The CDC will need to be removed if you want to install the iPOD kit.
Also, if you install the iPOD kit yourself, you might require a trip to the dealership to program the iPOD kit so that E70's MOST bus recognizes the hardware and starts using it. They might charge you for upto 2hrs of programming.

I promised to get back to you regarding your ipod kit. Here is a .pdf doc that shows how to install the ipod retrofit kit in the glovebox. You will have to lose the CD changer though. Also talked to my service rep, and he said any dealer should be able to program it. Your dealer is full of crap and probably just doesn't want to do it. You can do the install yourself and IF it needs to be coded, just hand them the instructions and ask them to program it as shown in the document...


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USB
 

Thanks King. I was told by BMW Canada and my dealer that my X5 (purchased with 4,000 miles in the US) has the wiring required to have the USB/AUX IN dual plug in the armrest.

So I could change the part in the armrest to the USB/AUX dual plug - but apparently no dealer can program it if only the single AUX IN plug came with the vehicle when it was manufactured. Apparently the programming is only available on the production line.

I would like to try to keep the CD Changer and not have to install the retrofit kit (which can be done).

Any insight into possible dealer programming for the swap of the AUX IN plug to the USB/AUX IN dual plug in the armrest?

Thanks in advance.

I would like to do the same thing as "cedhead" Don't want to loose CD Changers, but also want to see music list of my ipod on nav screen. I just wonder why
"King X's X5 has both AUX IN/ USB" His X5 is 2008 model and so as mine, but mine has only AUX IN. Or is it because he has 4.8l and mine is 3.0l ??

If anyone can post the part number for this AUX IN/USB, it would be great. Thanks in advance

My dealer once told me that 2008 X5 built after Sep'08 have USB, whereas earlier X5 just have Aux.

Was wondering what the slot to the right is for? Any chance its for an SD card?

Ha Ha.. No its where the base of the mobile phone holder clips into. BUT I have actually plugged a SD card into a reader via USB into the USB port and read music from it.

Kman

No wonder that I don't have USB cuz it's a JAN 08 production :cool:

Attention: PONGPAP
 

Hey "Pongpap",

The part number for the combined USB/AUX IN plug in the armrest for an E70 X5 is:

61 31 9 189 176

The problem is programming. Even if you replace the AUX IN plug with the combined USB/AUX IN plug in the armrest, BMW Canada tells me the USB will not work. No dealer, I am told, can program the USB after the fact (they do not have the software to do it) - the software is only available on the production line.

So bottom line - we are screwed and must do the retrofit and lose our CD changer.

If anyone can confirm that the above information is not correct, that would be great. Again, I am going from what BMW Canada is telling me.

Also, no issues having a CD Player, USB/AUX IN in armrest, and rear DVD, regardless of model (I have a 3.0 with CD, Rear DVD and AUX IN).

I hope this helps. Good luck!

Hello CedHead,

Thanks for the part number. I will try to talk to my dealer here in Qatar. Maybe they have some kind of software to update it. Will give it a try and see what happen. Nothing to loose anyway. :D
Don't wanna loose my CD changers...

Take care :thumbup: