Atacama Yellow 35is build thread

[B21]

Been chewing over dash cams, in the end I’ve gone with a Garmin 57 for the front camera a Garmin Mini 2 for the rear.

Front camera will mount behind the pax side of the mirror and the back will peek through the pax rear roll hoop through the mesh. I’ll need to fabricate a small pedestal to mount the rear camera..plus the image will be inverted ..but that can be corrected post processing.

The 57 camera has a GPS so that provides speed, time and location data that the Mini 2 piggy backs off.

Power feed is always an issue…I’m taking out the front smokers ash tray so I’ve retrieved the power socket from it and will use a usb power plug to power both cameras..unfortunately the sockets lose power when the car is shutdown..I’ll just live with that compromise.

The cameras are really dinky..

[B21]

Just about now stripped all the front dash and door trims to get access to spaces for threading dash cams, woofers, MMI box and new carbon fibre inlays..

[Nanu]

By the time you're finished, other than the colour, will there be anything left on the car that is original e89?

[B21]

By the time you're finished, other than the colour, will there be anything left on the car that is original e89?

Main body shell, almost all the wiring, all the interior save cosmetic dash trim, most electronics save EKP controller and amp, engine castings, intervals, all the glass, radiators….quite a lot really

[B21]

So put the Mr 12v Volt MMI box in, as advised test before fitting…

Managed to damage the multi way connector on the harness to the head unit..

I have a cunning plan to fix that ..

Followed AnnubisZed excellent video..and voila ..nothing…

3 or 4 hours of poking around in increasing despair and calls to various folks ..nothing..

I then loaded the latest version of firmware..rechecked and rewrote the ‘6 cd player’ option to the vehicle order


AND jiggled the new CIC controller cable hard (out of all proportion to all other connections) and …voila..

System came online ..

Seem to be having some video glitching but called it a day at 21:00..

Will play with it in more detail today..

The initial look at the CarPlay looks pretty good and gives the car 21st century connectivity/ apps in its classic idrive system…bravo..

[B21]

So after a day of testing the CarPlay side works well, subject to some bugs with audio stopping haphazardly when changing apps but…the big issue is that the CIC display glitches very badly when accessing BMW side of things..so MMI display is rock steady and clear..the BMW native side is pretty much unusable ..I’ve checked , removed and re-inserted all connections..if I restore the the normal wiring the CIC display is normal.

Weird…any ideas?

Here is it glitching..

https://youtu.be/NJYU57VTbpc


Here it is in CarPlay mode working well…

https://youtu.be/8X1Jz-xqp5A

[B21]

Had a very bad glitch with native screens glitching horribly…spent hours swapping cables and various things to no avail…after long chat with Mr12 Volt support and various suggestions a factory reset via the system screen seemed to resolve it…

Now considering locating the box somewhere more accessible to allow for firmware reloads and hard resets etc..

[B21]

Well my euphoria rapidly disappeared…..

Seems as the box heats up the worse the glitching gets..

Confirmed by putting box in fridge then monitoring temp and observing the glitching…

[B21]

Chinese through the towel in…but in the meantime..doubtful of getting a resolution I bought a second Mr 12 Volt box to sort things out one way or another…

So box arrived today and plugged it in…

No video glitches ..some strange failures on audio handover when flipping between native Bluetooth media streaming and onboard CD and CarPlay…but I’ll sort that out..

Software has been updated and in the process there is now no opportunity to remove the Mr12 Volt boot logo and replace it with a BMW logo….heh ho..

Looks like I’ll have a brand new MMI box to sell if anyone’s interested ?

[Chippie]

Software has been updated and in the process there is now no opportunity to remove the Mr12 Volt boot logo and replace it with a BMW logo….heh ho..

Yes mine is the same.

[B21]

So the little critter now installed behind the HVAC control panel..very pleased with myself till I realised I'd forgotton to plug the mic in..

Functional test all seems good with radio back in place..

The re-assembler is on his way..

[B21]

Fitted the new 6.5" Audiotec Fischer Helix woofers in the footwells with the obligatory plywood adapters..do sound nice even before new DSP/amp fitted..added the grills in case anyone anal retentive peeks through the plastic footwell trim..

6" would have been a whole lot better as 6.5 covers the screw holes so I had to screw and glue the plywood adapters in place first then screw the front mounted speakers to the plywood in situ.. wish I was 20 years younger..

[B21]

The centre armrest was looking a bit shabby..the leather clean /colour /protect kit worked wonders..very chuffed..will use it on the seats soon..

[B21]

Carbon fibre trim looking good..

[Silverstar]

Speaker install is looking good as is the carbon fibre console the MMI box placement is neat but will be a pain to get to in the future if you ever need to.