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      06-19-2018, 02:03 AM   #1
Lsanchez
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Post BMW F2x NBT EVO Retrofit, successfully

Hi, I just wanted to share my experience doing this retrofit and maybe help some I not a pro but I can say now that I have some knowledge.

I m from Costa Rica and everything started 2 years ago when I bought my first BMW I was so excited that I did not realize about some import thing like Bluetooth stream audio, mirror etc. the car was from BMW premium and I thought that at less all BMW share standard features.
At that moment was too late to return back, so I star a deep research in google and lot of posts here.

My car is a BMW M135i, Prod. Date 2013-08-17, with Radio BMW Professional, freehand Bluetooth (6NH)

So I read about was possible Change the 6NH to 6NS to active the Bluetooth stream audio.

But was not easy
The thing is if you have a head unit like my CIC(HU_ENTRYNAV) and don't have the combox in the trunk without this combox is not possible coding the car.

So there was 3 possible solution for mi
1. Buy a Bluetooth adapter to Aux, just $15
2. Buy the combox installed and coding what I need, price around $800 + cables and all the installation(not easy)
3. Buy a head unit like NBT or NBT-Evo which does not need the combox to do the coding part. Between $900 to $1450 depending on your knowledge and type of head unit and screen.

In the end, I decided to buy a head unit and took the risk an NBT-Evo with 10.25 display from G30(buy bigger or don't buy it. hahaha). I saw at comment who recommend naviprof from eBay, So I contact him I send my car information and after some emails, I decided to buy it.

The only thing that Seller pointed was"the navigation for Costa Rica does not work", I replied, "if the rest of the features will work, I dont need it".

Now to retrofit a head unit there are important things like:
- There is a way to change the vin of the head unit, so is not just buy a head unit. if you dont know how to change the vin of the head unit will you need to pay extra.
- If you dont want to cut cables and rewire there is at an option like plug and play
- If you dont know how coding? well pay extra

The seller sold me the head unit + screen + cables(screen, retrofit and ethernet for coding) + coding for $1450

1. So first you need to know what kind of headunit you have? if is possible extra it take some pictures and see the back of the head unit to make sure wich conecters you have.

2. Confimr with Seller if the Screen woll work for you.

3. Send the Vin

4. When you have it, install it this is pretty easy just have calm and time(I did around 4 hours) if you can buy the tools for remove the trim will be better.

5. In my case Seller sent me the head unit coded with my car vin, so I just need to list the things that did not work.

6. make a meeting with the seller via team view(import you will need a windows machine) follow the instruction to conect the car and he will do the rest for you.

7. Wait for coding and test it until everything is ok.

I will add the instalation steps with some pictures the next day



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