Today I Have Mostly Been...

[alanbradley]

Hi folks,

If you remember, a couple of weeks ago I asked about routing some of the cabling on my dashboard to tidy it up. Well this afternoon, faced with the choice of footering with the car or making the carpet visible in my flat, I actually did it.

Actually, I got a bit carried away and decided that not only should I feed the RLD module and GPS wires through the speaker grille, but I should plumb the power lead into the back of the cigarette lighter.

Thanks really have to go to Seveer for showing me how the speaker grille comes off and also to Matt (Moffmo) for his "How to fit a different h/u to a phase 2" walkthrough that showed me how to take the dash apart...

Here are some pics

Before

During (I was a bit worried at this point! )

After - much better.

Thanks again folks!

Alan

PS It all worked first time too!

[Al J]

Nice one, Alan. Looked scary for a minute there. Glad it's all working.

[alanbradley]

Not nearly as scary as it looked from where I was!

All that just to get to the back of the cigarette lighter!

[Chuck04]

looking much better, nice and tydie the during pic looks familuar, many a times have i dismantled the dash for varoius reasons

top job

[cfc1]

And no bit's left over?? lol

i normaly get left with a few spare's :o

EDIT: is there a spell checker on here somewhere lol

[RossP]

Yeh, looks much better now, always a bit swoorying when you take the dash apart for the first time! But as long as you remember where everything goes, you're not going to have any problems! Good job!

[DazzaP]

Tidy job man, nice escort in BG too.

[kimi]

You've made a nice tidy job of that

looked very scary with the dash in bits

[Chappers]

Top job

[Kerby]

oh the good old rip the dash to bits trick. seen that soooooo may times:p

[alanbradley]

Tidy job man, nice escort in BG too.

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Cheers for the compliments folks...

Dazza, I hope you're joking about the Escort... It's got a horrible front (all bloated and stone chipped) and belongs to my neighbours. :!Removed!:

A

[Demonic Angel]

Lovely and clean and tidy!

Much better!

[Moffmo]

thats a proper job innit!!

im so proud, i see my how to guide on the laptop :D :D

[breezer]

how you get your snooper all the way over there? i mean the wires?

[Blue84]

Wow that looks much better - I would've been worried too after seeing that during photo !!

[Ryan1985]

Good job Alan, nice one! Looks much better!

[Robie]

Very tidy, how many new ratlles? :P ;)

[keeperofthegate]

Cool... looks a lot neater..!

[alanbradley]

how you get your snooper all the way over there? i mean the wires?

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Which way?

Its a Snooper S6-R Neo, so its 3 separate bits.

The power from the back of the cigarette lighter goes back through the dash and then up behind the steering column to the control unit mounted by velcro to the dash. Cables run from there, back down the steering column, under the rh dash, under the central binnicle just in front of the lower heater outlet. They then go up behind the lower glovebox (but passing over the cabin air filter box) and out a small notch I cut int he passenger side dash speaker grille. Finally they go along the gap between the windscreent and the leading edge of the dashboard the the GPS and RLD modules.... Phew!

Thankfully they supply nice, long cables!

I took it for a quick run once I'd finished to make sure everything worked and there were no new rattles - thank goodness

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[clarky]

Looks good mate - I did the 'rip the dash to peices thing' a while back - not for the faint hearted.

Worrying to think just two screws hold the whole lot together ...