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Originally Posted by LVP
I saw how you did in Nav monitor, then the follow-up on how to for the "standard" radio. I have an even more standard radio without that button that pulls up the 1 TIMER 2 option. Mine is blank when I press that button. My button is a single function, not dual. I do not have the on-board computer option with my radio. I tried in key pos'n 1 and here is what I get.
....and there was some good Floyd on 97.7Htz FM 
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And back to the mirrors - what is the auto-dip feature (option S430A). Mine does not have S430A nor S760A as per my VIN decode.
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Ah...you have a low (base) MID. That's unusual for a 4.4.at least down here in the lower 48...the V8s all came standard with the high cluster/high MID that has the "clock-face" & BC icon button or the Nav monitor...which would have the extended OBC which has the extra "TIMER" features that would include the aux venting and 1TIMER2 etc. That explains my confusion.
(Are you sure your MID hasn't been replaced with a LOW MID from another e53 or e39?...& do you have the HIGH CLUSTER which has the 20 digit alpha/numeric display? Check your decoded VIN list to see if you have option code S555A ... if you do see that code...then you have the wrong MID installed.)
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S430A "auto-dip" feature is the electro-chromatic mirrors that "dim" when light hits them in darker ambient light. The "auto-dip" nomenclature has thrown BMW owners off for decades. Back in the late 1980s/early 1990s...BMW's first interior rear view mirrors that were designed to reduce glare from vehicles behind you...actully were motorized and "dipped". But as you can imagine...this turned out to be an utter failure and was quickly removed as an option and the new electro-chromatic mirrors came into being. But BMW never dropped the "auto-dip" nomenclature for this feature. On some of the newer generation BMWs...I've seen the terminology "anti-dazzle" used to indicate the EC/auto-dimming feature of the interior & side view mirrors.
I'm not sure if there's no interpretation for the GERMAN use of this technology or what...but again, the "auto-dip" nomenclature never changed over to "auto-dim"....and it is not in reference to the auto-tilt-in-reverse feature of the passenger side mirror.
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S760A option code is for high gloss shadeow line trim. It would reference the black band around your mirrors if you had the high gloss shadow line trim...instead of the
S339A mat-finish shadowline or other trim options