Dee Tee is going for a full audio upgrade!
I had a look at the vents and its mechanisms when I had them out of the dashboard, honeslty I didnt have the guts to take it apart and rebuilt it. Theres so many small moving parts and its all made...
Niks
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Joined: 14-07-21
Location: United Kingdom
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Update: 27/5/22
Spent the entire day modifying the front door cards, spent ages cutting out the holes and sanding it down, test fitting them back and fourth and so on...
First cut out the hole of the grill itself so I had something...Leave a comment:
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Update: 26/5/22
Spent all day installing the speakers up front, I thought it would be straight forward but it took a lot longer than expected...
How I did my speaker wires so the connectors are protected from the elements......Leave a comment:
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Update: 25/5/22
Ok the train is moving at a pace now...
The hex cap bolts which I ordered the day before arrived yesterday at 10pm, and these were supposed to be on a 1pm delivery. Anyways, they worked perfect, the short one...Leave a comment:
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Installing the adapters and the speaker ring...
First getting out those clips was an absolute ******* of a job to do as they were extremely tight! Managed to get all 8 out after an hour!
Next adding some more dampening...Leave a comment:
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Update: 24/5/22
My friend Andy from Bear Tough Ltd who specialises in Overland & Expedition vehicle builds fabricated me some speaker rings made out of Birch Ply. I had sent him the original plastic ones after cutting the speaker out...Leave a comment:
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Update 21/5/22
So what a monumental day today, all that splicing into the cars wiring loom, I knew that once I started then its the point of no return and I am totally committed to it! Mixed feelings as I didnt really want to hack into the...Leave a comment:
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Today the weather was crappy with on and off rain, sometimes a slight drizzle and then a proper downpour, then a huge clear sky break in between before the dark clouds in the distance rolled in. So I made the most of what I could...Leave a comment:
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I will connect the W-R wire to Key 1 and W-B wire to Key 2, lets see how that goes.
I figured a way to get access to the reverse light, once I have connected that up to the reverse camera power feed, I can start putting the the headunit...Leave a comment:
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Is that trigger wire your talking about a 12V switched wire or just a reverse sensor wire?...Leave a comment:
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Keithyv - I have ditched the OEM camera and installed Joyings 1080p camera in the stock location. Ive ran the Video feed wire from the back tailgate to the dashboard. The camera requires a 12V feed which I wanted to tap into the Reverse light for -...Leave a comment:
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The only wires I have for the steering wheel control is :
Pin 53 - White + Red
Pin 69 - White + Black
According to the Diagram, it seems the W-R wire goes out of the MMCS head unit, into the clockspring where it changes...Last edited by Niks; 1 week ago.Leave a comment:
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Thanks Mark that is really helpful! I was genuinely stumped how to run the wire but if that way works.. I will take it!
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Its the part of how to run the wire back into the cabin or boot area from the light cluster that has me stumped. Did you tap into the drivers side rear light cluster?Leave a comment:
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Reverse Light wiring access
Hi all,
Is anyone able to tell me how to get access to the reverse light positive wire on the NW Exceed or where the connector sits? I can't see where the wiring loom goes when I remove the rear light cluster as its all closed off there.... -
Thank you. I just hope people will find it useful and informative if anyone wants to tackle the same thing or something similar, also for my own recollection and documentation.
Still have so much to do!Leave a comment:
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We need to go for a beer someday! lol.
I did a speaker line level install once and from what I remember, it didnt sound anymore better apart from just being louder via an external amp, but distortion was a problem. The headunit the car had...Leave a comment:
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Finally, if your glove box rattles over bumps and annoys the crap out of you.. do this with a bit of left over Stage 2 CCF!!! ...
Now it sits closed properly and it is solid, no movements at all!
:beer[...Leave a comment:
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Ok, so then I had a go at cutting into the main harness and soldering them into the Joyings wiring loom...
Here you can see I have cut only the main wires which I actually need...
Yellow = Main Batt 12V...Leave a comment:
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Update: 19/5/22
I tackled the crazy job of figuring out what all the wires were on each of the plugs going into the car's MMCS headunit. Using that Russian site, managed to figure out Pin wires, what goes to where and what colour they are...Leave a comment:
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