A (belated) big thanks to
@timmus for completing the BOSE upgrade on JRV yesterday. He claims it was the longest BOSE retrofit he's ever had to undertake (and I can believe him, there's been about three days work on this one).
We fitted a Concert II unit, upgraded the CAN to the newer version to also accept a later style DIS so I can now at least see what the buzzing on startup was about*.
The pull of the ColourDIS is strong, but I've resisted thus far. Also fitted was an X-Car Link card reader so I can at least still keep a decent amount of music in the car for a longer than average journey.
Whilst the car was apart we took the opportunity to refresh some of the interior panels with newer (and much less butchered/rattley) bits of trim and rubber seals from the donor car I currently have. Put it like this, there is a lot of scrap plastic currently by the bins ready to go to the tip.
Also Tom noticed the airbag cable for the front seat had chaffed and was down to a single core holding itself together, so that was duly fixed.
A remap finished off the work done this time around.
We rounded it off with a nice meal down at the local pub, where Tom was nodding off, so sent him off to my Parents' cottage so he could get some shut-eye before his day was due to start at 7am tomorrow at De Montfort Uni.
*The washer bottle is saying it's empty, but I suspect it's a sensor on it as it I filled it up the other day.