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I picked up a Socket Bluetooth GPS on eBay that I hardwired underneath the dash on top of the air vent on the driver's side. That way I could use it with Streets and Trips on my laptop (w/Belkin's bluetooth USB adapter) as well as iGuidance on my Pocket PC. Works really well. It's since been obsolet...

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It's been a few months since I've added the avic n1. I finally found screens that aren't ridiculously expensive. Paid $350 for a pair off of eBay, directly imported from China. Wasn't sure whether I'd get hosed, but they're in now and it looks pretty good. The leather headrests don't exactly match t...

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I had to buy mine.Some time in 2002 after my wife's 93 Dodge Shadow died on the highway she needed another car. We just wanted something cheap. They had a 2000 Sunfire on the lot at the dealership. Low mileage, but used. We test drove it, liked it, bought it and were very satisfied with it (and stil...

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Quote, originally posted by Jahntassa Â»No, that's for use on a boat.oh, erm, i knew that! Maybe I should just fill that void with another kind of unit. An equalizer or hmm -- don't really need or want a cb radio. Besides, the N1 already does most of what I need and if I were to add something, I pro...

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Is this what I'm looking for?

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Yesterday at the Ohio meet I checked out Shadow's vibe, who also has an AVIC N1. He's got a different adapter though, and his sits lower (which I prefer very much)I have the METRA #99-8205 adapter which can function in several ways depending on which pieces of plastic you happen to break off of it. ...

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It was fun! My first meet. Cool to see what people are doing with/to/putting in their cars. And thanks to rasermon for the lift experience! I'm now scouting CarSoup.com for an 03 GT.

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We're heading out as well. Going to be there around 11ish. Give or t.., nah, just give a few minutes.

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can't wait to get there *psyched!*

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I have a moonstone vibe (which i think used to be shadow before 05), with 35% front and 17% back. If I had to do it all over again, I would get 35% front, 5% back and 17% (or 20) for the rear window.There's several reasons: ohio limit is 50% in the front, but that's barely visible at all and imho a ...

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I'll think I'll bring my camcorder. Could probably tape a couple of interesting things. If we can find a large empty parking lot that is.1/4 mile base vs. gt, manual vs. automatic or something like that.I was originally thinking of comparing my cheap eurodezigns HID vs. stock bulbs (or other afterma...

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Anyone with a GT willing to take a Base owner for some lifts?

I'd like to know what I'm missing out on.

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Been working a lot, just checked my calendar and saw the meet was this Saturday. Sweet, finally!The Wife™ and I will probably leave around 9 am.Anyone else from the Cleveland/Elyria/Lorain area taking I-71 south?

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Quote, originally posted by jeffgtx Â»that is really cool. if i could find some platinum, i would borrow your idea That shouldn't be too hard. All you need is the paint code in your junk draw.., erm, glove compartment. You should be able to go to any semi-decent repair shop, have them mix and apply ...

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Excuse the crappy photo, my camera isn't exactly the newest.The License plate cover (which used to have a sticker with the dealers info on it that I peeled off) has been pained in *drumroll* Moonstone and clear coated. It looks a bit off in the pic, but it matches the car perfectly. I wasn't sure wh...

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Still not much progress. Here are the pics from the headunit install, though: The harness all soldered up, taped off and connected:Same thing, different angle:Headunit is in place, bezel is still hanging just off one wire.Wires are just hanging out for now until I properly run them to the passeger s...

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26 tomorrow.

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No, lol, unfortunately not. I'm going to give it another shot this weekend. I just haven't had time yet. With no longer a problem I meant that Jahntassa helped me out quite a bit over IM, and pointed me to the manuals etc.I've got the harnesses all soldered up, and the head unit in place, but haven'...

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Hey thanks for all the help. I've already taken care of it. Bought a cig lighter socket at RadioShack and hooked it up with it underneath the dash. Works like a charm.

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Yep it's no longer a problem. Thanks everyone!

stahl

Thank you so much!!The blue harness has all cables on it. However, some are cut off at oh, say, 6 inches length and taped off. Specifically:GreenG/BPurpleP/BlackWhiteW/BlackGrayG/BlackThe other ones all look fine. Some of these I don't really know what to do with, like cellular mute (black/yellow, p...

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I've attached the mess in the photo:Starting from the left:Still unopened, the 99-8205 dash adapter kit.The thin thing is the 40-GM10 antenna adapter.The gray thing is the hide-away unit.Below that, halfway sticking out of the package is the 70-2003 harness adapter. To its right is the GPS antenna.N...

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Oh boy. I just picked up the packages from the front-door. Was wondering when the UPS guy would show. Checked the tracking page and it said it had been delivered at 6:30 pm. Well, whaddayaknow. Would have been nice of the guy to at least ring the bell so I know it got here.I now believe I have every...

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I haven't contacted them yet. Their web site looked rather shabby not too long ago with no real content for customers / consumers. Their business model seems to be to have everything go through resellers. I got my unit off of eBay when I was in Germany. Haven't even seen them in the US yet. They got...

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One thing I wish iGuidance had was editable POIs. I'm trying to reverse engineering their poi.bin file format, but I still got a while to go.This project is awesome, though.

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I'm at my wits end with my RoyalTek RBT-3000.Here's the deal. I once left it out on the dash in the hot sun for an afternoon. Next thing I know, it was dead. Well at least half-way. The bluetooth connection would still work, but no data, and the battery led is just faintly orange. I tried to re-char...

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Oh my God, I'm dying. I don't even know what I was doing. I think reading up on "A/C not cold enough issues", and then stumbled across this thread at 3 am. My stomach hurts from laughing so hard.All I'm thinking now is that fart induction would be cheaper than NOS.

