Pioneer Head Unit and Kicker Speakers...

Gruca

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Yesterday I started the installation of 4 6x8 Kicker CS68s and a Pioneer AVH-4200NEX head unit in my 2010 GT. The 4 speakers were pretty simple to install. The back ones were not the nightmare that I've read about constantly. Granted, removing the entire back seat is way too much work for replacing 2 speakers, it only took about half an hour. Once the rear seat is out, the top portion of the seats fold down and everything is really easy to get to at that point.

I didn't take very good ones but here are some pics.

My terrible wiring skills:


The backseat:


The first time I thought I was almost done:


Actually done and working:


My favorite feature. Wiring it was a pain in the dick:



Bastards!:
 

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How did you get the gauges? By the way you can go on ebay and search for pioneer park brake bypass and u can buy a chip for like $10. It works great!

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Gruca

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How did you get the gauges? By the way you can go on ebay and search for pioneer park brake bypass and u can buy a chip for like $10. It works great!

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The head unit has an OBDII wire that splices in to the connector under the drivers side dash. It's a pain to get the wires connected, but was worth it. Now I can see how fast I'm going when my 140mph speedo reaches its limit.

A friend of mine is going to ground out the parking brake wire for me. I wasn't sure how to do he's going to get that part fixed for me.
 

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Aren't the bypass deals just wired up voltage regulators? Should be able to go to radioshack, or somewhere similar, and get one for a couple dollars then solder three wires onto the leads and save a few bucks.
 

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No it needs to be a pulsed ground. The regulator you would use if you had a shaker sound system and wire it to the amp turn on so when you turn the radio on it doesnt make a pop noise.

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No it needs to be a pulsed ground. The regulator you would use if you had a shaker sound system and wire it to the amp turn on so when you turn the radio on it doesnt make a pop noise.

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That's the one. It has been so long since I did my radio I forgot about the stupid speaker pop being why I did that.
 

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The head unit has an OBDII wire that splices in to the connector under the drivers side dash. It's a pain to get the wires connected, but was worth it. Now I can see how fast I'm going when my 140mph speedo reaches its limit.

A friend of mine is going to ground out the parking brake wire for me. I wasn't sure how to do he's going to get that part fixed for me.



Hi, are you using an iDatalink cable or using another wiring method to gain "gauge info".
 

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The harness that comes with the iDatalink MUS1 package. There are two wires that get splices into the OBDII PLUG.
 

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Pick up the $20 microbypass, i have it and glad i did super easy install and does the work on its own no flipping switches.
 

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Pick up the $20 microbypass, i have it and glad i did super easy install and does the work on its own no flipping switches.

Well this is what I ended up doing. Not that I didn't try every other method first...none of them worked. So I bought the bypass and it works perfectly. Lesson learned.
 

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please, please take it back out and ditch the wire nuts. solder and heat shrink those connections
 

Gruca

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please, please take it back out and ditch the wire nuts. solder and heat shrink those connections

Some day when I have a soldering gun. Had to use what I had. I swear to God I went to 5 stores looking for electrical tape and no one had any. I got impatient and used the wire nuts.
 

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