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Aftermarket radio install (with pics)

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#1 ·
this is for a double din radio but will be basicly the same for a single din,just a different kit. and dont mind the dust, i guess it gets everywhere

i used the metra double din kit and the metra chto -03 harness thats for the infinity system. the nice thing about the harness is it has the reverse and VSS and brake wire ( i bypassed the brake and ill tell you how) all in the harness. the bad side is its a large harness and there not much room to stuff it in the dash but it will all fit. now to bypass the D# you need to remove the mute wire from its harness and there is a empty slot directly across from where it was, put the mute wire in that spot and ground it and the p-brake wire. this will bypass the e-brake and make it so you can enter addresses while moving ****disclaimer**** if you wreck while whatching movies or messing with the gps, your a dumb ass, so be carefull.

first you need to remove the top portion of the dash, start at the rear and pop the back up first ant tip it up. you will most likely loose at least one of the clips that holds the rear part on, i lost both. a whole new panel is only $6 at the dealer.
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next you need to remove the peice in front of the shifter, its just held on by 4 clips

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now we will remove the peice around the radio, which also has the HVAC controlls on it, its held in by 4 7mm screws, you dont have to take the panel off just move it out enough to get the radio out
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now you can remove the radio. in order to fit the pioneer AVIC-D3 you need to cut a bit of the radio area out, you can see in this pic what had to be cut
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now all you need to do is get the harness in there and put everything back together in reverse order. heres what the finished product looks like
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on a side note heres a pic of where to wire your stock 6 disc to get video out of it

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any questions feel free to ask
 
#3 ·
basicly i picked the avic d3 cause i got a wicked deal on it from pioneer, through my work. it has nav which i thought would suck but its actually pretty good, it works better than my work vans cheap garmin and tom tom (i had both at one time). plays dvd video, its very easy to bypass, looks good, has ipod control and sat radio control, back up camera hook up and blue tooth. it reatails at my work for 999.99 and i got it for 400 so i figured it was a good deal
 
#4 ·
Nice install!

Now that is one sweet radio. Wish I could get one. Just a bit out of my wallets reach atm.

Unless you can lets say provide us with the same deal. :innocent:

:laughing:
 
#12 ·
looking at the beck of the radio with the plugs on th elower side its the left plug bottom row of pins NOT counting the large pin on the end it should be the 5th and 6th pin in from the left. the 5th pin is the negative side or the out side part of a RCA cable and the 6th is the postive or the middle wire on a RCA cable. and yes i did run a monitor from the stock deck and it works great, its a little hard to figure out the controls the first time but you can figure it out.
 
#13 ·
Sweet I'm going to pop out my head unit tonight when I get home and run an RCA out for some video watching.. Another question, does the video cut off while you are driving or will it play while you are going down the highway? I know most of the stereos that have in dash monitors will not display video while the vehicle is in motion.
 
#24 ·
If you guys are in a budget, I just installed a new unit 7" screen 2 din, dvd, nav, mpe, cd etc from ebay at just under 300.00 bucks free shipping. I purchased and aftermarket harness for under 20 bucks. So i didnt have to splice my stock harness. Its from a power seller, so its warrantied and brand new in box
 
#25 ·
Many thanks for this thread.

After studying this thread and a couple of others I was able to successfully install a Kenwood 9980HD in my 2010 Wrangler Unlimited.

Did find removal of the metal bracket in the back of the recess to be a little perplexing. The bracket was much bigger than the cavity. Ended up using bolt cutters to cut it in half. After that the rest of the install went sweet.:bounce:
 
#26 ·
Yeah I have a kenwood touch screen with nav, dvd, ipod, sat radio, bluetooth and I love it. I like the pioneer as well, great write-up bro.
 
#27 ·
OK, my wife has the 2007 Sahara Unlimited w Infinity and seven speakers system. This summer, she left the top off in the rain and the factory head unit (6 CD changer MP#, etc) got messed up in that it wouldn't increase volume. So when it eventually got turned down to zero, we got no sound.
So she asked for and Santa provided the Oxygen O'Car head unit. When i installed with the Scosche CR04B harness (power from the driver cig), everything works except the sound (minor detail). After more detailed research, it seems i need the more expensive harness, such as a Scosche CR035R or Metra CHTO-03 or the PAC C2R-CHY2. Trouble is, i can't figure out which one and if the right one will drive all seven speakers.

Another guy told me that the Infinity amp was probably bad, but i doubt it since the head unit worked until turned down to zero, so it seems the HU is the problem. Also, the aftermarket HU has "a 4-channel, 55-watt amp that links to a vehicle’s factory or aftermarket speakers", so i could bypass the amp, but i don't really want to cut the factory wires from the amp and run new ones. It also has RCA "Pre-amplifier output(s): Front, rear & adjustable subwoofer", so if i tie those into the Metra CHTO-03's RCA cables, does that unit then route them through the Infinity amp?

So, does anyone know which is the right harness and can provide better guidance? Apologies for being such a noob...

BTW, I have no Nav or SWI requirements for the installation.