Route the changer control cable included with the changer from your car stereo to the changer location. The cable must be plugged into a port on the back of the car stereo, so you'll need to pull the stereo out of the dash. The methods for doing this vary depending upon the car the stereo is installed in--reverse the installation method for the car stereo to access the rear of the stereo. Most CD changers are installed in the boot or rear of the vehicle, so place the cable underneath the car's carpet by removing the door's "scuff plate," peeling the carpet back, and laying the cable underneath it.
Set the angle adjustment on the changer. This is a switch or knob on the changer that should be set to match the changer's mounting angle. For example, a changer mounted horizontally would have the switch set to 0 degrees, while one placed vertically will be set to 90 degrees. Put the changer into the brackets, and screw it in place with the included mounting screws. Your installation is complete.
Not all car stereos and CD changers of the same brand are compatible. Be sure to check the specs of your car stereo and CD changer to be sure they'll work together as one unit.
Some new changers will have a "transport screw" installed that prevents the CD mechanism from moving when the changer is being shipped.
BMW sells a special mounting kit including brackets and new trunk lining to do an "internal" mount, but I wasn't sure I wanted to lose the trunk space this would require. I also didn't really want to do anything permanent to the trunk, since the vehicle is leased and we don't know if we'll buy the lease out when it ends.
With this in mind, I found a good solution:. I attached the changer to a piece of foam cut to fit in the battery cover shelf. This puts the changer up out of the way of moving objects in the trunk, makes it very easy to access, and consumes virtually no usable space.
The changer is secured to the foam with duct tape make that 1 million and one uses and counting , and the foam is stuck on the shelf nicely due to the lip around the top. It will take one hell of a bump to get that thing out of there. Plus, it can be very easily removed if I should need access to the battery. The wires drop down below the trunk liner, and the excess wires and the Soundgate adapter sit in the spare-tire well below.
I didn't need to drill a single hole or alter the trunk in any way. The worst thing I may need to deal with if I should have to remove the changer is some duct tape residue on plastic. As has been noted before by other BMW owners, accessing discs is not as simple as one would hope, you need to get to the end of CD6 and then advance forward.
Pressing the CD buttons twice does not take you to them like has been reported on some of the other units Pioneer??? However, I am not noticing much lag-time while advancing tracks like was reported with the Alpine MP3. It's slightly longer than the in-dash CD, but not enough to be a nuisance. The MP3 cd that I am using to test right now has about songs on it, nested up to one directory deep with 3 directories total.
The Sony instructions indicate that although you can nest files in directories, the more directories, the longer accessing will take.
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