vicious

1993 ls400
pioneer avh-p2300

so the stock stereo works when its plugged in. but plugging in the pioneer i dont get anything

used the sosche kit recommended on the tutorial.

thinking 2 things...

i didnt connect the wires properly together?

or

i think it may be the way i grounded the wires? i attached the grounds from the deck wire to the sosche harness, grounded it next to another wire being grounded by the passenger leg.
i attached the green parking brake wire to the ground bc it said it can also be grounded instead of hooking it to the parking break wire?

RadRob

Kinda hard to tell by the pics. But do this: Take the ground wire from the Pioneer harness, and just wire it directly to the Scosche harness. Make sure you have your constant 12v and your switched 12v wired properly as well. Leave the parking break ground undone for now. Make sure the head unit powers up properly. Once you know that is all working, then just take your parking break ground wire coming off the Pioneer harness and just chassis ground it. That should solve your problem. If not, let me know, there maybe something else going on.

vicious

will do, yeah already have the sosche harness and pioneer wires connect. the pioneer harness has a ground wire with a hook so i took the sosche ground and clamped it with the pioneer ground wire



IT WORKS!!!!

so where should i connect the green parking brake wire? edit: i can read, nvm lol

RadRob

haha, glad it worked out for you! If you haven't already gotten it, just anywhere in there that would be a good place for a ground will work.

vicious

thanks again rob! this just made my whole week lol

vicious

one last question..

i wrapped and taped the parking break wire around a metal part of the chasis but still wont let me view video things (all i want is photos)

so would it be better to wrap it around a screw going into the chasis?

emarknot

Mine is grounded from the radio screw itself. I put an eyelit on the wire and put it between the pastic trim and metal frame. Then put the screw in.

Pioneer avic-z1

RadRob

Yeah, make sure you solid mount your ground. Like emarknot, use an eyelet and fasten it down using an existing screw, or just find your own location. Chances are you don't have a solid ground, and once you get a good ground, everything should work just fine.

Rey

if you want to view video while the car is moving youre going to have to use a relay or buy a prewired relay/bypass setup on ebay. I made my own relay switch with an avh 3300. Look it up on google.

RadRob

Rey, on the new Pioneer's, did they make it more difficult to do a bypass? I haven't done the bypass since my AVIC-D3, which was a while ago.

Rey

Yup, its not as simple as grounding the parking brake wire.

Not the exact model but its all the same for the newer gen pioneers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDGZEZrUdRo


Bypass on my avic f700 only required a repin on the harness to work.

vicious

hmmm.. is the 2300 a newer gen model?

where is the parking brake wire if i wanted to do it the old fashion way? ive been trying to find a pic but havent found one yet

Rey

Newer yes. Newest no.

Parking brake wire is on the...parking brake...


What's the old fashion way? You mean the correct way?

vicious

correct lol