it sure feels like fighting a losing battle, but I have heard before that certain things can not be done in a BMW - from a BT before certain year to TV in motion... and then, somebody comes up and has it done... Considering that the system is operational (albeit might not be as good as we wish it were) in some parts of the world, it might be working here in the US too...

After all, people take advantage of the iBus, by creating StealthOne, IntraVee, ICElink and whole bunch of other things...

For the traffic messaging, we need a TMC receiver that translates the signal into something that the Nav computer can understand over the iBus link... Especially, thinking that the factory has done that itself, in BM54 with dual tuner and in the TMC retrofit kit for a single tuner set up...

I am just tired of spending hours in the DC metropolitan area traffic, when there might be other driving alternatives...

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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