Wiring harness reproduction

[penth2o]

A member of another group & vehicle had the complete harness reproduced to specs for another vehicle I have. I was wondering if this has been done for the Tii.

I can't see a bare bones restore with old wiring used. What do you guys do or has it been reproduced already and I haven't seen it.....

Any electrical wizards in here that are capable of this task....

It can be done at a reasonable cost with instructions, diagrams, all connectors and such even to include year specific changes for various year differences.

nt

[BillWilliams]

Jack Frederick tried the Painless kit and I believe he found it all but "painless".

It would be nice to have an option for a new harness.

[penth2o]

Thanks Bill,

What is the Painless kit. Actually I don't need to know if it isn't correct.

So there is no correct reproduction out there then.

I can contact the Company in Cali that did ours. I don't have a clean/unhacked example to start with until I get mine out. Then I would need you gurus input as to make the various year mods and all that is needed to make it a smooth replacement.

The ones we have were done right and a lot of time and energy to ensure correctness. They go in without a hitch. They have to as they run inside of the rockers to get to the rear. (Major pain)

I just want to get prepared for when it does happen and not be trying to pull it off at the last moment.

[c.d.iesel]

tell the class what your cost was for that harness pictured above ?

and a question for folks here - what would you pay

for a 02 harness ?

things to consider:

emission control wiring

fuel injection wiring incl dash clock

carb model wiring

wiring for duel-horns and fog lights.....

6 vs 12 fuse cars

[Mike_B]

RealOEM indicates that front harnesses are still available from BWM.

01 CABLE HARNESS SECTOR FRONT REGLER EXTERN 1 03/1971 12/1974 61111352915 $148.94

01 CABLE HARNESS SECTOR FRONT REGLER INTERN 1 04/1971 12/1974 61111355799 $572.42

Quite a difference in price. Does anyone know the differences between the two listed?

[penth2o]

Hi Cd.

I would have to look but I think it was 450.

I would pay what it takes to get a correct harness for a restore. I just don't see going through what it takes for a restore & using 40 year old wiring.

The things to consider you mentioned are what I was talking about with you gurus input. We would need the knowledge and expertise of all you guys to ensure it was correct.

All features & accessories options can be added. On the one pictured duel horns, fogs & modern stereo were added for the non purist.

Along with the early push button & later manual controls to include the early 6 & later 12 volt changes.

I'm just checking to see if there is a correct repo out there, if not when I go through my resto I will have it reproduced.

[penth2o]

Ok, I was typing when Mike posted.

It is out there and not worth repoing. Thanks Mike.

EDIT:

After checking, that is just the front harness though. So it may be worth repoing as the one I showed is complete... Every wire in the car front to back.

[tortit]

how about this http://www.kabelgross.de/index.php?cat=c3053_BMW-1502-1602-1802-2002.html

[Julio]

how about this http://www.kabelgross.de/index.php?cat=c3053_BMW-1502-1602-1802-2002.html

There lies the harness........

thanks for sharing that link

jb

[penth2o]

Thanks for the link Tortit.

The million dollar question:

Has anyone bought/installed/ or seen one of these. Do they have the necessary wiring for all the various components or is this a generic one.

One size fits all....

[Arshloch]

I would buy a universal wiring kit and modify it to what I need.

It is all that hard to do a proper job, just time/labor consuming. if it's still relatively intact and undamaged I would not bother redoing everything, just replacing complete loops like I did with half of my underhood wiring (not properly color coded of course).

[ingraham]

RealOEM indicates that front harnesses are still available from BWM.

01 CABLE HARNESS SECTOR FRONT REGLER EXTERN 1 03/1971 12/1974 61111352915 $148.94

01 CABLE HARNESS SECTOR FRONT REGLER INTERN 1 04/1971 12/1974 61111355799 $572.42

Quite a difference in price. Does anyone know the differences between the two listed?

Wild guess for the price difference: one of them hasn't yet been reproduced by BMW Classic. Meanwhile, the RealOEM prices are probably out of date. Bell BMW says -915 is supersceded by -799, and the price is $572 list, $458 net. That means -915 is NLA; if it ever comes back, it will be expensive.

[Bavarianhoarder]

I just ordered one of the harnesses posted in that link from germany for $600 shipped. I will advise how it works out...