Modified GPS harness

[Sideoftheroad]

I have a Streetpilot 2730 w/ the car adapter w/ one of those round speakers in the cable. I think one of my sons got ahold of it one day and hasn't worked right since. I would keep losing power. Well I took apart the speaker housing and there are 6 wires total. 2 to the speaker (I never cared for using the speaker), 2 to that outlet that is on the side of the speaker housing (have no idea what it is so I know I won't miss it) and the power and ground wires.

 

I completly cutoff the 1st 4 mentioned wires so you can barely see them. This just left the power and ground wires exposed. I hardwired them into the bike and now the gps works great. There was plenty of length of wire from the Garmin harness so I was able to run it down by the fork, under the tank and next to the battery where I already had a fuse box I installed a couple years ago and pick your own spot for ground. All in all it was free and I didn't have to spend $30+ for the motorcycle wire kit.

[TearlessTom]

Thanks for the info, I have one or two of those laying around, one is broken so I may do what you did and use it for a hardwire. I don't know what the extra pair of wires would go to unless it was for a RCA plug.

 

The $30 one you are referring to has a RCA plug to plug external speakers to.

[Sideoftheroad]

No problem. It works great. Just bought a Streetpilot 2820. To me it is exactly the same as the Zumo 550 but different layout and uses the exact same cable as my 2730.