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Old 04-03-2010, 07:09 AM
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I may be wrong, but I think you cannot use such a telephone unit as a bluetooth phone in your car... that's NOT a ULF.

I have one of those in my car (see this thread) and I'm seeking advice as it doesn't work anymore, so I already investigated several options.

Hope my experience will help you...

BMW TCU can ONLY communicate with its handset, NOT with other phones.
You got this ...and you need these other pieces to get it to work..!

I don't know if you can mix pieces (TCU from a car and handset from another one)... but you CANNOT make it pair with other phones.

BTW, I had the same problem when using Navcoder (cannot write on TCU, just read from it) and I thought it was because there was no need to activate bluetooth not there is a way to change its name and PK.
Correct me if I'm wrong (I was about to pm Jochen about this matter myself, then I thought that was the reason).

Hope this helps.
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Old 05-17-2010, 05:11 AM
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UPDATE

Well, despite Jochen's best efforts I can't get the TCU that I bought to pair via bluetooth. If you want to use this method, then I suggest that you avoid the WCDT TCUs - avoid these part numbers:
TcuGSM(9) = 6938763 ' till 03/2004 ENDED SA638 Professional car phone
TcuGSM(10) = 6946011 ' ENDED SA638 Professional car phone
TcuGSM(11) = 6978533 ' RMFD SA638 Professional car phone
TcuGSM(12) = 9187926 ' RMFD SA638 Professional car phone

and try one of these instead:
TcuGSM(0) = 6946991 ' till 01/2005 ENDED SA633 Business mobile phone preparation
TcuGSM(1) = 6965055 ' till 03/2005 ENDED SA633 Business mobile phone preparation
TcuGSM(2) = 6964113 ' till 09/2005 ENDED SA633 Business mobile phone preparation
TcuGSM(3) = 6963758 ' till 07/2006 ENDED SA633 Business mobile phone preparation
TcuGSM(4) = 9129850 ' till 11/2006 ENDED SA633 Business mobile phone preparation
TcuGSM(5) = 9127894 ' till 03/2007 ENDED SA633 Business mobile phone preparation
TcuGSM(6) = 9132712 ' ENDED SA633 Business mobile phone preparation
TcuGSM(7) = 9195454 ' RMFD SA633 Business mobile phone preparation
TcuGSM(8) = 9207075 ' RMFD SA633 Business mobile phone preparation

The good news is that it should be plug and play with a >02/02 E39. There are no wiring or pinout changes required.
I bit the bullet and bought a ULF. It was plug and play with no modifications.
I would advise buying Navcoder as you can then change the ID to your car and enable VR.
Here are some pics:

Before (with the CD player and nav unit removed)



So, remove the traffic master (useless) and old motorola bits (including the 54pin to 25pin adaptor.
Plug in your ULF/TCU.
Remove all of this from the centre console.



You will be left with one x4545 18pin connector and two fakras - both go to the trunk - one to the compensator for the gsm signal and one goes to the ULF/TCU which we will use for bluetooth.

Attach a bluetooth antenna to the Fakra connector, stick it down to stop it rattling, and replace the old eject box with either a blank or an eject box of your choice. (if you have fitted a ULF, you can pair using navcoder, so don't need a bluetooth eject box).



That is it.
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Old 05-17-2010, 05:15 AM
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Finally, here are the instructions from BMW.
I can't work out how to upload a copy here - the file is just a bit bigger than the max allowed on the forum, so here is a link.
http://homepage.mac.com/vladimir/bmw...lBluetooth.pdf
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Old 05-29-2010, 05:15 PM
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TCU works on 2001 530i

Hi - I have a TCU pn 84106964114 (2nd generation, if my documents are correct) in my E39. I fabricated the DB-25 to 54 pin connector, installed the SES jumper and installed the later version of the microphone.

It works well, with voice recognition as well as MID and steering wheel control. I have been able to pair my Droid, plus my wife's Motorola (don't know model) and the address books transfer.

NavCoder works with it, too.

Perhaps I'm lucky, but a TCU does work in an older E39.

Bob

Last edited by lacanadio; 05-29-2010 at 05:18 PM. Reason: Adding another point
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