pclausen

Thanks Nelson! Looks like both cavities will be covered just fine with the new controller.

nelson29

Since you have not installed your CIC, my advice to you is to take your car to the dealer to make sure you have the latest software.

pclausen

No, I'll put the CCC back in. According to Nelson, the update won't take with the CIC installed since it wasn't originally registered to the Vehicle Order and would request to have the CCC installed to continue with the update.

nelson29

Peter-
I was also wandering that when i briefly installed mines. Hopefully we can get some LCI owners o chime in this thread.

Georgieb

Gotcha!

I'll go ahead and book an appointment this afternoon.

pclausen

So I went home for lunch and popped in the original climate control unit and my AC works again and the engine cooling fan doesn't run constantly.

I wonder if perhaps the LCI climate control is not compatible with pre-LCI vehicles?

Nelson, did your AC compressor work when you had yours installed?

JWD

So first of all, I ordered a 100kW AC unit for my garage today, working in temps above 90F is plain torture.

After reading the problems above I was hoping that I wouldn't have these and that everything would be plug-and-play.
Well... it isn't....

Thanks to the previous owner I have a nice music collection pre-installed, Patryk should sell these like Nokia "Comes with Music"

Now the weird stuff.

After pressing one of the 1-8 buttons it started dialing a number that isn't in my iPhones phonebook but it displayed the number + name on the screen.
I thought it wouldn't dial since I didn't pair my iPhone yet (can't reach the bluetooth menu) but when I looked at my iPhone screen it displayed a unknown number and it was dialing ?!!
I pressed the Red button to stop the call and disabled the bluetooth of my phone... I was like WTF?

Anyways, here are my findings;

- I've got the same problems with the I-drive knob, it goes from top to bottom in one click.
- The Navigation keeps saying "starting-up" but won't come alive not even after a few rides.
At first Navigation was grayed out in the main menu but after a while it became white so I don't think it's key related.
- When you press the voice command button you get a nice feedback (through the speakers that is) it opens up the mic and sends it back through the speakers, very nice feature if you want to practice singing in your car though .

I have made a small vid displaying some of the problems;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei_s3P9uHr8
Click on it to watch it in HD

So... It looks GREAT but it doesn't work YET.

When my disappointment has gone I'll continue with this project .

Georgieb

JWD,
it seems like this will indeed be a long journey for some. Did you also change to an LCI version climate control and if so does it exhibit the same issues as Peter's?

JWD

Nope I haven't ordered one yet, I just placed my old AC control back and it works just fine.

P.s. After thinking about it I figured that my Bluetooth TCU is a separate unit which was already paired with my iPhone, I guess that's why it was working with the CIC.

nelson29

Peter-

I had the same issue that you had and i thought the LCI AC panel was defective. I actually had a noise coming from the compressor when i plug the LCI panel.

Its really weird to me because BenAnd retrofitted the LCI ac panel without any issues.

https://5series.net/forums/topic/91175-can-not-be-done/