Radio Display on Nav screen question

Qship5 · 20th March 2007, 21:12

I just picked up my M5 a week ago and have a a question for the experts regarding the radio display on the nav screen. When in split screen mode I can only see 10 characters of the RDS information at a time yet there appears to be a lot more room for additional characters to be displayed. Is this just a default limit of the system and if so does anyone know a way to tweak the system to display more characters or to use a smaller font size to get more characters in the defined space?

Thanks in advance for any help.

TeXJ · 22nd March 2007, 04:34

hey somebody else from dallas. What color is yours?

oh, and about your question, I don't know.

Qship5 · 22nd March 2007, 04:42

My beast is carbon black with all black interior. I am actually in Fairview so really close to McKinney. I put Dallas because I figured more people knew where that was vs. Fairview. Have you done any modifications to your M5? Glad to hear there are others locally on the forum.

Mike S. · 22nd March 2007, 21:00

Another DFW person chiming in...and on the radio thing I noticed the same thing you did. I'm going to live with it.

TeXJ · 24th March 2007, 18:50

I bought mine with AC shitzner(sp) pedals and a hamann rear spoiler. Other than that it is stock. I think it might have a SSK in there, but I'm not sure.

did you do anything to yours?

If you are in fairview, they have a car meet in mckinney on thursday nights. It starts at 8pm off of eldorado on the south east corner, koals(sp) parking lot.

E55AMG2 · 24th March 2007, 19:09

the RDS should scroll. If there is more text that can be displayed, the text will scroll across the screen.

Qship5 · 25th March 2007, 03:42

My RDS text doesn't seem to scroll. I get seem to get 8 or 10 characters of text and anything that would be betond that is truncated. Each new line of data comes through and stays on for a short period of time, but anything on a given line that is in excess of the 8 or 10 characters seems to get cut off. It doesn't show the missing caracters on the next screen.

ard · 25th March 2007, 04:21

Doesn't scroll on my 2003. Never heard of it scrolling for anyone.

If it does, I'd like to know...

Gamedemon · 25th March 2007, 04:24

funny in split screen I only see the map on the left and the direction and mileage on the right. Weh I turn the radio on.. I only see the radio... I cannot see the radio and navi at the same time... EVER... how do you guys even get split screen with both nav and radio

E55AMG2 · 25th March 2007, 08:31

Quote:

Originally Posted by ard

Doesn't scroll on my 2003. Never heard of it scrolling for anyone.

If it does, I'd like to know...

Mine doesnt scroll, so much as flash the next section of text. Example U2-Sunday,

then the next screen:

Bloody Sund

then the next screen

ay WHTQ 95

then the next screen

.5

and it starts over again