CANBUS adaptor, speedpulse

[mb240]

Hi,

I got the Becker Cascade, and it looks the business, very stealthy and has 2GB of all of Europe on an CF card.

I am having trouble with the speedpulse. Basically, I don'y have anything at all on the car side A-block Pin 1. I take it this means I have no speedpulse in the dash and have to splice into the ESP block in the passenger footwell?

I have a CANBUS adaptor and cables for it (2nd gen) - but would I be correct in assuming that it is basically useless for speedpulse purposes which is all I really want from it?

I am using Alfie's guide to shove the GPS antenna under the dash - at the moment it picks up 7-9 sats sitting on top of it, and am going to put the Cd changer in the glovebox.

2nd issue - the microphone? Any advice on location? THere is one from the fitted 6210 kit in front of the sunroof controls but to get at it looks like a messy job of removing roof lining, etc., . Where else is a good location? On the pillar on the driver's side maybe?

Just to recap - if I have no A-block Pin 1 wire at all, is the only/convenient option to splice into the ESP blue block?

ANd if so, how do I do that? What cable stuff/ties/tape are people doing this with?

 

[Alfie]

Without the speed pulse on Pin1 A you will need to splice into the speed pulse in the passenger sill as detailed in the HOWTO.

I'm not familiar with that particular unit but I dont think you will need a CANBUS adapter as your car is a facelifted one so it has a CANBUS already.

You may be lucky and be able to hook up the two canbus wires in your existing C connector to the back of the unit thereby making use of the steering wheel controls.

 

[mb240]

Without the speed pulse on Pin1 A you will need to splice into the speed pulse in the passenger sill as detailed in the HOWTO.

I'm not familiar with that particular unit but I dont think you will need a CANBUS adapter as your car is a facelifted one so it has a CANBUS already.

You may be lucky and be able to hook up the two canbus wires in your existing C connector to the back of the unit thereby making use of the steering wheel controls.

Thanks alfie. I was putting off having to do any real work on this . The unit seems pretty accurate without speedpulse (it has a gyro and GPS active), down to 10m for turns anyway.

I am at a loss as to what to do with the CANBUS adaptor - I though I would need it, but I plugged in block A and block B and it comes on with no problems at all, sans steering wheel controls. The attachments I am making are the GPS antenna position, CD changer, microphone (the unit has voice control for functions and phone).

The CANBUS adaptor is basically a single block with a 10 pin socket on one end. One part of the corresponding cabling plugs into it, and then are are four more blocks going into that single 10 pin one. It's a totally mystery to me. I'll most likely give the whole wheel integration a miss as the voice control is spot on.

Incidentally, the radio in the Becker is fantastic - it has two RDS things and scans forward and back to get the stations around the one your listening to. I'll post some pictures when I finish the installation tomorrow, I suppose I''ll have to get some cable cutting tools and stuff from Halfords