Hey all - I just finished installing my Roady into my Element and I took some pictures of my install. I'm not exactly an expert at this sort of thing but I'm happy with the look.

I placed the unit above the subwoofer to help keep it out of the way of the other controls. I was disappointed that the included bracket didn't have a wider range of motion. If it had - I would have tried to place it on the top of the dash right aboce the stereo. I've seen other examples of people mounting it above the aux/power ports. I elected not to do that since it is so close to the passenger side airbag. I don't know what the E's airbags look like deployed and didn't want the possibility of the radio interfereing with the operation of them.

In the future I plan on hardwiring the power into the fuse block under the steering wheel. Also plan on routing an audio wire along the same route as the antenna. The wire currently on the unit is not long enough for that run. I may even attempt to run the wires in the space behind the sub instead of in-front-and-under.

Another possibilty would be to run wires under the floor mat in the CD-changer channel and mount the radio inside the armrest console.

Without further ado - here are the photos:


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Honda gave us the perfect spot for these hockey pucks. I found it quite easy to push the wires under the molding if needed.

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I left a lot of slack in the wire here so I could pull the antenna inside for visits to the car wash or other activities that might harm the antenna.

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The antenna wire slides quite easily under the edge if the weather stripping. It looks very clean and it remains out if sight. I stopped at the bottom corner of the dashboard.

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I then opened the glove box and ran the antenna wire over the top of the hinges.

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I purchased an adapter at the Best Buy automotive audio department that converts a single 12V outlet into 4 outlets. I put it into the glove box to help hide the wires. I can easily add my cell phone and radar detector accessories when needed this way and still get my tunes. I ran the wires down the edge of the glove box.

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This is the back side of the subwoofer enclosure. I ran the power and audio cables behind it by pulling the top corner out a bit. The egde of the enclosure holds the wires back fairly well.

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I ran the antenna wire around the bottom of the sub. The reason I did this was to find a different spot to stash the extra length of the wires. I originally planned to hide them in the glove box but the extra wire was taking more room than I wanted it to.

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I wrapped the power and audio wire around the mounting bracket once to help hold the tension and also to relieve stress on the connecting jacks.

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The antenna wire was then brought up the driver side and the extra wire is stashed on the back side of the sub panel.

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Close up view of the other side of the mounting bracket.

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This is what it looks like from the passenger side.

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Glove box is open in this shot.

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Close up of the dash connections.