I can safely say I will not install another one of these systems, getting the wires ran and the monitor mounted had me rethinking my life decisions.
I am a lot better at electronic repair than electronic installation.
After hours of fighting it, and becoming more religious, I finally had it installed correctly. I had to extend the dome light harness, I used the plug off of my old dome light to plug into the harness and soldered on longer wires. Looks great, turned out perfect.
What gave me so much trouble other than running the cables, there was a factory wiring harness right in the way of where the metal mount screws to the roof. It would block the monitor frame just enough to keep it from installing correctly. The harness was very tight, but I was able to stretch(?) it out of the way enough. At this time the Monitor mount would finally line up, I tightened it down and thought I was done….BUT the gray bezel wasn’t flush against the headliner. There was a gap in places. I was furious. I thought maybe the heat had deformed it, or my headliner was different.
I then remembered the metal plate that screws to the roof, it MUST go under the front lip of a roof support, near the front roof console. I did not have it like this. So I had to take it all back off, mount the metal bracket correctly and reassemble.
This was an all day event just to run the cables and install the monitor. Tomorrow I should be able to finish it up.
