Recent content by jonzo

Bit of an old thread, but where did you draw power from for the camera? I'm used to connecting cameras and sensors to the reversing light feed, but I've tried that on the Zed and I'm getting odd results. With the engine off and ignition in accessory, everything works fine when reverse is...

For city use, I think an N52 car would be a much better bet. Actually, a 23i is plenty powerful enough for round town and the ZF6 is a nice box if a little inefficient until it's at cruise and the lock-up clutch has engaged. You should also easily be able to get a really nice 23i on a 35i...

The only issue I have is that the voice button kicks me back into iDrive.... Once I cancel it's back into Mr12Volt. I need to watch Dave's video again to work out what needs changing in the vehicle config (and to get hold of BMW Tools). The camera and microSD extender haven't arrived yet so...

It's in.... Took about an hour I guess, mainly making sure everything was routed nicely and then the struggle of pushing the looms down into the space below the rear of the HU. I think the cable for the quadlock could do with being longer so that everything can be neatly pushed into the void...

That's pretty much where I'm at. Is it the best handling car I've ever driven? Errr.... No. But it's pretty decent, and for the money they really are a lot of car. You definitely have a point about now being the time to buy them, too. But also, they are indeed a great cruiser. So you can...

What Dave said..... ;) His videos are pretty much all you need. The glovebox part particularly is a bit tricky as it is quite well put together and there were far more screws than I was expecting, having taken various other cars apart for similar jobs... I was quite impressed with the...

Okay, yeah I assumed that's how it worked (and how the cheap ones work). Makes sense, just need to make sure I have some playlists downloaded to my phone then.

That makes sense, and yeah I guess I may as well just continue to use the USB for playing music through CIC as before. Daft question but I assume you can use either the MMI box or one of the other sources? Or can you use radio / MP3 from CIC whilst using the CIC for Waze etc? I can always...

I've done a bit more reading, and yeah looks like the USB is connected to the MULF in the boot. Seems like the entire centre console needs to come apart, which doesn't feel like fun.

They are expensive but it's a well thought out kit and has software updates etc and decent sound quality so you have to factor the 'ease' into it. I've held off for a year but decided to take the plunge and have stripped the car this morning in readiness for the box to arrive. What I'm a bit...

Yeah, keeping forums going is hard. Much harder than it was 10 years ago, and even 5 perhaps. Facebook groups wiped out a good percentage of our traffic. In our case, there are probably 20+ different groups covering our subject matter. We used to be the second-biggest of about 5 forums and...

That's what we did.

I don't know enough about Xenforo and what the config options are, but we have a lot of photos on our forum as well (it's about leisure boating in a specific region). Invision offer teirs within their SaaS offering and you get a certain number of GB depending on your plan. However - You can...

Don't forget that you can also license IPS for self-hosted. Much the same as Xenforo really, you either go SaaS or self-hosted. There are a large number of forum solutions out there, but yeah I think Invision Community and Xenforo are probably the most popular. Don't forget that vBulletin is...

I'm not sure what the consensus was here but I've migrated a phpBB forum to Invision Community and it is a more pleasant experience for users and forum staff. I know that Invision have a phpBB migration script (and I helped them improve it) so it's definitely an option. On top of that, they...