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Old 5th April 2017, 10:22 PM
HPsauce HPsauce is offline
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The only (minor) future change will be when the DVB-T tuner is installed, a relay will automatically "flip" the video signal between TV tuner and reversing camera when reverse gear is selected.
And that actually arrived today, a standard 20A 12V Micro Changeover relay.
This evening I worked out what was needed to link it in, found all the bits I needed in my piles of old cabling and constructed a loom for it.

Five wires on the relay: Power/ground, TV-in (RCA/phono plug), video-out (RCA/phono plug) and camera in (RCA/phono socket). The three video leads have all the screens connected together as well.

There's a bit of work on the car, related to the TV tuner, to rejig some power leads; when that's done this will plug straight in. Not yet as its default setting is TV rather than reversing camera and only the latter works properly at present.
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2003 D2 FL S8. Irish Green Pearl/Beige. Solar sunroof, auto-dim mirrors, electric rear seat functions, ski hatch retrofit; extended leather. Aftermarket DVB-T, reversing camera and full XCarlink (Bluetooth etc.).
2016 Volvo V40 T5 Cross Country (4WD) with ALL the toys including adaptive cruise etc. etc. Osmium Grey with Blonde/Charcoal leather interior. Polestar performance "optimisation". (A much rarer model than a D2 S8 by the way!) Oh, and a brand new engine at just under 30,000 miles on the factory one!
Finally: gone, but not forgotten.....
1998 D2 PF S8. AgateGrey/Platinum. Every option (I think) except electric rear seats, tiptronic steering wheel, ski hatch, towbar & dimming door mirrors.
e.g. Cruise control, NavPlus/TV, Bose, GSM, Xenons, Solar roof, Parking sensors, Alcantara/leather everywhere of course. (internal dimming mirror added later)
1998 (very early) Ford Focus 1.8 Zetec; ABS/TCS, Heated screen/mirrors, Aircon, Auto-dim mirror, Leather, Trip computer, Cruise control, OEM Ford SatNav with CD changer.
And before that a lot of Rover 800s, a few oddities, a lovely Triumph Dolomite 1850HL with Overdrive and way back in my schooldays an Austin Seven aka Mini 850!
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