[kevkaz]

Looking for a dealer in Chicago that can do the ipod upgrade at a relatively reasonable price... anyone around here have that done? If so, how much were you charged...?

Thx,

kevkaz

[sblument]

I got mine a few months ago at Fields BMW in Northfield, charge was $573 installed

[Daya]

I was verbally quoted $395 installed at Knauz

[BenMW]

Originally Posted by Daya

I was verbally quoted $395 installed at Knauz

395 at knauz i thought they were saying around 600 installed

[kevkaz]

Originally Posted by BenMW

395 at knauz i thought they were saying around 600 installed

395 installed would be an incredible deal. The retail price on the part alone is close to $320. I think circle BMW sells it for $260 and I don't think you're going to get it cheaper anywhere else. With labor in the $100-130 range, I can't imagine they're charging just 1 hour. Most shops will bill 2 or more hours. I'd double check that one and get it in writing if possible.

$600 seems to be the going rate, though you can talk your way into a bit off of that price if the dealer is friendly.

I had it installed on 12/26 and its awesome. I was out of town for the last 2 weeks so I haven't had a whole lot of time with it so I can't post a full review yet, but I think this was actually worth it! Sound quality is excellent and response time is so much better than MP3 CDs (07 335i w/iDrive and Logic 7)

kevkaz

[tintivilus]

Originally Posted by BenMW

395 at knauz i thought they were saying around 600 installed

Yeah, that's about right. Mine was $555 installed from Knauz with the CCA discount on the parts.

[drkeng]

Was wondering if anyone could give me a description of the dealer kit, like where the plug is and what the functionality is with idrive. A pic or two of the nav screen would also be nice. I guess I'm gonna have to get the kit since the factory won't install them until March builds.

[tintivilus]

Originally Posted by drkeng

Was wondering if anyone could give me a description of the dealer kit, like where the plug is and what the functionality is with idrive. A pic or two of the nav screen would also be nice. I guess I'm gonna have to get the kit since the factory won't install them until March builds.

The plug is on a cable whip in the glove box. I was a little hesitant about that at first, but it's a good place to leave the ipod and forget about it, and you can lock it up if you want.

I don't have iDrive so I can't help you there, but how it works on the normal radio is:

- shows up as CD changer "CDC" source
- the ipod menu items show up as the disks
disk 1: playlists
disk 2: artists
disk 3: albums
disk 4: genres
disk 5: podcasts
disk 6: shuffle all songs

(note that this is quite a bit better than the first-gen adapter, where disks 1-6 were just playlists BMW1-BMW6)

once to pick a "disk" everything's all ipod-ey; you can see all the text, descend into albums and pick songs, etc. the ipod pauses when you turn off the radio or take a phone call, it picks up where you left off when re-starting the car, and you can navigate with the steering wheel buttons or the radio controls.

my "bug" list is fairly brief:
- "shuffle" sucks the same way as with mp3 CD's, which I didn't really expect.
- when you pick a "disk" (eg albums) it starts playing the first track of the first item instead of just going to the next menu (eg list of albums) (you have to hit the up-arrow to get the actual list)

There was one other thing that bugged me right off the bat, but now I can't remember it so it must not be that big a deal