I recently purchased a 2008 335i with nav. As a condition of buying the car the dealership said they would install the BMW retrofit kit. I picked up the car and they set the ipod playing. We left and started the drive back from florida to texas. Mid-way through when we were getting to the radio part of the drive we started trying to use the ipod thru the idrive system. Well the only thing I can do is scroll through the alphabetic list of 2000 songs. There is no way to get to the "artist", "podcast", or any other sub menus. I took it to a dealership here in texas and they said there is absolutely no way to integrate my ipod with IDrive b/c my car did not come factory installed with the 6NF option.
My question is I could swear I've seen retrofits on cars earlier than 2009...did they all have 6NF installed?
Are they correct that BMW offers no way to connect the IPOD to the idrive system?
Does anyone make a way to connect the IPOD to the idrive system?
TIA!
EDIT: here is the video of what it does.