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Removing seat backs

take headrest apart

Power - Rear cigar lighter

Power - Rear fuse Carrier

Remove rear Seat

Remove ski hatch

 

 

 

 

 

Obviosly, how this is done will depend on what monitors you have bought and which headrests you have to start with.

 

I bought Xtrons HD705 units

 

 

Preparing the headrests

unless you have a black interior your new headrest probably wont be exactly the same colour as your car interior, mine being platinum grey didnt fit at all.

 

On these particular ones the leatherette cover comes off and can be sprayed with leather spray dye, so they can be matched perfectly

 

Simply remove the headrest cover and hang up on the washing line, then spray evenly from about 6 inches away

 

Leave to dry overnight

 

and respray a second coat the next day

 

leave to dry again, until it no longer feels tacky and you shold have a colour matched headrest cover.

 

 

Removing the original headrests

 

First remove the seat backs top and bottom, these are held on by some clips, See the how to here

 

Near the end of the headrests bars you will see that it is held on with a spring clip, remove the clip carefully with a screwdriver or pair of pliers

 

The headrest is now loose, Move the seat as far forward as it will go, and recline the seat back quite a way, the headrest will only have room to come out at an angle.

 

 

feed these bars and the wiring in to the seat, dont forget to put the plastic size changers that come with these units on to the bars first.

to ensure that the headrests stay firmly in, you can use a small section of piping cut to the same lenght as your original headrests.

 

feed the wires around carefully, you can use loose cable ties to keep the cables roughly in place. bring them down to the bottom of the seat

 

if your units are to be standalone then tie wrap the cables at the bottom, inside the seat, bring the power cables down. If not and you want to connect them together (so each can view the others screen) then bring the cables down also

 

you can now reattach the seat back

 

If you want to use the provided cigar lighter power cords, you can simply put it in and test. and end here.

 

remove the rear seat bench

 

make a hole for the power cables to go through under the seat remember to leave a small loop for movement of the seat

 

pull the cables through to the rear seat

 

Now decide where you will get the power from. you have a choice of Rear Cigar lighter (ie take the power cables behind the socket.) or the rear fuse carrier

 

Rear Cigar Lighter - it is easy to get to, but unless you have the child lock functionality on your drivers window buttons, which will cut off power to the rear lighter, the 12v supply is constant, 2 headrest wired up to this socket without a switch in line will drain more than the reccomended amperage drain while the units are switched off.

to do this click here

 

Rear Fuse Carrier - Much better choice, this fuse carrier has several spare slots, and is turned of by the MMI, this means that after engine switch of you have circa 5 minutes of power before switch off.

 

First click here to see the ski hatch removal

 

Pull your cables through and connect to the rear fuse carrier

 

Click here for rear fuse carrier in the left luggage compartment near the media rack.