Road Angel Fitment

[jonamacg83]

Just wondering if anyone had attempted to hardwire in a road angel into their exige. I had it hard wired into my TT from the fusebox which was very useful, and want to do the same to my Exige since having the wire trailing up from the lighter sockets between the seats to the dashboard looks a mess and gets in the way when changing gear etc. After adding in an ipod connection to the Blaupunkt head unit im aware that the underside of the dash and wiring etc is pretty unaccesible. Just wondering if anyone had any smart ways of dealing with it? Thanks in advance,

Jonny

[kevin ritson]

Looking at the pic in your profile it looks like you have the standard dash which makes life easy. Whilst I still retained the 12V plug for mine, I hid the wires to make it much tidier:

You've probably noticed that there's a groove in the chassis under the dash. Route the wire along here from the middle of the dash to the driver's side, stick it with a bit of gaffer tape.

Unscrew the panel with the light switches and heater vent between the steering wheel and door. You can route the wire from the groove under the dash, behind the panel and then in the gap between the plastic on top of the dash and the windscreen. I used to place the Road Angel at the base of the windscreen behind the instrument binnacle so that it was in my field of vision.

The other advantage is that the Road Angel connection socket can sit in the gap by the windscreen when not in use, making it invisible to unscrupulous eyes.