really really fucks me off when people do things like this.
mate of mine is trying to sell me his alpine head unit see it working fine in his fiesta etc now hes taken it out gave it to me to put in the bmw after looking at the connects on the back of his head unit it looks like hes cut of the main connector and re wired/changed it for one to fit his fiesta rather than spending a tenner on a fucking proper connector to join the 2 up.

so what the hell am i spose to do now cause theres no way im cutting my wires up in the bm!

this pic shows the original connector on the HU and the one he has added taped up.


this one shows the way i presume he had it connected up.

 

drives me mad too!!

 

1) Go into Halfords

2) Ask em for an Alpine head to ISO cable (fairly easy to get hold of)

3) Ask em for an Autoleads adapter cable to go from ISO to BM plugs

4) Connect up in BM and bin the old leads that you got with HU

Simple.

 

thing is it would be a straight fit in to the bm harness had he not choped the connector off.

 

Fuck know why people do it. I seen it in RS Turbo's over the years where people have chopped the wires to fit a head unit and i think whats the point, buy an adaptor and job done

 

i cant lie, ive done it myself when i was younger , but you learn by your mistakes.

 

No it would not be a straight fit.

BMW use 2 types of connector.

1 is a 17 or 19 round pin quadlock connector.

The other is a Square pin with can bus and infra red connector plugs on it.

They do NOT do any other type.

If you have ISO connectors on your BMW you either already have a cut and bodge job OR you have an adapter anyway- in which case you wont be butchering the BMW wiring.

That by the way isn't bad at all- fairly well done- you wanna try working on people DIY installs for a living.


Jake

 

most people who do it are skank chavs and cant afford the bits needed to sort it properly hence the bodge up



great rant, ive always wondered the same thing, about time someone mentioned it