Brady

Damn ... yet ANOTHER ABP LGT sedan today. On 494 north near Hwy 7 I think. No spoiler, male about 40 driving, window down, didn't look over. Might be the same guy I spotted on Baker a while back.

I don't understand how that works. Or do you mean, as long as the resistance between the two is correct, it doesn't matter which direction it's set up?

Oh really?! Man, I wish I had more time to play with this, because I have a head unit just SITTING in my closet that I wouldn't mind setting up to play with some of this stuff. Nuts.

None at all. Wish I had listened to your first suggestion!

Not way off base, but a little. The issue isn't the white harness behind the wheel, it's the roll connector in the wheel. The wires have to run throught the roll connector (green harness on the wheel) so your wires don't tangle and bind when you turn the wheel. Otherwise, we're already just running the wires from the back of the roll connector essentially straight to the head unit (you're basically splicing into the back of the head unit). What you need to find out is what the resistance is from the buttons on the shifter as compared to the resistance from the radio control buttons. Trabbic already knows the resistance for the radio buttons, so you'd just need to run a test on your steering wheel controls with a multimeter (I think, Trabbic can correct me if I'm wrong). Then, there's still the question of which controls you want to keep and which you want to lose for the radio. If you just want volume and mute, you'll have your shifter controls on the left and radio on the right. If you want to be able to select tracks and source, you'll have those on the left, and shifter on the right but no volume. Or, you can get REALLY pioneering and build your own paddle set up and have those activated off the buttons for your shifter assuming the resistance is different. I'll keep watching this one to see what Trabbic says.

Saw yamie700 on the freeway today and had a quick chat in bumper to bumper traffic. Wheels look great, as do the clear corners!

Car looked very clean and I think it did have a spoiler. I might have spotted you there once before along the same area. What do you guys do, and is your company hiring? Still on the prowl for a new Joerb.

Spotted: One shiny pair of Reeboks on Deerborn! Was it Boxer???

No, that's why we're pasty white.

Yes. No. We're just cooler here.

Garnet Red Sedan on Hwy 100 northbound near 50th (south) today. About 10:00 a.m.

OOOH! ... Garnet Red LGT Wagon northbound on 494 @ Co. Rd. 6 @ 1:00 pm today. Sexy wagon!

Like this one? http://www.legacygt.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32836

Saw a really pretty Regal Blue Sedan heading ... ummm ... South??? ... on 101 just before you would have come to the lake near Lord Fletchers. Was kind of in la-la land, so never saw if you noticed me/my car or not.

nevAr!!!!

Saw the same guy again today pulling into the neighborhood on my way home!

I've been on a Black OBXT spotting Frenzy. Yesterday (or maybe monday?) 7:25 am on Highview in Bloomington. Also in the parking lot of the business at the corner of Old Shakopee and Nesbitt in Bloomington Then again today northbound on 494 at Co. Rd 6 @ 7:20 am. Driver was wearing a blue shirt or jacket.

Well, obviously, but this is only like a mile or two from Mark's house. I meant specifically to that particular part of Bloomington. If I were talking the Twin Cities in general, I would be covering half the LGT's sold! Seriously, at least half that I've spotted have been ABP!

I see a White LGT sedan every so often headed south on 494 south of 394 in the mornings. Woman driving, but she never looks over. Side by side today on the bridge over 394 and nothin. I also see an ABP sedan on Bush Lake road from time to time. Pillboy maybe? Or do we have 2 such sedans in the area?

Final Update: It was loose wires on the rear of the deck. I had previously zip tied them in place, and that apparently was not secure enough. This time I used electrical tape and have not had any more failures since. The horn issue still baffles me as it seems to be much more than coincidence, and it seemed that there were times that was the only thing that would make the controls work again. When I was bending the pins on the roll connector, any time I touched both of the far left pins, the horn would sound, so it's possible that honking the horn affected the signal with regard to ground. That's just a wild guess though. In the end, had I just listened to Trabbic to begin with, I would have driven a few hundred miles less with flakey controls!

Those are great ... if you have a right hand drive vehicle. But if you have a Left hand drive vehicle, not so snazzy.

I'm about a mile from Zeke's! Same strip mall as the Subway and Domino's right? Across from the baseball fields?

Mark, aside from the chrome trim for your automatic, i can pull my head unit and have it back in under 15 minutes now. I've had nearly every piece of the lower dash trim out of the car at some point, and have removed seats too. I'm getting to be way too skilled at this. If you need something, let me know and I'll be happy to do some re-configuration!

I'm no longer sure or even somewhat convinced it was the wheel. I had still more issues on the way home and pulled the deck. The nature of pulling the deck completely pulled the wires free, so I can't be sure if they were loose/out to begin with, but I secured everything to the rear of the deck again and I KNOW that they're secure to the rear of the deck now, so if it continues, I'll know to look elsewhere. This is the fun of modding, right?!

My saga continues. I was still experiencing some of the random issues with the volume and mute bottons not working. It happened most frequently with Mute, followed by volume up, and last volume down, which almost never failed. This fit with Trabbic's suggestion that it was a connection issue somewhere with the lever of resistance on each button. The sticking point is that honking the horn always fixed it. Which led me to believe it was still a problem in the steering wheel. I thought for a while it could have just been a coincidence with vibrations from the road causing the button to fail momentarily and then work again after I honked the horn by pure happenstance. I believe I debunked this, however, after the mute failed and wouldn't work again while parked in a parking lot. Very carefully and gently to avoid any vibration to the car, I honked the horn and the Mute magically started working again. I took the wheel apart ... AGAIN ... and pulled the roll connector. It looked like some of the pins may not have been even, and thus might not have been making clean contact. I used a small screw driver to gently bend some of the pins slight upward in hope that it will make more solid contact with the connector. Again, this is just another theory. I am hoping that this will have fixed it once and for all, otherwise the next step will be to pull the radio and see if there is room for an improved connection the back of the stereo again. It could be that something got loose back there. That horn issue, though, has me completely confused.