Cant find steering wheel control harness!!!

hi guys,

my car had an aftermarked headunit installed, i am now in the process of installing the dynavin unit, ht eonly problem is i cant find the steering wheel cables/connectors as they must have been either tucked away somewere,

does anyone have any ideas how i can locate them, which side they come from? are they attaached or tapped up with another harness? i look all around and as far as i could see i cant find them

or is it possible if i took off some plastics under the steering wheel and tried to back track

i know its a dumb question but i really cant find the suckers \


thanks guys

If I read your question correctly, you're looking for the existing factory radio harness which is behind the headunit, if so then the harness looks like the pic below.........



If it's not there then it has most probably been cut off when the aftermarket stereo was installed in which case you'll have to match and splice the loose wires into the supplied Dynavin harness adaptor.
It'll be time consuming but certainly not impossible.
Below is a pic the Dynavin harness adaptor, the square black plug with the pins in it at the bottom right of the pic......

thanks for your reply,

what im after in the actual 2 plugs that clip into the factory harness which are for the steering wheel controls? does that make sense? sorry i probably didnt explain myself properly in the original post

Originally Posted by Darkoz

If I read your question correctly, you're looking for the existing factory radio harness which is behind the headunit, if so then the harness looks like the pic below.........



If it's not there then it has most probably been cut off when the aftermarket stereo was installed in which case you'll have to match and splice the loose wires into the supplied Dynavin harness adaptor.
It'll be time consuming but certainly not impossible.
Below is a pic the Dynavin harness adaptor, the square black plug with the pins in it at the bottom right of the pic......

The two 10 pin plugs are for the BMW cd changer and other stuff. The steering wheel controls come via the ibus which is on the 17 pin plug. Google Images for BMW 17 pin to see what connections go where.


Sent from my phone.

so the 2 10pin connectors have nothing to do with the steering controls?

theres the 2 plugs i cant find, the only thing is i installed the after market unit years ago, and some some reason think those 2 plugs were there and now for the life of me cant find them anywere

Originally Posted by Arty

The two 10 pin plugs are for the BMW cd changer and other stuff. The steering wheel controls come via the ibus which is on the 17 pin plug. Google Images for BMW 17 pin to see what connections go where.


Sent from my phone.

the 2 10 pin plugs in saying are the ipod and cd changer?

my car never came with a stacker, or anything so would i have these connections?

Anyone have the part number for the control board on the wheel?

It's shorting out and turning the volume up when I turn

Lol

DIY. On how to replace it?

Tia

As Arty mentioned the steering wheel controls come via the factory harness shown in your pic above and the pic I posted earlier, they are not seperate plugs.

So when you hoocked up your dynavin, did you use those 2 10pin plugs for anything? do they connect up to anything?

Originally Posted by Darkoz

As Arty mentioned the steering wheel controls come via the factory harness shown in your pic above and the pic I posted earlier, they are not seperate plugs.

Originally Posted by ZLAT46

So when you hoocked up your dynavin, did you use those 2 10pin plugs for anything? do they connect up to anything?

no, they are not used

Originally Posted by jeffb325@DynavinSolutions

no, they are not used

great, answers my question perfectly

thanks for that, appreciate it

Originally Posted by JonJon

Anyone have the part number for the control board on the wheel?

It's shorting out and turning the volume up when I turn

Lol

DIY. On how to replace it?

Tia

There is no direct connection between the button on the wheel and the stereo. The button data is converted into iBus commands and sent over the iBus, along with the cruise and other buttons. So if you are having problems you need to replace the buttons on the wheel, and the part number should be available on RealOEM.

Originally Posted by Arty

There is no direct connection between the button on the wheel and the stereo. The button data is converted into iBus commands and sent over the iBus, along with the cruise and other buttons. So if you are having problems you need to replace the buttons on the wheel, and the part number should be available on RealOEM.

Ok my dynavin is installed, my steering whel controls still don't work, everything has been connected properly via a factory harness, so it's not just clipped together, is there any fuses maybe for steering control? The thing that gets me is they worked just fine before installing the dynavin!

Hope someone can help

Originally Posted by ZLAT46

Ok my dynavin is installed, my steering whel controls still don't work, everything has been connected properly via a factory harness, so it's not just clipped together, is there any fuses maybe for steering control? The thing that gets me is they worked just fine before installing the dynavin!

Hope someone can help

I would bet that you forgot to connect the steering wheel control harness that came supplied with the Dynavin, its the black box with the "headphone" style mini plug at one end, it should be plugged into the "IR in" cable on the back of the Dynavin.

Originally Posted by Darkoz

I would bet that you forgot to connect the steering wheel control harness that came supplied with the Dynavin, its the black box with the "headphone" style mini plug at one end, it should be plugged into the "IR in" cable on the back of the Dynavin.

i pluged the headphone style jack directly into the rear of the headunit, or was that maybe ment to be for the mic??? is it an actual cable? or plug at the rear of the unit

thanks darko

Originally Posted by ZLAT46

i pluged the headphone style jack directly into the rear of the headunit, or was that maybe ment to be for the mic??? is it an actual cable? or plug at the rear of the unit

thanks darko

No that is for the microphone, you need to connect it to one of the black cables coming out of the Dynavin wihich is labelled IR in

OK guys, I'm now at this point as well. I have a Dynavin V5 and my steering wheel controls aren't connected at all. I have the black box with the headphone style mini plug as supplied in the Dynavin box. I have plugged the headphone style mini plug into the IR IN plug but where do I connect the black box to?? I can't find any matching connection.