Cant Find SES Cable to Jumper
 

I picked up a TCU for my 2000 M5 (12/99 build). I also picked up the 25 to 54 pin adapter, BT antenna and BT cable... I plugged it all in and phone paired up right away. Pulled my contact list down as well. I used the telephone section of the nav screen to call my wife, she could hear me but I couldn't hear her. I tried the sneezing man, radio muted but I didn't hear a beep.
I went into the service menu (or whatever they call it) to see if any settings were in there. I saw a NAV Volume and decided to try turning it up, as I turned it up (while on a phone call) I could hear the caller in the background as the caller said "Softer/Louder"...
I assume all this means I need the SES Jumper, which is fine, but I CANT find the blue connector that it would plug into. I pulled all the brackets out including the DSP amp and the only blue connector I see is the little on on the GPS CD unit. I assume I would still here phone call if it was a Voice Recognition programming issue right?
Where could the cable be?!
HELP Please! :)
Matt

You have a different problem unrelated to the SES jumper.

The SES jumper is in between the microphone and the TCU. Therefore, if you are missing an SES jumper, the problem is that no one can hear you. You are dealing with the opposite.

The problem in your car is that the audio output from the TCU is not making it to either your DSP amp or radio. There are a couple threads about this, but I cannot remember where I read them. I think that one person had to bridge the phone wiring to the radio.

Interesting, figured it was an SES thing even tho my build date says it should be fine, still curious where that cable is, or is it non existant on older builds?
The most confusing thing to me is when I adjust the Nav volume I can hear the caller in background... Probably not the issue, but could lack of a Nav cd have any bearing on this? Any chance its something that needs to be navcoded?
Matt

SES wiring did not appear until the 2001 model year.

I don't think this has anything to do with your nav at all. The nav is not in the audio path from the TCU to the radio. I think it is a wiring problem between TCU and radio.

Found it!! Did some searching and found the bimmerboard bluetooth arena, opened numerous posts and finally came across one from wala0003 Problem - No call output to speakers, everything else works - Solved
Said he had same issue, jumpered pins 11 and 14 on the 18pin connector under the arm rest. Which according to http://bmwtips.com/tipsntricks/cell-...leshooting.pdf (that he linked) is the "Telephone On - IN" and Telephone On - Out"

I am SOOOO happy that it was something this simple...

As far as SES and 2001, I was confused, they way most references to it are make it seem like the jumper was inplace already prior to 2001...

Thanks for the help Brian. Put this one in your mental FAQ, since you seem to be one the gurus for this all. :thumbup:
Matt