I'm looking for ideas, suggestions, and feedback. I found some old SS thread(s) via Search, but the pix are missing.

I was originally thinking that I'd just take a razor blade to the paint on the inside of the windshield near the rearview mirror and somehow velcro mount the unit wherever was(?) optimal, but the standard included suction cup mount (thanks, Warpedcow), up behind the tinted band, just to the left of the painted region, seems adequate (though the driver's sun visor can block laser visibility to the rear, and the V1 is not seeing one laser false alarm to the front that it always saw in the 850, in which the V1 sounded plenty of laser alerts to various benign red light sources; I'm now wondering if the S60 windshield's tinted band filters long-wavelength light more than the 850's).

I have the original/smaller V1 concealed display. I think I'm going to at least start by just sticking it (rubber cement? 'magic' tape folded sticky-side-out? something that won't permanently mar the plastic...) to the shelf in front of the instruments (possibly partially blocking the high-beam indicator) and route a dark gray or flat black wire ("phone cable") over the edge of the shelf and down the steering column.

Unfortunately, this will be rather obvious to anyone standing next to the driver's door and looking into the car. But I don't know of a better solution. Using the top of the cubbyhole to the left of the radio would be less obvious but is also not in the driver's direct line of sight while driving, and even though I'm still not sure what that cubbyhole will wind up being used for, I'm not eager to sacrifice any of its storage space.

Probably it would be better to hang the concealed display from the overhang at the top of the instruments (blocking the turn signal indicators), though that would require more time and knowledge of how to remove the plastic surrounding the cluster in order to route the "phone cable".

The lower right corner of the instruments has potential, but cable routing would still be a bit of an issue, plus being able to reset the clock (time zones) while driving is already tricky enough without that being there:

I'm also still dreaming of the possibility(?) of flush-mounting it something like this (my V1 concealed display is narrower than that one) around the edge of the instruments, though that would involve permanent modification to (ie, a 2 square inch hole in) part of the dashboard:

Now for the best but trickiest part, the remote mute button: in the 850 I removed its simpler wipers stalk and pried the flat back off its length and saw that I could just drill a hole in the end and install a small momentary pushbutton switch and route 2 wires through the stalk and down the steering column. Does anyone know if that is possible on the S60? It looks like it might be: there are 2 small phillips screws on the back of the wipers stalk; I've unscrewed them but the plastic back of the still-installed stalk did not un-latch for me... Alternately, does anyone know if the V70 wipers stalk, with its additional push switch(es?) at the end, could be used on an S60 (if so, does it come with 2 or 3 additional wires that could simply be appropriated for use with the V1?)?

The finishing touch is an OEM-looking kill switch for the V1 power, one that can be accessed without any unusual motion on the part of the driver being noticeable by someone in a car that is directly behind. The logical place for this is one of the unused switch locations in the row of switches below the HVAC controls. I know I've seen pix somewhere on SS that showed nice little black rocker switches that fit perfectly and looked right at home there, but I can't recall where they were or who posted them...

I think using the suction cups up near the mirror is good and then running the power cable either to the sun roof for power or down to the fuse box.

Have you come up with any other ideas?

I have seen the remote display setup near where the A pillar meets the windshield, which seems like a good spot, except for reaching the mute knob.

'01 V70XC
'97 Nissan 4x4 Pickup (73 HP only by going downhill with a tail wind)

Here is a thread discussing in the R forum:
http://forums.swedespeed.com/zerothread?id=78189

This company has some mounts for the mirror:
http://www.mgtmotorsports.com/...htUsQ

So can one purchase the custom display?

'01 V70XC
'97 Nissan 4x4 Pickup (73 HP only by going downhill with a tail wind)

I still have that housing so if anyone wants more picts I can shoot some.

'01 V70XC
'97 Nissan 4x4 Pickup (73 HP only by going downhill with a tail wind)

I'm not sure what it is I'm looking at (mainly its depth), but I'm highly intrigued and would like all the info I could get, please/thankyou, including the best way to get the wire from there to down the steering column...

Here is the latest on progress towards the Ultimate Valentine One (V1) installation. I finally found an easy way to run the wire to the edge of the instruments display: Just inboard of the trip reset button, it is not too difficult to snake (hardly more than push) a wire between the clear plastic covering the gauges and the dark gray shelf surrounding them:

the yellow lines show where the pull-wire went in and had come out

Actually, the pull wire came out to the left of the steering column; I could see it from the driver's seat; then I got under the dashboard (with 2-torx panel removed) and grabbed it...

I then used the pull wire to pull the "phone" cable (4-conductor RJ-11) from the edge of the instruments down and to the back side of the dashboard. There is a narrow space/clearance/gap between the clear plastic cover over the instruments and the dust-catching dark gray plastic that surrounds the instruments. This gap is just wide enough to pass the phone cable through, but (probably) too narrow to get an actual RJ-11 connector through, so you'll either need to be able to crimp one (maintaining original orientation/polarity) back onto the end of the cable once you've run it from the edge of the instruments to the back of the dashboard, or else direct-wire, without a connector, the 4-conductor cable that goes to the concealed display. What matters is that the connector to be used for the concealed display is wired backwards from the connector that's going to the V1:

1 -> 4
2 -> 3
3 -> 2
4 -> 1

The flat phone cable can be pushed behind the dark gray plastic (between it and the clear plastic cover) all the way around the edge of the instrument cluster until it reaches the chosen mounting location for the concealed display:

As you can see, I did not mount the unit perfectly centered. This was done intentionally, for balance, as the arrows are the biggest lights. I hope this will look OK in the daylight. But at night, with no bogeys being reported mile after mile, it's slightly annoying to drive around with that L off-center like that. I used double-sided adhesive thin foam tape to stick it up there. (When I remounted it, better centered, I used a little less tape, back further from the front of the display, with its edge darkened with a black magic marker.)

I am using the access panel at the end of the dashboard to access/conceal my wiring/connections (though the switched power is coming from fuse 28 in the fuse box under the dashboard).

I'm still thinking about how I'm going to get the remote mute switch to the end of the wipers stalk (it's going to be harder to ignore all the V1's flashing and beeping [which has just become less necessary] now that the flashing is within my line of sight)...

Despite this improvement in my Valentine 1 installation, I'm still very interested in the thinner/flat(?) remote display that Chris had made up...

NOTE: like all threads to which I've posted pics, these will probably fail someday soon, as I tire of Comcast being so Bombastic, and find another internet access provider (remember when they called themselves internet Service providers?)...

Looks good

That type of cable termination is called "cross over", which is your standard phone type connection.

'01 V70XC
'97 Nissan 4x4 Pickup (73 HP only by going downhill with a tail wind)

Quote, originally posted by 850arrrsaylikepirate »

Looks good

Thanks! (I'm glad you got to see it... It's even better centered.) It took an hour or so of seat time before I got used to the focal depth difference, but now I've kind of tuned it out, out of focus (but impossible to ignore if/when it shows alerts) instead of drawing my focus too near.

Quote, originally posted by 850arrrsaylikepirate »

That type of cable termination is called "cross over", which is your standard phone type connection.

Attention Valentine One direct wirers: what 850arrrsaylikepirate says is true [especially electrically speaking], but do not let that confuse you. If you've ever done a V1 remote display direct wire install before (it's normally [seen as] 2 separate/distinct cables), you know what I mean. That info was provided FYI for those who 1)clipped/recrimped the connector and wanted to verify the polarity (WRT the cable going to the V1) of their work 'cold', and 2)those who don't happen to have a V1 direct wire accessory kit handy.