99 LS400 ... Need After market radio assistant ...
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99 LS400 ... Need After market radio assistant ...
So I finally decided to convert from my STOCK Nav radio to HVAC converter + Double din radio since my navigation screen got shot .. I'm looking at this sweet pioneer AVHX1600DVD on amazon for good price ... Would this fit in my 99LS? and what kit + Harness do I need?
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i'm surprised this is not covered in our FAQ!
https://www.clublexus.com/forums/ls4...up-thread.html
you will need this $300 converter box for a plug and play integration into the car using the factory amp.
http://www.beatsonicusa.com/stereo/s...-sla-22ad.html
if you want to hard wire it, you will have to bypass the factory amp which is under the pass side front seat and run all the wiring to it.
https://www.clublexus.com/forums/ls4...up-thread.html
you will need this $300 converter box for a plug and play integration into the car using the factory amp.
http://www.beatsonicusa.com/stereo/s...-sla-22ad.html
if you want to hard wire it, you will have to bypass the factory amp which is under the pass side front seat and run all the wiring to it.
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Like timmy said you can hook any double din up in your car but if you want to keep the factory amp you can buy the beatsonic adaptor even though some guys have found a way to make it work with the factory amp without the adaptor. Or you can just buy an aftermarket amp and run everything through it.
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All the Nakamichi speakers including the subwoofer in my 00 LS work great with the Kenwood. The friend who is buying my 2000 LS400 - I still have possession for a few more days - speculated that the special connectors the installer used to plug the Kenwood's wires into connector leading to the Nakamichi amp must have included resisters to allow it to work properly.
Can't the same thing be done when replacing the Pioneer nav/head unit?
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I popped out the Kenwood after the install just enough to reroute the USB and aux-in cables and saw that connection between the Kenwood's harness and the Nakamichi amp connector was well wrapped with electrical tape. I don't want to remove the tape and look since I don't want to chance mucking it up before the car's new owner takes possession.
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125 bucks to install a head unit in any car is absolutely absurd....You basically paid $6.25 a min for a guy to splice in a resistor and remove a couple clips and screws lol...takes 20 mins max if you seriously take your time.....you got ripped...
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Lead Lap
Some of the approximately 2 1/2 hours it took involved testing all wires on the car's OEM connectors for function and the speaker pins for polarity. I provided a wiring diagram for the Nak but the installer used it only as a guide and did not rely on it to be accurate. Perhaps 30 minutes was spent with the head unit on a work bench installing the pins/resisters on the Kenwood's harness and getting the Kenwood headunit perfectly positioned in the dash kit and frame. And he probably spent 30 minutes tuning the equalizer after the Kenwood was working.
And then after that, the installer went over all the Kenwood's functions with me including helping me pair my phone, using the USB port, aux-in port, Pandora, Bluetooth audio streaming, showing me all the radio modes. Very professional.
I was very impressed with the installers work. I don't find many people as careful and diligent as me. If only every other installer was half that good.
And compared to my own hourly billing rate, $125 was a very nice price. (I don't work at McDonalds as my signature below probably indicates.)
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I thought the $125 was a screaming bargain and I've installed a few head units, amps and speakers when I was younger but mostly from the 1960's to the early 1980's. Interior disassembly was required to route the microphone for the hands-free phone function, tap into the parking brake circuit for the video DVD function and to tap into the headlight circuit to get the auto-dim function to work the way I wanted.
Some of the approximately 2 1/2 hours it took involved testing all wires on the car's OEM connectors for function and the speaker pins for polarity. I provided a wiring diagram for the Nak but the installer used it only as a guide and did not rely on it to be accurate. Perhaps 30 minutes was spent with the head unit on a work bench installing the pins/resisters on the Kenwood's harness and getting the Kenwood headunit perfectly positioned in the dash kit and frame. And he probably spent 30 minutes tuning the equalizer after the Kenwood was working.
And then after that, the installer went over all the Kenwood's functions with me including helping me pair my phone, using the USB port, aux-in port, Pandora, Bluetooth audio streaming, showing me all the radio modes. Very professional.
I was very impressed with the installers work. I don't find many people as careful and diligent as me. If only every other installer was half that good.
And compared to my own hourly billing rate, $125 was a very nice price. (I don't work at McDonalds as my signature below probably indicates.)
Some of the approximately 2 1/2 hours it took involved testing all wires on the car's OEM connectors for function and the speaker pins for polarity. I provided a wiring diagram for the Nak but the installer used it only as a guide and did not rely on it to be accurate. Perhaps 30 minutes was spent with the head unit on a work bench installing the pins/resisters on the Kenwood's harness and getting the Kenwood headunit perfectly positioned in the dash kit and frame. And he probably spent 30 minutes tuning the equalizer after the Kenwood was working.
And then after that, the installer went over all the Kenwood's functions with me including helping me pair my phone, using the USB port, aux-in port, Pandora, Bluetooth audio streaming, showing me all the radio modes. Very professional.
I was very impressed with the installers work. I don't find many people as careful and diligent as me. If only every other installer was half that good.
And compared to my own hourly billing rate, $125 was a very nice price. (I don't work at McDonalds as my signature below probably indicates.)