Sub Tap Wires
 

Could someone please help me with connecting my SoundGate LOC4.2 to my 2001 BMW X5 with DSP & NAV. I can see the plug that goes into the stock subwoofer. I have on the bottom row of my connector there are 4 blue wires. On the top there is a yellow wire, two brown wires and a blue wire for a total of 5 blue wires and 2 brown wires and 1 yellow wire. This sound gate is a two-channel line converter. How should I wire this? Also, does left and right matter here with regard to the SoundGate and a sub?

One more thing. Were can I tap for a remote wire? Also the battery is in the back under the spare, right?

Thank you very much.

PS. I know this is a lot to ask I just don’t want to mess anything up.

Thank You

There's a couple threads regarding this. I'll see if I can locate them....

Chart at the bottom has wire colors, It's in +/- format if I remember correctly:
http://www.janixworld.com/x5/Stereo/DSP.html
Found my post from when I did this, I used the top row of connectors. The 2 blue wires are positive and the 2 brown are the negative.

Nice Chart. It help alot, but my LOC has 2 negatives and 2 positives. Which wires go where. And do I use all the wires from the factory sub harness??

Thanks for the quick reply.

I just used the 4 top wires. Spilt the wires into the repective pairs of 1+ and 1- each. Take the pairs and attache the - to the brown wire and + to the blue.

So I will only be using one output from the factory amp? I don't need to tap the input from the other woofer?

Each sub is a dual voice coil sub. You're getting both right and left channel from one sub.

OK. Please be patient one last time. So looking at the top of the harness, I will use the Yellow/Brown and Blue wires as positives? And the brown wires are the negs?

No problem! You are correct, the brown wires are negative and the others are positive. Good luck! :thumbup: