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I am replacing the stock Axxera AV614BH (which has died) with a JVC KW-66BT. I am also adding speakers in the cab area (these will now be the "front " speakers, the existing ones will be the "rear" speakers.) On a separate project, I have removed the (working) outside TV to replace either the bedroom (dead) or livingroom (dead) TV.

My questions:

1. The replacement in-dash stereo has a lead to connect to the headlight circuit to dim the display. (This is something the original didn't have.) What's a good place to tap into. What color is the wire and where do I find it?
Best to use the wire coming from the dash lights roller switch. Tapping into Ford's CAN-bus can be tricky. Either wire will work


2. What fuse(s) are feeding the radio so I can pull them before doing splices?
With Plant 750 coaches there is USUALLY a five amp in line fuse behind the radio This is for the radio memory and a 5-15 amp fuse in the power center that powers both radios.


3. I intend to mount the speaker brackets just outboad of the sun visors on each side, and screwed (up) into the same surface. Is there anything there I need to be concern about drilling into? I can't really tell what the material there is. Is it going to be solid enough to screw in to? Is the visor bracket screwed to it, or to an anchor? (I took one screw of the visor bracket most of the way out to see, but couldn't really tell and didn't uncrew it all the way lest I lose the anchor.)


It is just a vinyl molded trim piece with no real structure.


4. When I removed the TV from the outdoor compartment I discovered that there is an HDMI feed terminating there. The dealer had told us there is a feed from the in-dash player to the kitchen/livingroom TV, but we had already learned that there was no HDMI at either of those places. So where is the other end of the HDMI cable that came to the outside TVC?


There should be a media center cubby. Mine is above the microwave. All HDMI cables terminate there and were plugged into a BOMB. There is also a inverter powered duplex receptacle located there


I've been to schematic on Owner Resources and it answers none of my questions.

Thanks.