Why don't you add a little drop of solder on the tip of the antenna connector?
Your year may be different than my year.

I posted the same DIY on bimmerforums. Read posts #5 and 13 by "m5hoot", he is a ham radio operator so he knows his stuff.
Basically a little bit of solder will solve the problem. The solder basically makes the antenna connector center pin "fatter" ---> better connection.
Report back if this trick works for you (I hope it does):

http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1303164

 

you just drop a little bit in the opening? the old tip, right?

 

Alex,

But reading through your posts, I am still confused. Do you have a picture of your current setup incl. antenna connectors?
Actually you can do it to both antenna connector(s) that you will be using.
How many antenna connectors do you have?

Anyway, Yes re soldering the tip.
To practice, get a nail (wood nail) with same size 1-2mm in diameter and solder the tip of the nail.
Basically making it 1/10 mm thicker or something like it: blue is factory pin, red is a thin smidge of solder material:

 

update
i didn't solder it but my friend came over and we used some tin foil and shoved some into the connecting antenna head and it worked

 

Interesting re "tin foil"!

 

lol, ya

 

Well, glad you got it fixed, one way or another: soldering vs tin foil battle!

 

Trick: Get a shipping carton box (such as carton box holding 12 bottles of beer), reduce its height to fit, turn it upside down over the gear selectror area so:
- The box protects that area from scratches.
- The box raises to a platform so you can place your items such as DICE, cable etc.

 

okk quick question im new to this but im interested in this dice thing.

i will soon be the official owner of a 2000 528i with cassette in the dash and 6 cd changer in the truck.

i like the in dash install of the dice .
so im curious is all i will need is buy the dice unit remove my fm tuner and fit the dice under there as u have done so in the pictures above??

and does this work with every model ipod and i am interested in the aux cable because i had alot more mp3 players then just ipods

thank u

 

That's pretty much it - the PnP harness we provide makes this essentially a 15 minute installation.

 

Or you could get the GROM Audio unit and just use a thumb drive in place of the changer.

 

what is that?? do u have any links


and or do u think its better then the dice??
i really like conveniently connecting my ipod to a cable and get my music u know

 

IPods get stolen. Thumb drives, not so much.

 

Just joined the club with a 2002 530i with Business CD, no changer.

With the current silverline pro, am I reading correctly that I can just install it behind the radio, and don't have to worry about installing it in the trunk anymore?

And can I set it up to display text on the MID, but maintain control with my Touch?

I want to be able to control volume, skip forward back with the steering wheel controls, but I don't want to make the Touch a "slave" to the Dice. I want to be able to mount it on the console and use it to navigate through my music.

Can I do this with the latest unit? (And install it in-dash (behind the radio)?

 

Bookmarked!

 

UPDATE,

After 3 years using DICE Ipod, I decided to move the Cabling (DICE and Aux) to the cupholder area. So this is some "red-neck engineering" for those who are interested:

- Torx#10 or Allen 1.5mm key to remove MID unit.
- Push your hand behind to push the HVAC outward to get room to maneuver.
- Remove the Cupholder (held by 2 Phillips screws) and bring the wiring down on each side of the cupholder.
Use a magnetic Pickup tool to avoid dropping the Phillips screws.
- I place DICE on the Left and Aux cable on the Right as shown.
Not the best elegant setup but I am happy.
- When parking car in public, simply throw a small piece of Kleenex over it and a newspaper over it (to hide the DICE cable).

 

Remove the Cupholder (held by 2 Phillips screws)

I love this cn90 update!

The BIGGEST problem with the DICE, by far, isn't which mount to get (which everyone obsesses about initially); it's the FINAL LOCATION of the DICE connector to the iPod.

Since you must fiddle with the iPod at least twice a day (and probably more), where the iPod eventually sits is the most important usability feature. The glovebox, for me, is just way too inconvenient under these circumstances.

One danger area though, in my humble experience ... is we may need a clear description of "how to remove the cupholder without breaking it".

In my single experience, I just could not get the cupholder out without destroying it. But I didn't know about the HVAC/IHKA trick.

Cross references:
- Front and rear cupholders replacement strategies (1)
- How to remove the IHKA air conditioning control panel to clean the circuit board (1) (2) (3) (4) (5)
- DICE Silverline radio-mount instructions (1) (2) (3) & how to remove just the MID (1)

 

BTW, with the two DICE wires poking out, do the cupholders still work (not that they ever did work well)?

 

Bluebee,

The cupholders are useless so I have never used them during the last 4 years.
By running DICE/Aux Cables through them, the cupholders are now officially dead LOL!

I use "Wedgie" cupholders. This is my cupholder setup:

 

As a cross reference, today we received another successful report of an ingenious near-driver installation trick; this one is in the parking brake boot.

 

Since the most important consideration is WHERE the final DICE-to-iPod connector terminates, it's useful to note this information from Fudman today:

"Poking a hole in the parking brake boot is not necessary for the trunk mount variant. The parking brake boot has an elastic bottom that grips the console to keep it in place. If you pull the entire boot up, you can run the wire alongside the parking brake handle and then reset the parking boot elastic bottom into place. That will hold the cable firmly in place. The pictures show my cable entering and exiting the parking boot."

 

Just for the record, I had to dig up this picture so I'm adding it here so that it's more easily accessible since a lot of people seem to have a problem with the removal of the MID allen quarter-turn set bolt.
- E39 (1997 - 2003) > 528i stock radio removal

Here is my MID which, for my 2002 525i, clearly uses a 1.5mm allen wrench.

 

Hi all!

I want a AUX input for my E39 touring (05/2000). I don't need the DICE connection.
I have a cd changer in the trunk and a casette player in the front, like this:

That's the best picture I have for the interior at this moment...
What would be the easiest & cheapest way to achieve my goal?

 

Search for the $5 Aux Input thread by "Kmoy" (? spelling).

 

Just for the record, I did an 'aux input' search in the bestlinks to find this (among others):
- How to add an aux input auxiliary audio port for iPod/MP3 retrofit input to the BMW E39 (1) (2) (3) (4) (5)

 

Thank you for the help... I'm gonna look for what I can use

 

This was posted today ...
> E39 (1997 - 2003) > Help taking out the MID, god help me.

So after 3 days of research and attempts to figure it out myself I have given up and hoped that maybe someone on this forum could possibly know how to take the MID out when you have no screw under the volume knob.

I bought a new stereo that I was hoping would be a piece of cake, and fun to install but turned into 3 days of pissing me off.

To me it looks like the previous owner did one hell of a job opening the unit when he installed that worthless ipod cord. As you can see the area where the bolt is suppose to be is all ripped apart and there is no bolt there period.

So after doing all the research I could I tried the attempt where I go through the AC unit to find that there was no possible way I could reach the MID's hinges.

http://www.bimmerfest.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=477965&stc=1&d=1416950386

Those are two photos of my sticking my phone into the AC unit and taking a picture of the bottom of the unit. Hard to see anything, but it is mainly to ask or show how the heck do I reach the radio :dunno:

If anyone could be of any help, please do so and it will be much appreciated.

P.S: Do you think that I could call my local dealership to help me with the issue over the phone?

P.S.S: How much do you think it would cost if I drove it to a dealership to ask them to take the radio out for me, if all else fails?

 

Nevermind nothing to see here.