inkey$ said:Bluemusic one is cheap enough to buy two or three in reserve. So far, so good with mine although its relatively young still. Cant understand why it would pack in though, as it's a simple enough powered attachment.
Cant recommend it enough actually. I have OEM mic in the car and when a call comes in or goes out, the music stops, the nav screen flips up and I can answer from the wheel.
inkey$ said:1) Remove battery cover floor panel.
2) Remove the two plastic retaining screws holding in the carpet where the boot ‘steps’ up.
3) Pull back carpet to bulkhead.
4) Lift out right side trim panel enough from the bottom and place something sturdy underneath to keep it held up (this requires a little force once you’ve push-released the trim tabs that fold into the rear bulkhead section)
5) Repeat this step on the left side, being careful not to damage the trim. Wedge this side too.
6) You should now have a gap almost the back bulkhead of around 10cms to root around in.
7) Cables should be somewhere in the centre. Get your hand up and into the recess behind the rear centre console. For me, thats where they were.
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inkey$ said:Failing that then other options are things like AUX with powered BT dongle
inkey$ said:Major Mojo: man that sucks. Step 6 is the really difficult part. Feels counterintuitive to pull the edges of that rear bulkhead trim up (the rigid horizontal bit behind your mugs in the picture you posted), but it does go and you need to wedge something under it very quickly.
Just needs some force in one corner then the other. Helps also if you can pull up and away those side panel trim bits you currently have the mugs holding up. Just the one side works to get things moving.
My hands only just recovered too :lol: Keep going and keep us posted.Major Mojo said:inkey$ said:Major Mojo: man that sucks. Step 6 is the really difficult part. Feels counterintuitive to pull the edges of that rear bulkhead trim up (the rigid horizontal bit behind your mugs in the picture you posted), but it does go and you need to wedge something under it very quickly.
Just needs some force in one corner then the other. Helps also if you can pull up and away those side panel trim bits you currently have the mugs holding up. Just the one side works to get things moving.
Thanks Inkey. I sliced the crap out of a couple of knuckles last weekend but I am driving back to London from Ireland on Monday so will give it a go again this weekend...fingers crossed!
Malcolmvs said:Hi
I’ve been following these instructions with my mid-2006 E86 Z4 and am stuck at step 7. I can feel the cables (or at least what I think are the cables) connected into the CD changer, however I cannot get the connectors loose. I don’t want to pull on the cables for fear of the wiring ripping out of the connector. Is there a clip or a trick to getting the connectors loose from the CD changer?
Thanks,
Malcolm
inkey$ said:Yours may be taped down perhaps?