abc1112132000

Guys hi.
I am new at this so I apologise up front if this topic has been already covered. Guys I have a BMW 545i built in Nov 2003 and delivered to Australia in early 2004. It has iDrive and navigation which is just turn by turn only. Guys my car has a BMW phone cradle in between the from seats. It is however old and I can not use my iPhone 5 with it. Is there a snap-in bluetooth adapter I could get to simply replace the old phone and allow my iPhone 5 to be used ? When I use my iDrive screen it does indicate that there is bluetooth available but when I go through the process my car does not find my iPhone.
Is there a simple solution for this problem to make my iPhone work? (The steering wheel has all the normal phone related buttons).

Thanks.

dv8ed

Maybe you need a BTUM that's what I was using before just type BTUM on eBay.

KyleB

I use the motorola snap-in adapter that was in my car when I bought it. I was able to get it to pair with my old Blackberry as well as my iphone4. i don't get my contacts and recent calls imported into iDrive with my iphone like i did with the blackberry, but i do get hands-free call functionality. look for a used snap-in BTUM on ebay or your local BMW forums. If I remember correctly there is one specific to apple phones.

H F

Adding streaming BlueTooth via AUX audio port - Bimmerfest - BMW Forums not sure this is what u need but its for streaming music.. think it might work for calls too... check out this post

abc1112132000

Guys thanks for the advise. Much appreciate it.
By the way, it is a shame that there is not a snap in adaptor other than the unit mentioned above which it may or may not work with the iPhone 5 I want to use with. Anyway lets try it and see what happens....