Flip-down monitors with built-in DVD players and infrared allow passengers to view video and listen to audio with wireless headphones via an infrared transmitter. The technique used to install a flip-down monitor with a DVD player and infrared transmitter is the same as installing a standard monitor; finding a centralized location to allow for easy viewing, which is free of any obstructions that will block the infrared signal.
Instructions
1. Select the location where you will mount the flip-down monitor.
2. Remove the upholstery from the area with a utility knife. Cut the upholstery the same size as the flip-down monitor's mounting base and save it for reapplication later. Use a mild adhesive remover spray to facilitate removal of the upholstery if needed.
3. Spray the area of the ceiling headboard from which you removed the upholstery with adhesive spray. Place a piece of 1/4-inch thick plywood or plastic on the adhesive and hold it in place until it sets, approximately two to five minutes, depending on the curing time of the adhesive.
4. Affix the upholstery you removed to the plywood or plastic with adhesive spray. Again using adhesive spray, secure the template, if your flip-down monitor supplied one, to the area of the headboard to which you affixed the upholstery.
5. Mark the mounting holes of the template with a pencil. If your flip-down monitor did not provide one, mark using the holes in the flip-down monitor's base.
6. Screw the self-driving screws and washers included with the flip-down monitor to attach it the plywood or plastic affixed to the headboard.
7. Remove the battery's negative cable with a crescent wrench and remove the cable from the terminal. Route the wires of the flip-down monitor through the headboard and door panels. Remove a 1/2 inch from the leads of all three wires with a wire stripper. The red lead must connect to the positive input on the starter.
8. Route the black ground wire to a bolt on the cars chassis that will serve as the grounding point. Remove the bolt.
9. Use sandpaper to clear any paint from the grounding point, wipe it clean with a moist towel and allow it to dry. Crimp a ring terminal to the ground wire with a wire crimper and insert the bolt through it. Screw the bolt back in the chassis.
10. Secure the yellow wire to the battery's positive terminal clamp by removing the bolt with the crescent wrench and reattaching it. Attach the negative cable to the car battery.
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