[quote="X5Sport"]
The right car and deal will come up though....

Richard
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Here's hoping.... I now have the fun of trying to get my deposit back.  :-[

[quote="The Doc"]
[quote="The Doc"]
Hi,

The cheapest I could find was around £1700 for the CIC nav without the bluetooth
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The £1700 was a fitted price btw including the interface, wiring etc.
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Thanks for all the replies. I found out yesterday the finance broker was trying to push ...

[quote="X5Sport"]
Or trying to avoid a high BIK tax charge?

R
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Good point

[quote="X5Sport"]
As requested, yes it does mean a massive amount of work to add a CIC to a car without one. It can be done but with all the necessary hardware it is north of £2k in parts, then you need coding, looms, and licence keys from BMW to 'activate' the functions.
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Thank you for ...

[quote="Raj"]
Get your deposit back.

Retrofitting is an expensive and sometimes not straight forward thing to go through on the newer models.

Find one with it, even if fewer other toys as trying to shift it later will be more difficult. People are more forgiving if it doesn't have the powered boot ...

[quote="535dboy"]
What a starnge omission particularly for an ex-BMW uk car.

Could make it difficult to shift
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This is my thoughts as well....     A quick call to BMW parts and there is no retrofit kit available for SAT Nav and nothing for bluetooth..

[quote="The Doc"]
WBAC are a joke.

Here you go: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BMW-e70-CIC-Pro-Navigation-Kit-/301117151867?pt=UK_In_Car_Technology&hash=item461bfb1a7b

Was chatting to him earlier as every time I drive Mrs Docs motor I get angry with the idrive >:(
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Thanks

Yes this was my ...

[quote="The Doc"]
Hi,

The cheapest I could find was around £1700 for the CIC nav without the bluetooth
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Yes this is the kind of prices I've been getting on the internet. However in comparison with regards to the pricing of the car it's nothing. A valuation of the one I'm looking at is £27K ...

Hi,
I've put a deposit on a July 2013 E70 X5 5,800 miles £37,995, Space Grey.

This one. http://www.approved.bmw.co.uk/bmwuk/bmwauc/details/0,,1156___ask-4%40adm-xx,00.html?ch=_V0JBWlc0MjA4MDBCNjY0ODU=&btp=1x24-distance_ASC|list

However it has no Media package which explains the price. The CIC ...