mk3 aerial broken
 

Hi, I have a 1999 323i se in met/gray and I have put a retrofit sat/nav
system in it with a mk3 computer, but some where when I was putting
the car all back together had broken the mk3 computer's aerial connection
off, I have tried ,soldering, gluing ,but I still can not get a signal from any satellite,the connection is the smb type. any advice or ideas would be great
Regards James.http://forum.e46fanatics.com/images/...s/banghead.gif

they sell it here but it's in the netherlands.

http://www.navigatie-onderdelen.nl/w...Category=34403

CHEERS, and thanks for replying so quickly

Regards James........

Oops!

You can hunt around for the right-angle, panel-mount SMB connector and try and convince a manufacturer to give you a "sample"

Or buy a old Mk3 or Mk4 nav off ebay with a dead CD or DVD mech, and then rob the GPS receiver out of it.

Replacing the GPS receiver is dead easy.

Replacing the connector is straight forward, you need a fair bit of heat when de-soldering due to the metalwork, but should come out fine

Cheers ,I will start the hunt

Hi ,can you tell me if the American BMW MK 3 sat/nav computer are the same as the the Europeans ones, as they have a : BMW TRIMBLE GPS RECEIVER/ANTENNA LASSEN SK-II TAIP TSIP for sale,and can you tell me
what TAIP and TSIP mean . Regards James.

MKIII has only a built in Trimble. They are all the same, US and Euro. Who is selling it?

The Mk3 nav used in the USA is the same as the Mk3 nav used in the rest iof the world

Make sure the GPS receiver you are looking at is the module to internally mount inside the Mk3 :-)
TAIP == trimble ascii interface protocol

TSIP == trimble standard interface protocol

[quote=Roy in GA]MKIII has only a built in Trimble. They are all the same, US and Euro. Who is selling it?[/quoteBMW TRIMBLE GPS RECEIVER/ANTENNA LASSEN SK-II TAIP TSIP Visit my eBay Store:http://pics.ebaystatic.com/aw/pics/s.gifhttp://pics.ebaystatic.com/aw/pics/i...esNW_20x20.gifSVCOMPUCYCLEItem number: 350049675316
CA, United States
only trouble is they do not ship to the UNITED KINGDOM

Well the antenna looks like BMW but I don't know about the rest of it. Wait and ask Jochen. I have not seen anything like that in the MKIV I have opened. Maybe burried in the bottom. http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...m=350049675316