Tip Number 3: Give yourself enough time and space to get the job done?
It normally takes up to two days for a professional to do a good car DVD installation job so you should give yourself the same time period of uninterrupted access to the car.
It is also important to give yourself the space to do the job. You need enough to be able to remove the interior of the car, lay out the components in a logical pattern and then put them back in. Working in a cluttered space makes it too easy to loose things or get confused.
Tip Number 4: Solder wires to each other, don't just twist or fold them together.
Soldering wires together helps the signals transfer much better and will make it much less likely for connections to break if you encounter any rough surfaces.
Soldering is easy to do and kits can be purchased easily and cheaply from most hardware or electrical stores.
Tip Number 5: Mount speakers and screens onto a surface that can support them.
Most of the humming basslines you hear coming out of cars today has come from a rear tray that cannot support the two six-by-nine-inch speakers that have been mounted in it... or the sound that they create. Replace it with something more solid.
Tip Number 6: Make the earth wire as short as possible.
If you install a decent car stereo you are probably going to want an amplifier to make sure it doesn't get affected by the engine's workload. This will mean you will need to earth the stereo unit.
It is important to make sure you attach the earth to the chassis at the closest point possible and make the earth wire as short as possible to reduce the amount of voltage it eats up.
Tip Number 7: Put speaker signal wires and speaker power wires on different sides of the car.
You may think it would be a good idea to run the power wire for a speaker directly beside the signal wire. It is easy to do and it looks tidy after all. However by doing this you are creating inductance; a magnetic field which, if close enough to the signal wire. This reduces the signal that gets through to the speaker and causes the speaker to produce static.
This can be avoided simply by running your signal and power cables down opposite sides of the car. If you can't do this then try to keep the wires as far apart as possible.

While these seven pieces of advice won't make car DVD installation a piece of cake it will help you avoid several traps that can make installation almost an impossible exercise. .

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