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Old 02-23-2017, 04:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Ricky Bobby View Post
Someone should be the guinea pig on this - For under $400 this looks like a hell of a lot of unit for the money -

CAM+ 7" Android 6.0 Car DVD Player GPS Navigation FM Radio Stereo for BMW X5 E53 | eBay
I bought the Xtrons version of this from Amazon for 379.99 which allowed returns. (cost $16 to ship back so it was worth the gamble)

There's 2 problems with this unit:

1. It won't work with DSP units. If you don't have DSP or Nav then this is definitely plug and play and I felt that it was definitely much snappier than the 5.1 Eonon I have.

2. The height of this unit is 120mm. The e53 unit is 128mm. Installed, there will be a substantial gap at the bottom of the unit if you decide to use the mounting screws, definitely not a gap I could live with. If I didn't use the screws and just rested it on the bottom, with the gap up top at the air vent level, it was less noticeable but then arises the issue of keeping it mounted.

If you don't have DSP or Nav they do make an e53 compatible faceplate. https://www.amazon.com/XTRONS-Octa-C...rds=xtrons+e53

I really wish the e39 face would fit because I do think it looks considerably better than the e53 layout, both in pictures, and in person

The only hope for me is for Eonon to hurry up and release a unit with 2gb ram/ 8core processors. Hope this helps!
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