Hi! Today I want to show you my bluetooth setup in BMW E87
with the basic Business CD radio
which does not have the bluetooth capability this car
because it was an optional equipment and I just don't have this option in my car.
Let me just show you how it works first, and then
I will tell you how exactly it's installed in this car.
Turn on bluetooth in my phone.
Bluetooth is on and lets start the car
to power up this device which is a bluetooth receiver.
OK, so as you can see
bluetooth device is connected and now when I use my phone
for example with YouTube
it should use my car audio.
OK, let's check if Siri works.
What time is it right now in Sidney, Australia?
The time in Sidney, Australia is 00:30.
Let's check if I can use it as a phone (kit).
In 500 meters turn right.
So as you can see and hear all of my phones sounds are going wirelessly
through the bluetooth device to my car audio
which I can control with this volume knob.
This includes music, YouTube videos, navigation guidance and of course phone calls.
OK, so the most important device over here is this bluetooth receiver.
And I needed to slightly modify it to fit my needs.
What I did was solder 4 sets of wires and one is over here - this is for power.
This one is for the audio signal.
Over here there's a microphone signal.
And those color wires are for the button override.
And of course I could use the 3,5mm jack and the micro USB connector
to power it and connect the signal
but I wanted to make a permanent install that will not have the risk of something disconnecting
because of pulling on wires.
And right now I'm using only this wire, this wire and this wire.
I'm not using the button overrides which are on this board because
this is for future integration with my car
and the basic idea is that I want to control my phone, my music
my phone calls with buttons that are here.
Those empty buttons. And when I activate those I will connect those buttons to this connector
which will give me the possibility of controlling my phone over those buttons.
OK, so now you know that I had to slightly modify this receiver but what about the wiring?
The first and the simplest thing is to connect this audio line to the AUX input.
You can do it directly. I didn't wanted to have a 3,5mm jack going out from here to here
so what I did was disassemble this thing and this thing under the handbrake
guide a 3-pin wire over here
and solder it to the AUX input wires.
Next thing was the power to this device.
First of all I wanted this device to be always on when my car is on
so I needed power (source) that is ignition-hot.
To do that I've used a fuse-tap to connect with a cigaret lighter fuse.
Everytime I turn on the ignition the cigaret lighter is on and also those wires are powering my device.
Of course cigaret lights is 12V and this is normally powered by USB so this is 5V
so I had to use a little transformer.
which is installed behind the glovebox in my car.
And the 3rd wire - the longest one - was this one.
This is the microphone which I had to guide
with the power wire over here
just under the dashboard
under the glovebox. Of course the power wire goes to the fusebox which is behind the glovebox.
And the microphone wire goes all the way to the door,
then up with the A-pillar,
over here, behind the airbag,
then it goes over here
and it goes out over here.
As you can see I had to remove the dome light
to access the factory microphone installation points.
And the microphone is installed over here.
This is this small, little, shiny thing over here.
And as you can see you can barely notice it.
Everything looks almost like a factory installation.
Wiring the car was the hardest thing over here,
I had to disassemble the A-pillar cover.
There's a separate video about removing that when I had to fix the noise.
To remove the dome light you have to unscrew this and this sun visor hodlers,
and with them removed you can just bend this part, stretch it,
access the dome light and push it out.
Dome light uses two clips to fix it securely to the roof so you have to reach those
press those and push it out, push it downwards to have it like this.
And of course be careful because there's a lot of wiring over here.
You don't want to pull it too hard.
You might need to disconnect those or just be very carful to not damage anything.
To install this device I choose this place because it's close to me, close to the passenger also
so the bluetooth reception should be the best over here.
If there's something wrong with it I can always access it easily because all you need to do is
pry those clips and
you can remove this part
to access whatever is underneath.
As you can see this device has an USB port and a microSD card slot.
You can use each of those to play MP3 files from your memory stick or memory card.
OK, so right now I have to put everything back together,
place this device securely over here.
Thank you for watching! Hope that you like my installation in this BMW E87
and if you have some comments just leave it below this video. See you soon!