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Where is this cable (roughly)? Planning to do this soon and would be good to know where it is. Don't know if you've seen this but it's super handy for routing cables, removing trim, getting a reverse light feed etc. http://www.350z-uk.com/topic/56481-kenwood-ddx-4028bt-rear-cam-install-–-superguide/ Good luck with it, I had to slip on some captain brave pants when pulling the rear bumper loose. I was sure it was going to break!

Yup that's the one How do they go in BM? Is it some sort of male connector I need put on the end of the wire? Or just jam it in there?

Hard to say, depends where you are. As a loose guide I damaged my front lip (grrrrrrr, don't ask) and the body shop have quoted me for the full lip to be sanded back, colour matched and resprayed for £65 (woohooo). That's in the frozen north though, could be a lot more painful for a bumper darn sarf...

Sneaky pioneer people have two manuals, user (useless) and install (useful). I now know which is the "in reverse" signal input to the head unit. So if I splice in another cable to the reverse light, then run it along the video signal, it should be back of the net. I can't face doing this again today, but at least I know now. Just need a length of fairly low grade wire to run as the signal and some sunshine, so I can start ripping it all out again!

Cheers Alex, this isn't the case. I thought the same thing at first, but I've since learned my lesson from scouring the web. It only goes live in reverse, but the settings in the head unit in the video are set to "CAMERA ON" which simply forces the head unit to camera input even if it is off and displays a black screen (as there is no power to cam). This confirms it's not on perma live. If that all makes sense?

Cheers BM. I did wonder this when I was doing the install, I thought there should be a second "signal" wire along with the video feed and I was kind of hoping that the HU would simply know it was in reverse because the RC IN phono video signal powered up. Apparently not, this is too sophisticated, I have since realised that camera confusingly shouldn't be set to ON (as per the video) as this is for ALWAYS ON - in case you wanted to watch out the back as you drove into cars in front. In normal operation, it should be set to OFF and then it picks up the reverse signal in the back, as per your post BM. Next question. Which one of them 3000 connectors in the back of the head unit is the reverse "signal" input? The manual is totally useless and there weren't many holes which didn't have something jammed in.

So I installed the fleabay special reverse cam http://www.ebay.co.u...ME:L:OU:GB:3160 into my Pioneer AVH-X2500BT. I took the power from the reverse light (pale green with silver band) via scotchlock and grounded to the bolt from the Bose amp bracket in the boot. Ran the cam video feed through the boot, up the passenger side door carpet/trim, under passenger dash and into back of headunit. It was all looking so good. But, when I switch on the headunit it simply switches to the reverse cam automatically after a few seconds, even if reverse not engaged. When reverse is engaged the cam works nicely and picture is fine, but the head unit won't disengage cam when out of reverse. I've gone into the headunit settings and checked the polarity, it should run off battery, but I've tried ground too - same result. Vid below shows it all happening in real life. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8DqUPMhhTU&feature=youtu.be Any suggestions welcome, so long as they don't involve ripping the centre console out again, which is a b@$£@rd to put back! Cheers.

Can any of you horsey people please recommend a saddle soap (or similar product) for softening up a leather jacket (cow hide)? Sorry for drift off topic.

That is the shizzle, love those bench seats but not so cool on the track, iPod hack and you're away!

You just became my personal hero. Awesomenutz with amazeballz on top.

Get a P3 pack from Alex and find a decent indie. £500 for a service is mental.

Post a pic of your confused face.

Looks very in the first pic she looks like she's doing 100mph just standing still. Is that aerial next on the list?

BOOM the zman speaks! sorted.

So as per OPs comments I've been looking into this on my Zed too. Same symptoms. Fans off until circa 100 degrees, then driver's kicks in, passenger does nothing. With AC on, driver's spins, not passenger's. Whilst I was in garage today for unrelated issue, tech plugged in computer and set fans to low. Driver kicks in only. He then set to high and passenger fires up too! No problem, no struggle, just on. I put this down to dirty fan contacts on passenger side at first, but no amount of banging or finger wiggling makes passenger fan spin up with AC on. However, it breezes into life with the computer telling it to go high. So I'm thinking, stage one (low) is driver side and stage two (high) is passenger side as well, I know this contradicts the workshop manual, but is there a slim chance Nissan got it wrong in the book or it's some sort of regional variant?

and good luck with your Zed search, have a look here for JDM differences if you've not already seen it. http://www.350z-uk.com/index.php?showtopic=1648

+1 I've done the HEL lines and RBF fluid. Feel good, though at first were a bit weird (my first serious brakes, so felt different to my untrained hoof, love them now) not done pads yet but read plenty on here and yellowstuff and DS2500 both have their fan clubs. I think it's more a question of personal taste, not read that either is bad. Always worth spending on stopping power.

Fingerprint ID, apple know what they're up to

It's coming in at £469 for the C about £80 less for the "equivalent" S. Not exactly what you'd call a game changer if you're trying to crack the budget market, I can't see who wouldn't stump up the extra few quid, but maybe some are just on the border of that bottom bracket. No idea what price with contract will be.

Can't you do the old kitchen uninstall yourself then get someone in for the new install? Should shift a day or two off his quote. £250 a day for skilled tradesman is not outrageous.

Meh. Confirmed fan boy, totally not excited. These 'S' editions really don't get my apple juice flowing. I'll have to save my excitement for the Mac Pro.

Nice zed! That's REALLY yellow. Looks

Any chance of a link to the magical product you used? Sounds extremely useful.

You may find your manual here, not sure if it'll be UK version but it may help in future. As with all web downloads probably best to scan the file with a decent tool before unleashing it. http://www.nissan-techinfo.com/deptog.aspx?dept_id=39 My slip light used to flash up, it prefers roundabouts under spirited or damp conditions . Don't see it anywhere near as much now I've ditched the previous owners mixed Bridgestones.

Presumably there's no actual contaminant/particles on the lens?