E46 coupe fitting extra cigarette charger socket
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Remove your stereo (h/u), locate the violet/grey stripe wire in the h/u wiring loom, goes to a rectangular plug with 13 round pins in the back of your h/u.
That's your ign+ , for your ground either make your own or tap into the brown wire on the same loom.
The above is all from memeory, so test the wires with a multimeter or test light first, I could not tell you without looking whcih wires to go to if you wanted to connect directly to the ignition swithch.
HTH.
ETA, if you really are not competent with electrics then you should go and see and auto electrican.
That's your ign+ , for your ground either make your own or tap into the brown wire on the same loom.
The above is all from memeory, so test the wires with a multimeter or test light first, I could not tell you without looking whcih wires to go to if you wanted to connect directly to the ignition swithch.
HTH.
ETA, if you really are not competent with electrics then you should go and see and auto electrican.
I think you can just attach an extra socket to any 12v line in the car. Clearly it's better to do this on the same circuit as the other cigarette lighter, so if you blow a fuse it won't cause E.g. the headlights to fail.
I did it in my car (not a BMW, admittedly) by simply buying an extension cord (something like this: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Cigarette-Lighter-Socket... cutting the male end off and wiring it up in parallel to the existing OEM centre-console socket. Then you can obviously re-route the cable / socket to somewhere else. I have mine in the driver's footwell to supply power to my sat nav. It works perfectly.
The only thing I would say is that if you're planning on using it for anything that draws a lot of power, I wouldn't use both sockets at once. I probably wouldn't use it to light cigarettes, either (does anyone still do this??). But for charging two phones at the same time, for example, it works fine.
I did it in my car (not a BMW, admittedly) by simply buying an extension cord (something like this: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Cigarette-Lighter-Socket... cutting the male end off and wiring it up in parallel to the existing OEM centre-console socket. Then you can obviously re-route the cable / socket to somewhere else. I have mine in the driver's footwell to supply power to my sat nav. It works perfectly.
The only thing I would say is that if you're planning on using it for anything that draws a lot of power, I wouldn't use both sockets at once. I probably wouldn't use it to light cigarettes, either (does anyone still do this??). But for charging two phones at the same time, for example, it works fine.
MattOz said:
I have an "extended socket pack" or whatever BMW called it in my M3. This means that I have two extra 12V sockets in a plastic housing behind the armrest, on the transmission tunnel. Might be the most elegant(!) and OE solution for you?
I was about to mention this, it's an option i wish I had, wonder if there is a retrofit DIY floating about.
RZ1 said:
MattOz said:
I have an "extended socket pack" or whatever BMW called it in my M3. This means that I have two extra 12V sockets in a plastic housing behind the armrest, on the transmission tunnel. Might be the most elegant(!) and OE solution for you?
sounds perfect
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