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Old 11-08-2013, 06:38 AM
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New radio head unit - recommendations?

Well it's nearly time for Santa to come by, and I just happened across one auction on eBay that looks like a good price for the amount of features...

BMW E39 E53 M5 7" Car GPS Sat NAV 1 Din DVD Stereo Player iPod Bluetooth Touch | eBay

I have some nasty burn spots on my Boardmonitor and frankly, am not getting much use out of the tape player in my 2006 iS (although I did do the BMW Aux retrofit), so why not upgrade and get touchscreen, iPod control, DVD player, micro-SD/ memory slots etc...

Any advice for a noob about which brand has a good all-round head-unit?


(I should add, one that I can just wire in - won't be up for fiddling with blanking plates or adapters or anything)

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Old 11-08-2013, 07:45 AM
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Definitely not an Eonon.
If your looking for OEM look then I guess it will be Dynavin, but for half the price you could get a double din unit with the same features, better sound quality and a guaranteed customer service.
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Old 11-08-2013, 09:41 AM
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If you have oem NAV you will lose the ability to set time, date & control 90%+ of your MID.

If not you can move your MID and retain everything (what I did) but that involves extending the wires (easy) I love my APPRADIO3!
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Im interested in changing my oem nav also, the nav does not support my region anyway so useless as is the analogue tv function, the only thing I will miss us the fuel consumption monitor but if it means I can have dvd, gps and an ipod its a no brainer...

So whats the best 3rd party one to get these days, Im guessing they have ironed out the glitches from the early days...
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Old 11-09-2013, 08:50 AM
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I love my APPRADIO 3.
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Old 11-09-2013, 08:06 PM
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If you have oem NAV you will lose the ability to set time, date & control 90%+ of your MID.

If not you can move your MID and retain everything (what I did) but that involves extending the wires (easy) I love my APPRADIO3!
Where did you put the MID? That sounds like a good idea I might do this when I upgrade
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