Finally fitted mine today. Thanks Steve - the kit really made things easy. A lot easier than fitting my previous non-M with the OEM retrofit kit, I reckon.
Some feedback/questions:
* The install took a couple of hours, from disconnecting the battery to going for a test drive
* What is the length of purple heatshrink around the blue wire for? I threw it away but later ended up using some of my own heatshrink to hold the male/female connectors securely together when bundled with the LCM loom
This is what it was for :lol:
* The blue wire came up about 30cm too short to follow the existing loom and loom guides all the way from the DME to the steering rack. It might have reached if I'd routed it directly downwards out of the bottom of the X6021 socket instead of up past the plug and into the main bundle of wires, but access was tight
Should have been fine. I made them all slightly longer than the factory loom and have fitted 3 or 4 to ///M without issue running behind the panel below the ac controls.
* Great tips re. removing the air vent and dropping the LCM loom down into the footwell while installing!
* How did you connect the violet/yellow and black brown wires under the heatshrink? I wasn't sure whether they would bend without breaking inside (as a spade connector might do, for example, but not a soldered joint), so kept them as straight as possible when tying everything up
Yes just kept them straight and together using the heatshrink then cable tied to the existing loom.