Attention E46 owners..

Personally, if it looked out of place - regardless of what it did - then I wouldn't have it. The interface and plastics are key with something like that.

BUT! I am not in need of one so may your quest continue unabated, Fox.
 
Oh I agree which is why I've not fitted a Pioneer AVIC double din unit which is technically brilliant yet so blatantly un OEM as to be not worth bothering.

The useful point with these is that indications are they look very close (Ok, the purists and experts will notice but I bet man in street wouldnt) to OEM and whats more the manufacturer appears to be continually responding to requests and pointers to improve it further - ie by changing fonts and backlight colours etc.
 
Nearly $800 from there though, I think the £300 pricepoint we were expecting might be a bit of a hopeful number. There is a guy on e46zone with one saying that his UK distributer will be selling them from £500-£600.
 
I don't anyone really expected this to be £300. I've been watching this for the past 6 weeks and i've always read it was going to be £500+
 
£5-600?!! Dang, could just go for the retrofit of the OEM unit... unless this is as good as it looks with it's additional features (res & touchscreen being the main points). Hopefully once it is nationally released we could see price drops due to competition, although this is doubtful.
 
nuvpal said:
£5-600?!! Dang, could just go for the retrofit of the OEM unit... unless this is as good as it looks with it's additional features (res & touchscreen being the main points). Hopefully once it is nationally released we could see price drops due to competition, although this is doubtful.
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The retro fit Mk4 OEM sat nav is £1000+ if i remember rightly. Plus the fact you have to rip apart pretty much your entire interior to fit it...

[TW]Fox;15680928 said:
I am not that concerned about the price, if its good I'd happily pay £500. If its not good, then I wouldn't.
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Me too. However, didn't i read that you were considering buying an M5 in the spring?
 
I got all the bits to do a 16:9 mk4 sat nav retrofit for well under £600. You just have to be patient.
 
Wicksta said:
I got all the bits to do a 16:9 mk4 sat nav retrofit for well under £600. You just have to be patient.
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If this is good I'd prefer it to Mk4 retrofit at any cost. It has a touch screen, more functionality, a more modern interface, integrated bluetooth etc etc.

It has the potential to just be... better than an 8 year old nav system.
 
You could indeed install tomtom onto it. And i am sure it will be easy to repoint the nav shortcut to the tomtom executable. Same concept on my navman satnav with tomtom installed on it, that runs CE too.

As discussed on IRC the potential for this is amazing, its absolutely miles better than OEM and completely customisable being windows based. I suspect however that it will be just like every other ebay style chinese pile of tat. Love to be proved wrong though if anybody wants to chance the 500 notes :(
 
[TW]Fox;15681064 said:
If this is good I'd prefer it to Mk4 retrofit at any cost. It has a touch screen, more functionality, a more modern interface, integrated bluetooth etc etc.

It has the potential to just be... better than an 8 year old nav system.
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I don't disagree with any of this tbh, I was just saying it's not going to be £300 as suggested in this thread and then I was just clarifying how much you can do an OEM nav retrofit for.
 
Wicksta said:
Quite a few people in this thread did, see post above this one. :)
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[TW]Fox;15681064 said:
If this is good I'd prefer it to Mk4 retrofit at any cost. It has a touch screen, more functionality, a more modern interface, integrated bluetooth etc etc.

It has the potential to just be... better than an 8 year old nav system.
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I didn't expect it to be on the £300 mark, more around £400+, but I wasn't expecting the £5-600 seeing as someone said the price in Euros was 600 (if I recall right). But I do agree with Fox, if it is genuinely a good quality unit I will get it so long as the price isn't crazily high.

My main concern is going to be with the sound quality, I hope it isn't too poor, although anything will be an improvement over stock.
 
anticonscience said:
What has to be done to the dash to fit this unit? In that 'review' he talks about the A/C relocation....
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You get a new centre console insert (about £30 from BMW) which allows you to move the A/C control unit down where the sunglasses holder is. You don't even really *need* it either, it fits in the standard insert but will leave some small gaps.
 
It looks good.

In my experience however these kind of units have bags of potential and amazing features, but a poor and buggy GUI has ruined it.
 
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