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Old 06-01-2006, 01:12 AM   #39 (permalink)
James Heath
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Join Date: Apr 2006
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Domino
Hi James -
I'd like to do this but don't really follow the thread here on what to do. Could you post how you did it?

-- thx
Domino,

This isn't really for the faint hearted!!

Basically, you:
  • unscrew the tunnel by the gear stick,
  • lift the plastic as far as you can,
  • open out the shroud surrounding the cables there,
  • find the light green wires described & pictured elsewhere.
  • You need only hook up to one - I chose the light green / pink.
  • use a soldering iron to melt the insulation a bit and attach a wire to it
  • take this wire to the stereo (tricky this bit - my route was convoluted - under the floor carpet, along the side carpet, up the footwellin behind the dash on the drivers side, behind the dash (took the instrument pod off) to the radio)
  • hook it up to the speed sense pin - was labelled in my Blaupunkt manual.

sounds horrific, but actually works very well.

I had the instrument panle off & stereo out anyway to hook up other goodies:
  • steering wheel stereo remote
  • phone car kit
  • PDA (for sat nav) cradle
  • auto lights on ignition

If you decide to go for it & need more detail - do post again

James
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