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Originally Posted by crystalworks
Interesting idea on that rear camera too. Haven't seen that. Post some better pics. The one in the post above looks like it was taken with a flip phone from 2004.  |
Flip phone, are you kidding!. 3 year old BlackBerry actually! I confess I need to figure out how to post higher quality pics here. The board keeps telling me my file size is too large.
Spent the morning running the Sirius antenna wire and camera video wire from the rear cubbies to the gaping hole in the dash that used to be my stock, non-DSP and no nav stereo. Ran the video line across the trunk at the tailgate (along the existing bundle, to the Sirius wire in the left cubby. Wrapped them up with the black fabric electrical tape and ran both up the left sils to under the dead pedal and across the drivers footwell into the receiver/cd player void in the dash. Hardest part here was getting the dead pedal loose enough to work the wires under it.
Then tapped into the speed sensor wire in one of the plugs into the instrument cluster and ran it to the receiver hole. Finished the morning by running the Kenwood gps antenna through the dash and into the door gasket at the top of the dead pedal, then up to the base of the pillar and around to the front of the instrument cluster on the dash. I was able to hide the wire almost all the way by forcing it into the gaps with just a short run to where it mounts.
Next I need to figure out where and how to mount the Kenwood microphone and find steady reverse power to finish the wiring. The aftermarket frame/bezel has lots of surface area around the double DIN Kenwood so maybe I can drill a hole and make a decent friction for the mic. Hopefully too my 2002 E53 won’t have the PWS issues with the power from the lighting module. If so I’ll go the relay route at the rear fuse box. Pics when I get smarter on posting better ones.