mark the harp

Just an update from Rob's helpful post - I just ordered and fitted one of these leads today, and it's great. My lead was 18.48 inc postage (his prices have gone up!!) and I had to change one of the pins (thanks to Rob's diagram I knew what was wrong straight away). Very good quality lead - just shame about the silly mistake with one of the pins in the wrong hole. Hiding the lead is easy. Connect the DVD end and hide the wire to the DVD player underneath a front passenger mat. You have to get it into the glove compartment and the best way to get the wire in is to get one of those whitish curtain wire things that you thread through net curtains (it's a long thin spring with a white covering) and poke it up from underneath under the LH side of the glove compartment near the front. You can then grab the other end of the white thing through the hole inside the top left side of the compartment. Then attach the 3.5mm plug to the curtain wire (a rubber band will do) and pull that up into the glove compartment. Once it's in there, it can stay plugged in with the compartment door closed, and you just put everything into the compartment with the wire pushed to the back. In normal use you'll never see it. Great stuff. Definitely worth while. You just select AUX when you want to have the DVD output on speakers (you can still use the headphones so you've not disabled any options, just given yourself an extra one). In use you may wish to change the fader settings on the radio so the sound goes to the rear speakers, otherwise movies with lots of car chases could be a bit alarming. This should have been part of the Ford Multimedia installation - amazing that they didn't include this.

Hi there - excellent suggestion, and I haven't tried it elsewhere. However, it mysteriously works again this morning (just as I was going to take it to the garage) and they said to bring it in anyway as it's a known fault. Glad they're not fobbing me off (ha ha) with some excuse!! Good suggestion about the RF tho'

Ha! Found what I was looking for here

I have an 08 Galaxy (Ford Direct) and this is my first Ford. I'm pretty underwhelmed by the quality of their customer service so far.

Hi there - thanks for that, although my remote seems to have one battery (definitely nothing underneath it!) and both remotes went wrong at exactly the same time, which suggests it's the receiver. Also the car is now working OK on both fobs, whereas yesterday it wouldn't work with either, so it seems like it's definitely a receiver fault. I doubt the garage can repair an intermittent fault - I'll take it in anyway, even though it's now working, in case it's a known problem.

Anyone else have this? I've got this fault on both fobs, and even put in a new battery (as that's the obvious first port of call). Basically the car doesn't seem to be very sensitive to the keyfobs - they only work 1 in 10 times on lock or unlock and they only seem to work better if you hold them above the middle of the windscreen. This has happened suddenly. I noticed one day the car wouldn't lock and then eventually when it did, it wouldn't unlock again. Works OK on the key itself, just not on either of the fobs. I've got it under warranty so will take it in and see what they find out, just intrigued to know if this is a problem with the receiver (wherever it is). I'll keep you posted on what they find, in case it's of use to someone. Mark

Thanks Rob - I asked this same question and kept getting suggestions about FM transmitters, which wasn't helpful! Thank you - that's absolutely the answer I've been looking for too. It is an amazing oversight not to have enabled this on the DVD option seeing as it's sooooo expensive. Mark

Hi George, I can see that this box could allow me to get things onto the audio system (but then I can just plug something into the input anyway, without having to buy a transmitter) - and thanks for the reply, but the problem is not really how to get audio into the audio system, but how to get audio out of the Multimedia DVD player (it sits under the passenger seat). There are no outputs as such (just infrared headphones) so I need to know where to get at the audio output.

Hi - bought a newish galaxy with the Multimedia DVD option on the headrests, also has a CD6000 radio which has a 3.5mm Aux input socket in the glove box. I'm wondering if there's some way I can get a feed of the audio output of the DVD player onto the Aux input so we can have the DVD audio on the speakers - or alternatively, if you can get additional IR headphones? But if everyone in the back row wants to watch a DVD it would be silly not to be able to route the sound into the speakers via the Aux input. Anyone know if this is possible? If someone has a wiring diagram of the multimedia DVD player showing where to get at the L/R/Ground audio output that would be great!!