Hello,
I bought my 07
Cayman
Basic last January, I've been very happy with the car - I owned an 86
911
for 19 years before that. My car had all the options that I wanted except it didn't have the
PCM
2.1 or Nav system.
After reading K-Man S' great articles on installing the PCM2.1 and the Nav ysytem I decided to do the upgrade myself. I'm well into the project - I've installed the
PCM
2.1 nad have spliced together the wire bundle that powers the Nav unit.
My problem is that I may be missinformed about what constitiues a
Bose
Surrond Sound system (it's important because the fiber optic cable harness is made for a specific configuration, e.g. with
Bose Sound System
, without
Bose Sound System
, CD/DVD changer, etc.). I have the
Bose
sub woofer in the passenger foot well area,
does that mean
for sure
that I have Bose Surround Sound?
Is it possible to have the Bose sub woofer in the passenger foot well and not have the surround sound system? It matters for the optical harness configuration.
My other question/problem concerns the fiber optic cable that connects behind the master brake cylinder. My car came with a 2 optical wire bundle connecting behind the master brake cylinder, it runs around the back of the vacuum tank to the front, then it runs down and foward where it gets bundled with a mutli-wire bundle that disaappears into the driver's side bulkhead below the brake master cylinder assembly area.
1) Since I
assumed
I had the Bose Sound System
without
the CD Changer I ordered the optical waveguide part number: 997-622.710.00.
The waveguide cable came with
2 connectors
at the end that connects that will connect to the new Nav drive. According to K-Man S' article I only need one connector not 2 for the Nav drive unit.
2) What should be done with the original 2-wire optical cable that was connected behind the brake vacuum tank? As I mentioned earlier it's routed forward and below the brake master cylinder assembly area and into the forward trunk bulkhead.
A) Does it go to an amplifier for the Bose system?
B) Can the "loose" end just be secured out of the way once the new
waveguide cable has been connected behind the vacuum cylinder tank?
3) Do I have the wrong optical cable, should I have just a single connector at the end that will connect to the Nav drive? That still leaves me with the problem described in 2 above (the now spare "loose" original optical cable).
I know that several of the readers have done this upgrade and I'm assuming that at least one of your cars had the same configuration as mine - Bose system (still need to verify that a sub woofer in the passenger foot well means that the Bose system is installed), no CD Changer and the original CDR 24 AM/FM DVD head unit.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Larry Osborne:helpme:
This will be a quick reply, but I'm sure others will give more detail.
Look on either door speaker. Unless I'm mistaken, you should see a
Bose
logo. That is a simple test. You typically have 1, 2, or 3 connections in the boot. 1 connection would be to an amp which is probably the bundle at the bottom
next
to the fix a flat. If you have a second, its either for a cd changer or a nav drive. Since you don't have
pcm
yet, it would likely be for a cd changer. The third connection would be for a nav drive. With
Bose
, you do need two connections in the boot. The waveguide should actually have three plugs, one that is a female and connects to the cable running into the cab and two that would connect to an amp and cd changer.
You can not leave a plug open, because it would break the circuit. Its a bit like leaving an open pipe in a plumbing system. You can take apart the connector and remove the extra segment if you have enough length. Hope this helps.
Do you have the Sound Package Plus? You may have an amplifier in the trunk. I recently finished the install of the Nav unit on a 2006 Carerra. If you have an orange fiber optic cable running to your amplifier in your front trunk, you need to replace it with the new fiber optic cable. The fiber optic cable has 2 connections for your set up. One of them will plug into the back of the DVD Nav unit and the other on plugs into the
Bose amplifier
. You need to disconnect the factory plug from the right side of the amplifier and connect the new fiber optic cable - plug. If you need help you can email directly at
[email removed]
. Frank
Smunic's reply is exactly correct. I removed the cover to the tool kit compartment and found the
Bose amp
mounted on the bulkhead about 10 inches below where the Nav drive will be mounted. The original optical cable, 2-"wires", ran from the connector behind the brake master cylinder tank down to and plugs into the
Bose amp
.
My new problem is this: The optical cable for my cars configuration (
Bose system
without the changer) is Y shaped. The base of the Y is approx. 3ft long, the distance from one upper "leg" to the other upper "leg" is approx. 2ft. The 3ft section is designed to run from the connection behind the brake vacuum tank down to the
Bose amp
. There's plenty of cable for that. My problem is that the 2ft length is not long enough to run from the
Bose amp
up to and then behind the Nav drive. I would guess that it's about 6"-8" too short.
Have any of our readers done this installation with the
Bose system
, without changer configuration? If so, did you have issues getting the optical cable to reach from the
Bose amp
up and behind the mounted Nav drive?
Thanks Sonny,
I went out to the car and tried running the 2ft Length from the connector behind the master cylinder vacuum tank to the
Bose amp
and it was still about 6"-8" too short. I do think that that is how it's supposed to be run though, thanks.
I had previously made an appointment for this afternoon at my local
Porsche
dealer to have the system "coded" to recognize the new
PCM
2.1 and Nav drive. So I'll just have their tech guy make that final connection. I'll keep you all posted.
