Recent content by bill42

I just happen to still have this rack still in my garage. Are you close to the NY/Long Island area?

I don't have the roof rack. That comes on the car when you buy it if the costumer ordered a roof rack. The photo shows just the cross bars and my 2 racks for two bikes. I am not separating as it is bolted nicely together for someone already. Buy it and then just go buy two bikes!

Just an update that I still have this rack…. taking up space in my garage...

Sadly I sold my CX-9, and while selling my "custom made" roof bike rack, I realized some of you CX-9 dudes might like my invention. I wanted a low profile bike rack, and since I already had the factory cross bars for my roof rack, I realized my Thule bike mounts I already had from an earlier car...

CX-9 roof bars with 2 custom mounted low profile Thule bike racks Factory roof bars which are around $150 new plus two thule bike racks mounted right to the bars for the lowest profile bike rig possible. Looks good enough to leave on all year. Thule arms have locking key to secure bike. List...

Yup, that was the problem. I think I backed my trailer into the water and the waterproof taillights leaked a bit and shorted out the fuse. Thanks Kenundrum! Finding out which fuse on my 2008 is connected to the trailer hitch harness was the key to fixing my broken circuit.

Hey thanks for this info!!! I see you have a 2008 like me so I have my hopes up that this will fix my problem. I had found a PDF for 2009 and later CX-9's that shows a dedicated 15A fuse in the glove box for trailer lights. I have the slot on my 2008 but it is empty, so I was wondering where the...

sorry it took me 3 years to respond but I've been a little busy. ANyway I didn't end up with any spare screws. That is just an old joke people say when they put something complex back together. Looking back, I removed this radio to get to the back in order to mount a Dice iPod controller which...

bump. My trailer lights just stopped working too all at once, with 2008 factory hitch. Wondering if there is a fuse anywhere. I see a weird balast looking thing under the hitch mount. I wonder what that is and if it burned out.

Cris, thanks for the very nice DIY. This looks very easy to do, just as the last person wrote, but the photos are far more useful to me than words can ever be. I have been wanting daytime running lights since I bought my CX-9 in 2007, since I drive to Canada all the time and now I won't have to...

Thanks. This is what I thought. Well, time to start looking for my next car!

Thanks, but the auto works fine. It goes from super dim to pretty dim. Granted I can still see it in daylight, but this thing used to be bright! It is, as I said, half as bright as it used to be in either day or night setting.

Searched the forum and I don't see others with my problem. Just a week ago I noticed my radio/NAV screen was hard to see. At night I can no longer see in reverse unless I hit the daylight dash button, and in the day I can't see the back-up cam well at full brightness. Radio and NAV screen...

Good word, proselytizing! My religious moment is over now. It was the combination of learning something that was drastically different than what I thought I knew all along, and the fun theme of the world ending today as predicted by religious nuts here in the US helped me along. But today is...

This is exactly the type of reply that I expected.. indeed, wanted! I shall save your soul, Lindyrect!!!! You have been tempted by the devil disguised as 2 different mechanics who took your money happily. Hey, I said I was skeptical. But as you can see by my avatar, my CX-9 is covered in snow...