You would have to do one of two things, leave the harness like it is, which is the one I most likely would do, or remove the harness and just get a 1" plug and put in the hole where the grommet is now. I know you are upset about the upgrade, and I don't blame you for being upset anyone spending that amount of money would be PO'd. Remember, I bought all of the Stage II for my CVO also, and I already had the BT equipment sitting here in the box ready to be put on, but what I'm trying to get at, is, I still say the problem is what I told you it was the first time you told me it was doing this, so for this reason (now that it is lots of people with the same issue) I will say that it is in the flash that HD uses for the system and this part will be resolved, I am sure, but at least now that I know that basically everyone has this issue, I am sure HD will get it resolved but it may take a couple of months, hopefully less. I have had a few items from HD that did not operate on initial release, I mean I was one of the first people with the iPod controller when released, me and (I can't remember for sure) like 7 or 8 others had this 4 or 5 hundred dollar item that would not even make any sound or work at all. It took us several days of working constantly on it to figure it out, but it worked, and HD made the revision to the install. Anyway I hope that it gets fixed soon, the biggest problem I see is, we most likely won't know it is fixed, until we hear from others that have the Stage II and don't have the problems you and others are having.