Delmonte
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As title says. I've bought a Pure Highway DAB / Blootooth thingy. (Had one before on a different car it's very good). For background it consists of an internal stick-on screen aerial with a tiny little box that also sticks to a screen. This attaches by wire, in normal cars, to the aux input of a stereo. Obviously we don't have a aux input. Control is from a neat little remote box that you can put anywhere.
So what I was wanting to do is wire the thing to the CD changer, so i just put the stereo on a CD wire, head the CD changer off at the pass, as it were. (If I can just put it on, say, CD #1 and still use the other CDs then great, but this isn't essential.) Otherwise the CD changer will sit there redundant until such a time as I decide to return to original.
I've heard this has been done and shouldn't be too difficult?
But I've just had the boot panels out to get access to the CD changer and the gubbins around it, and it doesn't look simple at all, because there is a huge plug with millions of wires coming out of it, and a big pack of wires disappearing into the car beyond the back seats. ..
I'd rather not remove the back seats and interior panels if at all possible, in my experience stuff like that comes off, fittings and clasps break, and refit loose and badly with attendant new rattles in place...
So I wondered.... does the wire pack from the CD changer end up at the NIT under the centre console? I've had the NIT unit out before with no problems. Could I intercept the CD changer around there? (I'd then probably run the wire under the carpet in the back and put the aerial unit in the rear side window)
I might still even get a garage or a ICE place to do the job, but at least I could direct them, I generally don't trust car stereo monkeys (or garages even, half the time) with dismantling half my interior and putting it back together right
So what I was wanting to do is wire the thing to the CD changer, so i just put the stereo on a CD wire, head the CD changer off at the pass, as it were. (If I can just put it on, say, CD #1 and still use the other CDs then great, but this isn't essential.) Otherwise the CD changer will sit there redundant until such a time as I decide to return to original.
I've heard this has been done and shouldn't be too difficult?
But I've just had the boot panels out to get access to the CD changer and the gubbins around it, and it doesn't look simple at all, because there is a huge plug with millions of wires coming out of it, and a big pack of wires disappearing into the car beyond the back seats. ..
I'd rather not remove the back seats and interior panels if at all possible, in my experience stuff like that comes off, fittings and clasps break, and refit loose and badly with attendant new rattles in place...
So I wondered.... does the wire pack from the CD changer end up at the NIT under the centre console? I've had the NIT unit out before with no problems. Could I intercept the CD changer around there? (I'd then probably run the wire under the carpet in the back and put the aerial unit in the rear side window)
I might still even get a garage or a ICE place to do the job, but at least I could direct them, I generally don't trust car stereo monkeys (or garages even, half the time) with dismantling half my interior and putting it back together right