Installing a MG Rover Bluetooth Handsfree Kit.

[StevenWilliams]

Just thought I'd gibe you a brief description of what I did when installing a MG Rover Bluetooth handsfree kit as sourced by SMC here for £29.99 + p&p.


What you get in the kit.



A control unit, microphone, control and privacy cable. A ISO harness and a power cable.

You'll need to splice into a permanent live, switched live and neutral cable.
I just spliced into the main radio wiring as it has all three. The draw of this unit is very low and unless you have a very high power consuming stereo this will be fine.



Then you connect the male and female connectors into the speaker side of the ISO harness




I put my microphone on the center light just above the rear mirror. I put it there just in case the passengers want to talk as well. I know my kids do. I know most installers put this by the drivers A pillar.

In the future I may replace the sunblind switch blank with this.





I put the control cable under the stereo and through the same channel as the climate control unit. This seems to look the best from the many places I tried it.








I put the headphone unit in the glovebox. there is a hole already in the glove box for the CD changer lead and as I don;t have a cD changer it was perfect. I didn't take a photo of this.

I will rarely use the privacy headphone so it's fine hidden away in there and if I need it I can just drop the glovebox and pull it out. The lead is long enough (Just).


As you can see in the pic above I put the control unit near the fusebox and it fitted perfectly with all the other bits.

The install was about 10 mins of figuring the italian instructions out and then just plugging everything in. It's very simple. Routing the cables takes longer especially if you want it not to vibrate whilst driving.

If you are wondering what the blue cable is under the glovebox it's the permanent live feed I put into the boot.

All in all a great kit that sounds superb.