Here's a better step by step of the radio fit i did to my RT.
I was getting bored with the journey (130 mls a day) commuting was becoming a pain, so I thought a radio might break up the boredom.
The BMW radio is a nice fit but only available for the 1100/1150 as a radio/cassette. Who uses cassettes nowadays? infact, who uses CD's either? This persuaded me to look at another option, perhaps a small FM receiver with an iPod type input, so,
I bought a this from ebay;
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/370377645845#ht_3997wt_954
At £17 delivered from China
I naturally expected it to be, well, shite.
It arrived after a couple of weeks and I have to say i was pleasantly surprised!
All that was left was to fit, so I thought I would do a sort of step by step on here as it could be fitted to an 1100, 1150 or a 1200. These instructions are for an 1100, 1150 is very similar, as is 1200.
Here we go;
1. Remove screen
2. Remove facia panel to expose speaker apertures, all RT's have them.
3. Attach speakers to existing mounting holes.
4. When fitted should look like this. The chrome does show slightly through the grille when the facia panel is replaced. If this bothers you simply rattle a can of black at it!
5. Right, speakers in, set about mounting the receiver. The easiest and most obvious place is on the bar mounts, and it just happened so that the bracket supplied will fit over the 2 lower inner bolts. You will need to fit new longer bolts with spacers. These are sourced easily.
6. Mount it up and run the wires. There are 2 pairs of wires for the speakers. The other wires are 2 lives (1 Ignition feed), and 1 permanent (Battery supply for the clock memory). There is a long blue wire, this is the aerial. You will need to play with this and it will be dependant on signal strength/are as to how good the reception is. When you mount this be aware that to receive good FM signal, an aerial has to be 0.75 metre long. With this in mind i am going to add a longer wire to this (soldered to avoid bad connections) and play with where it is routed!
The RT now has a radio and, to be honest, even if the reception is crap, you can connect the iPod lead and listen to your iTunes!
You MUST use a fuse for the supply. It says its waterproof but, for 17 quid???
I was getting bored with the journey (130 mls a day) commuting was becoming a pain, so I thought a radio might break up the boredom.
The BMW radio is a nice fit but only available for the 1100/1150 as a radio/cassette. Who uses cassettes nowadays? infact, who uses CD's either? This persuaded me to look at another option, perhaps a small FM receiver with an iPod type input, so,
I bought a this from ebay;
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/370377645845#ht_3997wt_954
At £17 delivered from China
I naturally expected it to be, well, shite.It arrived after a couple of weeks and I have to say i was pleasantly surprised!
All that was left was to fit, so I thought I would do a sort of step by step on here as it could be fitted to an 1100, 1150 or a 1200. These instructions are for an 1100, 1150 is very similar, as is 1200.
Here we go;
1. Remove screen
2. Remove facia panel to expose speaker apertures, all RT's have them.
3. Attach speakers to existing mounting holes.
4. When fitted should look like this. The chrome does show slightly through the grille when the facia panel is replaced. If this bothers you simply rattle a can of black at it!
5. Right, speakers in, set about mounting the receiver. The easiest and most obvious place is on the bar mounts, and it just happened so that the bracket supplied will fit over the 2 lower inner bolts. You will need to fit new longer bolts with spacers. These are sourced easily.
6. Mount it up and run the wires. There are 2 pairs of wires for the speakers. The other wires are 2 lives (1 Ignition feed), and 1 permanent (Battery supply for the clock memory). There is a long blue wire, this is the aerial. You will need to play with this and it will be dependant on signal strength/are as to how good the reception is. When you mount this be aware that to receive good FM signal, an aerial has to be 0.75 metre long. With this in mind i am going to add a longer wire to this (soldered to avoid bad connections) and play with where it is routed!
The RT now has a radio and, to be honest, even if the reception is crap, you can connect the iPod lead and listen to your iTunes!
You MUST use a fuse for the supply. It says its waterproof but, for 17 quid???
Hope the signal is strong around Salisbury
