Alright folks. Spent about 40 minutes tonight making this thing work. Below is a write up. Although everything went great with my install, no guarantees for your install, and I'm not to be held liable for any damages caused. 1. Pull down your upper toggle bank. To do this just grab a nice hold above the center light and pull straight down with moderate force. There are about a half dozen tabs, 3 in the front, 3 in the back. It feels like, and sounds like you are breaking it, but you don't. You'll see something like this: 2. Your V1 Direct-Wire Power Adapter will not fit in this space in its standard form. You will have to do some work to make it fit. This thing has a lot of extra hollow space. I use a hack saw to take off both sides and the top part with the velcro. Now it will fit snugly in the hole shown in the 1st picture. 3. I then took my phone cord and ran it through the upper trim and out the windshield side. To do this just pull down a bit on the windshield side, to make room and thread it through. 4. Next thing we will have to do is make a place for our ground. To do this I drilled a small hole in the painted area, put a screw in and attached the ground wire to it. 5. We then tapped our 12v line, which is the purple/blue wire in the larger cluster. 6. Tuck in all the wires. To do this I put as much of them as I could in the area above the passenger side visor. 7. Put your toggle bank back in and you are ready to motor worry free. I have full res pictures if anyone wants them, just PM me.
Nice work - creative use of brute force :lol: FWIW, for those who don't want to hacksaw their V1 hardwire module, the flat power cord could be easily routed down under the edge of the headliner and a-pillar cover, and an add-a-circuit used in the fusebox on my 1st gen cabrio... I suspect the same approach would work on the 2nd gen...
I'm not sure if I was just being too gentle, but I was unable to get the power cord down the A-Piller in the 2nd gen. It seems to be a lot less pliable then the 1st gen. counterpart. I was however easily able route the power the same way that you mentioned in my 1st gen.