I think it was Woundup who asked for photos of the DICE install I did on my car recently. I installed my front speakers months ago and finally got around to installing the rear speakers. I had held off because I knew I had to take apart essentially the entire rear end of the interior of the car to get to the old speakers to replace them.
I ordered and received my DICE (to control my iPod with car stereo controls) towards the end of last year (September probably). While I had the back of the car torn apart I figured it was the best time to run the cables for the DICE install too.
First I had to take out both portions of the rear seats. This was actually pretty easy as the lower portion just pops out and the back portion is held on by a couple of bolts:
Once that was done I had to remove the rear pillars:
... and remove the rear dash to get to the rear speakers:
Once that was done I could access the bolts for the rear speaker assembly. I pulled the casing out and replaced the old speakers for the new swap in replacements I ordered from
Bavarian Soundwerks.
While I had it opened up I took out my CD player and used the connections from the CD player to connect to the DICE. I ran the wires through the back of the seat, down the side of the car along the side of the carpet under the panels there. Then under the driver's seat. Here's where the DICE is attached now under my seat:
It also has an input so I can connect pretty much anything I want with a simple audio patch cable.
I ran the iPod cable along the carpet under the center console area and up towards the radio. For now the iPod is temporarily just chilling in this little area:
I am going to make a bracket for it that will affix it just to the left of the radio in that empty space. Then the cable will run below it.
Now when I'm listening to the iPod (thru the CD input), it shows me the Artist, Song Title and Album Title on my dash:
It scrolls along there with the info, which means I don't have to access my iPod too often.
Cool thing is that I can now control skipping songs and stuff from my steering wheel:
All in all it's pretty dang cool. It runs into funky stuff every now and again (short audio drop outs at the beginning of a song), but they don't last more than half a second and it doesn't do it all the time. Apparently the DICE is designed to work well with playlists (of which I have none), in that you can choose up to 6 playlists by using the CD buttons on the radio.
For my purposes I'm happier now that I can (1) skip songs, etc with the steering wheel controls, and (2) have digital audio signal pumping to my radio now. I was using a tape adapter (boo, hissss!), and it sounded like crap. Now it sounds hawt!!
There ya have it. Hope that helps!
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