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[Craig_R]

I had a full day of rewiring my Carputer and screen today what a long time that took just to route aload of wire back to the Boot.

Acouple of you know I had a laptop under my drivers seat to run everything but after putting in my MV6 seats i did not want to be sticking my arm under the seat to turn it on everytime.

So Abit of soldering later i have wired the laptop power button to work off the Traffic Master button, i never used Traffic Master infact found it a pain. One push on and one push off works atreat

I had to route the VGA cable from the Boot to the front also the audio cable to my head unit (this will be replace when I get an Amp)
And routed a Cable For the Radio Ariel as i have a usb FM radio that works throught the computer now also.
Hard wired the Screens Power into the Front Ciggy Light wires and hard wired the Laptops power supply into the Rear Ciggy Lighter.
But found out that my Car power converter for the laptop is knacked spikeing everywhere and giving interferance on the screen and strange sounds through the laptops audio, So Off to Maplins to get a 150Watt Power inverter which is ok as the mains power supply is a constant 70watts well with in limits hope this solves my nasty spikes and errors.

Also Wired a second 12.5 LCD flat screen in that work was throwing out as they had lost the mains power supply fine for me as it ran stright off 12V very handy. Dont know where this is going to go think it will be for the rear passangers if i have any

Carpet all back down correctly after a stuggle.

The one part i have put on hold is the Screen Surround that i was making to make it look factory fitted. It needs to be curved to follow the shape better, Ill need to get a sander to sand down edges and have flush fit.

So all in all took longer than i thought it would but the longest part was routing the cables under carpets and out of sight.

[Taxi_Driver]

Well done Craig  

Will be interested to see finished results  

Hope this post makes it.....my laptop is running like a slug at the mo....

Its busy.....extracting ummm one or two files....TB's fault...  

[Craig_R]

Thanks TD i Hope you will not see the finished result as everything will be out of sight I was getting sick of cables everywhere and after spending all that cash on nice Leather MV6 seats i wanted all those nasty cable hidden away not having plugs coming out of ciggy lighters and wires across the dash.

[Martin_1962]

SOunds very interesting