Welll here is whatI got done last night at 11pm in my driveway 40 degrees...yeah I know thats a heat wave to some of you but sice in moved from Ct to GA 6 years ago I have really lost my tolerance for the cld plus its a super damp cold here......enough of that...
I got the head rest out heres the skinny. if yu are facing the rear of the seat the left post goes into the holder that has a spring loaded relese on it...pretty much a no brainer on it...depress the release is all thats needed to get that post to come all the way out.
the right side holder gas a small cover on the left side it need to be fully removed and I thought I was gojg to brea it but didnt, once removed you have to get a small reg head screwdriver and stick it in the holder and push the spring clip back and pull on the headrest at the same time....wala head rest comes out.
Be careful not to loose the spring clip and remember its orientation because now it is loose in the holder.
Keep the spring clip in because once the new dvd head rest post is to be mounted it needs to be in there or it aint goin in once the post has been inserted.
Now to the seat back here is the removal process. Get your fingers in between the upper corner and the matrial and push back the foam to get a peek inside, what ou will see is a V clip mounted to the seat back plastic panel it is indexed into a square hole in a steel bracket which is mounted to the upper back of the seat frame. While exposing this you need to depress the clip with a reg screwdriver and pull the seat back panel back...repeat on the other side. Go to the lower outter side of the plastic and pull out and back towards the rear of the vehicle there is a V clip there as well but no screwdriver is needed to get it to release. The base of the plastic seat back has 2 plastic slots meade into the plastic they simply index down on the small rod that runs parallel to the floor and pull up on the seat back and it is off.
On the wiring I will run 2 wires from under the dash which will be tied into the stubbed out wires right by the courtesy light (I figured they were for a trailer brake) and I will never have one so I am using the constant power and the ground. I will pull the sill and probe the yellow wires I see and if 1 is a switched +12v I will use it and run all 3 wires under the varpet and stub them out under the drivers seat. The small control box will be mounted under the drivers seat and then it juts a matter of getting the 2 patch cords (2 per head rest coming out from the post bases to the control box pigtail and thats really it.
On a separate note the small plug in harness that comes with the Vizualogic kit has 1 wires that is labeled brake. From what I understand it is supposed to be tied into the emergency brake. The theory is here that it is Illegal to watch video and drive the vehicle, so how it works is if th wire is hooked up to the parking brake circut and the brake is applied the monitors will function.
Obviously I do not want this because I cant watch the video on the back of my headrests anyway and they are pretty much for my 2 children and what good are they if you cant use them when the car is in motion right? so I was told if you ground the green parking brake wire from the Vizulogic harness it will always see ground which will bypass this saftey feature....CAN ANYONE CONFIRM THIS TO BE TRUE, I DONT WANT TO FRY ANYTHING BUT ITS NOT LIKE I AM GIVING IT 12V JUST GROUND....IT MAKES SENSE TO ME...I guess Vizualogic has to protect themselves from someone dieing from watching video while drivingm so they make no mention of how to bypass this feature in the manual...
Thanks to all and hopefully this will be help to others...pretty cool to have at least 2 wires I can use just hanging under the dash ready to go.....and if you want to install a trailer brake its all right there for you stubbed out and on its own fuze. For those adding the light bar or running light option this is the perfect place to tie into a power and ground soure...to bad thay didnt place a switched +12v lead there as well but F5Fstop helped me with that. Th sills are easy to pop off and I have a real nice probe from back in my streo install days plug it into the 12v receptical in the dash and it has a red light on it indicating power and a green light indicating ground. So with the sill plate off I can stick a yellow lead and turn the key on if the lead is hot with the key on and not with it off I am in business..
UNOMYFLO
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