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06-13-2006, 11:47 AM | #1695 | |
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Neekulaz,
Sorry to hear that the repair cost more than the initial quote, but I guess it is still reasonable given the additional work. Nevertheless, this thing is coming to an end.....and after that, you can enjoy the car again. |
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Do you ask them to send your car to their Shatin workshop? or TKW workshop? I did not have any experience in these two places before but my gut feeling tell me Shatin should be better for the paint job! |
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thanks for sharing the info, 6K for a minor paint job is not cheap but acceptable. Look positively, the damage could have been worse. Wish everything goes smoothly for you. Incidentally i spoke to my sm in ZF about his experience with rear damaged cars severities, he said some accidents require main beam realignment which can cost 200K He even saw cases which require a complete replacement of chasis 300K-400K!
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kelvin, long as the cd-r mp3 works on our cars , i m happy. i only tested one cd once, so i will continue to try different discs and will check the format again. yes, my cd is finalized and i think the issue could be just the cd drive happened to hate the disc (refractive surface incompatibilities as you said) I use. If the mp3 on cd works ok, i would not bother much on the ipod as I prefer to listen to one album or a compilations of my favourite songs repeatedly for a period of time and then stop listen to them for a while.
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http://www.densionusa.com/
my colleague has used Ice Link from http://www.densionusa.com/
http://www.densionusa.com/ Ice Link is connecting to his BMW 5-series (old gen) head unit by replacing the cd changer with one product called Icelink. He said the sound is VERY GOOD much better than AUX in and he can control the track selection via the same audio head unit except he cannot view the song names on the head unit display. He told me there is a ipod compatible headunit you can buy from eBay something.... anyone has related info to share?
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dear all
thanks for the mp3 cd info. this morning I was able to play the mp3 cd on my head unit, will try playback in the cd changer later! I am surprised the head unit is able to display subfolder name and track names!! I am very happy to see it Now, last question, can the head unit display chinese(simplfied?) / Japanese / Thai language characteres sturctured song names ? t
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also tested successfully playback mp3cd in the cd changer ! but i have a feeling that the cd changer sound is never as good as the head unit ( even though mp3 is digitally encoded/decoded which should be the same regardless of which drive it is playback , right?)
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But I know the decoding should be done in the headunit via the MOST bus, it should be digital signals and should not have any difference. BTW, I will say my E36 CD changer sounded better than my E90 changer now... Don't know why. I reported occassion sound distortion of my CD changer to BMWHK. They checked last time for 1 day and said they do not notify this problem.... Anyone here has the same problem as mine? |
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it depends on the connection between the CD-changer and the head unit. If it is tranmitting analogue signal, then it will be loss over the long connections.
Even for digital connection, there is still some difference. For optical connection vs. coaxial connection, the bandwidth is different. Thus, the transmission rate is different. Most home Hi-end CD Player (transport/decoder) uses Coaxial cables connections because of its higher-brandwidth and less affected from interference. Anyone knows our BMW CD-changer is doing D/A conversion in the box or at the headunit? |
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our BMW head-unit and CD-changer are made by Alpine, correct?
I remember I had a set of Alpine gear many years ago.....the DIN cables is only tranmitting analogue signal over one of its hair-like wires. |
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I just check Alpine's website for its CD-changer info.....all of their CD-changer has D/A converter on board the changer.
So, I suspect that our OEM changer is the same |
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Tony & Kelvin,
i never knew CD is able to recongize MP3 folders, how do that actually work? Tony, There is one shop that sells this Ice-Link stuff in Hung Hom, here is the link http://www.dension.com/icelink_info.htm http://www.takeone.com.hk/ |
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I will trust your confirmation about the D/A converter in the cd changer is true.
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On the head unit, there is a option button called LIST. When LIST button is pressed, the display will show all the subfolders names and also the track names if you choose to expand the subfolders by scroll to highlight that subfolder and press ENTER. You can move around the subfolders, track names, current playing song by pressing the same option button. Above feature is very useful if we were to decide to search by albums rather than by tracks. Once you move the cursor to point to the subfolder and expand it , then only the tracks underneath that subfolder will be displayed for further srolling! i love my E90 more now!
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yesterday evening I have done my own e90 meet at the central IFC the road which I have suggested to use it as a official meet point on HK Island.
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RD sport, How can I set headunit default language to Japanese/ Chinese as I cannot read Chinese Songs name Thanks |
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Now, what about the shark fin, can I simply use double side tapes for the shark fin ? anyone to share, tks t
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