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Is it the camera not rendering correctly the colours or the finish of your bezel is more "greyish" than the Legacy dashboard? Would you available to provide all material needed to produce a complete kit? I mean the original SOA bezel (which you customize) and the touchscreen monitor ? (Obviously paying what you have to buy plus your work and shipping expenses).

Thanks for all your support, guys. Unfortunately I haven't got the time nor the space where to do it. This is why I'm referring to someone's else skills. And, I have to admit, BMac's works look very good! @BMac: You have a new PM! I think I'll become one of your talent's customer, maybe the first one abroad ?

BMac1203, This is your last chance for making a cubby bezel for me. Sunday is gone, monday is gone, even tuesday is (almost) gone! So is the week before this, and the week before and the previous of the previous... I'm sorry to say this, but you're keeping at bay my carPC project and I really need to overcome this: I need to find someone you can make a cubby bezel for my carPC! If you are no longer available, then I'll try find someone else. Hopefully I'll get some answer from somebody willing to. Thanks anyway for your time. Cheers. PS: Good luck for your studies.

How about JDash? It has some interesting features including support for the SSP protocol. Home page: http://jdash.ludicrous-speed.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Good luck!

BMac, had you a chance to read your PMs? (I'm sorry for making you guys reading this but I could not get in touch with him in other ways.)

So it looks like the info, esp. temperature, is not readily available but embedded in some sort of serial communications between the display and the combination meter. That's a pity as I thought that one of the pins carried the temp sensor signal and it would be re-routable to the carpc. Thanks anyway!

CombatCQB, Do you know, by chance, the complete pin-out of the trip computer connector and also the connector's specification? As I'm planning to not relocate it and instead remove it (no airbag light inside it!) I would like to use a couple of signals which should be there: you already mentioned ACC e IGN, but there must also a signal coming from the external temperature sensor and probably the lights (ILL). I would like to buy the corresponding female connector and bring those wires I'm interested in towards the carputer. Thanks a lot!

Thread subscribed. Thanks to all of you for the inspiring comments. I'm abandoning the idea of adding the OEM navigator to my Outback and, instead, install a carputer. I've already made a few decisions about it (let me know if I'm doing something wrong!): 1) Installation must be removable (I want to be able to return my car "stock") 2) I want it looking as OEM as possibile (I'm counting on BMac1203's abilities for the bezel ) 3) I'll use the aux-in port of the OEM HU to amplify the CarPC audio (see point 1) 4) I'm planning to put the CarPC under one of the front seats 5) The CarPC will be based on VIA, probably a Jetway F2 mobo with M2-ATX power supply and a Voom2 case 6) The front-end will be RoadRunner and I will use also iGuidance for the navi and a phone plugin (which is the best?) 7) I would like to add some software for monitoring the car parameters (OBD-II)like a trip computer usually does, but apart for the hardware, it is still not clear to me how good is the software in this area. EDIT: 8) Monitor: obviously I want mount it in cubby's place, but the problem is which one? I know Xenarcs are the best but I'm really thinking about getting a transflective because I fear the others will simply not readable enough! Any comments on this subject ? Thanks again for your comments and good luck for your carputer projects! All the best.

Just got a new Outback 2.5i AT (Bi-Fuel). I'm based in Italy, anyway.