2009 E89 Z4

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09Z4

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Quick question if i may regarding car stereo...yawn yawn however I cant seem to find what I'm asking in previous treads, so bear with me please.

In my 2009, Z4 there is the basic BMW stereo with door, mirror, footwell and centre dash speakers, I do not have the pop up head unit. Nor do I have any rear speakers at all, is this normal??

Anybody else have this?

Thanks in advance.
 
09Z4 said:
Quick question if i may regarding car stereo...yawn yawn however I cant seem to find what I'm asking in previous treads, so bear with me please.

In my 2009, Z4 there is the basic BMW stereo with door, mirror, footwell and centre dash speakers, I do not have the pop up head unit. Nor do I have any rear speakers at all, is this normal??

Anybody else have this?

Thanks in advance.
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Thats normal on the base level of stereo, and iDrive was an option too.
 
Not sure, I imagine you need an upgraded stereo/amp to drive the additional speakers. I'm sure someone with experience can comment... :thumbsup:
 
The six speaker base level system is driven by an onboard amp built into the head unit

The base system has two door mounted mid range speakers, two front floor bulkhead woofers and two mid range units just behind the outer seat bolster area on the main body.

There is no centre speaker, tweeters or sub woofers..

This pic may help..
 

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just to clarify as there's some conflicting info here..base stereo is 2 in footwells 2 in the door and 2 in rear in the e89 there is nothing in the mirror area that only has blanks where there would be a tweeter...you should have 4 inch speakers at shoulder level in the rear..those in blue in b21's picture
 
Hello and welcome.

This is one of the threads that would help you. There are others who have followed a similar path and there may be further links/suggestions within this thread :thumbsup:

https://z4-forum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=125344&hilit=Stereo+upgrade

EDIT: and the author of this thread has just posted at the same time as me :oops:
 
Also check this thread, it's sort of a continuation of the one posted by Argyll Andy above:

https://z4-forum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=126024
 
I need help with a stereo suggestion for a 2006 z4 3.0i
I have not learned my car yet but the owners manual said a Jack can be added to plug in an MP3 player
Anyone have suggestions
What car functions do I put in jeopardy by changing stereo
 
ZFORHIM said:
I need help with a stereo suggestion for a 2006 z4 3.0i
I have not learned my car yet but the owners manual said a Jack can be added to plug in an MP3 player
Anyone have suggestions
What car functions do I put in jeopardy by changing stereo
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Welcome, but you are in the wrong forum. This is for E89 (2009 to 2016), yours being a 2006 is either an E85 (soft top) of E86 (coupe) there are separate forums for this :thumbsup:
 
09Z4.... Any particular reason as to why you want extra speakers?
Firstly I'm not knocking in any way the threads posted above as they are full of very useful information. But is it that you feel that the base stereo and only 6 speakers are, well just a little flat and, to be perfectly honest..... pants??!! If so then read on.........

Mine was a base model when I bought it, the most basic BMW standard headunit they produce and coupled to only the 6 speakers with only the AUX for extra inputs and no bluetooth. After reading a lot of info on other forums I found that you can upgrade the headunit to one that has built-in bluetooth and USB input control (memory sticks, iPods etc). So I set about doing this upgrade and in the end not only did I end up with all that I was expecting but also the sound quality was far suprior as it has a much better built-in amp than the original, so win-win :thumbsup:
Now it's a relatively cheap upgrade (depending how you define cheap!) as you'd be looking in the region of around £170 to £200 depending on current prices of used parts then a little bit of coding on top, but this not only gives you a better sound quality but also the USB input and bluetooth calls (not music, although that can be added)
Like I say I did this to mine and I've done it to another 3 members since then as well.

Oh and you can just add the tweeters in the OE position as it's a plug-n-play option :thumbsup:
 
AnubisZed said:
09Z4.... Any particular reason as to why you want extra speakers?
Firstly I'm not knocking in any way the threads posted above as they are full of very useful information. But is it that you feel that the base stereo and only 6 speakers are, well just a little flat and, to be perfectly honest..... pants??!! If so then read on.........

Mine was a base model when I bought it, the most basic BMW standard headunit they produce and coupled to only the 6 speakers with only the AUX for extra inputs and no bluetooth. After reading a lot of info on other forums I found that you can upgrade the headunit to one that has built-in bluetooth and USB input control (memory sticks, iPods etc). So I set about doing this upgrade and in the end not only did I end up with all that I was expecting but also the sound quality was far suprior as it has a much better built-in amp than the original, so win-win :thumbsup:
Now it's a relatively cheap upgrade (depending how you define cheap!) as you'd be looking in the region of around £170 to £200 depending on current prices of used parts then a little bit of coding on top, but this not only gives you a better sound quality but also the USB input and bluetooth calls (not music, although that can be added)
Like I say I did this to mine and I've done it to another 3 members since then as well.

Oh and you can just add the tweeters in the OE position as it's a plug-n-play option :thumbsup:
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I didn't realise BMW had two different versions of the base system in the Z4, mine was the base 6 speaker setup but I had bluetooth for phone calls and the aux terminal, I would have thought the only difference between what you had and what I have is the bluetooth but maybe I am wrong. My base system with 6 speakers and built in amp was rubbish, worse stereo I've had in any BMW apart from my old E30 which I had many years ago.
 
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I didn't realise BMW had two different versions of the base system in the Z4, mine was the base 6 speaker setup but I had bluetooth for phone calls and the aux terminal, I would have thought the only difference between what you had and what I have is the bluetooth but maybe I am wrong. My base system with 6 speakers and built in amp was rubbish, worse stereo I've had in any BMW apart from my old E30 which I had many years ago.
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The whole entertainment side of BMW is a minefield to negotiate as there are so many options and combinations.

Firstly there is the base headunit, there are at least 2 versions of these, one with fibre optic (MOST) prep and one without.
Then you have the communication modules, of which are the following incarnations;

TCU (Telemetrics Control Unit, ie; Bluetooth)
MULF (USB/AUX control)
- Now you could have different combinations of these two modules, for instance Bluetooth calls only (TCU only) or USB only (MULF only) or both together for the package.

MULF2 (USB/AUX control with built-in Bluetooth, negating the need for a separate TCU module)
Combox (As MULF2 but with Bluetooth Music, USB Album Art etc, ie; MEDIA)

These modules were all connected to the headunit via the MOST fibre optic network so you'd still have the base amplifier in the headunit but with the additions of the above. So if you wanted a better audio experience then you could opt for one of the amplifier packages (as posted above, BMW Business or BMW Professional, not to be confused with the headunits that BMW offered in their ranges that were also called Business and Professional!!).


The better headunit that had Bluetooth and USB control built-in was brought out later (around 2012 I believe), but I don't know if it was actually offered on the E89 but would assume so as the 1 and 3 series (that shared the same headunit) had changed by then whereas the E89 continued in the same style up till 2016.

Then on top of all of that you have iDrive, but that's a whole new story!! :rofl:

There are other modules but they are only add-ons like the CD/DVD Multichanger (DVD version only on iDrive), DAB (DAB was also built-in to the headunit on later cars, both on standard and iDrive options) and TV/Video (again only for iDrive), all of which are on the MOST network.

Hope that clarifies it a bit. I may have simplified some of that, or may even have missed something! :thumbsup:
 
AnubisZed nice concise summary of the minefield that is the USB / Bluetooth options :thumbsup:

And of course if you have a 18, 20, 28i then you have your audio being fed through the ASD, active sound design…in which case the amplification takes place in the ASD not in the head unit (for the six speaker systems)..which doesn’t help audio quality…
 
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