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Originally Posted by mccabema
By this I mean that the earth strap from the new harness will join the existing one. Am I better of leaving it off?
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If you look at the cabling you need, no eart wire is required.
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Originally Posted by mccabema
Are you saying that there are some cables going to the existing X1313 blue connector on the navigation computer that need to remain in place? Therefore its not a case of simply removing the exsisting harness plug and replacing it with the new one?
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X1313 currently has these signals:
Ibus pin 3
Terminal30 (battery) pin 1
NAV_NF+ (voice) pin 9
NAV_NF- (voice gnd) pin 18
Terminal31 (gnd) pin 10
Terminal31 (gnd) pin 11
You need to retain all of these signals and add
VMLC31 (monitor gnd) pin 12
RGB signals
So leave the existing wiring attached, and just fit the 3 x video signals and the monitor ground
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Originally Posted by mccabema
Are you saying to remove the X1313 connector from the new harness and wire it to the relevant pins (7,16,5,14,6,15,12,1,3) on the existing harness connector, thus leaving the original conector and some of the original wiring in place?
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Leave ALL existing wiring in place.
The mono-nav is a subset of the colour nav. You NEED all the existing wiring. You only need to ADD the RGB signals (and respective wires).
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Originally Posted by mccabema
This confuses me slightly ! Connector X18801 is the blue plug that is currently connected to my old mono headunit. This plug will connect to the blue socket on the new widescreen display.
What you are saying suggests that I need to re-wire this connector. Is it not plug and play?Perhaps you could explain what you mean. I have no drawing of my old navigation so I have no idea how any of the existing cables are wired. I'm working under the assumption that my existing harness has the blue plug (X18801) wired to the Radio module in the same way the new widescreen necessitates.
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I cannot confirm the wiring of the connector on the radio-nav unit, it is missing in the WDS. So you will need to document the plug (wire colours, pin numbers) and then compare to the retro-fit diagram. You may find everything is correct, and in the right place.
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Originally Posted by mccabema
This is simply a cable going from pin 12 on X18801 to pin 12 on X18802 right ?
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Yes, the LCD brightness control (PL, black wire) is a single wire from the blue plug to the white plug of the bordmonitor. As per the retrofit instructions.
What you are doing is simple. You are tending to over-complicate matters.
Remember: what you have is a subset of what you need. No existing wiring needs to be removed. You only need to ADD wiring.
Jochen