OK, so mcbutler posted a seller warning back in September (here >> https://z4-forum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=131736 )
The seller in question is "carsara MT Store" and the item is this one (well actually it's the previous version as they have changed it now).. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4001063666209.html?spm=a2g0s.8937460.0.0.403d2e0e0qcmpu
Now in my installation video (here >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY-pSPUz0IU&t=), on this site and on the Facebook groups, I've recommended this seller to other members and quite a few have bought these boxes without issue, but a few have had issues with the boxes, some have been easily resolved but a couple haven't.
Now when I hear about this I take it personally, as I've made a recommendation, and see what I can do to help. In this case with Mark I've also been contacting the seller to see what can be done, and to cut a long story short basically the seller has stopped responding to either Mark or myself, which is simply not good enough and has left Mark with an unusable MMI box of which he has now had to remove.
Now to put some clarity here to my original recommendation, I used this seller myself after some research, I placed my order, received it and installed it all without talking to the seller at this point. There were no real installation instructions (like most things from AliExpress!!), but I had Google and other BMW forums to help, although it was relatively straightforward anyway. I did, since, contact the seller for some technical help and he sent me a firmware update (and I've had a couple since) and to be honest was reasonably helpful even though not always responding very quickly (after all they sell a lot of stuff so I put it down to time and possibly a language barrier).
They have now changed the design of these boxes (which has created other problems, but that's not what this is about) and I think anything to do with the older ones is simply not being supported anymore, even though that's not really good enough.
So, in short, I no longer recommend this seller and I've removed the links in my videos, but that's your choice. Saying that though if you do buy one of these boxes and would like some help then give me a shout and I'll still see what I can do, not via the seller but on a personal basis as I've got quite a bit of knowledge of these now.
As for the newer style of MMI boxes I'm still trying to find the best way of setting these up so that I can help here as well, more on that when I have more to give.
Sorry to be the bearer of crappy news, really don't like to diss a seller but when needs must :thumbsdown: :!:
The seller in question is "carsara MT Store" and the item is this one (well actually it's the previous version as they have changed it now).. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4001063666209.html?spm=a2g0s.8937460.0.0.403d2e0e0qcmpu
Now in my installation video (here >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY-pSPUz0IU&t=), on this site and on the Facebook groups, I've recommended this seller to other members and quite a few have bought these boxes without issue, but a few have had issues with the boxes, some have been easily resolved but a couple haven't.
Now when I hear about this I take it personally, as I've made a recommendation, and see what I can do to help. In this case with Mark I've also been contacting the seller to see what can be done, and to cut a long story short basically the seller has stopped responding to either Mark or myself, which is simply not good enough and has left Mark with an unusable MMI box of which he has now had to remove.
Now to put some clarity here to my original recommendation, I used this seller myself after some research, I placed my order, received it and installed it all without talking to the seller at this point. There were no real installation instructions (like most things from AliExpress!!), but I had Google and other BMW forums to help, although it was relatively straightforward anyway. I did, since, contact the seller for some technical help and he sent me a firmware update (and I've had a couple since) and to be honest was reasonably helpful even though not always responding very quickly (after all they sell a lot of stuff so I put it down to time and possibly a language barrier).
They have now changed the design of these boxes (which has created other problems, but that's not what this is about) and I think anything to do with the older ones is simply not being supported anymore, even though that's not really good enough.
So, in short, I no longer recommend this seller and I've removed the links in my videos, but that's your choice. Saying that though if you do buy one of these boxes and would like some help then give me a shout and I'll still see what I can do, not via the seller but on a personal basis as I've got quite a bit of knowledge of these now.
As for the newer style of MMI boxes I'm still trying to find the best way of setting these up so that I can help here as well, more on that when I have more to give.
Sorry to be the bearer of crappy news, really don't like to diss a seller but when needs must :thumbsdown: :!:
