OE iDrive reversing camera

[AnubisZed]

OK so while I'm sat here at 06:45 drinking coffee and eating my toast ill quickly answer a few bits.....

Well there is a guy over on M3post that retrofitted all OE equipment for the reversing camera to his M3 E92. Now it contains loads of info on how he did it, but mainly I used the coding info. Now his hardware should also work in our E89's as well, so this could be what the garage has quoted for.....
https://www.m3post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1720680

All I did was fit the Aliexpress module instead into the headunits loom for power and canbus. Although I don't have the parking lines and in-camera view rear sensor indications (full car pictorial view with front and rear sensors works perfectly though) I don't really use these anyway.

I hope that is of help

 

[AnubisZed]

Dave, mate, what’s the word on your install video ? Thanks.

The photo was only a teaser.
Similar, in a way, to this photo of a nice genuine boot liner that i bought recently for peanuts... :rofl:

These are borderline mythical!! Where did you get it? :driving:

A guy over on one of the Facebook groups had sold his 35is and had this spare, so put it up for £20. As i was thinking of buying one of the cpoy ones for £60 anyway i snapped his hand off.
Gave it a clean with tyre shine and it looked brand new, to be fair it needs another clean now again

 

[AnubisZed]

Hopefully Dave has a tip or two to make the job easier.

Dave needs a https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ account so that we can caffeinate him up for video requests.

Or another method....not onlyfans... who knows what content he'd be pressured to develop there.... :innocent:

:rofl: Only Fans :?

I do it for the love of the car.
To be honest, I'm running out of ideas I can afford to produce. I did a lot back in September as I had a week to myself and knew I could get them all done. I'd bought all the parts over the previous year (retrofitting cruise helps to pay for it) but I am running out of ideas. Big jobs like the Powerfold mirrors and heated steering wheel I honestly didn't think I could get done as the parts aren't cheap and I have to justify them, but I managed it with some real good bargains (you just have to wait for them to pop up).
But some bits are just to expensive to justify on my daily runner.

 

[Christopher72]

So with the OE Camera setup and Mr 12Volt, do they conflict?

 

[AnubisZed]

So with the OE Camera setup and Mr 12Volt, do they conflict?

No, you simply set it up for original camera in the settings of Mr12volt and it switches automatically to the OE screen. Then you see the vertical car, instead of the horizontal one, along with the camera image, of course this would only work for the rear camera, if you had a front camera as well then this mod wouldn't be worth it as you'd loose that front inage..
Talking of the image, in the Mr12volt screen it stretches it fully across the screen, whereas in the OE screen it'll keep the bullseye view. Now this is a bit odd at first but you soon get used to it

 

[Christopher72]

I'm waiting on Mr12volt shipping -- but yep, a front camera is still in the plan. My challenge is time -- the wife wanting me to finish tiling the shower, replacing the tie rods on the Honda Odyssey, resealing my 150 gallon marine aquarium that decided to leak 20 gallons on Saturday, or having fun tearing bumpers and interior off the Z4 to play with new electronics. (Mr12volt, cameras, PDC)... can't play with the Z4 without getting side-eye.

Found a decent GreenYi AHD720P/CVTS camera that I'm hoping works welll https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B071SCYPJM or https://www.aliexpress.us/item/2255...lgo_pvid=ed7aa238-7580-47d4-a080-92cbfcf79096

 

[AnubisZed]

..... My challenge is time -- the wife wanting me to finish tiling the shower, replacing the tie rods on the Honda Odyssey, resealing my 150 gallon marine aquarium that decided to leak 20 gallons on Saturday, or having fun tearing bumpers and interior off the Z4 to play with new electronics. (Mr12volt, cameras, PDC)... can't play with the Z4 without getting side-eye......

Ahh, now this is why I did a load of retrofitting last September while my wife was away for a couple of weeks, as I'm currently in the middle of completely replacing our kitchen/dinner, and by that I mean back to bare brickwork, walls down, new walls and then onto new plaster and refitting :headbang: the things I agree to, but as they say 'Happy wife, happy life!'

 

[Marcoose]

Christopher, please check if you’ve received a PM or two. Thanks. Marc.