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My new-to-me 2000 M5 came with an inop CD changer (at no additional cost!) and I can't fix it.
So I am prepared to take a large, bold leap into the twenty-first century and am considering an update to the stereo system. In another thread it was suggested to me that there are other options besides the DICE product, so I was curious what others have done and would recommend. Hopefully others will find this thread useful down the road.
For me personally, I would like to keep the car as stock as possible. For now it is my garage queen so I don't need to have a great stereo and I can do without my bluetooth integration. However... it would be nice. A plug & play solution is optimal. I don't want to change out the head unit.
DICE has a new product, the Silverline DUO, which supposedly integrates bluetooth. Anyone have experience with this? Does it use the car's existing phone logic and buttons on the radio/nav and steering wheel? Or do you have to use the "mode" button to scroll into the BT functions?
And since I don't actually own an ipod (and would prefer not to) I would really like a system that has a USB interface (which this new Silverline product claims to have). And at around $250 it seems like a good price.
Comments, suggestions? Or should I just find some old cassette tapes and be happy with that?
Thanks,
Michael
So I am prepared to take a large, bold leap into the twenty-first century and am considering an update to the stereo system. In another thread it was suggested to me that there are other options besides the DICE product, so I was curious what others have done and would recommend. Hopefully others will find this thread useful down the road.
For me personally, I would like to keep the car as stock as possible. For now it is my garage queen so I don't need to have a great stereo and I can do without my bluetooth integration. However... it would be nice. A plug & play solution is optimal. I don't want to change out the head unit.
DICE has a new product, the Silverline DUO, which supposedly integrates bluetooth. Anyone have experience with this? Does it use the car's existing phone logic and buttons on the radio/nav and steering wheel? Or do you have to use the "mode" button to scroll into the BT functions?
And since I don't actually own an ipod (and would prefer not to) I would really like a system that has a USB interface (which this new Silverline product claims to have). And at around $250 it seems like a good price.
Comments, suggestions? Or should I just find some old cassette tapes and be happy with that?
Thanks,
Michael