We have to remember that back in the day, BMW charged you for every option or "nicety". More often than not your car would have come with a blanking plate where your would have expected to find a series of knobs and buttons that when you fiddled with, music or speech would have appeared!
Therefore almost all of the headunits that your car's had when new were either dealer fit from the options below OR the original owner drove the car (in silence) to a place like Road Radio where some knob would molest your very expensive new cars loom, just so you could listen to your newly recorded Wham cassette. Or if you were a rich yuppy, your CD's.
So here goes.
JAN 1989
Dealer Fit KEXM700 with GM1000 amp and CDXM100 6 disc fitted to 325i owned by Paul "the diddler".
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APRIL 1990 Note:
The GM1000 amp above does not show on the accessories listings for 1990 and the Pioneer KEXM700 and CDXM100 has been replaced by the M800 and M70 respectively.
The typo under the Pioneer KEH 4000RDS. I believe this should read £513
Any Pioneer with the prefix M before the unit ID number was compatible with the newly introduced "M" series of CD changers (of which I have an M30 version with 2 6 disc cassettes in my loft
)The Pioneers DEH (a single CD Headunit) and KEX were component units, i.e. you needed a seperate Amplifier to power them.
The "Stalk Equaliser" was a Blaupunkt (one of which Barry has awaiting install in the infamous Sport)
And heres what they look like.
The Blaupunkts
Cambridge
Melbourne
Granada
Montreaux
Memphis
and although not a dealer option, a very few got one of these if your city bonus was healthy in 1990. The infamous, iconic, legend that is. the NEW YORK
Heres the Stalk equaliser
The PIONEERS.
KEH5100B
KEH4000RDS
KEHM5000B
KEH9000RDS
DEH55 CD headunit. Looks almost modern?
and the top of the range KEX M800 with it's CD changer. These were bloody HOOOOGE and took up half the boot!
Remember "£1275 sir to put in your 325i" hence not meny got them!
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Any more years for me to add?
) pruned out then deffo for the WIKI. Good work.
