kdawg
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- Jun 25, 2003
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Part 2 - turns out there's a 10 attachment limit I've never hit before:
Then you just put the original fuse into this thing, and the new fuse it came with and plug it in. The only step I didn't get a photo of is attaching the earth cable - you just have to find a bolt attached to bare metal, loosen it a bit, put that cable behind the loose bolt and tighten it again.
Then just plug that thing in where you took the fuse out of and tidy up the cables - I used a few cable ties to hold them out the way.
Photo from the other side - I managed to get the little ferrite core in the headliner too - just a little bump where it is.
So, now when you start the car it turns on, and when you turn it off it turns off.
You can wire it so it's on all the time - you get a kit with a thing that powers it off if your battery voltage drops too low - so you can have a parking collision sensor, but I didn't think that was necessary.
A fairly easy hour's work - and I could do it much faster now that I've done one.
The only issue I had was fiddling around for a while wondering why it wouldn't work - turns out the adaptor thing that plugs into the fuse hole is directional - I originally had it the other way round and it wouldn't work.
Then you just put the original fuse into this thing, and the new fuse it came with and plug it in. The only step I didn't get a photo of is attaching the earth cable - you just have to find a bolt attached to bare metal, loosen it a bit, put that cable behind the loose bolt and tighten it again.
Then just plug that thing in where you took the fuse out of and tidy up the cables - I used a few cable ties to hold them out the way.
Photo from the other side - I managed to get the little ferrite core in the headliner too - just a little bump where it is.
So, now when you start the car it turns on, and when you turn it off it turns off.
You can wire it so it's on all the time - you get a kit with a thing that powers it off if your battery voltage drops too low - so you can have a parking collision sensor, but I didn't think that was necessary.
A fairly easy hour's work - and I could do it much faster now that I've done one.
The only issue I had was fiddling around for a while wondering why it wouldn't work - turns out the adaptor thing that plugs into the fuse hole is directional - I originally had it the other way round and it wouldn't work.

