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Old 07-28-2012, 10:50 PM
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There is more information floating inside the car that meets the eye - from oil temperature, to the speed of the air flowing through the MAF, to "you-name-it"... I was watching the pressure levels at the air suspension on each corner, some weird numbers for the valve angles and whole bunch of other things that I have no idea what they are for...

The user interface is for general public and it is seriously dumbed down - we can't expect a busy mom with 3 kids going to a soccer practice and picking up the laundry on the way back from grocery store look at the G-forces that her X is pulling as she is trying to get home before husband comes home!!!

For those of us who want those numbers, you can pull them using the CIS-IBUS and a CarPC, which will do much much more than a Java-operated Chinese Nav headunit... I'll be honest, I had problems with the PC portion of the set up, that is why I am not running it, but when the PC was operational, you can do anything you want with a PC using the factory headunit... minus the touch screen, I must admit, touch screen is a nice thing to have...
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E53 X5 4.6iS
147K mi - Sold May 2013
Tireprints left in:
USA, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Russia

E53 X5 4.8iS built 2005-10-17
66200 mi - June 2012
96000 mi - June 2013
112000 mi - June 2014
OEM fire extinguisher
OE first aid kit
OE tow hitch
OE TV module
OE aspheric mirror
K&N air filter
black/white badges
rear camera
4-channel video recorder

Here is the list of things I have done to the X
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