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Post Wed Jul 19, 2006 10:37 pm

I'm at installing alarm to my e30.
Now i need to connect it to the centrallock no problem there, but theres two more wires that instructions say needs to goto 0V terminal, i'm not sure which it is, just know its up under the glovebox (the steering wheel in my case prolly). How does this particular terminal look like?

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Post Wed Jul 19, 2006 10:43 pm

0 volt terminal would be the battery negative.

above the glove box there are two 10mm nuts. you can use one of these to ground the wires.
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Post Wed Jul 19, 2006 10:49 pm

smithy318i wrote:0 volt terminal would be the battery negative.

above the glove box there are two 10mm nuts. you can use one of these to ground the wires.
ahh i thought about this but was not sure.

thanks man, now i can procede my alarm adventure :)
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Post Wed Jul 19, 2006 10:52 pm

core wrote:just know its up under the glovebox (the steering wheel in my case prolly). How does this particular terminal look like?
It's got a whole lot of brown wires going to it.
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Post Wed Jul 19, 2006 11:02 pm

ok i'll go look for it tomorrow, thanks.
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Post Thu Jul 20, 2006 5:46 pm

Brianmoooore wrote:
core wrote:just know its up under the glovebox (the steering wheel in my case prolly). How does this particular terminal look like?
It's got a whole lot of brown wires going to it.
can't seem to find it, got none wheres theres a whole lot of brown ones going to it, only some.

here's a couple of pics

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guess it's none of these, what shape it got?
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Post Thu Jul 20, 2006 6:29 pm

or is it just the bolt's called 0V terminal? a little confused :(
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Post Thu Jul 20, 2006 8:45 pm

the upper right arrow points to the GND terminal.

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Post Thu Jul 20, 2006 9:46 pm

thanks smithy, can you also tell me where the turn signal wires is?
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Post Thu Jul 20, 2006 10:00 pm

Blue/red and blue/black wires going into the multipin plug and socket on the left of Smithy's pic, next to the blue relay.
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Post Thu Jul 20, 2006 10:09 pm

ty brian, this will finish the job i believe :)