E90 and Hands Free Car Installation

I have a problem, my car an Alfa 156 is fitted with a Nokia hands free set and this works perfectly with my old 9320i phone through the POP port.
My new phone is an E90 Communicator and I wish to update my car kit to match. The E90 does not have a POP port and I believe relies on using a Bluetooth connection whan used in this context, I also want the cradle to be an active one to keep the phone charged.
The problem is that the control box fitted to my car is an HFU-4 unit and this unit does not support bluetooth.
With all of the cabling already installed and working for the antenna, microphone, connection to the car radio etc I want to take advantage of this and change the control unit to a HFU-5 unit which I believe does have blootooth built in, and change the existing cradle as well.
Is this modification possible?
Where can the parts be obtained?
What should I be asking for?
Thjanks for your help, Mark.

Hi msandilands
Presumably you have a CARK-126 fitted in your Alfa Romeo. The connections are the same on the HFU-5 (CK-7W) but you will need the CU-7 control button to adjust volume and answer the calls. You will also need to connect the blue wire on cable set PCU-4 to 12v +ve ignition sense to turn unit on/off.
Unfortunately you might need to use a Brodit holder for the cradle solution.
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