Bought a gismo

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road warrior

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 Burton On trent
I have bought a gizmo that piggybacks into the back of the professional radio and gives me usb and phono. That's all fine, but how do I thread it through the trim to sit in the passenger footwell? What's involved, don't want to take the dash out or any old nonsense like that. So...?
Any sparky type people near me in Burton?
 
You definitely can thread a line through - I've thread all sorts of lines around the interior/exterior to hook up my dashcam, angel eyes etc.

You do need to remove a piece of trim but it's really easy.

If you remove the under panel in the passenger footwell (2 or 3 philips screws beneath the glove box), and also drop the inside part of the glovebox (as if you were wanting to get access to the fuse box), you'll be able to grab a flash light and shine a light through.

With the flashlight shining through, you can then look through from the other end for glimpses of your light (meaning theres a hole) and with lots of wriggling and cut skin (maybe), get your wire to where there's a hole (like you're trapped in a cave and you SEE THE LIGHT!!! FREEDOMMM!).
 
I’ve run cables through mine without too much hassle, as above. I’m not a million miles from Burton if you need assistance though once you go for it I don’t think you should.
 
Thanks for that chaps, been meaning to sort this, but now I have my big boy exhaust I keep finding I keep turning the music down to hear the exhaust, and a small wallet deviation to an mot failure and headlights meant it kept being put on the back burner.
Speaking of my exhaust mod which I'm very happy with, I had the fortune/misfortune to find myself following a howling Audi TT on Sunday that made Steve sound like a poof with a handbag. Ahh well :headbang:
 
Speaking of mot work, I had an advisory for the 2 brake pipes that run to the back wheels each side, I was told 200 quid, for 4 brake pipes that sounds ok, your thoughts?
 
Allowing for labour at around £50/hr I guess that is not too far off. A hit I know but if you ask them to run it in cunifer
( I think that is spelled correctly! ) then they will never rot again, unlike the crappy steel ones, coated or not!
 
Road warrior.... why are you even turning the radio on ? With the new sexy exhaust, all music should be banned ??? :poke:
Seriously though, what box did you go for roadie?
 
by box you mean exhaust box im guessing, ironically its a dlv from a 2.5, which im very happy with, and yes. i turn the radio off mostly :driving: i do notice a drop in power in the lower revs due to the drop in back pressure which benefits the higher revs which i rarely go near due to its driving life with me.. but im very happy with the burble snarl and popping, i may never grow up now, even if it was unlikely before its even less doubtful now :rofl:
 
Jl-c said:
Allowing for labour at around £50/hr I guess that is not too far off. A hit I know but if you ask them to run it in cunifer
( I think that is spelled correctly! ) then they will never rot again, unlike the crappy steel ones, coated or not!
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what the hell is cunifer ?
 
Jl-c said:
Allowing for labour at around £50/hr I guess that is not too far off. A hit I know but if you ask them to run it in cunifer
( I think that is spelled correctly! ) then they will never rot again, unlike the crappy steel ones, coated or not!
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what the hell is cunifer ?
 
Hey, I did say I wasn’t sure of the spelling :wink: Kind of assumed as it has copper in it, it would start with a C !
 
laughs.. whatever it is - thanks for that, im wondering if the kunifer is a brand and cunifer is the metallurgical name for it :o
 
You may well be right, I don't know. That asides I do know that it makes a set of 'almost' fit and forget brake pipes. Got to be good! I will say though that you will have to tone down the OCD a touch ( I know I had to :) ) as it comes in a roll and it hardly ever is dead straight on long runs of pipe. :o Just don't look, it works for me. :rofl:
 
DLV did my rear brake pipes in late 2017 as it had MOT advisories 2 years running. :(

It was only 11 years old - still there were no advisories last June! :)

Going back to your gismo that sounds like a handy piece of kit - can you post any details of it? Mine has been retro-fitted with an Aux in inside the glovebox, but a USB would be much more useful (I imagine I couldn't use both, but if anyone knows for sure that would be great).

Mind you, like road warrior I do like to hear the exhaust. :lol:
 
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