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      11-06-2018, 02:33 AM   #1
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Hello,

I found a Site where you can Buy the B&W Tweeters and Door Speekers for the G30

http://www.gzcarphone.com/bmw-5-seri...light_p71.html

http://www.gzcarphone.com/bmw-5-seri...eeter_p64.html

Has anyone tried here?

I have the HiFi System and it is not really good so i wanted to know if anyone tried it if it is better than before.

Thank you!
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      11-06-2018, 07:29 AM   #2
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Hello,

I found a Site where you can Buy the B&W Tweeters and Door Speekers for the G30

http://www.gzcarphone.com/bmw-5-seri...light_p71.html

http://www.gzcarphone.com/bmw-5-seri...eeter_p64.html

Has anyone tried here?

I have the HiFi System and it is not really good so i wanted to know if anyone tried it if it is better than before.

Thank you!

I have bought them and fitted them... for the money... you cant go wrong.. they compliment my HK system very well
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      10-18-2019, 03:45 AM   #3
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how is your system holding up?
Mine started having issues on one of the tweeters (LED are not following colors)
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      10-18-2019, 04:14 AM   #4
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how is your system holding up?
Mine started having issues on one of the tweeters (LED are not following colors)
Thats funny, mine started making trouble too a week ago.
On The Right side the light just stayed off.
Turn it off on and it worked again. Now its fine.
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      10-24-2019, 09:57 AM   #5
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I have bought them and fitted them... for the money... you cant go wrong.. they compliment my HK system very well
I'm thinking about such an upgrade, but just wondering whether there is a downgrade in sound quality compared to HK speakers, as you have to replace the bottom speakers?
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      10-26-2019, 07:01 AM   #6
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How much was it? Does it really improves de hk system?
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      11-07-2019, 07:23 PM   #7
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Thats funny, mine started making trouble too a week ago.
On The Right side the light just stayed off.
Turn it off on and it worked again. Now its fine.
I tried contacting seller no reply. On some days it works some day it acts strange
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I'm thinking about such an upgrade, but just wondering whether there is a downgrade in sound quality compared to HK speakers, as you have to replace the bottom speakers?
sound is similar or slightly better
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As long as I know OEM Bowers Wilkins doesn't change colors. China made fake ones changes the color with the rest of the ambient lights :/ So there is a great chance that these are now genuine B&W speakers.
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OEM B&W changes colors with the rest of the car.
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OEM B&W changes colors with the rest of the car.

It doesnt on my pre-lci 540 , its only white. Did you make coding changes to enable that functionality?
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The B&W schematic shows a part labeled "Light Effect Manager" (LEM), #25 on the schematic. I would assume that took care of managing the light colors to the speakers. This particular piece is not on the HK schematic as there are no lights.


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As long as I know OEM Bowers Wilkins doesn't change colors. China made fake ones changes the color with the rest of the ambient lights :/ So there is a great chance that these are now genuine B&W speakers.
There is another thread on here where someone compared his B&W speaker to the Chinese knockoff and they were different.
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