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BMW clock connection
Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 6:37 pm
by winchman
Hello
I cant find this by searching so can some one tell me the correct way to connect this up as I cant tell which wire is live etc
Re: BMW clock connection
Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 6:57 pm
by haydn callow
Red/Yellow=Permanant live (clock)
Brown=Earth
The other wire=switched live(clock light)
Re: BMW clock connection
Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 9:24 pm
by winchman
haydn callow wrote:Red/Yellow=Permanant live (clock)
Brown=Earth
The other wire=switched live(clock light)
Thanks

Re: BMW clock connection
Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2012 4:55 am
by Northern Bongolow
haydn also changes the bulb colour and the face plate colour if desired, dont you haydn.

Re: BMW clock connection
Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2012 9:34 am
by haydn callow
all part of the service !!
Re: BMW clock connection
Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2012 8:35 pm
by winchman
Now for my next question how do I change it from orange to green?
Re: BMW clock connection
Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2012 9:10 pm
by haydn callow
This involves pulling the clock to bits....removing the orange filter and putting in a green LED (polarity sensitive)
Or send just the clock to me with £7.50 and I will do the job and post back.
Re: BMW clock connection
Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2012 10:44 pm
by winchman
haydn callow wrote:This involves pulling the clock to bits....removing the orange filter and putting in a green LED (polarity sensitive)
Or send just the clock to me with £7.50 and I will do the job and post back.
Thanks I will have a go.
I did find a BMW digital clock in the scrappy, but cant get it to light as its got 4 wires? Any ideas?
Re: BMW clock connection
Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2012 11:09 pm
by jaylee
If its anything like the gauges i fitted? It will have two wires for the negative & positive of the actual clock.. Then the other two Positive to the dash light loom & the other to ground... Designed to back light with the dash when the sidelights come on...?
What are your clock four wire colours...?
Re: BMW clock connection
Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2012 11:14 pm
by haydn callow
winchman wrote:haydn callow wrote:This involves pulling the clock to bits....removing the orange filter and putting in a green LED (polarity sensitive)
Or send just the clock to me with £7.50 and I will do the job and post back.
Thanks I will have a go.
I did find a BMW digital clock in the scrappy, but cant get it to light as its got 4 wires? Any ideas?
Have fun....easy to damage it.
Re: BMW clock connection
Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2012 11:18 pm
by winchman
haydn callow wrote:winchman wrote:haydn callow wrote:This involves pulling the clock to bits....removing the orange filter and putting in a green LED (polarity sensitive)
Or send just the clock to me with £7.50 and I will do the job and post back.
Thanks I will have a go.
I did find a BMW digital clock in the scrappy, but cant get it to light as its got 4 wires? Any ideas?
Have fun....easy to damage it.
Being an engineer I have broken far more expensive things than a BMW clock LOL
I did get two incase I had an accident.
The digital one I can get to light up but just displays zeros?
Re: BMW clock connection
Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2012 11:45 pm
by Driver+Passengers
winchman wrote:
The digital one I can get to light up but just displays zeros?
If you leave it on for just over a minute, does it say "00:01"?

Re: BMW clock connection
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 12:01 am
by winchman
Driver+Passengers wrote:winchman wrote:
The digital one I can get to light up but just displays zeros?
If you leave it on for just over a minute, does it say "00:01"?

Hey you had me thinking then LOL
No it dosnt and the buttons dont work either
Hang on a minute, its started its now on 00:01 no its 00:02.
So how do we explain that?

Re: BMW clock connection
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 12:11 am
by Driver+Passengers
winchman wrote:Driver+Passengers wrote:winchman wrote:
The digital one I can get to light up but just displays zeros?
If you leave it on for just over a minute, does it say "00:01"?

Hey you had me thinking then LOL
No it dosnt and the buttons dont work either
Hang on a minute, its started its now on 00:01 no its 00:02.
So how do we explain that?

Maybe you took her up to 88mph...
Re: BMW clock connection
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 10:40 pm
by jaylee
Hey Winchman, it wouldn't happen to have an exterior temp gauge on the readout too would it??
I got hold of something similar from a 626, but gutted it for a temp gauge for the coolant...
