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Sorry guys, I should have said our THIRD baby. My wife also looks after our friends 2.5 year old so we are trying to figure out a way of getting 4 safely seated in the car. (its just for kindy drop off's and pickups in a 50km zone (we live in Napier, no motorways here lol). Our other option is our subby wagon, I think I could put the kids on a traler and be safer than that pos.

Hi all, I was wondering how you go about disabling the front passenger airbag? We have a new one on the way and found that when you have a baby seat in the front you need to disable the airbag. Ta Eion

new headunit mate, oh I wis I could dump the factory unit out of mine while still having the functions I want.

me too. I just spent $200 on an ANYCAR mp3 player which....mostly works. I get Bluetooth and iphone/Android connectivity. Can play mp3's and ipod, but display is off, although its FAR better than those tape deck interface things and the FM transmitters it still doesnt do everything I want. the old Dynavin didnt do EVERYTHING either, but now with OBC connectivity its definately upped the anti for me.....hopefully it wont look like arse.

Thanks guys. I have it booked in Monday so will get the low down then......hopefully. lollies

Done and Done

No fly by wire. It a mechanical throttle and CC unit. Have thoroghly checked for a sticking button etc, its pretty weird. Cheers for the help though

Thanks guys. Firstly I know the difference between the normal surge produced by engauging the CC system as normal (as I said 1 out of every 4 times or so it behaves as it should) there is definately an issue with the system when its faulting as whether I press the minus or plus it throws a wobbly (often accelerating further) the word surge may have not been descriptive enough basiclly when its faulting and I engauge the CC the accelerator goes to full open position for about 2 seconds (propelling the car atleast 20kms higher than when I engauge it). I have been in the position to just allow it to do its thing (going down motorway and engauging at about 80km) it doesnt settle down either. It is either full on the gas pedal or off all together there is no fine movement of the accelerator. The issue "feels" mechanical like the cable is sticking or incorrectly set up. The real baffling part of the whole episode is that sometimes it works perfectly noramlly....random

Hi all, I have just brought an e39 (a 96 with mechanical CC) I LOVE it!! Except I am having a few wee issues. One of the majors is my Cruise Control acts up. Sometimes it works flawlesly (I brought it in Wellington and drove it to Napier with no issues with it at all). Other times I turn it on (On the dash button) fine. get up to the speed I want to set at and push the + button on the steering wheel (as normal) but when I do that the car lurches foreward (its like the car puts the pedal to the floor and accelerated extremely hard to get to the speed) it ofcourse goes well over the speed I set to so then buttons off until it gets to where it thought I wanted it set (then accelerates very hard again). If I press the - button on the wheel it accelerates also. Basiclly it totally cracks the shits then turns itself off (the CC button on the dash no longer works until the car is turned off. Then as I said before It sometimes works perfectly. Its got me completely confussed and I havnt found very much on the subject online at all.

Thanks for the replies guys, I am drowning here. I agree with Hotwire I have the wood sound dash and would rather keep it than bin it for more black plastic. I also have read that you can no longer access the OBC settings when installing the Dynavins, so I am buggered if I know how to reset the clock and reset milage counters etc. So a solution to work with the existing gear would be more of a positive for me, However spend more $ than a Dynavin is a hard ask. I thought the Dynavins were bloody pricey in the first place lollies. From what I hear the Dynavins are harder to install if you have the TV version of the HOBC (high Onboard Computer) so I dont really know what to do. Basiclly I want the following: To be able to play DVD throught the AV channel on the TV (possibly through a DVD changer or be able to access it in cabin somehow) To be able to play MP3's either by Disc or flashdrive (at the moment I am struggling along with the Ipod to FM convertor through the ciggy lighter plug....NOT COOL) I honestly didnt think it would be asking too much, I nievly thought it would be exchanging the CD changer for a DVD changer or something, I figured BMW would already have that. I went to the dealer and they have no friggin idea about the AV inside the cars.

Where abouts are you guys mate? Im in Hawkesbay and cant stand my E39 TV headunit, it needs upgrading to something that can atleast play MP3. Nobody down this way seems to have a clue on what to do about it.