I had a few minutes today so here is something quick. I have not used it a lot yet, this X5 is a winter car for me.
If your a hard core, has to be BMW look this is probably not for you. I think it looks fine and matches well and all pictures do look much better in person. The plastic surround matches the other plastic in texture and look, its a BMW X5 E53 kit. They remove the CD changer & radio and wood cover. You can make the lights/background orange to match the other instruments but it's mostly blue. There is a small squre antenna they mount on the corner of the dash and you can hardly see it. If you don't have a black dash you notice it more.
The operation of the nav is an 10
Music quietly and adjustable & user friendly 9
Blue tooth operation 9
Back up camera 10 but it looks ugly and obtrusive.
Speaker phone-hands free 10
DVD-CD 9
This is all touch screen, no voice recognition.
You can have up to 4 phones paired, each phone you can set up a list of favorites for that user. This unit is far better than Mercedes and Lexus offer as an all in one message center. I have both cars to compare to. It's pretty much endless what you can do with it. When your older like me you don't have time to use even half the functions. I'm not a geek with this stuff, just giving a brief overview.
I found out I had the wrong model number on my initial post, this is the model number linked, click on Crutchfield link below-I did not buy it from them. I paid $799 installed. Antenna for Satellite & Nav was $100 and the backup camera was $150.
Alpine INE-S920HD Navigation receiver at Crutchfield.com
I'm not crazy about the way it sticks out and if you don't have a black car it will look funny. This is the only camera that will last they sold me from Alpine.
