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this is NOT one for the faint hearted!

you need:

male and female 8pin plugs (jaycar)

32 core 18-20awg cable 2m of it

8core cable - 3m

twin core shileded cable - 2m

single core cable shielded - 2 m

LOTS of heatshrink

6 hours of patience...

nets this:

starting:

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original harness with the new one sitting behind it - those are CAN lines that I'm adding 2m of cable to..

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new spot for the OE unit

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note the black plug - 2m of extension lead there- no lead - no audio from external sources or anything else for that matter..

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new 2m extension - one plug in place

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better than crimps or tape (and certainly better than the hack job on G35driver!!)

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OE nav done and tested in its final spot

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all done! (top gear FTW!!)

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anyone wanting this one done - find another person- I'm not doing another.

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if its the rear one you have then it does not affect it. waz car has a rear one. I simply will not repeat that exercise due to the time it took. unit is under the passenger seat. you do not have to electrically disconnect teh seat so it gets a bit easier. if you do disconnect the seat be aware that you will set the airbag light when you turn the key on.

if I get overwhelmed with requests I'll make up a plug in lead for it.

I'd be in for a harness . PM me if you have the data and want someone to manufacture them. I'd be happy to do low volumes.

This I would think would be a very worthwhile and fundamental mod.

Include a rear Aux TV lead harness as well.

What would a harness cost roughly?

I presume the harness would include din socket for the new DVD unit.

gibbo

I have a local place that can do them. plugs are the worst bit of it. thing being I have to buy a 1000 of each plug and the matching pins ( there are 5 of them )MINIMUM to make them. the main nav plugs are EXPENSIVE - so for the total harness it would be in excess of $300 to make properly. the TV AUX lead I keep on hand anyway - ready made for $60-75 depending on exchange. same rule there.

the estimate I did was a plug in lead with the two CAN plugs (both sides) 8 pin DIN plugs and the main nav plugs with 2.5m of lead between them. the nav antenna plug is irrelevant as that gets replaced in most cases with a new antenna anyway. (Iin the cars I do IT DOES GET REPLACED)

the above exercise was $60 in cable and connectors.

  • 2 weeks later...

Hi Chris,

Awesome work, im looking at doing something similiar myself in the future when i find the patience!!

One quick question, does the car operate without the OEM Nav unit installed?? If it is unplugged does it have a hissy fit?

Cheers

Laine

it will. nothing will work screen wise but yes the car does run and drive with no lights. have driven SEVERAL cars around with no dash in them at compliance doing exactly what you are asking.

what do you have in mind?

if you do disconnect the seat be aware that you will set the airbag light when you turn the key on.

Do you mean that once anyone do this, the airbag light will stay on FOREVER even though the ignition is turned back off, seat wire is reconnected, and turn it back on?

Cos there's someone on the other thread that's got an engine error message as he accidentally tried to start the car with airflow meter plug disconnected. now it seems he has the dreaded errror message FOREVER even though the car works fine now.

nope. if I had removed the seat ENTIRELY and turned the key on then I would have the same problem as the OP does. I didnt as I left the wiring intact and pushed the seat out of the way. have high res shots if you wish to look. only way to get rind of the codes is with the appropriate bit of sofware and a cable.

it will. nothing will work screen wise but yes the car does run and drive with no lights. have driven SEVERAL cars around with no dash in them at compliance doing exactly what you are asking.

what do you have in mind?

Ok fair enough. I was just trying to take the easy option and just remove the nav unit and replace it with a DVD unit and attach that to the aux input mentioned in the other thread. Pretty much the same as what you did!

Never mind, might just have to look at taking the same approach when the time comes....

  • 2 weeks later...

What do you reckon of this? 40GB HDD, its' own CPU, functions as a dvd player as well...

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/1-DIN-In-Dash-DVD-C...1QQcmdZViewItem

I should've put the dvd player in when chris did the conversion work saves all the troubles now...

I came across the Nesa DVD-5051 as well, 1/2 DIN size so looks like slim enough to fit in e.g. glovebox or tucked in somewhere less obvious.

http://www.nesavision.com/dvd5051.html

Is this just as good as the other DVD-8000 that you told me about?

Hey now that should allow the existing unit to be set down and to the rear of where it is and the slim unit up and forward. That way no rewiring of the existing unit.Would depend on unit price as well.

Brillliant.

I get my v35 back next week so will check it out mate. Mine may well be the first v35 coupe to have tangled with 2 kangaroos (mother and joey) in the country certainly off the road for 3 months. They liked HID so much they leapt head first into the left one.

I can't wait ...

Gibbo

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