NBT I-drive retrofit for E70 with CCC and CIC
 

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Hey everyone,

I have been looking for months on ways to do a retrofit to the newest idrive-- currently have the CCC and it is awful.

Figured I would share these guys with you. I have contacted them for a quote and will most likely do the retrofit. They have special pricing through Jan 12th.

http://bimmerretrrofit.cmail20.com/t...39C523302FD418

**I am not affiliated with this company..just someone who is looking to do a nice upgrade on my daily and figured others may have interest. ***

Make sure you get a USA unit or you won't get HDradio and XM. I don't think they sell USA units. But I could be wrong.

I did the retrofit on my e60 M5

They do have the USA units, luckily. Did you do your retrofit through them? How was your experience?

I sourced my own unit and used the other NBT coding guy.
Custom Retrofit Garage
You will need to run mic wires, extend xm antenna, run 2ndary antenna wire, along with the retrofit harness if you get it.
I made my own.

Is it worth it? To me it was because it updates the electronics in a perfectly good car.

the cost probably ends up about the same.

Many people on M5board ended up just staying with CIC because NBT HUD will not work.

I completely agree that the tech upgrade is worth it, since my X is a great car and fully capable.

It is unfortunate to see that few people do the upgrade. Some easily spend 2k on wheels, but the tech remains ancient!

To each their own!

Some people are utterly compelled to spend $2k on headlights, so other drivers at night will think they are in a newer car...

On the electronics, will it make my podcasts sound better?

;)

Valid point. :D I'm not sure what system you have running in your car, but I definitely have the archaic (and slow) CCC system-- and no native audio Bluetooth. Anything will sound better when I can stream it! ;)

Just surprised you don't see much of this type of upgrade.

I used bimmer retrofit and it was a total nightmare. I would avoid them at all costs. I too have the CCC and was promised everything would work like oem. Once they had my money, and I ran into problems, they left me out to dry. They even backtracked on items they were supposed to send me like the CIC radio bezel. My volume knob doesn't work Without getting this.

If you have an AUX input, any $5 bluetooth dongle will work just fine.

IMHO CCC -> NBT is worth the effort/$, but CIC -> NBT isn't. Just not that much better to justify the costs.