matt45

interesting! gona be some pretty pissy owners when analog finally goes out the window.

Congrats on the purchase! It seems odd that they wouldn't have the appropreate digital tuner installed from factory, NZ does have an 'odd' spec of digital broadcast but at that price point it shouldn't matter, i would be asking the dealer what the deal is.

this needs to happen more often. There is a difference between cautious and stupid.

So is the car an import or NZ new?

Good luck with that haha. Give them a call anyway, maybe able to recomend someone down south. There arn't a huge amount of people out there that do conversions and retrofits on i-drive stuff in NZ at the moment ... probably because its more difficult and expensive than the older systems. Offical dealer is likley to say it cant be done.

Hi, have a look at this http://www.bimmersport.co.nz/forums/index....showtopic=35097 $350 for a software change on the radio this should give you full NZ capabilitys, the band expander will need to be removed and whatever they have cut into patched up. note: RDS wont work with an expander. for NAV You will need to enquire but it is not cheap and does require hardware changes, it will be a 4 digit figure so factory this into the cost of buying the car. There is no quick easy way of doing this. For your warranty make sure it is with a good company, some eg. autosure (whom are good) will now not give warranty on 7 series AFAIK. The dodgy companys have very strict terms and will often find there way out of claims.

i seem to fly past alot of people doing an actual speed of 100 (GPS calculated) with the 107-110 indicated on the speedo with margin of error. My point being that most people who are sitting on 100 with their speedo are only actually doing 90-95. But in the end over a 200k trip what diff does 5km/h really make? will take you an extra 6mins? to get there. As Graham said the real issue is overtaking, yes you maybe able to overtake at the limit sucsessfully but what about the poor other 30 cars behind you that get stuck when you use the entire length of passing lane for yourself.

You may want to see if you can find one at a wreckers, altho alot are broken/missing. To give you an indication on new price, My E36 coupe center undercover was about $450 new. And on the E39 there are 3 one for each corner of bumper and then one under engine/radiator, The 2 corners were $500 EACH (insurance). Obviously the price will be different for your car so just get the Chassis number and call for a price. Just don't expect it to be a $50 peice of plastic.

Uh you have just showed a pic of a laptop running DIS this is NOT the software/unit that this thread is about. DIS is BMW Dealer software so of course it will work! Edit: Thanks for that explanation Tom!

Just because you can get a cable that will connect it doesn't mean that it will work. Im 90% sure that this particular software will not talk to it hence why they don't list E36 at all. I have been wrong before tho.

Yea pretty sure this wont work in a E36 as they used different BUS tech ? as opposed to e46/e39/e38 etc.

thanks for that. The main issue I'm having is that there are so many different versions out there of each program (GT1, DIS, SSS) it is proving difficult to find the right versions to work together. Not to mention i then need to find the Head Emulator which so far i haven't seen anywhere public.

You will need to call ray for prices. Most Wrecked E39's will have broken or at least perished cupholders which is probably why Ray surgested new ones. Try Euro-Italian (sponsor) ushally cheaper than the dealers.

mind sharing which ebay reseller you used? edit: amusing it was a ebay store not a individual person with a single unit

Thanks for posting this! very interesting. I started having a play around last night trying to get DIS installed on a virtual machine, but seems to be VERY fidly and it is not documented all that well on the internet. Does the software give you any more description than what you have screenshots of, for both Fault Codes and Feature activation?

hmm any tips on where to get a blank obd2 plug? was also looking at getting one of the cables mentioned to see if i can get DIS setup on a Virtual machine.

forgive my n00bness but can i use a cable like this with navcoder? or is the pinout BMW specific? http://www.dealextreme.com/p/obdii-kkl-vag...cm-length-37625

first result on google German Kollision Haus 124 Felton Mathew Avenue Phone: (09)5212283

Roll on Flamewar! 10bux says we get to 20 pages b4 it gets locked.

WTF mine shows 16?. *Main purpose of this post is to try and add another page.

@ Tristan ... damn that photo i want that car. For manual conversion there is more to it than swaping the box, if you must do it then get someone like ray to do it properly. Electrics need a little work etc. Personally tho i wouldn't do anything that extreme to a car that is nz new and has a service history. (idk if yours is or not)

meeeeaaan i think this may have been on sale when i was buying my e36 a couple of years back ... all the specs look the same.

does this have pimp white leather?

naice!

i have used both of these too ... recommended, especially if insurance are paying for it!