From d79f9978d02dfd98acc98e537bb8b5c5b44a7f6d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: rikroe <42204099+rikroe@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2021 17:02:32 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] BMW ConnectedDrive: Update vehicle finder description.
 (#20570)

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 source/_integrations/bmw_connected_drive.markdown | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/source/_integrations/bmw_connected_drive.markdown b/source/_integrations/bmw_connected_drive.markdown
index 828a3b96959..83d7b4ad419 100644
--- a/source/_integrations/bmw_connected_drive.markdown
+++ b/source/_integrations/bmw_connected_drive.markdown
@@ -154,6 +154,19 @@ The service `bmw_connected_drive.light_flash` flashes the lights of the vehicle.
 
 The service `bmw_connected_drive.find_vehicle` requests the vehicle to update the GPS location. This can be used for older vehicles which don't automatically send the updated GPS location. The vehicle is identified via the parameter `vin`.
 
+<div class="note warning">
+
+  Using this service will **send your Home Assistant location to BMW**, as this is required by the API (like sharing your mobile phone's location with the MyBMW app for vehicle tracking).
+  If you do not want this, trigger the `vehicle_finder` service from your phone and it should update in Home Assistant within 5 minutes.
+
+</div>
+
+<div class="note">
+
+  On some older cars (non i3/i8 series produced before 7/2014) this service will fail in getting your vehicles position, if the vehicle is more than 1.5 km away from the location of your Home Assistant instance. This is a limitation of the BMW API.
+
+</div>
+
 ### Update the state
 
 The service `bmw_connected_drive.update_state` fetches the last state of the vehicles of all your accounts from the BMW server. This does *not* trigger an update from the vehicle; it gets the data from the BMW servers. So this service does *not* interact with your vehicles.