- Fixed speed intermittent wipers
- FM frequency to the radio
- Power steering
Its quite the list! One thing per decade, woah slow down toyota R&D you're moving too damn fast!
Items of interest that they share:
- Carby's
- Live rear axles
- Leaf springs
- Drum brakes
- Bench seats
- Football field turning circles
- Engines that were developed in the 1950's
So noting the clear lack of creature comforts, i'm on the case to improve that situation.
So far i've added remote central locking and upgraded the interior light to LEDs.
Todays improvement was the addition of a permanently mounted iphone charge cable.
I modified a 1amp 12v to usb adaptor to remove the external contacts and fitted fly leads instead. Next both ends of a retractable iphone charger were reinforced with surgu. Finally i installed this under the dash and wired it in.
The red clamp thing on is a holder for my phone. I cut a small slot in a switch blanking panel to allow the cord through. Works well, and doesn't stick out like dogs balls. Win.
Future upgrades include:
Headunit
Speakers
A Sub woofer
Air conditioning
LED lights mounted under the door to provide lighting when the door is open.
How to do you know that there isn't going to be too much current running through the adaptor that might blow up your phone?
ReplyDeleteThe 12v USB adaptor changes 12v to 5v by means of a voltage regulator and the current is limited to 1 amp by means of a resister. There are safety mechanisms is place to prevent the voltage increasing beyond 14.4 (standard voltage of a car when running) in the alternator, which is really the only place a source of voltage spike could occur. The device will only draw what is required by the device plugged into it up to 1 amp and no more. The only way i see my phone blowing up are:
ReplyDelete- If pat came along and tried to start the car by plugging into 240v power point
I think that either the voltage regulator or resister would blow if they saw something out of their specification design, thus saving my phone.
excellent work beechy, knew it wouldn't be long before your new vehicle had wires/ cables popping out from places where their once were none. how does it plug in, i mean it looks like the phone would just dangle from the cord. im assuming you have a bracket sorted, unless that suction cup thing at 10 oclock does that. Ps, my house car insurance went up 10% when they realised i knew pat.
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