Premium Sound Upgrade

GaryRudolph · 12-27-2011, 02:25 PM

Just pulled off the lot in which was told it was a \"loaded\" 3.5is to find out it\'s missing the premium sound. Is this retrofitable? Trying to sort it out with the dealer.

I\'m not too happy with the quality of the sound on a 09/11 build. Mostly as the sound stage is too far forward and it\'s tinny. Wish I had a Premium to compare.

teagueAMX · 12-27-2011, 10:07 PM

You can get the components but the wiring is going to be an issue for you. BMW uses their proprietary component communication tek called CiC in the premium systems.

Here's a website for a guy that's on the 3 series side of this forum who might be able to shed some light on what it takes to retrofit upgrade a stock system. He's in Canada but I've read an number of threads over there and it seems he's quite knowledgeable. At one time we exchanged a few PM's because I asked him to do some posts for the e89. For some reason he declined - not sure why. Maybe he's got his hands with 3 series retrofits and the e89 is a slightly different animal. Regardless drop an email to see if he could help.

http://www.bimmerretrofit.com/
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GaryRudolph · 12-27-2011, 11:16 PM

Thanks, I saw them online and was going to check them out.

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teagueAMX Colonel 60 Rep 2,087 Posts Drives: Some are road worthy Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: So Cal, USA iTrader: (0)	You can get the components but the wiring is going to be an issue for you. BMW uses their proprietary component communication tek called CiC in the premium systems. Here's a website for a guy that's on the 3 series side of this forum who might be able to shed some light on what it takes to retrofit upgrade a stock system. He's in Canada but I've read an number of threads over there and it seems he's quite knowledgeable. At one time we exchanged a few PM's because I asked him to do some posts for the e89. For some reason he declined - not sure why. Maybe he's got his hands with 3 series retrofits and the e89 is a slightly different animal. Regardless drop an email to see if he could help. http://www.bimmerretrofit.com/ __________________ __________________ "Political correctness is a doctrine fostered by a delusional liberal minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end".-- Unknown Last edited by teagueAMX; 12-27-2011 at 10:38 PM..
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