I have AVIC-D3 installed too

I am having trouble with step 1. I have that manual.

I understand that there are positive and negative wires, but they are bare wires. The instructions say to connect them to the after market radios front and rear speaker wires, but the wires out of the HU have only left and rights, no positive and negative (they are stereo connectors). I am not sure how I am suppose to connect these wires.

Do I cut , or splice into the HU wiring?

Thanks again, I am thinking my question is dumb, and I am missing something huge.

Thanks again.

Jeff

I got it completely now. I got a little freaked out by all the wires and was fixating on the white connector that has the stereo front out and rear out.

Thank you very much for all your help.

If I have not annoyed you yet I have a couple other basic questions.

Can you point me to the vehicle speed and gear select wires.

I am assuming the antenna control wire should be ignored. I also have no idea what the ILL wire is.

Thanks again for all of your help... I feel dumber.

Jeff

Originally posted by jeffsu350 ... Can you point me to the vehicle speed and gear select wires. The speed sensor wire is the pink color (from the Pioneer) and you have to connect it to red with white color (on the PAC C2R-VW). I am assuming the antenna control wire should be ignored. I also have no idea what the ILL wire is. The ILL wire is for illumination and the color is kinda orange, both are the same color on this one, from the Pioneer connects it to the orange wire on PAC C2R-VW. The antenna control wire from the Pioneer connects to 1 wire from the Metra 40-EU55 antenna adapter (sometimes it's blue and sometimes it's red like mine in the picture, but it's only 1 wire so you can't be wrong), this is for the FM and AM reception. ... Jeff

Hey don't worry about it, ask me more if you have more questions, I'll be happy to help if I could.

Edited by t0kie - 26-Mar-2008 at 18:14

Originally posted by jeffsu350 ... I was assuming that the monsoon hu did not have a speed sensing wire ... Jeff

The speed sensor wire for the Pioneer is to be used on the NAVI, like for calculating the driving time based on your vehicle speed, etc.

Originally posted by Vincere Looks good. I put a single din Kenwood head unit in my car, but the double din looks a lot better.

Uh, let's try this again.

Vincere:

I was wondering after you switched to Kenwood, were you able to still see the radio information on the display in the instrumentation cluster?

I would like to change out the factory radio in my 2003 W8 Wagon (6MT, Blue Spirit Pearl / Gray), but would like to know if I would lose that function if I did.

Any insight would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance!