Originally Posted by 525iT_Feen

I'm pretty confident that I could get it to work but it would cost the same if not more then media bridge and do less. I knew that there would be some repercussions to buying an early 04 production 4.8iS but I couldn't pass up how clean it was

I already have to dish out the $ on updated to MKIV nav which I can't figure out if someone stole out of my car before I bought it or whether it came with MKIII
Ah well. A++ for this thread having useful information though.