I got to replacing my headunit last night with a Panasonic CQ-5800u.

The 95-8156 Metra kit had the wrong diameters for this headunit so I had to widen the hole with a knife.

The only other problems are the fact that I forgot to buy a harness adapter, so I manually had to wire everything myself using two wiring diagrams, and the headunit has no powered antenna wire. I think I need to rig a switch between the red/black antenna wire on the car's wiring harness and an ACC wire from the same harness, so I can manually raise and lower it. Any other ideas for a solution?

 

I couldn't believe that your h/u had no antenna power wire, so I checked it up in the manual and for sure, there is no such thing.
Anyhow, an option may be to install one of these short stubby antennas (some 4-5" or so), or one of those sharkfin antennas which are popular on modern cars. (Power antennas quite often break down here in Sweden due to water coming into the mechanism and then freezing. Like today we had some 50F or so in daytime, but below 32F nighttime. That plus rain and operating the antenna an early morning can be costly.)

//Björn

 

looks really good man! i've been eyeing that exact model for my 93 ls400. could we get some night pics?

 

Hello im having bit of a problem. My 93 lexus four door speakers went out all the sudden. I still have sound to my sub and tweeters. I thought this might b blown channel in my radio, so i hooked up a after market radio with a amplified integrated harness. I still only had sound out of my tweeters and sub. the sound was also very low. I now think that the channels are blown on my factory amp? my idea to fix the problem is run speaker wires from the factory amp to my new head unit and hook up an another after market amp. I just dont know witch wires are the speakers?? and also the only wires going in to my amp are a coax cable and a screw in computer type connection. a speaker amp wire diagram for 1993 ls400 would be great. please any help would be great.

could i just wire the factory wires to a after market amp and not run any wires ? please any help would be great plz respond or email me at lost200820@yahoo.com

thanks
lost in Ohio

 

you are not supposed to front mount the cd player that is why you had to modify the kit,
You are supposed to mount it from the rear so the dash kit essentially turns into a trim panel not the actual mount.

The kit is an ISO-mount kit you dont use the mounting cage that comes with the cd player

 

That looks really close to stock!