RNS-E is now 'in' the dashboard, although its not exactly working out in my favour.
Singh was spot on with his unit noting that the front cover wont fit on, so I am going to have to trim. It will look good once done, but OMG I am going to have to accurate with that trimming... not looking forward to that ! (see the ill fitment with red arrow)
Second problem is the size of my resultant wiring loom, (green arrows) which although very functional, it now a bit bulky to fit behind the RNS-E itself leaving me a loop of cabling to 'lose' somewhere.....
Both problems fixable, but setbacks nonetheless.....
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The third problem is that my car used to have the early fixed Nokia 3310 car kit in it, which is now redundant, so when I had the center console out I removed the now unused phone adapter from the loom :
When I removed this, it seems I lost a +12 ignition feed on the mobile phone aerial amplifier that i was using in the boot to control the power on/off of the rear seat entertainment kit...., so now need another +12 that only goes live with the ignition...
The most annoying problem though stems from the aerial setup on the rear window.
There are 4 aerials on the rear screen, which feed into a diversity switch box, which then feeds 4 connections into the Tv tuner in the boot.
There seems to be some revisions to the way the aerial setup works with possible some large, and rather prohibitive changes to the aerial setup in the 1999 car I have (with the type A tuner, single A/V input, square and boxy) vs the later type B tuners.
The later type B tuner is well documented by CraigyB in an RS6 as being able to have the connectors to the TV tuner changed, and it works with the RNS-E tuner. The type A tuner though seems to have compeletely different aerials and a much earlier revision of the diversity tuner, so i'm now losing confidence that the aerials will work with the RNS-E unit when I want them to..... which i dont right now, but it will annoy me if it doesnt work and I could fix it now.
This has a knock on effect to other projects, as to gain access to the aerials, you need to remove the rear seats, parcel shelf and D pillar trims, so not only do I not get to put my rear seats back together (seperate project in interior trims), but I also now need to remove more bits
I'm just going to have to retrofit the type B tuner loom into my car, along with the relevant aerials and diversity.....
oh joy....
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