Smart Car MP3 Cable Relocation

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About fourteen months ago my son bought really a sharp Smart Automobile and ofcourse then decided it wasn’t good enough since it had been and he wished to remove the MP3 cable to get a Radio 10 version for easier access also to make it, what he termed, cool. Much to his dismay there are many challenges in moving the MP3 cable out of the glovebox to some little distance between the controls and also the air where he can readily hit . The only alternative option for relocating the MP3 cable for simple access is in the upper kick panel in the passenger foot area (not a really good option).

He enlisted my help because in facts he is a little mechanically challenged and I’m an older school, died in the wool, diy kind of guy (earlier we were finished with this small job I had been wishing I had been anything but)…

Well needless to say, as with almost any change you make to factory applications in a brand new vehicle, we ran in to lots of problems so I decided I would share this experience therefore that you aren’t going to have to go through what we had to go through to get this done.sitzheizung

I will share with you what I presume are a few important step by step guidelines that I feel will be really helpful to anyone wanting to do this kind of effort. Please follow each step before continuing forward to the next one, since it’ll cause you lots of despair (as I heard from personal experience) to need to start over from the beginning if you may not proceed as guided.

To begin with, the lower button console with an seat heater, door guards, hazard warning flasher, etc. buttons must come off . This narrow games console is not difficult to remove but needs to be pried from the base as it comes directly back to you (directly out from the console). Only slide your fingers in behind the console from the top and pull toward you, and the removed console may hang loose without causing a challenge.

Second, at the exact same square core gap at which the lower console wires come through the dash panel, there is definitely an Allen screw. This screw holds the vinyl panel set up, which surrounds the radio along with a/c vents. Carefully remove the twist being aware never to shed it, that will be extremely easy to do in this very tight distance.

Then slide your fingers under the plastic panel that surrounds the radio and also h vents and beginning on top nearest the windshield on either corner, lightly lift and pull it on the back of the motor vehicle. This will definitely release the vinyl clips.

Taking a look at radio stations, it has four Allen screws, which hold it in place in each one of the four corners. Unscrew them until they have been loose, because they do not need to be removed from the radio however only unscrewed. Twist the radio directly back and to the right where it will sit firmly on the eyebrow of the glove box.

At this point you might opt to drill a three quarter inch (18mm) hole in the thoracic area just to the right of this perpendicular dash board mount at the center of the vehicle below the radio/heater area where there is a plastic kick board. There’s a huge hole to the best of this panel where you want to place your hand up and into to make sure no wires are whatsoever.

Underneath the radio you are able to truly feel a huge slot at the bottom of the radio hole. You want to maneuver on your MP3 cable through this slot and then mount it into the newest three quarter inch gap that you drilled in the kick panel. This will provide for a nice, tidy and from sight installation.

Now plug in your MP3 port cable into the MP3 female connector in the kick panel at the back of radio stations nearest to the drivers seat, where the chief power connector and wires are located. Above this connector is still a slim, dual male connector. The MP3 female cable connector moves in to the little connector slot in the slim, dual male connector, and this is furthest from the drivers seat. The retaining clip from your MP3 cable connector confronts the other side of the slender, double male connector. Twist this square blue connector into the back of the radio. This connection mutes the music to answer the telephone or enable you to earn a telephone when required.

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