How to: Hard Wire Nav, Radar, GPS, Phone on a BMW 5-series

How to: Hard Wire ANYTHING (on a car)! E39 Edition

soooo i hare exposed wires, and I spend too much time dicking around on the internet, and I figured I'd make a video to help the good people, much as others did for me.

here are some other helpful links:
Bimmerforums.com

Ad-A-Fuse: http://tinyurl.com/3z7wzjw

BSW How To take apart Interior (and much more!):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwCkORZi8f8&feature=relmfu

Droid Dock: http://www.amazon.com/Desktop-Charger-Multimedia-Docking-technology/dp/B003XG...

Comment, and I'll add anything else you may need!

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[iluvprady]

So the direct lead from the fuse box was connected to the splitters and dock wires were connected to the car charger and then u connected the car charger to the splitter. Am i right?

[ReaganSmash3000]

@iluvprady I'm not really sure what you mean by "splitters"

but it runs like this: Fuse box > lead > Cigarette lighter(s) > Car Charger > Phone Dock

[iluvprady]

@ReaganSmash3000 is there a way to directly hardwire it to the car's inbuilt cigarette lighter and avoid going to the fuse box? I was wondering if i can splice the charger and connect the +ve and -ve to the back of car charger or something...

[ReaganSmash3000]

@iluvprady yeah totally, I did that with my e36, but with a car like this one I like the added peace of mind of having a fuse back there. Its all preference. If you do go that route, splice into the leads so as to not damage the actual lighter itself. You could get an inline fuse from home depot/lowes I suppose and it would do the same thing.

[SuperScruffypuppy]

nice

[bdawgfilms]

i wish there were more people on youtube like you, im gonna support u every way i can, like comment and subscribed because u helped me, not trying to ghetto rig my car thank god theres someone out there who know what there doing, i love the beamer too, black on tan is sweet man, everyone else, if u wanna know how to do shit the right way check out this guys videos haha such a happy viewer lol

[chorstma44]

Great job! Very straight forward! Thanks!

[iluvprady]

yeah im sorry with splitters i meant cigarette lighters which u bought...

[ryanwenz]

Nice tutorial. could be clean up a bit .

Thank you