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Very nice write up. I had bought a lightning adapter to do the same thing, but when I went to test it before installing everything it wouldn't charge so I returned the adapter. But I'm sure I was over 80% charge, so maybe that was my problem.

What year is your car?

Thanks,
Rich

Thanks.

The car is a 2008 (Born on 2008-07-15). It is strange that when the phone is charged "enough" it won't charge, but does when it is low. For the most part when I plug it in it accepts a charge. I typically don't plug my phone in at night so it gets down to 30% or so the next morning when I plug it into the adapter and it accepts a charge.

Nice. I'll have to give this another shot.

-Rich

What do you think of the sound quality of the 30-pin adapter?

I'm using one of these adapters hooked to a 30pin for hooking up my iPhone 5 to the car's aux port, but I feel theres distortion/static that can be hard at normal to loud volumes.

When used with the BMW Y-cable that connects to both the USB & AUX ports in the center console there should be no distortion. What DOES cause distortion is if you keep the volume on the phone set to MAX. This generally only affects AUX connections to the radio (when AUX is the input source on the radio) since when you're connected to the iPod input source the volume settings on the phone are ignored (I think).

You can also lower the volume of the input source through the menu on the radio.

First try lowering the volume on the phone. I had the distortion problem when connecting the iPhone with a mini-stereo jack cable from the headphone port on the phone to the AUX port in the center console. You must get the volume turned down to at least 75% of max volume on the phone to eliminate it (goes for all stereos, not just the BMW).

Just wanted to give a big thumbs up to Smoke4U - I went and bought another lightning adapter and sure enough, it does charge at <80% charge! Woohoo. Thanks for the tip.

-Rich

Your post gave me the idea to take the aux cord that I normally slam between the console door and the console, and wire it through the bottom of the dash and out between the seat. It turned out great and now I don't have to open the console and position the cord just right every time I want to use my aux cord. Also I found a shortcut for getting the wire to go under the console. I took off the boot on the emergency brake and it exposes all of the inside of the console. (Removing the need to fish the wire through)

Btw to take off the boot just pull up from the front of the boot

That's great! Good to learn about removing the ebrake boot. Sounds like a nice way to do this.

Kick a$$!! Glad to have helped

Great write up. I did this over the weekend. No more ugly wires overflowing out of my center console. Thanks!