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Old 15th October 2020, 09:00   #9
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Hi Rob,
If you send me your address in a private message I'll get it posted to you as soon as I can, no need to bother about the postage, I'll pay to send it to you, you pay to return it to me once you've tried it to make sure the rest of your set-up works OK - you can keep the 2015 map CD (the last date produced) for use in your drive unit, in fact, try the CD first in your unit, it may be that the CD you have is too badly damaged to be read properly.

I've had some success drying the modules out, provided they've not been immersed for too long by putting them somewhere warm to dry them out then giving them a good clean with switch cleaner to remove any residue from the flooding that's left on the board, unfortunately some units are beyond saving as the damage is too severe.

If the modules are damaged, BMW units are available on Ebay, the radio module is a BM24, which is a better unit that the Rover unit (it has twin tuners which means the TMC system works without having to be tuned into Classic FM all the time), if you go down the BM24 route, you need the 'round pin' module, so it will match the power and data plug on the Rover wiring loom.

You can also swap the original bord monitor with the 4:3 aspect ratio screen for a BMW 16:9 aspect screen, but then you'd need the corresponding BMW video module to drive the 16:9 screen, again, all these units are 'plug 'n' play'.

Steve
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