Hi all,
This is my first post on here so I hope I'm posting in the right place.
I've recently purchased my first BMW bike, an R1250 Adventure, and must admit I'm extremely pleased with it so far.
I wish to remove the existing sat nav cradle and fit my own TomTom rider 400. The usual search online showed that the power cable goes to a connector and it's just a case of tracing the cable back and then disconnecting. I also read that there is an additional 12v supply that you can buy a cable for (BMW pt No83 30 0 413 585) that plugs straight into this adaptor and it's just a case of splicing the power cable of what ever you want to charge to it and you're good to go.
So I've started striping things out tonight and this is what I found. The black cable from the sat nav cradle goes to a USB type looking plastic block, from this comes two cables. One goes to a white connector with two wires(brown and white) that appears to be blanked off and isn't connected to anything, I assume that this is the additional 12v power supply the prev mentioned part No will plug into. The other cable goes to another white connector, but larger, with three wires (red, purple and black). This is plugged into a black connector and the cable from this disappears into the surrounding frame work and I guess goes to the main loom. This must be the cable that supplies the sat nav power along with a data cable.
So if I remove the satnav cradle entirely I will be left with one open connector and I don't want to cut the cable as may wish in future to re fit the original cradle.
So does anyone know if I can purchase something similar to the above part No that will plug into the connector coming from the loom that will allow me to splice my own sat nav cable to?
I hope all this makes sense and I cant seem to add pictures which would make things easier.
Thanks in advance.
This is my first post on here so I hope I'm posting in the right place.
I've recently purchased my first BMW bike, an R1250 Adventure, and must admit I'm extremely pleased with it so far.
I wish to remove the existing sat nav cradle and fit my own TomTom rider 400. The usual search online showed that the power cable goes to a connector and it's just a case of tracing the cable back and then disconnecting. I also read that there is an additional 12v supply that you can buy a cable for (BMW pt No83 30 0 413 585) that plugs straight into this adaptor and it's just a case of splicing the power cable of what ever you want to charge to it and you're good to go.
So I've started striping things out tonight and this is what I found. The black cable from the sat nav cradle goes to a USB type looking plastic block, from this comes two cables. One goes to a white connector with two wires(brown and white) that appears to be blanked off and isn't connected to anything, I assume that this is the additional 12v power supply the prev mentioned part No will plug into. The other cable goes to another white connector, but larger, with three wires (red, purple and black). This is plugged into a black connector and the cable from this disappears into the surrounding frame work and I guess goes to the main loom. This must be the cable that supplies the sat nav power along with a data cable.
So if I remove the satnav cradle entirely I will be left with one open connector and I don't want to cut the cable as may wish in future to re fit the original cradle.
So does anyone know if I can purchase something similar to the above part No that will plug into the connector coming from the loom that will allow me to splice my own sat nav cable to?
I hope all this makes sense and I cant seem to add pictures which would make things easier.
Thanks in advance.
