R1200RT how do you get the radio out?

[1956phil]

new RT owner! VERY nice bike! Very happy with it, shouldn't have waited so long to buy one!

Sorry, I digress.

How do you get the radio out of the R1200RT?

[MLS2GO]

Leave the lid open and park it in a rough part of town for 45 minutes?

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[Ausbill]

This will get you to the point where the radio almost falls out.

http://www.bmwmoa.org/forum/showthread.php?t=35414

Piece of cake after the tank is off, I put a false floor in the bottom of my radio box to protect the left over bits.

[rtkolenda]

You Don't have to take the gas tank off, you do have to remove all the plastic. I pulled my radio, and the mounting box completley out of the bike, a 2009 RT. I rewired it from the rear speaker pin outs on the back of the OEM radio/cd player to a stereo audio cable that plugs into a little wireless bluetooth stereo dongle, so that I can have wireless, stereo, bluetooth to my wireless bluetooth stereo custom earplugs in my helmet. It works like a champ. This way I can have any CD or the radio playing by, using the speaker fader function on the radio controls on the left side of the faring, just below the handlebars, all I do is press the function button till the speaker volume bars go all the way to the rear speakers. Wha-la!

Don't be in a hurry, keep track of all the screws, they can get lost easly. It's not hard just a little tricky getting the Antenna wire out and the big plug to the radio is very unusual in how it releases, to say the least.

Good Luck,

Leon:thumb

[Semper_Fi]

You Don't have to take the gas tank off, you do have to remove all the plastic........

This will help with the plastic removal (http://www.bmwmoa.org/forum/showthread.php?t=35262)

[mteitler]

If you're taking the radio out and want to sell it, shoot me a PM.

Thanks,

Michael
2009 R1200RT
Gaithersburg, MD