Okay, I'll stop. But, I AM going to catalog the installation of the dual DVD headrests for our 2007 Toyota 4Runner.
01-23-10 9:45p.m. Ordered the package from www.onfair.com. Kind of shady, no name players but got pretty good reviews and for under $225 I bet they will play the Wiggles just fine. When we first looked at them, they were about $300. They were on sale, plus a $10 off coupon code, plus free shipping. Total to the door = $215.95 I can handle that since most portable, foldable, single screen players at $100+ from Wal-Mart.
01-26-10 10:30a.m. Received a text from my wife letting me know that the package from OnFair was delivered. Wow, that was fast!
01-26-10 6:45p.m. After my daughter went to bed, I opened the box to begin a 'short term' install. I was leaving for a few days, so I wanted to get one in to see how it worked while I was gone.
They looked pretty good. The grey leather matched the 4Runner perfectly. The headrests and players seemed to be very solid and I didn't see any possible future issues. The remotes and game controllers didn't look quite as sturdy, but for the price, very adequate.
Installation seemed fairly simple. Adjust the posts to fit your car, run the wires down the back of the seat and plug it in. I wish I would have realized that there were multiple diameters of posts. The middle size fit the 4Runner very good. If you use an 'up-sized' post, you seem to loose the ability to adjust the headrest. Not a big deal.
I decided to use a pull string since there was not much room for me to feed the wires down the back of the seat. This was probably the most difficult part. Figuring out how to get the coat hanger down the back of the seat and finding it at the bottom was kind of tough, but really only took 10 minutes.
At the bottom, again, pretty easy. They use two different types of cables, so I don't think you can mess this up. Like I said at the beginning, this is a quick, short term install. Because of that I only installed one and ran it off the cigarette adapter.
As soon as I put power to it, the red light came on.
It took me a little bit to realize that the red light is a 'standby light'. If you press the 'Power' button it goes off, and the DVD will begin to play shortly.
So far my little princess loves it. It is loud enough without having to use headphones or run through the car audio system. I have looked at some of the games...seem pretty cool. After a few days we did have a fuse blow in the cigarette adapter. I replaced it with the other one (since I only have one monitor installed so far)
Future projects to complete the install:
- Install second headrest monitor just like the first.
- Pull power from fuse block with 'fuse taps'
- Connect monitors to each other so you can watch one DVD on both monitors.
- Experiment with the included games, wireless headphones and FM transmitter for using car audio system.
to be continued... (once install is final)
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