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Originally Posted by evilb
All that work, and Sirius still sucks. Audio quality worse than radio. Surprised artwork was that important to you.
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Wasn't just the artwork, but it does prove that there are some updated components in the newer NBT units.
It really wasn't a lot of work anyway, takes less than 30 minutes to swap the NBTs around, if that.
And I already had the knowledge to make the used NBT a virgin so I can program it with my VIN and load my FSC codes into the unit. Coding was simple as well.
Plus I can usually find NBT units pretty cheaply and I could always viriginize and sell my old NBT to some who wants to retrofit.
The newer unit does seem to respond faster than before, plus I don't have a lag in the bluetooth picking up the phone like I did with my original one.
I also wanted to see if installing a 2014+ unit would trigger any issues with the ISTA/P dealership system as an unapproved part, but was surprised to see that the newer 2014 part was accepted by ISTA/P as a valid part for the vehicle and had no problems with it.
Also gives a little credence to my personal theory about what BMW is going to do about 2013 model 5-series vehicles and BMW Assist in terms of ConnectedDrive since as it stands, 2013 model 5-series vehicles won't be supported after the end of this year but BMW claims to be working on a technical upgrade for those vehicles.