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looks great!

I saw in your other post that you said you have no OK button on the steering wheel. you don't have this? It's the right side of the bluetooth phone button (bottom right on the steering wheel). You can also use the OK/Pause button on the right-knob on the head unit (on a non-nav Sync system).

If the signals are actively filtered from the head unit, the SSI won't eliminate the filtering. There won't be any way to fully eliminate it other than reverse-EQ'ing it to negate the filtering and flatten the signal, which I think the DSP does. However, if the signals are just split (crossed-over) from the head unit to send one signal to the woofers and a different signal to the tweeters, you tap all of those channels and run them into the SSI, which takes them all and sums them into a single full-range signal to feed into the DSP. If the stock head unit sends out a full-range signal to the speakers and they just use passive, in-line capacitors to filter or split the signal, then you could technically just tap the full-range signal before the filters and get the same effect. In both cases, you'll still need the DSP to actually EQ the signal & any other processing, since virtually all head units are doing some sort of EQ'ing.

There is! just hit the "ok" button on the steering wheel to pause a track.

For the most part, I'm loving the Sync system. It has its quirks, but its handy and really convenient. However, it really bugs me that between songs playing from my ipod, I feel like it has 2second gaps between them. I listen to a fair amount of live music and this is REALLY annoying...especially since the ipod can play gapless songs just fine on its own. Heck, even my 5 year old pioneer head unit w/ ipod adapter could play almost gapless (.5 sec pause). Are there any fixes or firmware updates or anything for Sync systems that will allow for this?

hey lurker...I'm looking to do something similar in my car. Where did they mount all that gear in your car. Do you have any pictures?

Does anybody know the maximum speaker mounting depth for the front doors of a 2010 Fusion? Thanks.

this is a mini-usb plug. It's the same kind that many cell phones and GPS devices use as well.

there wasn't another 2010 SE w/ monochrome appearance package at any ford dealership within a 75 mile radius. Like I said...it wasn't a dealbreaker. Just a small inconvenience. It wasn't even something I noticed until right before I bought it because I had test driven it twice prior during the daytime and didn't think about the headlights.

oh, i just bought it off the lot, so I basically just got the options that were on it. If I would've been able to choose the option, I would've. I'm planning to call/stop by the dealership to have them enable the DRLs as well, so we'll see how it goes.

it wasn't enough of a detractor to keep me from buying the car, but it was one of those "oh....that sucks. I wish the car had that" type of features.

So DRL's can be enabled at the dealership relatively easily? I just assumed this car had them (I thought it was a requirement for all cars at this point, actually!). If its not, I may look into it. I will say that the lack of automatic headlights is the one thing that REALLY annoys me about this car compared to my last. I really liked never having to worry about turning on/off the headlights. It had DRL's during the day and then would kick up to full at dusk. Does anyone know if the headlights will turn off automatically if left on after the car has been shut off/locked? After not having to do it for years, I can see myself forgetting to do this, even with the door chime.

this is awesome. After only 2 days of owning my Fusion, i'm already missing my homelink. I would love to install one in this car!

this list is fantastic. I've owned my Fusion for about 2 days and have been trying to find something like this because I couldn't figure out how to get some of the commands to work.

Does anyone know if the head unit has any pre-outs? Otherwise, are any of the speakers full-range signals (i.e. not crossed over or cut off by the head unit)? If so, these would be the best to tap for a line out to run an amp from. Does anyone know the SIZE of the front door speakers?