Hi Guys,

I've just bought a 2005 3.0d X5 here in Australia, and would like to do the car pc thing.

I build a carpc for my rally car (evo) but I had trouble with the hard drive dying (as you'd expect!). Now there are solid state hard drives which don't care about bumps, so I will try to get something into the X5 soon.

One question: My car has the analog TV option, which would be ideal to use as a screen for a carPC. 2 problems though (1) how to stop the TV from turning off as soon as the car moves, and (2) how to wire up a composite video signal out of a car PC into the TV setup. I don't want to spend too much $ as the X5 has hit the bank balance hard. I also can DIY a lot of this stuff (and share it if people want). For example, I designed my own circuit boards and built rally computers, so I guess I'm a nerd...

Does anyone have circuit diagrams etc of the X5 TV + CD + etc?

Cheers + thanks,
Scott.