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Installed my kenwood dvd player on sunday but couldnt get the picture to display when playing a dvd but had sound. started looking at it now and found the park sensor wire was not connected. after some research i found that it should be earthed in order to work. so i attached it to the other earths at the same location...no joy.

i then removed all the earths from their earthing point and turned the radio on and everything worked exactly the same as before which means my earthing point was clearly not an earthing point. the point i earthed to was a bracket that looked like it was attached to the dash armature- its the one that holds the white cannister in place (think its the air con unit). so my question is where is the nearest earthing point from where the stereo is as i cant fold myself in half long enough to look under the dash :(
 

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Down near the clutch pedal in the drivers footwell, if you look left behind the centre console there's a 13mm bolt with a black wire attached to it, unscrew that and put them on there that's the earthing point for the stereo.

Its about half way between the seat and the clutch pedal, slightly behind the plastic of the centre dash down in the footwell.
 
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found it but one of my earths was too short, so i have spent the last 2 hours trying to use a nut and bolt through one of the existing holes. my hands are graized to shreds but i now have a working DVD player. I also cant pick up FM and i forgot to check when i'd finished, was too excited i can now watch porn on the way to work haha.

cheers for your help jay! i ache like hell now and have cramp lol
 

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Yer I got wedge between my steering wheel and seat when I did it...was a scary moment not gona lie
 
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Bastard stereo!!!

right basically it has now stopped playing dvds altogether- just comes up with disc error/unknown disc. yet bang a cd in it and it works perfectly, all the touch screen works everything. just wont play. ive checked connections and still no luck. was wondering if the laser that reads the discs is the same for both dvd and cd? anyone got any ideas? its a kenwood 627 by the way :)
 
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