Ok, this post goes under the How-To section I don't have. But it is basically how to relocated the air condisioner controls from the stock location
To the glove box
This is a bit drawn out and not for everyone, so if you are interested click
First off you more then likely know how to take your bezel off and get to your stereo, so I am skipping that part.
Tools Required:
- 7MM Screw Driver
- Cutting tool (I used a drill but a hand saw would be preferred)
1. e your glove box off, there are three 7MM screws at the bottom of it, they might be hidden under the dash trim if you have the cab trim (non SL models)
2. Remove your bezel from around the A/C, stereo, gauges
3. remove the A/C Controls, I also removed my radio to give me some more room to work with
4. at this part I cute a couple of holes in the back of the glove box to make room for wires. It is your choice on how many holes, I had wanted 1 hole but made a mistake so I got two.
5. as with any project, before making more holes then needed make sure that the controls will fit how i want them. so i just did a dry fit on them, and this worked out ok
6. I am using zip ties to hold my controls in place, so I drilled two holes on each side to allow the zip ties to go through
7. Next was to remount the glove box, and see if my holes were big enough for the wires.
I had to unwrap the control wires from the harness under the stereo, this gave me about three more inches and that was enough to get the wires to reach fully into the glove box and plugin to the controller
8. plug in the wires and mount it up. this part was a pain so if you have smaller hands you will do better at it. I started with the vacuum hoses and the moved from that side to the other with the wires and connections.
9. Close the glove box and make sure it all works. I started the car, then used the controls to make sure that the A/C worked. I blew cold, and warm, and on the fan speeds I choose, so it works.
10. Put it all back together.
That is about it, not to hard of a processes and took about 2 hours total. This is including time to slack in the middle, it was maybe 30 minutes of real work and that was making the holes.
I am also going to post this on S10 Forum later today because someone had requested a how to on this.