2010 X5M vs 2013 X5M

[Dave00]

Originally Posted by Maruzo

Thanks very much Dave. I see the difference between the 2 lenses. The angular look on the led does make it look more aggressive.

Unfortunately this option is very rare to find on the X5Ms in the market.

My dream setup is the Monte Carlo Blue with the Silverstone leather interior. Plus all the goodies like comfort access, driver assistance package with the camera and the HUD. I think the individual audio system comes standard. Or perhaps not?

Wonder how that system sounds. Do you like it?

I have the Premium Audio as you can tell when you are shopping cars as the Premium has the Silver trim rings surrounding the speakers. I love the sound system as it's very good and never had any issues. I even update my CIC hard drive to a 128GB SSD a few months back to give a bit more storage for music and not worry about the spinning drive dying.

[Maruzo]

That ssd is an awesome upgrade. Did u do it urself? Was it hard?

[Dave00]

Originally Posted by Maruzo

That ssd is an awesome upgrade. Did u do it urself? Was it hard?

Not too difficult and I followed this thread:

https://www.bimmerfest.com/threads/d...-drive.841458/

If you are fairly familiar with partitioning HD's it's really easy, but you have to get a few things:

1) Transfer cable. What I did was pulled my CIC HD and then copied the image first to my desktop to back it up and then imaged it to the new SSD.

I went with this cable:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...?ie=UTF8&psc=1

2) Hard Drive - Get the Zheino 128GB SSD and search around eBay for one or elsewhere as it's been tested to work and works flawlessly. Some of the other brands cause issues. For example, I initially went with an MSata SSD with an IDE adaptor tray and it would work fine for a week or two and then my music partition would disappear. Ended up pulling it and installing the Zheino Drive as it's an IDE interface as with the older interface/bus of our cars. I've had the Zheino drive for over a year with zero issues, so my guess is the drivers for the adaptor tray were causing screwy issues.

Here's the drive I used, but you'll have to hunt around as you need an IDE 44pin interface:

2.5inch PATA IDE 44Pin 128GB SSD - IDE 2.5 SSD - www.zheinossd.com

You'll note the SSD really won't increase the speed of your system as we are limited by the older bus system in the E70, but it should last longer and you'll have a backup of your CIC and can get back up and running without a trip to the dealer.

Be cautions and slow when removing the trim around the radio as it can be a bit tricky, but there are plenty of YouTube videos on that as well.

Let me know if you have any more questions and if I can help you out once you get your E70.

[Dave00]

Also, you'll see my posts on that thread near the end or last couple of pages. If you want to increase the size of your music partition, I believe I went with 59GB's then follow this thread as well:

https://www.e90post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1157480