Well, who has one of these?? Looks pretty straight forward to install. Doesn't look like it comes in MPH on the face.

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Goblu...495390339.html

 

It's for a MK2.

 

This is the 1st gen forum. I think you meant to post in the 2nd gen forum (it looks like you own 2nd gen MINI's).

I haven't seen this before, and it's a very interesting find. It seems like a fairly new product because it doesn't show any sales activity before November 2013. You need to verify which years it is compatible with, because MINI electronics were updated at the 2011 model year.

 

You have to be VERY careful when ordering from Alibaba, Aliexpress, or a related site. They are well known for taking money and not delivering items. They do not participate in PayPal and have their own "escrow" method, so there is little protection against getting ripped off.

 

I've seen this on Amazon. There is a review on there as well. The reviewer had some major issues with it. Good Luck. It does look pretty cool.

 

I saw this a long time ago when I got my MINI and was looking to see if there was something like this.

If I was a MK2, i'd lament swapping my nice smooth speedo needle for this LED-based arrangement.

Also, non-internet enabled navigation is dead dead dead. iPhone with Carplay is here, and so are similar android variants.

The support for accurate crowdsourced traffic, contact navigation, internet connected searches for POI, voice searches, capacitive touch and a better keyboard are all supported with your phone.

 

Yea, and it will be 10 years before it makes it into an affordable factory car system...

 

So the cost of the factory systems has been thus far

1) Proprietary HW and SW. Designing your own module(s), with your own connectors, and skinning it with your own brand skin was predictably slow and expensive.

2) Cost of the LCD. Unbeknown to most public is that the LCD fitted into the car has to be tested to a significantly higher standard of NVH, temperature and humidity to become standard fit.

3) Third party costs. Map makers and custom CPU makers had a profit to make and salaries to pay.

I am quite sure that most car makers sell their GPS at near cost or possibly with 10% markup. They are there to sell cars, they don't give a toss if you order it with or without a $2000 GPS with $200 profit for them if they are selling you a $30k auto.

In fact BMW decided just to offer mounting brackets for aftermarket nav for 2007+ cars.

So anyway, my point, in a roundabout way, is that now the only cost for CarPlay (Or Blackberry) is the extreme environment screen and a linux compatible HW/control video interface, and those are getting cheaper and cheaper with every revision and as volumes rise. I believe the FIAT BlueNMe with TomTom is about 400E for example.