RE: Audio question, part 3

["Chad Burkey" <burkey@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes!  Thanks so much Eric, the problem was the antenna adapter.  I followed
your advice and taped it all together and it now works perfectly!  Also, I
tried that procedure for removing the head unit before, but I wasn't sure
how hard I could pull.  I tried it again yesterday and sort of rocked it
back and forth and out it came!  The procedure is the same for the 1005,
BTW.

I tried simply disconnecting the parking brake wire but that didn't work.  I
forgot to try attaching that wire to ground and do away with that circuit
all together.  Do you think that would work?  If not, were did you get the
switch and can you tell me a bit about how it works?

My audio is now nice and quite like it was before.  On a suggestion from
Dean (thanks Dean!)  I bought some Niles home wall mount volume controls and
wired them in to the wires coming out of my tuner module (the head unit's
guts) and before the hk amp.  With these set about half way everything is
great.  The steps in volume are again much smaller and the overall volume
has been nicely attenuated.  Before I couldn't have a conversation with
someone with the volume at 3!  The spoken commands for the navigation system
are now quieter and more pleasant as well.

Thanks also to Steve Martin and everyone else who offered their advice!

Once again happy,

Chad

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-bmw@domain.elided [mailto:owner-bmw@domain.elided]On Behalf Of
Eric Scott Paul
Sent: Sunday, February 6, 2000 1:38 pm
To: Burkey, Chad E.; bmw@domain.elided
Subject: RE: Audio question, part 3


To remove the CVA-1000 there is a small trim piece around the headunit, this
must be carefully pulled off and then there are two metal pins that must be
lifted while pulling the headunit out. I don't know if this is the same on
the 1005. (I meant to put this in the last post).

As far as the handbrake switch. I have a switch that acts as the handbrake.
This allows me to use the functions without the handbrake on. On the
CVA-1000 it is a yellow/blue wire. ( I think it sees ground when the parking
brake is on.)

If you can get the headunit out it would be worthwhile to check and see if
the blue wire (blue/white in the case of your install) from the headunit is
running to the factory harness white wire. The remote turn on needs to
activate both the factory amplifier (apparently it does since you are
mentioning the fact that the headunit power is relatively high, being fed
into the amp) and also has to activate the antenna. The blue/white can do
this effectively it does not have to be the blue remote antenna turn on, the
key is that the signal gets to both.

It would be worthwhile to trace the antenna wire (Black) and look at the
adaptor used to convert from the European style connector to the US style
connector. Quite often these are not making good contact and cause reception
problems. I always use electrical tape of heat shrink to ensure that they
are not subject to falling apart due to vibration.

If I think of anything else I will let you know

PS: The DVD based is the way to go, just gotta get the money tree to grow a
little faster!

Eric S Paul
BMWCCA # 94854
99 328i Fern Green
http://home.adelphia.net/~esp/

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