BMW Navigation Install

It's really not that hard to fit, the most time consuming thing was removing the radio cage. You have an E46 whereas I have an E39 - your job is a bit more involved as you also need to relocate the climate control panel.

I still stand by my opinion that the Windows unit is the better bet. The novelty of playing with the unit constantly will wear off - after which time it will simply become an entertainment and navigaiton system. This is why the Windows one works so well - it just.. boots into Nav every time. No faff, hassle, cheese or sauce. I'm still very happy with it.

I am led to beleive the latest units have tweaks which fix much of the irritatingly unrefined aspects of my unit - ie a new SD/USB Interface and a more responsive touchscreen.

Frankly it's still overpriced but there are few other options worth the hassle IMHO.

After 6 months, I find it's operation as a Radio/Ipod/Navigation device to be absolutely fantsatic - the unit looks great during day to day driving where its always in map mode. I have since found that the Bluetooth functionality is a bit crap, though - it's hit and miss as to whether it bothers to load my phonebook or not but otherwise generally works ok. I only really use it for incoming calls and to tell people I'll call them later and for that its fine but it's not quite a seamlessly perfect as the OEM BMW setup is for Bluetooth. Again, the newer version adds some refinements to the Bluetooth as well - it now does proper bluetooth streaming apparently for music.
 
Liampope said:
Where did you get yours from in the end Fox - can't remember? There's a notice on Dynavin.com saying Dynavin.co.uk are imposters! Ooh er. So not from there I guess?

Also where did you hear about the recent improvements you mentioned?
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I got it from E46fanatics actually, there is a thread on there about them where the US reseller posts info.

Be aware though there is a bug in the firmware of the little box that taps into the iBUS on the E39. It conflicts with the climate control panel :rolleyes: The Dynavin fix is a new peice of firmware that solves the issue by..

...removing the features which use the extended iBUS features. So I now don't have visual PDC anymore :p

Mixed thoughts about that. I am now missing an advertised feature - though they promise they'll release newer firmware - but it's encouraging that they actually bothered to trace the issue and issue a 'fix' in the first place.
 
Excellent, Jeff is fairly awesome and his customer service seems great. At the time I bought mine import duty and VAT made him much more expensive though.
 
You can't avoid it and 'gifts' are not duty exempt are they? I looked into this and it basically if you buy something like this from the States you will need to pay import duty of circa 15% and then VAT on top of the price inclusive of shipping.

It made buying from the US more expensive than the UK by quite some margin - 3 figures easily.
 
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