In Car Dvd Players

pepper · 09-02-2005, 03:52 PM

Ok picked up my 2003 Sedona CRDI Se last night and have put a few miles in today.
My kids and I all want a roof mounted DVD player but I thought about it today and realised that there is whocking great hole in the roof on this model.

Is it possible to fit a DVD screen to the rooflining with reinforcement behind?

Anyone got an SE with a roof mounted DVD player fitted already?

Why put aircon and a sunroof into a vehicle?

Here's hoping someone has an answer I don't fancy seat back mounted screens with all the trailing wires and having to try and hide them when parked. I wanted it all tidied away

Murphwiz · 09-02-2005, 04:05 PM

Fitted one today funnily enough

Very easy to do, the KIA supplied one seems quite effective, theres a nice handy beam approx 120mm back from the sunroof apature seal, you can rivet a bracket to that, needs to be rivets or very shallow screws or it will snag the sunroof sliding cover.
Easiest way to find the beam, remove the nearside grab handle/air vent above rear door, shine a torch inside the headlining, you will see the rail from there.

pepper · 09-02-2005, 04:17 PM

Thank god for that! Cos I wasn't about to admit I'd already got this on the way from Ebay

Ebay madness

Before I'd actually picked up the car.

Phew panic over!

Murphwiz · 09-02-2005, 04:58 PM

Ahh thats the 'old' style one kia used to supply.
I should have kia fitting instructions for that setup somewhere.

It should come with a small mount plate for the screen, just needs a single rivet to hold it up iirc.
A few more wires than the later models as the player is a seperate unit, but all pretty much plug and play, player mounts under seat, needs 12v, igntion 12v and earth plumbed in, recommend taking that off the back of audio.

ebod · 09-02-2005, 06:13 PM

Murph can you get some details of this roof mounting stuff posted as I'm planning to install roof screens.
If you are doing this work as part of your daily grind, can you get a few pics of the inside of the lining and how you roue the cables.

Murphwiz · 09-02-2005, 07:10 PM

I'll dig out the kia stuff.. but it's specific to thier supplied bits..
Although it's very simple really.
Easy as it can get on non sunroof cars, the beam you need to be mounting to is in line with the plastic trim clip in the centre of the roof lining.
Sunroof models are a bit more tricky, but once you know where the beam is it's a doddle.

pepper · 09-05-2005, 03:54 AM

Woohoo it arrived in the post this morning, the instructions and parts supplied are for both sunroof and non sunroof versions. I shall be playing quite happily for the morning now.

clartsonly · 09-05-2005, 10:35 AM

I would have gone to maplins or halfords and got the dual over the headrest types - the screen is ill placed and the infa red for the headphones is terrible + the headphones are £30 a pair, we connected up the creative labs 2.1 speaker system on our last long journey which meant that when "harry potter" went on I struggled to stay awake. along with everyone else.

although I have seen some screens mounted in the middle when it is flipped down you cannot see out the rear window which is why ours is more towards the drivers seat. KIA charged £1500 for this as an optional extra.

pepper · 09-05-2005, 12:30 PM

I drive a Ford Transit daily for a living seeing out of the rear window isn't a problem, plus on long hauls we always have a trailer on board so in the middle isn't a problem at all. Oh and I looked at the twin screen versions but they seem to be more a security issue having to put them away every time. Oh and this set came with 2 sets of Headphones but I can always run them through another sound system later on.

My problem is it doesn't seem to be working Grrrr. Put it all together stuck the old DVD in and nowt! The DVD players working, the screen lights up but they seemingly ain't talking to each other, the remote works from the screen but seemingly nothing else does. putting a set of headphones into the player and the players merrily working away.

So my choices seem to be the little box which sends the signal to the screen or the cable itself, Murph had any problems with these?

Murphwiz · 09-05-2005, 01:53 PM

yes.... a few issues.
The box of tricks the gets the audio up to the screen, are you 100% sure it's connected correctly, sounds like it isn't if you can get the audio from the player itself.
The wiring instructions aren't to clear.