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Old Sep 16th, 2012, 06:21 AM
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Refitting Genuine Head Unit-Help needed with Nav Wiring

Hi all, first off a bit of background. I'm in the process of reinstalling the genuine stereo in the wife's 03 Cooper S. The car was bought with an Alpine unit in place and had all the HK system removed and rewired to suit, also the Nav would not give voice prompts because of this and the steering wheel controls would not work..
Now I know I could of bought adapters to get the nav and steering controls to work, but I'd rather have the genuine install back in and working correctly.
Here's where I'm at now.
Step one was to get the head unit back in, that's now in and the steering controls work fine. I had to rebuild the quadlock as this had been removed, however I still don't get voice prompts. The head unit volume drops as if to receive them, but no prompts.
At the moment, the quadlock has the main 16 pin connector and a smaller white 12 pin connector with 3 wires coming out for the CD changer. I believe there should be a black 12 pin connector alongside the white one that handles the nav side of things. This is missing with no signs that I can find of it being chopped of anywhere.
Can someone please confirm if this is where the problem is and if so where to trace the missing plug back to? Once I get this working, I can start on step 2, reinstalling the H/K!
Thanks in advance!
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Old Sep 17th, 2012, 08:20 PM
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Solved it! The problem was the car had Harman Kardon and being an early 03, the nav signals went straight to the amp in the boot rather than head unit, meaning there was actually no black plug in the loom behind the head unit containing the nav wires.
Picked up a plug from the scrappy's today and then ran the wires from the amp loom back to the head unit and voila all working
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Old Sep 28th, 2012, 07:59 AM
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@Ellie'sR53: Do you happen to have any images or a more detailed description of what cable needs to go where? I need to do the same to get the nav voice back before I can sell my car. Cheers...
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Old Sep 29th, 2012, 05:49 PM
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Yeah I got the information from the pinout diagram to the back of the radio from
mini2.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=134761&d=1183789338
and the Harman kardon dealer retrofit pdf from
kneb.net/bmw/MINI/mini%20HK_retrofit.pdf
Took some deciphering but I had to get the black plug to go into the quadlock fom the scrappers and then I tapped into the wiring loom to the amp under the back seat(drivers side) and run the 2 cables back to the head unit.
I can't post full url links as I don't have enough posts so you'll have to add the www but is that any help to you?
Julian
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