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Old 07-07-2014, 11:24 AM
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...BMW X5 ASPHERICAL EURO BLIND SPOT MIRROR GLASS ...
I really love 'em.
I'm with you on this feature...I love the aspherical wide angle mirrors! But I do like the auto-dimming feature, too. I paid the extra to keep the auto-dimming...I got mine from a seller from Latvia.

I'll take this view any day over the plain 1:1 reflective ratio that BMW NA offers US owners...I can see directly behind me as well as 3 lanes over from my driver's side mirror:




(and same for the passenger side)

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Ah...you have a low (base) MID. That's unusual for a 4.4.at least down here in the lower 48...the V8s all came standard with the high cluster/high MID that has the "clock-face" & BC icon button or the Nav monitor...which would have the extended OBC which has the extra "TIMER" features that would include the aux venting and 1TIMER2 etc. That explains my confusion.
(Are you sure your MID hasn't been replaced with a LOW MID from another e53 or e39?...& do you have the HIGH CLUSTER which has the 20 digit alpha/numeric display? Check your decoded VIN list to see if you have option code S555A ... if you do see that code...then you have the wrong MID installed.)
The S430A "auto-dip" feature is the electro-chromatic mirrors that "dim" when light hits them in darker ambient light. The "auto-dip" nomenclature has thrown BMW owners off for decades. Back in the late 1980s/early 1990s...BMW's first interior rear view mirrors that were designed to reduce glare from vehicles behind you...actully were motorized and "dipped". But as you can imagine...this turned out to be an utter failure and was quickly removed as an option and the new electro-chromatic mirrors came into being. But BMW never dropped the "auto-dip" nomenclature for this feature. On some of the newer generation BMWs...I've seen the terminology "anti-dazzle" used to indicate the EC/auto-dimming feature of the interior & side view mirrors.

I'm not sure if there's no interpretation for the GERMAN use of this technology or what...but again, the "auto-dip" nomenclature never changed over to "auto-dim"....and it is not in reference to the auto-tilt-in-reverse feature of the passenger side mirror.

The S760A option code is for high gloss shadeow line trim. It would reference the black band around your mirrors if you had the high gloss shadow line trim...instead of the S339A mat-finish shadowline or other trim options
No S555A listed on VIN build decode. I'll keep looking for one that has all pixels and the OBC feature, but no DSP . I assume plug and play.

Funny on the auto-dip. I thought it meant auto-dim, but it isn't like the Germans to make a spelling mistake. Translation, yes, spelling, no.

I also don't have 760 or 339 listed, but the trim on the mirrors is gloss. PO probably upgraded those too, along with all the interior trim. I'm supposed to have fine wood. I do not
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