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Originally Posted by NextGen
Most of the problems can be fixed in a firmware upgrade...
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I'm sure they
can be fixed, but I'm guessing they won't. The price point is very sensitive and is already borderline on the X5 so the extra R&D to get it working right will be very hard to recoup. How many people want to pay £500 for a radio to put in their £5000 car ? Not many so far. How many will pay £800, or £1000 ? Even fewer.
FWIW here's my story - I bought my X5 in Jan and it had a Dynavin already fitted. I lasted a week of driving it before I took it out and refitted the stock 4:3 screen and tuner. The Dynavin just sucked in so many ways I couldn't stand it. The only good thing was the nav, that worked well, but 99% of my driving I already know where I'm going so don't need it and it didn't integrate with the other functions anyway. Things like the RDS and iPod functions simply didn't work. It stops the OBC working properly and doesn't connect to the stock CD changer.
If someone had built the Dynavin in their shed as a DIY project I'd be impressed. As a supposedly retail-ready product it's a long way short of being acceptable IMO.