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[Tropic Thunder]

Hello All

Reposting this topic to this section as I think it is better here than in general... Have added The Boys comments in italics

I have now had my wagon for a month now and really like it, but would love to make four upgrades.  I though have just been made redundant .......    so at least I have the time.  This should give you some creative thought as the aim is to go for these as cheap as possible...

The car is a 53 plate 2.2 petrol GLS manual so in no particular order.

1. Interior rear lights, there are no lights in the rear passenger compartment except for the puddle lights in the doors.  There are only blanks in the rear hand grabs over the rear doors (WHY!!!) Anyways is it a simple as nipping down a scrappers getting two appropriate lights and fixing them into a hopefully existing wiring loom?
If not then could I look at actually tapping into the wiring for the front interior lights, running a feed into the rear and fitting a spare from the scrappers front interior unit into the rear, would be a nice set up like modern cars....

1) not sure about loom - easy to check.

2. Rear parking sensors, is a cheap retro fit item from Halfords powered off the ciggy lighter the best bet?

2) generally fed from reverse lights, cheap ones suffer more false alarms, esp if not kept clean

3. Cruise control, is the wiring loom already there (its a big hope but I may just be lucky?) If not how big is the wiring job, I have wired car stereos before.......

3) all it needs is the stalk (and possibly clutch switch on manuals), but will need to be enabled in ECU via Tech2

4. Double DIN head units, I just have the standard rent a corsa CD player, what double DIN unit would you guys fit, with SAT NAV if poss.  Wiring it does not bother me as I do have a load of experince doing radios in cars.....


4) NCDC201x are the factory fit satnavs, though you'll need to change the screen as well. If you go down this route, do your research around security coding

Tropic Thunder

[TheBoy]

my 2p worth on other thread

[dbug]

Not sensible to repost same post in a different category - ask an Admin to move the original :-?

[Tropic Thunder]

Will do from now on Dbug....

Cheers

Tropic Thunder

[dbug]

Will do from now on Dbug....

Cheers

Tropic Thunder

No probs mate

[Dave DND]

Hello All

Reposting this topic to this section as I think it is better here than in general... Have added The Boys comments in italics

I have now had my wagon for a month now and really like it, but would love to make four upgrades.  I though have just been made redundant .......    so at least I have the time.  This should give you some creative thought as the aim is to go for these as cheap as possible...

The car is a 53 plate 2.2 petrol GLS manual so in no particular order.

1. Interior rear lights, there are no lights in the rear passenger compartment except for the puddle lights in the doors.  There are only blanks in the rear hand grabs over the rear doors (WHY!!!) Anyways is it a simple as nipping down a scrappers getting two appropriate lights and fixing them into a hopefully existing wiring loom?
If not then could I look at actually tapping into the wiring for the front interior lights, running a feed into the rear and fitting a spare from the scrappers front interior unit into the rear, would be a nice set up like modern cars....

1) not sure about loom - easy to check.

2. Rear parking sensors, is a cheap retro fit item from Halfords powered off the ciggy lighter the best bet?

2) generally fed from reverse lights, cheap ones suffer more false alarms, esp if not kept clean

3. Cruise control, is the wiring loom already there (its a big hope but I may just be lucky?) If not how big is the wiring job, I have wired car stereos before.......

3) all it needs is the stalk (and possibly clutch switch on manuals), but will need to be enabled in ECU via Tech2

4. Double DIN head units, I just have the standard rent a corsa CD player, what double DIN unit would you guys fit, with SAT NAV if poss.  Wiring it does not bother me as I do have a load of experince doing radios in cars.....


4) NCDC201x are the factory fit satnavs, though you'll need to change the screen as well. If you go down this route, do your research around security coding

Tropic Thunder

No. Avoid any el-cheapo ones that fit in the fag lighter and stick on the bumper - the sensitivity is rubbish. The proper ones used by reputable car audio shops are a much better bet.

Veba do some good ones and the kits are not that expensive, around £50 - £75 depending on what you want in the way of buzzers / warning leds etc and are proper 4 sensor ones that recess in the bumper. We tend to sellquite a few of those, though if given the choice and a customer asked my opinion for the best ones, I would have to say probably the Cobra ones at around the £120 mark, but they are getting difficult to get hold of at the moment. I would personally avoid the Steelmate ones, as we have experienced many installation issues with the range of the sensors.

 

[Tropic Thunder]

Hi Dave

Do you fit etc?  As my parents live in Paignton!!!  I can see a run down the M5 coming on.

Tropic Thunder

[Dave DND]

Sorry, I don`t get  much of a chance to do installations at the moment due to current workload on the repair bench