I felt really, truly 'orrible doing this

[Nick Graves]

http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u286/BlackS2K/2010-06-16002.jpg

But it all went back together perfectly and the little unit in the glovebox means DAB sound. Planet Rocks!

Actually, what you cannot tell from that photo is the improved bass with the glovebox on the floor...

[Sudesh]

FECK ME! lol

I would remove and place everything away safely first before working on the DAB. Parts sitting on the dash:no:


http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u286/BlackS2K/2010-06-16002.jpg

But it all went back together perfectly and the little unit in the glovebox means DAB sound. Planet Rocks!

Actually, what you cannot tell from that photo is the improved bass with the glovebox on the floor...

[Hagasan]

http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u286/BlackS2K/2010-06-16002.jpg

But it all went back together perfectly and the little unit in the glovebox means DAB sound. Planet Rocks!

Actually, what you cannot tell from that photo is the improved bass with the glovebox on the floor...

Get stuck in there!!

My efforts while replacing my whole dash....stupid alarm installer drilled a hole in the dash next to the passenger airbag for the fob recepticle during a previous owners tenure...

[Sudesh]

I think I may start to cry lol

Here is me removing on piece delicately at a time, marking/bagging every item correctly and even putting screws/bolts back to where they should be before moving to the next part.

[AR]

Imagine how I felt...

http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m171/AR94NSX-R/CTSC/12082009919.jpg

[WhyOne?]

Hells teeth Nick!!!!!

Where did you install the antenna for the DAB?

[Dragonlady]

Imagine how I felt...

http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m171/AR94NSX-R/CTSC/12082009919.jpg

Oh no!:eek: Your intake manifold has disolved into yellow mush! What were you using to clean it with:D

Ian

[nakamichi]

Hells teeth Nick!!!!!

Where did you install the antenna for the DAB?
I had one of those DAB units on my last car.The antenna is stuck onto the windscreen.

[Nick Graves]

:D

All the bolts are in separate containers and the clock and stuff were quite happy up there. I should have used a microfibre towel, just to be on the safe side. Although the idea of putting fasteners back from whence they came is a good 'un; in the old days, I'd just remember their provenance but now I'm 47, senility is beginning to set in...

I needed the other bits around, to check everything worked at each stage.

Nakamichi, the antenna is the telescopic thing on the rear wing! Basically, a convertor attenuates and amps the DAB signal off the aerial lead and feeds it and the analogue back into the decoder box (on the floor in the picture) and it's sent back to the HU as an FM signal down the twig wire. You just need to place the controller in the glovebox or somewhere else invisible and it's totally stealth installation. No OEM wires or components were harmed in the making of this epic.

It's far, far superior to those stick-on internal jobbies, Ian. They simply don't work round Hertford at all. As all the poor schmucks who paid £££ for it on VAG products have found out. The same converter also works with a bespoke HU on Karen's Civic VTi with its pillar twig, albeit not as superbly as the huge vertical one on the NSX.

The converters are a bit hit n' miss and won't work with amplified aerials at all. Hence I've still not found a solution for the Prelude. I've heard one may place a DAB twig behind the rear bumper horizontally (what it uses for a dipole I dunno) but I'm dubious.

Anyway, I used an Acoustic Solutions kit & Autoleads convertor if anyone wants to go digital until it all changes again in 2013 or whenever...