JDWalton

Again, your not understanding what your talking about..... there is no remote turn on TO THE RADIO if you have the application I am talking about. What you are referring to is eliminating the popping from the remote turn on going to the factory amps, which I already said, still needs to be done in either application.


Also, to be done right you should use a voltage regulator, not a resistor. The regulator has a pretty broad range where it will retain a constant 5v, where as the resistor just creates a voltage divider circuit and will let any fluctuation in voltage run straight to the amps.

I'm wondering, did your car have Sat radio from the factory? I am thinking that is the difference as to why even a shaker 500 would be interfaced, but I didnt want to say till I talked to a few more people who have actualy seen this issue, and were not just talking out there.... you know..

JDWalton

Seriously your a professional and claim to know our cars?!? You do know there is no illumination lead in the factory harness right? You need to tap the headlight switch to get dimmer function to work, unless you like being blinded while you drive at night by the LCD screen. Its cute the way you quote me and tried to make a joke about it, but this is what I was talking about, with knowing what your saying before you post publicly.


Its a Nav unit, i know the radio will turn on without all the other things hooke up, but are you saying you ignore functionality for speed of install? For a average person for example to hook up a VSS lead, they would probably be pretty scared to hook up to the computer to get this signal. But if I were to bring it to a professional, i would expect things like that to be hooked up, since I am paying to have a pro do it.

Again, you can go ahead and learn or keep pushing OEM NAV only. I already told you, I have personaly installed both. One Shake radio required the harness, one did not. See the above quoted person here, mayo also put in a shaker that was interfaced.

yourmyboybh1026

So did you install any resistors or a 5v regulator to not have the popping sound or did you just use the PAC harness and you didn't have any other modifications?

mayo

No resistor installed, and no popping...must have done something right...lol. I believe the control module stepped down the voltage to 5v.

Yes, I did have factory sat radio and it was the one snag I did run into with the install. When I first hooked it all up, I noticed at low volume a sat radio signal coming through the head. I just unplugged the factory sat ant under the trunk and it was gone. This could be a problem for someone who subscribes to this service...me not a problem, my ipod is loaded
Plenty of tunes for a sing a long

JDWalton

could be the radio you have. Some have a "soft" turn on where it ramps the voltage up from 0 to 12, most however "snap" on and its like flipping a switch, you get a pop.

allinon72

The regular Metra harness I have had an illumination wire built in, so I'm not sure why it would be there if the stock harness it's plugging into didn't have one. I'm not for sure because I didn't hook that wire up...I don't like the dimming feature.

JDWalton

the metra wires into the aftermarket radio and is for multiple vehicles and years. Some vehicles it is for must have the ilumination but it is pretty well documented with ours.

http://www.allfordmustangs.com/forum...er-1000-a.html

just the first one i found when I googled it, but I know we have thread about it on our forums as well. If you dont care about it then it makes sense that you never bothered to make it work. I have mine enables cause it just annoys the crap out of me when its blinding.