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3-4 minutes for a fix is quite a bit. Mine still takes a minute or so. I usually just pick my destination, start driving, and wait for it to get its fix and yell at me that I needed to go south rather than north.Hardwiring it to be always on would probably be sort of risky for me since I eat, sleep,...

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Yeah. I bought the RoyalTek for its data logging capabilities.When I turn it on (with battery), or plug it in (with or without battery) the battery led is barely visible, but it's orange. the center led (indicating gps fix) is dead. I can actually still connect to it over bluetooth, but it doesn't s...

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Wow. My daughter (2-1/2yrs) is a huge Pooh fan. She could watch that Heffalump movie all day long if we let her.

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well hopefully there's not too many ways a 24-pin (or whatever) plastic adapter with a bunch of bare wires on the other end can be too much of a headache. :-) I've had enough headaches already. When hardwiring my Radar Detector, it didn't work. I used the lighter adapter and it didn't work either. I...

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The part numbers in my first post actually contain links to a site that sells them. I just ordered them. Except for the antenna adapter, going to pick that up at Circuit City in a few minutes.I guess Wally World is not wallyworld dot com (not work safe!).

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So cool. This is only 2 hours from my place. I'm rather sure I'll go. I need to get out of the house.

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My tint (35% front, 17% back) is now 5 days old. I rolled down the windows yesterday for the first time.Just wondering what screens these are that Sh@dow! has in his car.

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Thank you so much!I'll order the needed parts. I also gotta figure out what goes into the headrests. After all, my explanation to The Wife(tm) was that "honey, the kids will just peacefully watch Winnie the Pooh on our 8 hour trip to North Carolina". And that whole idea doesn't really fly ...

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Here's some more pictures. Was only about 8:30 and not really all that dark yet: I moved the car back a bit to get a better idea of how much light it would emit and the radius.

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So, I just bought this Pioneer AVIC N1 unit, which is still on its way. I've tried to gather some information as to what else I'll need to get it installed into my base vibe without moon&tunes in at least a semi-decent fashion and used this thread for help.First, the avic n1 is a single DIN unit...

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Quote, originally posted by ragingfish Â»[..] you probably did get hoed. Any of those kind of bulbs are almost always junk. [...]Ah, at $12.99 I'm not going to complain. Although -- I haven't yet actually left my feedback for the seller... muahaha!

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I had mine done Wednesday. I was going to go 50% in the front and "really dark" in the back. After I looked at the 50% sample I decided that it would have been a waste of money. So I did 35% front side and 17% rear side and back window. With a bit of luck it may give the illusion that the ...

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Here's a few pics from half an hour ago. I'll take some more later tonight.My never-been-washed 2005 base manual non-m&t Vibe: Peek into the interior. Really cheap seat covers I bought at ALDI in Germany for about $5.99: The car is running, the lights are turned on. Barely visible looking at it ...

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Oh yes, I'm aware they're not true HID. That would have been one heck of a deal for under $20, in which case I would have turned around and sold them for profit. lol.

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I just put in these Euro DeZigns 8500K HID headlights I got off eBay. Right now the sun is grilling my car (and drying out the fresh tint - 35% front, 17% back, whee). I turned on the car and turned on the headlights, but I can barely see any visible light. I did see a little bit o'blue on the garag...

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Quote, originally posted by Jahntassa Â»Ragingfish would probably tell you to steer clear of any post I've had anything to do with..I'm consider searching the forums for all your posts and printing them off. Then again, I'd probably never need to ask for anything else on here again -- and where's th...

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Quote, originally posted by tiger-bailey Â»[...]Now she wants to get the rear headrest LCD screens (both sides) and we only have one kid.That's a hint right there. Got a spare bedroom? I think you'll be painting it soon.

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Wheee. I *just* bought an AVIC N1 off of eBay. I'm all psyched.My expenses are out of control. I blame eBay and everyone who has ever replied to any of my posts.

Is there a self help forum group?Hi, my name is stahl and it's been 15 Minutes since I last abused eBay.

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Quote, originally posted by Sh@dow! Â»Pioner avic-n1 with headrest should do it My kids love it!Looks good. Which headrest units are those? I'm guessing the 6.5" AVD-W6000 or so? I'm tempted to go for the AVD-W8000. I measured the headrests and they're are *barely* 8". I'm afraid it won't ...

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I checked for a hardwire kit and couldn't find anything. (Especially in the US I can hardly find anything RoyalTek -- then again, I did buy it while I was in Germany)I think wiring a new cig lighter plug will do it. Now I gotta figure out how to do that. I guess it's no harder than stripping the rig...

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I have a base 05, without nav system. Now, I have a bluetooth GPS receiver which has a power supply that plugs into the cig lighter. All these wires add up though, so I want to hide the GPS unit somewhere in the dash. It's got an MCX connector so I initially figured I'd get an external antenna, but ...

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I'm pretty sure I've got it down now.TintDude states the following: Front Side: 50%, Rear Side: ANY%, Back: ANY%, Visor: 70%The police department that I called gave me Front Side: 50%, Rear Side: 5%, Back: 5%The conclusion I'm drawing, is that 5% is probably the darkest tint there is, and using 2 co...

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Finally added the screens

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single DIN slot cover?

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My mod: License plate cover

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My RoyalTek RBT-3000 is behaving "oddly"

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How do I install a Pioneer AVIC N1?

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XENON 8500K HID visibility in bright sunlight?

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Hardwiring GPS, need 5v power

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