Intravee-II installed with Alpine CD Changer and Alpine iPod adaptor - Page 4

RichardP1 · #1 10-09-2007, 03:46 PM

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Originally Posted by dvs

where can i buy the kit for my mk4 nav, also i have OEM cdchanger & sirius

thanks!

http://www.bimmernav.com/store/catal...d121bbe95e2ae5

You can't use the OEM CD Changer with the Intravee, but you can use an Alpine AI-Net CD Changer, for example the CHA-S634 which plays MP3 CD's.

r207 · #2 10-10-2007, 05:52 PM

does anyone have any idea when these are going to be available again, keen to get my hands on one

ambishop · #3 10-10-2007, 10:07 PM

Should be around end of month until the next shipment. A small batch went out today to people who had purchased early on. They were to customer ordering right after US beta units. Everything is getting ramped up for full availability soon, but right now it is first come first served in smaller batches.

abster641 · #4 10-12-2007, 08:19 AM

I got an email saying mine was shipped! I can't wait to get it. I may have to skip a weekend trip to NYC to install this thing once it gets here

r207 · #5 10-14-2007, 06:22 PM

just bought one, lets see how long it takes

abster641 · #6 10-14-2007, 11:21 PM

Got it installed this weekend. It took about one hour total. I have Sirius so I had to remove the tire and all the fun involved with that. It sounds great and beats my DICE without any issues. I am still playing with it. I do think that I will miss the track display on the Instrument cluster but I get so much more information on my screen, that I think that with a few days, it will become second nature to look at the Navigation screen.

One problem is that I do have the engine whine and scratching that others have reported with the Sirius module. I will try the option offered by KrisL next week and see how that works out.

Kewl X5 · #7 10-15-2007, 02:12 AM

I did the "jumper link wire" mod as per KrisL and the I-BUS noise caused by OEM Sirius is gone! Now, before I did the jumper like mod, the only noise I got was I-BUS "tic-tic-tic" noise and no engine whine noise.

Just double check all your connection and grounds.

However, the I-BUS "scratching noise" will be eliminated with the jumper link wire mod as per KrisL. Apparently, Sirius is daisy-chained on the CD Changer I-BUS and the Intravee needs to be grounded a specific way when you have Sirius installed.

Anyhow, can you do me a favor? What firmware is installed in your Intravee-II? Just go to "Status" and it will display your Firmware and Build number.

Quote:

Originally Posted by abster641

Got it installed this weekend. It took about one hour total. I have Sirius so I had to remove the tire and all the fun involved with that. It sounds great and beats my DICE without any issues. I am still playing with it. I do think that I will miss the track display on the Instrument cluster but I get so much more information on my screen, that I think that with a few days, it will become second nature to look at the Navigation screen.

One problem is that I do have the engine whine and scratching that others have reported with the Sirius module. I will try the option offered by KrisL next week and see how that works out.

ambishop · #8 10-19-2007, 11:05 PM

Can you reference this fix. I am curious on how to fix this as well

[quote=Kewl X5]I did the "jumper link wire" mod as per KrisL and the I-BUS noise caused by OEM Sirius is gone! Now, before I did the jumper like mod, the only noise I got was I-BUS "tic-tic-tic" noise and no engine whine noise.

Just double check all your connection and grounds.

However, the I-BUS "scratching noise" will be eliminated with the jumper link wire mod as per KrisL. Apparently, Sirius is daisy-chained on the CD Changer I-BUS and the Intravee needs to be grounded a specific way when you have Sirius installed.

Kewl X5 · #9 10-17-2007, 12:09 PM

Hey! Where are the pics of the install?

Quote:

Originally Posted by abster641

Got it installed this weekend. It took about one hour total. I have Sirius so I had to remove the tire and all the fun involved with that. It sounds great and beats my DICE without any issues. I am still playing with it. I do think that I will miss the track display on the Instrument cluster but I get so much more information on my screen, that I think that with a few days, it will become second nature to look at the Navigation screen.

One problem is that I do have the engine whine and scratching that others have reported with the Sirius module. I will try the option offered by KrisL next week and see how that works out.

abster641 · #10 10-15-2007, 10:14 AM

Hey Kewl,
I have both the whine and the tic-tic-tic. It is not as loud as the noise from the Dice. With the Dice, I could not listen to my audio books! The noise from the Intravee only seems to be when it is changing songs, that short gap and then depending on the songs, I can hear it very slighty in the background.

I have Version 5.10 Build 192.