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Connects2 Autodab

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Have anyone here tried to install one of these? I ordered one through my Ford dealer, and was trying to get it installed yesterday. The problem is the space behind the radio itself, or the lack of it... I´m wondering if it´s possible to install without removing anything or cutting holes to make it fit?

I suppose I need to install the dab-box itself in the hidden compartment below the radio, but I need to make some bigger holes to get all the wires through. My biggest problem is the cable that I need to connect to the screen. With it in place, I´m unable to install the screen again without putting the cable behind the screen on top of the dashboard, and doing so would make impossible to get the trim panel back in place. I guess it´s possible to cut away some of the panel behind the screen, but if it´s not necessary, I like to avoid that.

Unfortunately, the user guide and the instruction video seems to be for the Focus, so that one did not give me much help. The good ting is that everything is working, so I just need to figure out how to make room for everything back there.

  • 6 months later...


Did you ever get any joy with this? I'm considering getting one too.

  • 5 months later...

I've just fitted one of these this morning in my 2012 Fiesta after giving up trying to swap the headunit to a Ford DAB one. It doesn't seem to work no matter what I try.

It took me around 90minutes to fit the unit. Still not happy with where I've left the connects2 unit.

When changing the screen wiring, I found pulling the existing cable out of the clips and to in front of the screen helped. Then ran the new loom from the front of the screen around the clips to the back. Where the new loom connects to the old loom just sits down in front of the screen.

There's no room behind or around the stereo for the connects2 unit, so I ran the cables down the left of the stereo to behind the glove box.

I've just got the connects2 box wedged between the glove box and the heater block. There doesn't seem to be any space big enough to attach it securely in place. I live in a variable DAB signal area but it seemed to match the signal quality of the Pure Highway I was using. I'll have a drive out later and see how it I live in a town under a large hill, once I'm out of town DAB signal is much stronger.

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