Removing car phone

[austinpatton]

So I bought a 1995 318ti from my uncle yesterday. He bought it when it first came out and barely drove it (It only has 50,000 miles on it). It still has the car phone set up and everything (tiny speaker underneath glove compartment). I want to know the best way to remove this. Should I just cut the cables and remove the speaker or what? Has anybody else has a similar problem?

Thanks,
Austin

[b.u.ti-ful]

Wow, sounds like a real creampuff!

I would leave it in just to be strange.

Did your uncle get a lot of options?

[austinpatton]

He said it was loaded for that year! And yeah it'd be funny to leave it in but I really want it gone lol. I would just cut the wires but I don't want to mess anything up! Anybody have any ideas?

[b.u.ti-ful]

I guess there might be a little voltage going there, but I doubt it would matter if you just yanked it.

Does it have it's own fuse?

If so, pull it and see if the phone lights go out and if anything else is effected like windows or whatever.

If not, you should be good to yank it.

[aceyx]

I imagine everything in the system can be traced back to connectors somewhere. There is a plug under the parking brake; I'd probably start there.

[atlanta318ti]

Wow. That's history. Can you take some pics of it before you remove it?

[hotmilk400]

HAHAHAHAHA!! i had my own experience with car phones.. my friend had a car phone in his 1988 Pontiac Firebird, and he loved it (it was like, a real phone almost... haha.. it was huge) anyway.. we removed it one day when we were installing his new sound system. (im very handly when it comes to aftermarket wiring withing the car.. ) anyway.. if it was anything like his phone, u can just rip the phone out (his had a phone jack in the back) also, the antenna and the power control for it was located in the trunk behind a trunk panel. (not sure where yours may be, follow the wire if u want) anyway.. it wont hurt anything to remove it.
your car doesn't depend on the phone, the phone is a separate system. u can just remove the wires (try to cut all the wires 1 by one, which will mean u might have to cut open all the wires going to it to be able to do that) and then just hid the wires. there might even be a fuse that is used just for your phone in your fuse box, if there is, i would start by removing that before u do anything.

is it hooked into your radio? or is it its own independent system? (doesn't share anything else in the car)

Um.. post a picture to be on the safe side.. (since this might not be an aftermarket install, or a phone as old as the one i am use to) but the idea should be the same, just remove it however.. it wont wreck anything.