M6 2008 (E63) - Music set up / bluetooth / sat nav upgrade

[ab-19]

Hi guys,

Owned my M6 (E63) for just over a month now and loving every minute of it. Minus the constant filling up at the petrol station, but that be my right foot fault. However....

Looking for a bit of advice on a couple of items and wondered if anybody could point me in the right direction or somebody has come up with an ingenious solution.... as having audio cables everywhere reminds me of my first car trying to impress Claire Gates that my tape deck could now play CD's through this nifty CD player gadget...

So the problem I'm facing is regarding getting my music to play through the speakers from my iPhone 6. I have an AUX input (my car doesn't have a USB input) which works perfectly fine but doesn't allow me to change tracks through the buttons on the steering wheel or see what's playing on the stereo/iDrive display screen. Which is fine, I can live with this but kind of want something a bit better as we all have those songs on the playlist where you go "why on earth did I put that song on there?". The other problem with this is you have to leave the phone in the armrest where the AUX plug is.

I'm trying to think of the best setup for my music and phone as the Snap In Adaptor in the car is for an iPhone 3 or 4 therefore cannot plug my iPhone 6 into this to play my Spotify. Strangely my BMW bluetooth phone connection works fine but will not allow me to play my music through this system, am I doing something wrong?

I've looked at solutions, my best one I can see so far is a bluetooth adaptor that can connect to the Snap In Adaptor 30 pin connector and use that as my bluetooth connection, keep my phone in a vent phone holder and play music that way. Does anybody know if this will even work? Or will it be trial and error.

Secondly I have the 2008 Professional Sat Nav dvd in my car, I have seen on the internet a few copies of the 2015 dvd for around £20.....are these any good? Or am I likely to bust my DVD player?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Cheers,
Ash

[ab-19]

Hi Everyone,

Thank you very much for all your suggestions.

I have somebody from OEM Retrofit contacting me on Monday to discuss through some options but it appears that after speaking with the salesperson I'd still need to have the phone connected and left in the glove box which is a pain to keep getting in and out from the drivers seat and wouldn't let me control Spotify....the CIC COMBOX retrofit would be amazing but looks too complicated for me and pretty sure that taking the car apart and fiddling with the electrics will invalidate the mondial warranty??

So I think the one I'm going to give a go will be this bluetooth aux adapter as suggested above:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/3-5mm-AUX-Bluetooth-Wire...

It needs to be re-charged every now and then from the cigarette charger but at least I can just plug it in to the aux and use my phone control from the phone holder on my air vent.

Not a perfect solution I know but at least it will allow me to use Spotify which is where I have all my music. Anybody see this not working??

Suppose I can put up with this small inconvenience as I'm madly in love with my V10

I'm also going to give the new DVD maps a go, thank you for Rusty's details.

Cheers,
Ashley