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After-market Head Unit

The car as I bought it unfortunately only came with a Tape Deck based BMW Business Radio. Which in 2014 is extremely dated, so I started looking for an upgrade. I am not hugely into after-market sound systems and the car already had the Harmon-Kardon kit so I was happy to stay with that and only wanted to upgrade the Head Unit so I could use more recent technologies. It was very important I be able to play music from easier sources such as CD's or USB stick and it needed to have Bluetooth connectivity for my phone. I also didn't want an obviously after-market Head Unit. I had done this previously in an Audi 90Q20V and regretted it every day I drove it.

 After a bit of research I found that there was a whole swathe of units that were OEM styled the most popular of these being the Dynavin and AVIN units. The AVIN unit seemed more popular on the forums and was developed by a community member:


Luckily about the same time someone had also released a review on the AVIN Avant-2 unit over at M3Forums which was quite positive. When comparing this back to the features of the Dynavin D99+ I decided that if I was going to upgrade it would have to be the AVIN Avant-2 unit.

 I ended up placing an order for the AVIN Avant-2 (for E46) along with some other goodies like a backup camera and front facing camera to add a few extra features to the car while I am there.

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