Can't find fassin' wassin' GPS socket on headstock!

[Andy B]

I don't know whether I'm in numpty mode but I can't find the GPS socket on the headstock - or if I have, its been nabbed by something else! The bike is a 2008 GSA.

The only socket I can find - that looks right - is this one behind the oil cooler:

Which seems to be connected to this (which I have always assumed is the air temperature sensor):

Is the GPS one I am looking for hidden somewhere else

 

[Beemerman59]

I have the same bike. Mine was located more behind and underneath the high beam side of the headlamp cluster. It only had a cap on it preventing water getting to it so there were wires in and no wires out. So, assuming nothing is currently connected to it you are looking for a socket only.

 

[(RIP) Miff]

The connector is black, the wires are black, and the cover is black. It's in a dark area, where everything else is BLACK.

It's in there somewhere.

 

[Giles]

Yes, that is the ambient temperature sensor.

I had to have a real rummage to find mine, it was taped up with the rest of the wiring. IIRC it had a blanking cap on the end of as Miff says. It'll probably be bandaged together with everything else ....

 

[brianmaslen]

Try looking around the oil cooler on the GSA, it is tucked away there, or take a look at this thread post no 70 which will help. http://www.ukgser.com/forums/showthread.php?t=117400&page=5
This thread also gives a great step by step on how to make the cable up. Searching would have found you this eventually of course but happy to be of help.

 

[Kelv]

FWIW 2010 GSA spare socket/plug is cable tied right up tight against the underside of the oil cooler.

 

[Andy B]

I found it!

Found the perisher!

Thought I'd post a picture for others future reference. It was tucked down the Offside between the inner side of the fuel tank and the frame.

 

[Nice 'n' Fat]

The cunning bastards

 

[Wapping]

The monkeys on BuMW's assembly line seen to be hiding them all over the place.

"Ach Hans, zis vill fool der Tommy dumkopf, I 'av hidden maken it in der headlamp housing gerblinken pod...ha, ha, ja"

It seems anyone ordering a new bike may as well ask the dealer to identify the GPS socket lead with a bit of string or ribbon as a part of the PDI.

 

[Nice 'n' Fat]

Cooler 2 veeks

 

[NLC]

On my 2010 GS it was covered extremely well in about eight loops of black cloth tape under the oil cooler.