Several years ago I upgraded my 4:3 nav screen for the newer 16:9 nav screen. At the time that I did this there were very few, if any, available on eBay like there is today. After looking for one for many months, I ended up buying one that came out of an M5 in Germany. The screen was a definate improvement over the 4:3 screen, but wasn't as clear as I thought it should be. If I looked at it from the angle of how it would sit in the 5 series it was perfect, but in the X5 it wasn't as optimal.
Well, yesterday I met up with the owner of an e39 5-series who happened to have done a nav retrofit using the screen from an X5. Like me, his viewing angle for the screen wasn't as designed and so his screen image also wasn't optimal. A perfect opportunity to swap screens so that we both had what was intended for our respective vehicles.
We got together in Toledo, Ohio and it literally took all of about 3 minutes to do the swap. And let me tell you, it is definately an improvement. Colors look much brighter and truer, just they way they were meant to be.
While I had the nav screen out, I went ahead and took advantage of the situation and utilized the nav screen retrofit brackets that BMW now has available for this project. You can find details and pictures of this in my updated article on this retrofit mod at
http://www.xoutpost.com/articles/all-...-retrofit.html
Jeff
