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Originally Posted by Papethova
693 is sat radio prep
655 is sat radio with 1 year subscription
Dunno how they are different aside from the obvious subscription
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"693" prep up to and including 2009 vehicles required a seperate Sirius reciever in order to have SAT radio. "693" would have all the wiring,antenna, and mounting provisions ready in case customer wants to install at a later date.when 2010 vehicles came along,Sirius hardware has become a part of the existing radio tuner. In this case ,the dealer just orderes a electronic enabling code thru the parts dept and short while later the technician loads on to a USB stick for data download into BMW's 3G programming station. Another words ,all the 2010 and later cars have 693.
"655" is pretty much turn key and all you need to do is activate the radio with a simple phone call or internet connection and your up and running in less than an hour (mine took 15 minutes) ..nice thing about "655" , there's no labor time to install .. purchasing sat radio with "693" on the 2010 and newer cars still costs $350 for the enabler code and then need to pay the tech his time to retrofit and code the vehicle,could reach in the $500 neighborhood depending on the dealer. This is why I told Dan he shouldn't pay more than what the option cost because he was told he couldn't order it at the time (not sure why though).