It has been said before but it cannot be stressed enough. Do not let your run of the mill auto-electricians or accessory shop guys touch the electricals or electronics on any European car. It is a simple thing. Europeans wire their cars diffently from the Asians. There are many, many more Asian cars on our roads than European ones. Because they are so few, the quacks do not get enough European specimens to experiment on. Therefore, they never get to learn about the wiring of the car before they start working on your European beauty.
What you get is a hatchet job which gives rise to many problems. This is not to say that no accessories can be fitted onto European cars. One can fit almost any accessory one wants and upgrade most parts. However care must be taken to ensure that the guy fitting it is fully conversant with the wiring of YOUR car before he starts work. The most important thing about adding additional electrical / electronic stuff is where to tap the power. The tendency is to tap power from the closest available wire, the proper thing to do is not interfere with any existing circuit and to take power from a free slot in the fusebox. It might take some time and effort to find an installer / electrician who understands and knows about the wiring in your car. Consider that effort
and time to be an investment and it will give good returns.
It helps if you can be present when the installation is being done so that you know exactly what was done and can retrace the steps in case a problem surfaces.
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