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01/2004 - everything was there.

May 2004. Very easy to do given the cowling has an outline to cut to. I used a hacksaw blade for an approximate vertical cut and used a stanley knife to score the horizontal cut and snap off then used the stanley to trim off slivers to get the shape bang on. All doable in 20 minutes

Thanks to the guys contributing to this thread!

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Can someone post a pic of the connector and where I should find it in the steering cowling?

Thanks

VENDAR wrote:anyone can re-add photos to the how to?

I also have another question for brad. on your uploaded photo i see that you took the plastic cover under the wheel and you cut it in order for the cruise control switch to be installed. What i don't understand is where does the plastic part i have circled in photo3 belong to?

Here on the bottom left pic

Thanks will need to have a look mines 2005 but not facelift so not sure if it will be present.

Cheers

Nelly Welly wrote:Thanks will need to have a look mines 2005 but not facelift so not sure if it will be present.

Cheers

if it was built after Oct 2004, facelift or not, it won't have the plug

gannet wrote:

Nelly Welly wrote:Thanks will need to have a look mines 2005 but not facelift so not sure if it will be present.

Cheers

if it was built after Oct 2004, facelift or not, it won't have the plug

Mine is an Oct 2004 build, plug wasn't there. It was easy enough to take the cowling off for a quick check and easy to wire in the loom extension.

I just finished retrofitting cruise control to my new to me 2006 M roadster today. I ended up using a used cruise control switch I bought on E bay for $25 and a jumper cable from a computer instead of buying a wiring harness. Thank you to who ever posted a great picture of the factory harness on page 7 of this forum showing location key, pin numbers and wire colors that was very helpful! Only 3 wires to hook up power and ground from the light switch wiring (as discussed on this forum & BMW instructions) and hooking up pin 2 on the switch to the blue/black wire that was on pin 4 of plug X6002 at the DME. It took a little time to see which wire was pin 4 on connector X6002 at the computer. Note the computer needs to be lifted out of its holder to get at the X6002 plug which is the lowest large plug connected to the computer. I had to slide one of the two connectors out of the plug to see which wire was attached to pin 4. Note the BMW cruise control install instructions for N46 or N52 engines are actually the correct directions for the M roadster (I confirmed this with the factory wiring diagrams prior to starting). Also the forum suggested method for getting the wire from the computer to inside the passenger compartment did not look like it would work for the M engine (the main wire harness went deep into the engine not towards the fuse panel inside the glove box). Instead I ran the wire down below the computer and through the grommet in the firewall with a hydraulic tubing line going through it near the clutch.

Well just called my local stealer and they quoted me £86 for the part so I sent a request through some breakers hopefully I will get a used one cheaper if not will have to pay the money because I really want cruise now I know how easy it is to fit

Call Sopers in Lincoln who will give you a discount if you mention the forum and usually free postage. Breakers, if they have one, are going to look to charge over the odds for a 2nd hand untested stalk.

Liam-O wrote:Call Sopers in Lincoln who will give you a discount if you mention the forum and usually free postage. Breakers, if they have one, are going to look to charge over the odds for a 2nd hand untested stalk.

Cheers for the heads up mate

Just ordered from sopers £79 with postage and forum discount so slightly cheaper than my local BMW and they have it in stock so will be about the same amount of time to get to me

Fitted! Took about 15 minutes in total, most of that was in my garage cutting and includes the time spent spent fitting a new cutting disc to the dremel, easy peasy mod and well worth it especially with a 3,000 mile road trip coming up! Thanks for the great resource

Fitted mine at the weekend, about two hours work.

Removing the light switch was easy but I only just left enough cable on the plug end to get the plug to lock back into the switch after.

The route into the electrical box was surprisingly easy.

Bit nervous on finally pushing it into the main connector but hey it's in and it works a treat.

Cool cruising now.

The instructions are junk when it comes to the correct DME wiring for each version. The N52 should be add black repair cable to X60191 Pin 39:



Which actually looks like this:



Hope that helps