Wow that was quick. Great work Ace! Do you mind posting the dimensions of your screen in mm? We are trying to figure out if some UMPCs work in there...is there a bit more space in there? (width and height?).

I see the sCANalyser fired up

This is awesome...what are you using for input, is it a touchscreen, touchpad, ball?

 

This is the touchscreen that I am using:
MM400 V2 VGA Touchscreen
The casing is 178x130x27 mm. Fits like a glove. But I don't think that anything bigger will fit....

 

Ok good to know...

We know this fits also:

202mm×128mm×41mm

 

Whats your stock looking like? I think I'm ready to start this transition from Tom Tom.

 

We are back in stock ready to ship...order tonight I'll ship it tomorrow...for instance

 

Order sent Is it hard to swap out the dash pieces? Its gonna take me a lil while to pull it all together--should I wait till I have everything to put the new dash piece on?

 

if you've removed the head unit before then replacing the dash takes just about 5 minutes longer it is very easy

 

Just be very careful not to drop the bolts from the back of the head unit.

 

wow that thing looks so pimp!! definitly my next mod after I put my body kit on next summer. Mind if I ask how much (car PC.. software.. screen.. panel) costed at the end?? do you have it hook up w/ your OEM system? ( to use the steering wheel mounted controls)?

 

here's a stupid question from my end.... so since it is a car PC running on window. Do you have to wait a couple min to boot up the computer ( after you start your car)? how long does it take?? and when it shuts off w/ the car, does it turn off right away or turn takes a cuople min like shutting down a desktop

 

You should be able to do S3 (suspend to memory) so turning the PC on will only take a few seconds. Same for shutdown.

 

Don't know about the others, but my own experience had a total cost of about 1300E (about 1500$). Did all the work myself (assembling the PC, installing, setting up, connecting everything etc etc). So the cost is only the parts.

The steering wheel controls work for the volume, since I have the line-out of the PC connected to the stock HU with the PIE+RCA. You can wait until the proper Car2PC adaptor comes out, if you want more control....

As for boot-up/shutdown: my CarPC (far from perfect) boots-up in under 1' (just barely though), and shuts down in about 20". I load up a LOT of things, but I don't want a bare-bones system, I want a lil' show

And be careful of the various "sleep" modes (like hibernation or STR): the PC still consumes a little energy, so if the car stays put for a long time (about a week), you will have battery problems...

 

"Hybernation" writes the everything in RAM to the hard drive on shutdown and powers down completely. The prior running state, all programs and data are, are restored to operating memory on startup so you are back to where you were on shutdown. There may always be some minor power drawn by the mainboard but it's not the same as going into any of the other sleep states that require keeping the RAM live.

 

Heres a new question regarding this setup--I plan on utimately going with the carpc but it'll take me few months to get all that together--right now I have TomTom - would it be possible to route TomTom through the touchscreen in the interim?

 

do you you mean hack the tom tom for video/vga out and control it from another screen?

for now you could get the dash panel and mount the tom tom mount on it although my guess is it wouldn't retract since the tom tom is very thick correct?

 

Well--the TomTom sits in there nicely as is--the door will close over it if I fold it down--the issue that I have right now is that I believe I pulled the power cord out or something when I removed the radio because the display and the whole center section is out. I can control the audio from the steering wheel but the center is out. I'll troubleshoot it somemore tomorrow.

 

Post pics when if you can I'm curious to see it

Lets see...the center is out means you disconnected the small cable on the side of the head unit that allows the face of the HU to control the HU...probably doesn't light up either I'm guessing unless it is only slightly out. Won't hurt anything btw...just click it back and you should be good to go (click it in with battery disconnected of course).

 

Thanks alot--I'll take pics and troubleshoot that tonight after class -- Gross Anatomy/Biochemistry/and Tooth Morphology await

 

I think I f***** up. I believe that I may have hulled out the faceplate because I've tried everything I can think of and can't get the power back to it.

 

Hmm...well since this isn't a discussion on the dash panel per se lets start a new thread so that we can bring attention to the guys who love to fix head units.

If you don't mind PMing me the link I can jump in and I'll send a few guys to it you may know what is up.

-J

 

Jason,pls check PM and mail,thanks

 

Hi I'm interested in the motorised dash. I need to on my car and go most of the time so definitely dont have the time to take it out and adjust it to position. Has anyone any idea go about doing it?

 

We do sell the full motorized version as well but it is 3 times the price.

 

Do you have pics or videos to show me the full motorised version. Can you also post the price as well as the shipping costs to Singapore?

 

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