Swap bta1500 mic for oem microphone?
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I've installed a gw500 and bta1500. Everything works and I only have to route the mic wires and fix everything into the glovebox permanently.
I don't have BMW assist or nav on my e60, so as far as I can tell the oem microphone is totally useless. I'm considering unwiring it from the car harness and using it for the bta1500 instead.
I don't know much about mic's but I figure it's at least better quality than the dension mic, plus it will maintain the complete factory look (no bta mic poking out anywhere).
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I don't have BMW assist or nav on my e60, so as far as I can tell the oem microphone is totally useless. I'm considering unwiring it from the car harness and using it for the bta1500 instead.
I don't know much about mic's but I figure it's at least better quality than the dension mic, plus it will maintain the complete factory look (no bta mic poking out anywhere).
Any thoughts?
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You should be able to reuse the OEM mic. But even the dension mic doesn't need to poke out if you install it above the grill for the mic.
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I considered installing the dension mic like that. Do you think it's worth the effort to use the BMW mic instead? It's only a little soldering.
edit: screw it I'll just try it and post the results, it's hardly more effort than discussing it at length ;p
edit: screw it I'll just try it and post the results, it's hardly more effort than discussing it at length ;p
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I installed the dension mic over the grill and applied the volume patch, entered ***12 to set the mic volume and everything is great.
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