E46 and Bluetooth help

[Blades]

Anyone have there bluetooth cellphone working with there car? How do you set it up? what else can the car do bluetooth wise?

[Blades]

wow .. no one has this .. do i have to be the first and show it off at the meets

[Santiago]

I'm assuming you have an E46 then you have to make sure that you have Option 640. Option 640 was the telephone pre-wire option. If you don't have that then you are looking at a costly/painful upgrade to retrofit the telephone pre-wire through the car.

Canadian E46 variants did not come with Option 640 standard and I don't think there were many that had this added by any dealers or buyers as there was little need for it. The BMW Bluetooth module is little known in the dealerships today and even less by the general E46 buying public. The weird thing is that all U.S. E46 variants came with Option 640 from the factory. So for U.S. E46 models you just have to plug a couple of little things and you're good to go.

Go to your dealer and with your VIN find out if you have Option 640. If you don't then you will have to buy the Option 640 retrofit kit and tear your car apart to run this wiring harness. Then and only then can you plug the Bluetooth module.

[Blades]

:crying: ah man ...that much torture.

[Airbalancer]

Also much cheaper to get a bluetooth head set.
In a cab ,I think a bluetooth set up would be useless

[christyles]

wow .. no one has this .. do i have to be the first and show it off at the meets
By the Eric, based on your post... lots of the members here work... give them time to reply or at least time to find some linke resources for you. That's like a 4hour window span from your initial inquiry.

Talk to Stalker or Blue Dragon I think. They were talkin Bluetooth language a while back.

[christyles]

I'm assuming you have an E46 then you have to make sure that you have Option 640. Option 640 was the telephone pre-wire option. If you don't have that then you are looking at a costly/painful upgrade to retrofit the telephone pre-wire through the car.

Canadian E46 variants did not come with Option 640 standard and I don't think there were many that had this added by any dealers or buyers as there was little need for it. The BMW Bluetooth module is little known in the dealerships today and even less by the general E46 buying public. The weird thing is that all U.S. E46 variants came with Option 640 from the factory. So for U.S. E46 models you just have to plug a couple of little things and you're good to go.

Go to your dealer and with your VIN find out if you have Option 640. If you don't then you will have to buy the Option 640 retrofit kit and tear your car apart to run this wiring harness. Then and only then can you plug the Bluetooth module.
About $3-400 if I remember correctly + taxes. One or the other. Don't quote me but it was definetely a couple hundred. Stalker might still have the OEM price for the OEM part I gave him a while back. :D

[christyles]

BTW, Eric, here's some info... the unit is already sold... but there's some information which might be useful to you.

SEARCH ENGINE on e46toronto.ca is your friend. Hope that helps.

http://www.e46toronto.ca/forums/showthread.php?t=2965&highlight=blue+tooth

[Santiago]

Given the price of the module and the wiring harness you're better off just getting a bluetooth headset. There is a cool factor to having it integrated and controlled within the car.

You asked about how it works and what you get with it:
- phone is controlled by the steering wheel control buttons
- voice comes over the car speakers while muting the radio/CD/whatever
- phone book appears on radio display or NAV display if you have it.
- the latest versions of the ULF will also display SMS messages on the radio display or NAV display

I actually have all the bits to get this to work but I have not found the time to install this. You are talking about a near gutting of the entire interiour to get this wiring harness in. We're talking about trunk to dash. The sad part is that in 2004 when I bought my car Option 640 was a $150 option. I bought my car off dealer inventory so I could not order it. Today the telephone prewire in the E90 variants is something like $500. If I had the wiring harness in the install takes 15 minutes. Putting in the wiring harness will likely be a day-long job.

[Blades]

Santiago .. thats pretty sick .. might not be worth it much but a cool feature none the less.

Christyles .. I am at work and still on here .. its just that the "new posts" is cleared so often unlike Maxbimmer. What the hell is the point of the "new posts" button if it cant show at least a days worth of new theards.

[audiophilia]

Bimmian demonstrated his for me in the X5. He knows I likey da gadgets, and I wanted the Bluetooth option immediately. I was told it was mucho dinero to install aftermarket...and not an option on some earlier BMWs :Idunno:

[Santiago]

Bimmian demonstrated his for me in the X5. He knows I likey da gadgets, and I wanted the Bluetooth option immediately. I was told it was mucho dinero to install aftermarket...and not an option on some earlier BMWs :Idunno:

There are Bluetooth modules that can work with older E46 models as long as the wiring harness is in place. For Canadian cars it isn't the Bluetooth module that's the problem, it's the lack of the wiring harness.

[fayraree]

You asked about how it works and what you get with it:
- phone is controlled by the steering wheel control buttons
- voice comes over the car speakers while muting the radio/CD/whatever
- phone book appears on radio display or NAV display if you have it.
- the latest versions of the ULF will also display SMS messages on the radio display or NAV display
I just got a hard on...can't wait to install this.

[fayraree]

Is it possible to remove the BT wiring harness from a car that had factory-equipped Assist (from the U.S.) and stick that mother into my non-prewired car? Would this affect the source car in any way other than not being BT ready for the future?

There's a vert being parted out in the U.S. and the guy is selling me his full oem nav and BT retrofit kits and I wanted to know about my options re: the BT wiring harness since he will be removing the nav harness anyway.

Don't worry Blue Dragon, I've still got my eye on your stuff ;) but want to see what my options are.

[Santiago]

Is it possible to remove the BT wiring harness from a car that had factory-equipped Assist (from the U.S.) and stick that mother into my non-prewired car? Would this affect the source car in any way other than not being BT ready for the future?

There's a vert being parted out in the U.S. and the guy is selling me his full oem nav and BT retrofit kits and I wanted to know about my options re: the BT wiring harness since he will be removing the nav harness anyway.

Don't worry Blue Dragon, I've still got my eye on your stuff ;) but want to see what my options are.

AFAIK, the factory installed Option 640 differs from the retrofit one in that the factory one had some things that were soldered into place. The retrofit one is pure plug-in.

If I had the choice, I'd opt for the retrofit kit and not a factory installed one.

[somegei]

Ah the benefits of having an American car...

Anyone know where I can get a cheap bluetooth ULF?