Nick U

Hey guys, I have been having a problem with my drivers side electric window. It has stopped working and doesnt drop when I open the door. It does however sometimes work for a while and then not work again. Sometimes if i bang the door panel that seem to wake it up! I have heard that the switches or what ever it is back there can stick as they get older. Anyone else had this problem and if so is there and easy fix for it? Thank in anticipation. Nick U

A few questions for those of you who use centrafuse. Any help much appriciated. 1) Has anyone used or downloaded plug ins that are found on the centrafuse forums? 2) How easy are these to install and use? 3) Any that you would recomend? 4) Has anyone had problems pairing there phone to centrafuse? I have the Nissan bluetooth which i want to get rid of jsut need to get the centrafuse one to work first. It finds my phone but when I try and pair it says 'the code is not the same as the other device'!!!!!! That's about it for now........starting to get used to using the sofeware...like it a lot..... Any advice or help from experienced user much appriciated Nick

Thats exactly what I did for my car pc, works a treat.

Right, hopefully with the aid of some pictures this wil make sence. First I removed the passenger sill trim as below Then I pulled off the rubber strip enought to get wires underneath. Also pull off up the rear of the door. You can then gently pull away the trim running up the rear of the door. This is held in by push clpips so dont worry if you need to force it a little. In this one you can see where I have run the wire through to get to underneath the cubby and the earth point that I used (Gold wire at the top). A closer look ath the earth point. Another view Here you can see the cubby and the side. The wires go through the hole and to underneath the cubby. You then need to lift up the tray under the cubby floor to get to the wires, dont worry it is only resting there. As you can see from the pictureI have just run the wires out of the hole once I liffted up the tray. Eventually I will put some holes in it fro the wires to run through. Works for now though. You can see what I mean in the next few pic. And here it is all working..... Hope this helps.....

Hey Stewart, I have just put my pc in the rear cubby. For the earth I used a bolt behind the side plastic trim level with the cubby. If you take off the pasenger sill trim (just pulls off), you can then pull off the rubber strip inside (again just pulls off) and you can the carfully pulll away the plastic trim that goes up the back of the doorway enough to run wires through a hole to underneath the cubby. If you then lift up your cubby floor and the tray you will see where the wire comes through. I will pop some pics up for you tomorrow (Monday) been meaning to do it anyway. Need to tidy up the wires at some point. Hope this helps, pics to come. Nick

Sorrry Nurrish, have been a way all week.....one of the wires in BLACK and the other is RED and GREEN. Cheers for the help Red and green is live and the black is negative Cheers buddy Off to have a play and finally get the pc running.......just have to find the time to fit the new stereo now!

Sorrry Nurrish, have been a way all week.....one of the wires in BLACK and the other is RED and GREEN. Cheers for the help

Cheers Chris, Good tips. I'll try and sort that GPS today. Starting to dislike Nissan for thier wiring of this car.....bloody nightmare. If the power point is per live with selective ground does that mean I cant use it for an ignition feed?

Guys, Anyone happen to know which wire on the back of the front power point (the one in the passenger foot well) is the live/power wire that works once the ignition is on? I have the conection off the back and want to use it for the ignition switch on on the car pc. All the other wires are in place with pc installed in the glove box behind the passenger seat. Also for those of you who have installed a GPS reciver for the pc, where did you put it? I think im going for in the boot as the pc is in the glove box......any thoughts? Cheers fellas Nick

I have been looking at doing something similar, although it's a non-Bose system I'm replacing. It's worth bearing in mind, however, that the above system requires you to buy a seperate (Parrot) bluetooth module, which bumps the cost up considerably. As far as I'm aware there is no way to integrate it with the armrest BT system, although someone may prove me wrong Steering wheel controls etc are covered by the thread stated, I've been looking at this: http://www.sextonsdirect.co.uk/alpine/p~CDE-103BT.html?cat=0 Or the 104BTi (essentially the same unit in grey with the iPod lead included!), the advantage being that they both have proper iPod control, can be linked to the steering controls and have bluetooth actually built in (as opposed to being 'bluetooth ready'). They are single Din units and don't look quite as smart as the W203, but from reading around the sound quality is excellent and the phone system works pretty well too. Hope that's of some help! Yeah, I dont mind about the lack of bluetooth as I have a touch screen in the cubby hole running a computer with bluetooth and mic through centrafuse. Im not really a fan of the single din units, i think it looks out of place. All good though, of course everyones needs are slightly different. Hopefully in the next few weeks all mine will be finished and i'll post up some pics with explanations of what I have done. My pc stuff is all done, just need a head unit to connect it to and wire all that up.....thats what bank holidays are for.....

This might be agood option. Not to expensive does everything.....I have a car pc and am thinking of this to replace my BOSE unit. http://www.sextonsdirect.co.uk/alpine/p ... ER=Froogle

I thought that might have been the case. Probably better that the site is able to run at a better speed. Good job

Great new site....... Was wondering if it was possible that when you hover your mouse over a topic the dialog box appears and you can read whats in the post for the first 10 lines or so. It happened on the old site and I thought it was very usefull. It ment that you could read quiet a bit of the first post to see if it was worse clicking into. Not sure if it's possible but I certainly found it very useful before......

Mike, Sorry been busy with work. Right, I have the screen all fitted into the cubby now although it took a little bit of modification to do so. First I filled, cut, and sanded about 4mm of plastic from the right side of the screen case. This ment that it just about went into the suround in the back of the cubby hole. It's not the best looking job cut job but it wont be seen so im not that worried about making it neater. It was a nice tight fit but I used four tie raps to make sure it stays in place also meaning that I can remove it if I wanted to at a later date. Seems very solid. As I have absolute no experience with taking computers apart and building my own I opted for a ready made carputer instead. The idea being I can take it from car to car as I change them. Got this one from http://www.carcomputer.co.uk/content/view/8/38/ The spec is: 1.6GHz Intel Duel Core 120GB SATA 2GB DDR2 RAM Built in Bluetooth Vista Home Premium Centrafuse Navigation Internet through USB dongle (Planning to add a DVD drive at a later date if needed) I also have one of these for the navigation. A USB GPS BU-358 SiRF Star III reciver. Just need to wire in the computer and it will be all up and running. The computer is going in the glovebox behind the passenger seat. Not sure where to put the GPS reciver yet will need to do some tests once it is up and running. My next problem is going to be how to get power to the bloody thing. Does anyone know a way to run cables through the bulk head from the engine into the car? Or maybe there is another power feed already in the car I can tap off? I also need an ignition feed for the remote cable so it turns on with the ignition. Anyway getting there.......

Sorry im not going to be much help with your needs but I am very interested to know how your going to do this. Im after a AUX input for my BOSE but have no idea how I would go about doing it. If it's not to much trouble could you let me know how to go about changing the tape into an AUX. Cheers MatteMe