Sirius XM radio on OEM navi

[snik]

04 4.8iS
Factory Navi and CD changer.

Is it possible to have satellite radio with the OEM unit?
Someone is selling a serious radio thing that they had on their 04 E46 w/ business radio.
Would this be what I need? If not how do you go about adding satellite radio to one of these and keep the factory radio?




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[Crowz]

Factory plug in no.

FM modulator sure. You just tune to the station its on with your fm radio to listen to it.

That said I wouldn't bother unless your into talk radio. Its sucks sound quality wise. I was going to add it to the E53 and when I bought the E70 it had factory sat radio with a subscription active on it. The sound quality is horrible.

Back when xm and Sirius first started they had about 80 channels or something with a bit rate of 64k or something. Think of that compared to 192k to 320k mp3 files.

Needless to say it wasn't that great but was ok.

They added channels since then and have almost 200 channels now.

Same data stream, same capacity as before. So now the sound is 16k to 28k. Sounds like am radio in comparison.

Main point is find someone with it before spending any money to get it if you like music at all. Talk radio sounds fine on am radio so it sounds fine on sat radio

[snik]

I don't mind the quality. I have several friends with it. That's what made me miss it, I had it back in 07 thrubtilk about 2010.
I will look into the FM modulator. Sucks there's no plug and play option.


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[snik]

Thanks btw


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[Crowz]

I had back in the mid 2000's and loved it. Sound quality was ok but it had great selections and being in rural Alabama fm reception sucked so the sat radio was a real winner.

The sound quality now though is horrible in comparison.

That said though the fm modulator is the only real solution and they don't work that well on the new sat radios companies make.

I have one of the original audiovox fm transmitter ones and it rocks function wise. It transmits about a mile. So on trips all the cars traveling with me could listen to my sat radio.

The ones I bought after it were nicer screen wise and all but you were lucky to get a good signal to the radio that the sat radio is plugged into antenna wise. Really weak.

There was some kind of stink back in the day about the fm transmitters being to strong so they killed the range on them.

[amancuso]

Yes it is possible. I have it in my '04 4.8iS

[snik]

Originally Posted by amancuso

Yes it is possible. I have it in my '04 4.8iS

U gonna share how. Or just leave it at that?

[amancuso]

Originally Posted by snik

U gonna share how. Or just leave it at that?

Order part number 65-12-0-439-436 from your dealer or on ebay, remove CD changer and plug it in. To retain CD changer functionality there is a daisy chain cable available but the part number remains elusive to me right now.

Edit: part number update

[SoonerBred1963]

So I have a 2005 X5, with Navigation, do I need to check to see if my head unit is a certain model? And could I just go pick up a module with that part number and plug it in? I have the CD Changer, and it works. It would be way better CD Changer it it had MP3.

[Lowblock]

It can be done with factory nav, with CD changer. However it is more then just ordering the module with the part number above. There is a bracket involved and there is a secondary harness involved as well. All of the X5's that I have had the main Sat radio harness was there just not plugged into anything. The secondary harness is to retain the CD changer controls. There is also the antenna. The factory antenna mounts in the rear spoiler next to the GPS antenna but it only has a short lead on it and you have to get the antenna extension. If you plan on putting it in the factory location it takes a bit of work to get the cable through the rubber grommets. You can use an antenna from any of the aftermarket sirius tuners as well, this could be an easier way to go. There were also 2 or 3 different BMW tuners you could get, 2 of them required an "antenna splitter" to work as it had both a terrestrial and satellite input (built back when sirius was going to install ground based repeaters) and one with only a satellite antenna input. I have heard that on the tuners with both inputs plugging in just the satellite input will work, but did not confirm this. There were also only certain modules that would work with certain radios to a certain point IIRC. If you go to bimmernav.com they will have a kit you can install that will get you everything.... it will be costly tho.

https://store.bimmernav.com/collecti...llite-receiver

it says something about having the correct radio module to work with it... You might want to check out this site