When I bought my car it came with a weighted non-illuminated knob. I want illumination, so obtained a used OEM gearknob but discovered it has a different connector to the wire in the car.
From this thread I can discern that the connectors are different for pre-facelift versus facelift cars. My car is a pre-facelift with the black connector, whereas the knob I purchased comes with the smaller white facelift connector.
This is the connector on the car end. Curiously, someone has previously cut and spliced this connector on:
This is the connector attached to the knob:
It appears that I can buy item #3 in the below picture and then splice it to the knob to correctly attach it to the connector I have on the car:
A trawl of RealOEM and bmmini seems to show that only pre-facelift connectors are available but facelift ones are not?
Can anyone confirm if:
- the black connector attached to my car is the standard one? The diagram seems to show that what I have attached to the car, is actually supposed to be attached to the knob.
- that the item #3 above (part #61131378106) is the other connector which I need to mate with what is currently fitted to the car
- if the white facelift connector that attaches to the car is actually available (if so, I would prefer to buy this instead of the pre-facelift black item, as the wires on the car end are already spliced and I can simply reattach the new connector here instead of cutting the knob wires).
Thanks in advance for any advice.
From this thread I can discern that the connectors are different for pre-facelift versus facelift cars. My car is a pre-facelift with the black connector, whereas the knob I purchased comes with the smaller white facelift connector.
This is the connector on the car end. Curiously, someone has previously cut and spliced this connector on:

This is the connector attached to the knob:

It appears that I can buy item #3 in the below picture and then splice it to the knob to correctly attach it to the connector I have on the car:

A trawl of RealOEM and bmmini seems to show that only pre-facelift connectors are available but facelift ones are not?
Can anyone confirm if:
- the black connector attached to my car is the standard one? The diagram seems to show that what I have attached to the car, is actually supposed to be attached to the knob.
- that the item #3 above (part #61131378106) is the other connector which I need to mate with what is currently fitted to the car
- if the white facelift connector that attaches to the car is actually available (if so, I would prefer to buy this instead of the pre-facelift black item, as the wires on the car end are already spliced and I can simply reattach the new connector here instead of cutting the knob wires).
Thanks in advance for any advice.