Removing a car kit from a BMW 1 Series - Help me....
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A friend has a BMW 1 series on long term rental. She had a Nokia car kit fitted when she first started the rental.
Now the rental is up and she must remove car kit (otherwise BMW will charge as it is not a BMW part).
I have looked around the car and can only see the control wheel with red end and green send keys emerging from one side of the dash, and a cable which has an audio jack and charger on it.
Please can anyone help me to work out how to remove this without damaging the car?
Now the rental is up and she must remove car kit (otherwise BMW will charge as it is not a BMW part).
I have looked around the car and can only see the control wheel with red end and green send keys emerging from one side of the dash, and a cable which has an audio jack and charger on it.
Please can anyone help me to work out how to remove this without damaging the car?
I thought about cutting the wires, but the car kit will make sounds when trying to pair with new devices?
I dont want to pay someone for the job, i would rather do it myself.
Can anyone shed any light onto where the best place to put a car kit is in one of these and which panels i should remove?
I dont want to pay someone for the job, i would rather do it myself.
Can anyone shed any light onto where the best place to put a car kit is in one of these and which panels i should remove?
Edited by Ray Singh on Monday 25th October 15:27
If you take off the silver strip (just visible at the top of the photo), it levers off as just held in by studs, this exposes the screws that hold the top of the stereo in. You need to pull forward the bottom panel of the centre console from the bottom (it is held in by two metal posts) and then the other sections and be levered off too. If you go slowly then it is damage free as the sections below the stereo are clipped in with plastic tabs. The hands free kit will by connected to the back of the stereo. There may be a control box either under the stereo or above the trim below the glovebox and possibly a microphone lead up the side of the windscreen trim.
There are guides on the babybmw.net forums if you search for Parrot CK3000.
Just be careful not to scratch the trim when levering the silver strip off.
There are guides on the babybmw.net forums if you search for Parrot CK3000.
Just be careful not to scratch the trim when levering the silver strip off.
Heh, BMW have finally got stereo with CD players now? They must have run out of those old Business head units with the tape deck in them.
As said, there should be a control box, a passthrough cable connected to the back of the head unit, the wee control panel you see, and a mic running up the A-pillar.
As said, there should be a control box, a passthrough cable connected to the back of the head unit, the wee control panel you see, and a mic running up the A-pillar.
That is a boggo ES and a pre facelift model by the look of it, with no climate and no button strip for stuff like parking sensors, stop/start, heated seats etc which usually live in that lower dash area, so it looks rather bare and plastic-y.
As for removing it, like greygoose mentioned the metal strip along the top of the dash needs to come off to get the head unit out and can be prised off from one end with something like a kitchen spatula. Depending on model though some of the head units (facelift models perhaps) have their retaining screws underneath the head unit behind the air con controls rather than on top. The air con panel as mentioned has to be pulled out from the bottom, but when you do it make sure you brace your hand so as not to pull too far because when the bottom clips pop the top ones (either side of the air con knobs) dont generally let go at the same time so you can end up bending or even snapping the panel if you're not careful.
Once thats off you should be able to remove the main handsfree gubbins as they're probably just tucked behind the air con where there's some space. Unplugging it from the head unit will be no problem as it will just be an ISO connector, the microphone you could just cut off at either end if you cant get it out from behind the trim easily, I reckon you could have it all out in 15 minutes.
As for removing it, like greygoose mentioned the metal strip along the top of the dash needs to come off to get the head unit out and can be prised off from one end with something like a kitchen spatula. Depending on model though some of the head units (facelift models perhaps) have their retaining screws underneath the head unit behind the air con controls rather than on top. The air con panel as mentioned has to be pulled out from the bottom, but when you do it make sure you brace your hand so as not to pull too far because when the bottom clips pop the top ones (either side of the air con knobs) dont generally let go at the same time so you can end up bending or even snapping the panel if you're not careful.
Once thats off you should be able to remove the main handsfree gubbins as they're probably just tucked behind the air con where there's some space. Unplugging it from the head unit will be no problem as it will just be an ISO connector, the microphone you could just cut off at either end if you cant get it out from behind the trim easily, I reckon you could have it all out in 15 minutes.
LocoBlade said:
That is a boggo ES and a pre facelift model by the look of it, with no climate and no button strip for stuff like parking sensors, stop/start, heated seats etc which usually live in that lower dash area, so it looks rather bare and plastic-y.
As for removing it, like greygoose mentioned the metal strip along the top of the dash needs to come off to get the head unit out and can be prised off from one end with something like a kitchen spatula. Depending on model though some of the head units (facelift models perhaps) have their retaining screws underneath the head unit behind the air con controls rather than on top. The air con panel as mentioned has to be pulled out from the bottom, but when you do it make sure you brace your hand so as not to pull too far because when the bottom clips pop the top ones (either side of the air con knobs) dont generally let go at the same time so you can end up bending or even snapping the panel if you're not careful.
Once thats off you should be able to remove the main handsfree gubbins as they're probably just tucked behind the air con where there's some space. Unplugging it from the head unit will be no problem as it will just be an ISO connector, the microphone you could just cut off at either end if you cant get it out from behind the trim easily, I reckon you could have it all out in 15 minutes.
As for removing it, like greygoose mentioned the metal strip along the top of the dash needs to come off to get the head unit out and can be prised off from one end with something like a kitchen spatula. Depending on model though some of the head units (facelift models perhaps) have their retaining screws underneath the head unit behind the air con controls rather than on top. The air con panel as mentioned has to be pulled out from the bottom, but when you do it make sure you brace your hand so as not to pull too far because when the bottom clips pop the top ones (either side of the air con knobs) dont generally let go at the same time so you can end up bending or even snapping the panel if you're not careful.
Once thats off you should be able to remove the main handsfree gubbins as they're probably just tucked behind the air con where there's some space. Unplugging it from the head unit will be no problem as it will just be an ISO connector, the microphone you could just cut off at either end if you cant get it out from behind the trim easily, I reckon you could have it all out in 15 minutes.
Now that looks alot better.
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