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Car Forum / Saab Cars / May 2007

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NG900 hands free kits

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Captain Poutine - 29 May 2007 19:17 GMT
This has been discussed before, but parts availability has changed.

I'm looking at getting a cellular hands-free kit (specifically, Motorola
IHF1000).  It comes in two varieties: with its own speaker, and using
the car's speakers.  The version that uses the car speakers requires a
mute input.

In the past, Saab made some sort of a hands free kit, (P/N 02 48 666),
but my local dealer wasn't aware of it.

My service manual refers to a wiring loom in the passenger footwell, and
elsewhere to a cell phone mute input (which may be active-high or
active-low; not clear) but doesn't explain much.

1.  Is there any value to spend lots of time tracking down the elusive
Saab kit?

2.  Does anyone have documentation on the factory-installed harness?  Is
the mute pin active-high or active-low?
still me - 30 May 2007 01:05 GMT
>1.  Is there any value to spend lots of time tracking down the elusive
>Saab kit?

I believe your local parts guy can search the entire USA dealer
network (assuming you are in the USA) for the kit.

>2.  Does anyone have documentation on the factory-installed harness?  Is
>the mute pin active-high or active-low?
Captain Poutine - 30 May 2007 13:55 GMT
As to the factory harness: it seems to be buried in the WIS CD.  TSB
300-9017, Jan 1996, describes the built-in wiring:
http://www.townsendimports.com/Saab_TSB_Folder/Saab_TSB_pdfs/300_9017.PDF

In sum, the 5 pins are:
1 rd Power from fuse 23
2 ye/gy Power from Fuse 17 (keyswitched power)
3 gy/wh from rheostat 16, the panel illumination dimmer
4 bk Ground
5 gy - mute

Therefore, it isn't terribly useful.  But perhaps necessary, given that
most hands-free kits only connect to 4 speakers, and thus we need some
way to mute the door speakers.

Later models have a slightly more advanced setup which can be modified
nicely:
http://www.sethevans.com/hack.html

(has a nice pinout of the later version of the telephone harness)

Given that later models mute is active-low, my guess is that older
models are also.
 
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