KrisThomson

Very true, its a pain that manufacturers feel the need to stop us from making changes and in many cases far better than they could/have done more so when it comes to I.C.E

This is true, I just hate the poor technology level and unwillingness to allow for owner based mods to them 😂

That's what I'm thinking, I'm also a little worried about the light conversion as if that's done wrong you can blow the light module which is about £400 to replace and needs a BMW person to tell the car it can use it. Which as I want to rip that god awful head unit out, could cause me headaches.....it does make me wonder why I want another BM

No not yet, Im not 100% on it at the moment as those stretched tyres on 19s wont work for me, so that's nearly £500 I have spend on the car before I have even had it 5 minutes

Unfortunately I think they may have been, they will need changing along with the front if they have as well

Funny you should say that, as after posting yesterday this showed up the od inter-web

It sure does I just need to find a new 123D M-Sport to buy

Definitely, I have also been lead to believe that this kit will do the trick, but I may need to cut things about to make the kit fit in the dash. I was also assured that the heating controls are below the head unit, which will look a lot better than if they sit above the head unit

I was thinking about going for the Alpine ICS-X8 I'm a bit of an Alpine freak now days and like the fact that they have a rear USB connection and provide you with a good length of cable to root it where ever you like. However as its a normal USB cable you can just buy a normal cable if its not long enough, so its all good and user friendly they also use sweet amps in them so sound nice

Not really people just don't have it installed.....which is why Im looking at pulling out the BM stuff and putting in something better

This is true, but how BMW calculated that they should charge over a £1000 to have USB is beyond me

I think it's an optional extra still, but they still use this god awful BMW over engineered design

100% right on that, hence why I'm looking at buying another 123D, best car I've ever owned in my opinion and I've had some nice old school hot hatches Just a shame about the location of the Cam Chain and that it's not got a USB input, or that BMW didn't just use (like Alpine) a standard rear mounted USB cable input on the back of the head unit

I was hoping there would be something like that, it does however make you wonder why we want to buy BMs 😂

Thanks E46, before I forget what about the parking sensor sound, if replace the head unit will that still come through the speakers as it does with the BM head unit?

Thanks E46, I most definitely would be using the correct adapters and the like as I will want the stereo wheel controls to work with the new head until. I'm just a little worried I will trip an error or two on the way 😂

So at the start of 2015 I joined the ranks of the beamer owners club, sadly though I had to sell it before the summer. Since then I've had to drive around in a Fabia VRS, which while ok is such a come down. I'm now thinking about buying another BM, however wanted to know what the pitfalls of making slight stereo changes are. Ideally I'm thinking of buying another 123D M-Sport, I don't like nor do I want the head unit which will come with the car. However know making any change to a BM comes with the inherent danger of tripping one of a million computer errors. With that sad can anyone tell me if I was to change the head unit to an Alpine double din unit, am I likely to screw the electronics up or will I need to ask someone with a BM computer system to tell my car I'm now using something other than the BM fitted stereo. If anyone can help with this I would be grateful, cheers in advance