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Question about hideaway unit placement

By DeCo · Sep 23, 2007in General💬 8 posts👁️ 1,360 views
Posted Sep 23, 2007 · 19:43 UTC#1

So as I've said previously I had my installer move my hideaway unit under my passenger seat as opposed to under the carpet. I just noticed today that while the unit is parallel to the car, the picture of the car on the unit is backwards, IE the front is in the back, and the back is in the front. I KNOW that the hideaway unit cannot be sideways or it gives false data, but is there an actual front and back? I looked in the install manual and it says to be certain that it's front to back, but it doesn't say if the direction matters.

 

Just to be clear, the AV out for the backseat monitor is facing the back of the vehicle, and the AV in for external video sources is facing the front of the vehicle, which seems logical to me, but the picture of the car on top of the vehicle is now backwards.

 

God I'm sick of having to ask stupid questions on this forum...

Posted Sep 23, 2007 · 19:54 UTC#2

It has arrows indicating which way is supposed to be forward

Posted Sep 23, 2007 · 20:02 UTC#3

Hmmm, Ok, I'll have to double check, It's kind of an awkward angle to be looking at. I just noticed arrows that indicated the overall placement of the unit, not the exact placement.

 

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Ok, upon further inspection, there is no front of back label, just arrows pointing in either direction. So I'm going to assume that all is well in the world...well aside from not having wired my backup camera to enable rear view monitoring yet...but that's next weeks problem.

Posted Jan 03, 2008 · 00:04 UTC#4

No problem. You have to drive in reverse,,,reverse is forward and forward is reverse

Posted Jan 03, 2008 · 00:07 UTC#5

what the hell are you talking about?

Posted Jan 03, 2008 · 00:12 UTC#6

Hey A hole.

 

Its backwards!

Posted Jan 03, 2008 · 17:25 UTC#7

Um...no it isn't. If it was I probably would have noticed in the... oh I don't know 3 months since I originally posted.

 

But it was still really nice of you to show up several months late and give half a response that doesn't contain any actual helpful info about a problem I've already told everyone is resolved. Thanks for that.

Posted Jan 04, 2008 · 04:20 UTC#8

wow, attitude for such a simple problem, seriously, the brain shows plain as day with the arrows. read it rightside up and youll understand. the picture will go hand in hand with the english that is written on the unit