What did you do to / for your E53 today??

[X5chemist]

Originally Posted by ToadFMB

Installed BlueBus on the X5 yesterday afternoon.

Demo please! Feedback? Do all steering wheel buttons work?

[Happy]

Originally Posted by X5chemist

The X5 had a TLC detail package done.

The interior has not looked so good since new. The seats have some nice glow to them. The trim looks great. I'll to have snap a couple of pictures. Ceramic wax looks great. It still had some wax on it. Water did bubble up on the hood. Now, rain should just slide off.

Nothing like a fresh and clean ride!


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ReVELaTiON 22:21

[ToadFMB]

Originally Posted by X5chemist

Demo please! Feedback? Do all steering wheel buttons work?

Quick install, I just plugged in two harnesses to the BlueBus. Sound is really good, the only buttons I've used on the steering wheel are the volume and "up/down" and those work, I primarily have used Spotify. The text scrolls on the radio (I have the business CD player). Apparently if you press the button with the icon of the "guy talking", it activates Siri/Alexa.

Let me know if you want to know more.

[Bdc101]

Two questions for those who have fixed key fob issues:

1. If I replace the battery in my diamond key (which works sometimes but not all the times), will the key just work or will it require resynchronization?
2. If I have a diamond key that has never worked, can I synchronize it using either a Foxwell or BMW Scanner? Or do you need something more powerful?

[X5chemist]

You can use the Foxwell to delete keys. Use the Foxwell to identify how many keys have been coded. Foxwell can identify keys numbers too. Synchronization is a simple procedure.

[X5chemist]

Originally Posted by ToadFMB

Quick install, I just plugged in two harnesses to the BlueBus. Sound is really good, the only buttons I've used on the steering wheel are the volume and "up/down" and those work, I primarily have used Spotify. The text scrolls on the radio (I have the business CD player). Apparently if you press the button with the icon of the "guy talking", it activates Siri/Alexa.

Let me know if you want to know more.

Cool. Can use your phone music app and steering wheel buttons to scroll through songs? If you can, I'm sold on buying one!

[X5chemist]

Originally Posted by Happy

Nothing like a fresh and clean ride!

The shift boot has probably never been so clean since new! The wood trim is all shiny. I need to cut stitching that hangs out. I need a towel now to keep rear stuff from sliding off the seat. Next, fix the pano roof forward headliner.

[Bdc101]

Originally Posted by X5chemist

Cool. Can use your phone music app and steering wheel buttons to scroll through songs? If you can, I'm sold on buying one!

All of you guys should really look at Grom Audio because it works the same way you guys are talking about these other systems but with 95% less effort. Looks the same on the dash as the bluebus, uses the steering wheel controls, and it's plug-and-play.

Originally Posted by X5chemist

You can use the Foxwell to delete keys. Use the Foxwell to identify how many keys have been coded. Foxwell can identify keys numbers too. Synchronization is a simple procedure.

OK, great! I think I will order a couple of batteries and see if I can R&R my key that doesn't ever work, and replace the battery in the key that sometimes works.

[ToadFMB]

[QUOTE=Bdc101;1225519]All of you guys should really look at Grom Audio because it works the same way you guys are talking about these other systems but with 95% less effort. Looks the same on the dash as the bluebus, uses the steering wheel controls, and it's plug-and-play.

The effort to install BlueBus is almost ZERO. You plug in two existing harnesses into the BlueBus. Steering wheel controls work and you get the added "comfort" features of auto lock and auto unlock, "comfort" blinkers and the module is continuously supported with updates. The price is virtually the same and the BlueBus is specifically made for BMWs. To each their own.

[Bdc101]

I think I was mixing up Bluebus with Avin or whichever one people use. My bad.