $4,400, or an extra $1,650 over the cost of doing multi contour seats and dakota leather separately. But for that $1,650, you will get a lot of stuff: ventilated seats, keyless access, satellite radio plus a year of sirius, and the soft close doors.

[dn325ci]

I think that's generally the right analysis, though the privilege of paying the extra 1650 still locks you to the two colors. Our first priority is that we wanted Terra and we were not convinced about the value of the other items anyway. That decision tree leads to multi-contour.