HELP with installin dvd deck
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Its not hard at all. Pop of the radio bezel and unscrew about 4-6 screws that hold the radio, disconect the harness. Put the new harness on to your cars oem and you just have to match up the colors on the wires! The dvd bypass is a bit more complicated but not to bad. I did my clairion dvd deck in about 1 hour, but Im in hayward not san jose. 
If you take it into frys or curcuit city they wont bypass the dvd player either. You usually just have to run the ebrake wire to a toggle switch then ground it. Worked on mine. If you cant find some one to help PM me and maybe we can arrange something. There is an install fest on the 18th in fremont, if you can make that then we can put it in. Check the meeting forum.
If you take it into frys or curcuit city they wont bypass the dvd player either. You usually just have to run the ebrake wire to a toggle switch then ground it. Worked on mine. If you cant find some one to help PM me and maybe we can arrange something. There is an install fest on the 18th in fremont, if you can make that then we can put it in. Check the meeting forum.
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Originally Posted by hokusai
Or if you don't want to make a toggle switch, just ground that wire.
Mine wouldnt work otherwise.
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Originally Posted by Onizuka
I did that with my 240SX head unit, I ran out of crimps. It took a long time, and my ears can't tell the difference to make soldering worth it, so crimps it is
Originally Posted by STi_4_Keri
it's not for sound quality. it's more for holding up vibrations that your car goes through daily, your crimping can go bad unless you take time and heat shrink each crimp.
if you want, go to circuit city. they even sell a harness that plugs to the head unit itself. the other end of the harness is a universal plug.
then you buy the harness that connects to the car side. and the other side of this harness is also a universal plug that connects to the harness above.
same price as the normal harness.
so (at least for me) around $30, you have a really quick PLUG AND PLAY harness system that essentially plugs into the vehicle side and the head unit!
no crimps or soldering.
Originally Posted by STiYLIN
The rest is easy and is in your book. All you have to do it match colors and crimp with a connector. Installing a deck is cake.
installing is a piece of cake... and so is DE-installing...
Originally Posted by STi_4_Keri
it's not for sound quality. it's more for holding up vibrations that your car goes through daily, your crimping can go bad unless you take time and heat shrink each crimp.
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hmm ok i just did the wirin cuz i went to go buy a wirin harness at circuit city for 20 dollars now ima install it myself. maybe at the install fest we can try to bypass it later on? if anyone wants to. i got to wyotech in fremont so it shouldnt be that hard for em to get around. but yea thanks for the help everyone and btw where are the pins located at on the dash bezler thing
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ok so i just poped out my bezel and what not but now there is another 2 wires from the stock cd changer i cant seem to take off. 1 is connected near the original harnass and the other one is on the side. any ideas on how to remove them?
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ok i cant seem to even budge those stupid bolts holdin in the brackets.. best way to remove them? and by grouding it do oyu mean connect it to the ground wire?
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I dont install kenwoods and every company does it differently. If the kenwood has a park wire you can ground it anywhere on the chasis really.
As far as the other wire harnesses besides the main one, do, you have a factory amp or sub? that might be the wiring for it.
As far as the other wire harnesses besides the main one, do, you have a factory amp or sub? that might be the wiring for it.
Don't buy a bypass, not needed with a kenwood. Just wrap it around the black ground wire, tape it off with electrical. Thats all I did, mine works like a champ.