12-27-2014, 12:44 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jeffb325
you didnt read the entire thing:
"if you want the lights to dim with the dash lights you will want to splice the orange wire from the fakra into a dash lighting circuit, the easiest place to do this on most cars is the ashtray light or at the stock head unit plug, in most BMWs the lighting wire is the grey and red wire on the blue plug. ALWAYS confirm this with a test light or voltmeter."
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Gotcha... does that apply to the e53? Mine had factory nav so is that wire present in one of the two harnesses (one was blue) that formerly plugged in there? If so, that is definitely easier to get to than my solution.
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Last edited by crystalworks; 12-27-2014 at 02:38 AM.
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