Originally Posted by bindas

The Best Buy Sales guy told me that fitting is no problem, cause they fit the player a little more behind, so the trim will close, that case would cost around $75.00.

And losing the 6 pack is no biggie if I have the MP3 and Auxillary out...just the steering wheel controls was a worry and the loss of quality sound...like the sales guy said any aftermarket CD can't compete with the OEM of the high end cars like BMW or so...now maybe the Alpine ida x001 seem like a good option, but the blue tooth module will cost another $400 bill ontop of the already $550 Alpine....

Now who said the X5's have Alpine in them? if so why don't they write that on the player instead of saying BMW Business CD--hell what's Business CD anyways....