Falcone Posted August 19, 2008 Report Share Posted August 19, 2008 Hey everyone, this is my first post, but I thought for those of you who are uncertain about double dins fitting, they do, just with a little work. For my Pioneer AVH-P4000DVD, which I got for a killer deal from best buy, $200 off. It was quite simple to put in, after being told it wouldn't work, wouldn't fit, would look stupid, ect from numerous people from numerous car audio stores, (big and small) I decided, wtf, its a sweet deal, its gotta fit right? All I had to do once the factory stereo was removed (only a tape deck) from my bone base 1997 850 non-turbo (the slow one), was remove both lower panels (under steering colum, and glovebox, both had three torx screws) run two 3ft lengths of back strap from left and right side of the head unit, fished it thru the center consone, one to the steering colum, one to under the glovebox, and then mount them to the existing trim holes where the removed panels re-connect. Thats it. Secures into place and I put some bubblewrap on the under, and top side of the unit, and now it doesn't go anywhere and fits very nicely. I will post pictures of my install procedure later for those interested, but it is very straight forward. I have to take it back out and ground the wire that goes to the parking brake (green on this model) so I can have the entire unit functioning at once (i'm not watching that while driving, thats retarded). I'll post pics later once its back in and all wired up again. I also will post the wiring harness part number later. Thanks you guys for having an extremly informative forum That I have referred to numerous amounts of times for my two 850's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chilled man Posted August 19, 2008 Report Share Posted August 19, 2008 what doulbe din DVD players dont fit :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maiku Posted August 19, 2008 Report Share Posted August 19, 2008 i'm sorry, i beat you to it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falcone Posted August 19, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 19, 2008 Wow, you guys are fast at the reply's. Too bad both are s70's. The wiring harness is from best kits, and the number is BHA9220. maiku, what do you think of the unit, didn't trim the trim piece eh. I hope this pic works, I don't know how to directly put a picture in the post. pioneer dd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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maiku Posted August 19, 2008 Report Share Posted August 19, 2008 one thing that bugs me is the 'random' feature when you play music off the USB/DVD drive. It only plays random songs on continuous play, meaning if you listen to all the songs. If you try to skip track, you just go to the next one in the folder, not a random song. But i have the ipod connector installed for my iphone, so it isn't a big deal. I also had to shave the double din bay a bit to get the unit to fit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HtownTurboBrick Posted August 19, 2008 Report Share Posted August 19, 2008 Wow, you guys are fast at the reply's. Too bad both are s70's. The wiring harness is from best kits, and the number is BHA9220. maiku, what do you think of the unit, didn't trim the trim piece eh. I hope this pic works, I don't know how to directly put a picture in the post. pioneer dd70's and 850 are identical no reason for double dins to fit differently in either cars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falcone Posted August 19, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 19, 2008 70's and 850 are identical no reason for double dins to fit differently in either cars.Maiku had to shave his double din bay (probibly existing track), I did not, they are the exact hu. There is one slight difference. How did you secure your unit in place? I am lacking the factory amp, so once my stock unit was out, there was absolutly nothing in behind, and no way to secure the hu to stock location. The usb playback bugs me also, have not hooked up ipod adaptor yet, and if you don't connect the green hand brake cable at all, you cannot adjust brightness, or any other display features (except color). How did you attach the trim piece? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maiku Posted August 19, 2008 Report Share Posted August 19, 2008 i had to use some shims to get it to the right height, then i used managed to screw in a security bar at the back of the unit. the trim is held on by velcro i spliced the brightness cable into the pink cable on the car wiring harness.when i turn on my lights at night, the screen goes dimmerand i'm working on the dvd screen bypass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falcone Posted August 19, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 19, 2008 I used shims as well for the height, just for piece of mind over the huge pot-holes in this town. The velcro is a sweet idea, because I see myself taking this deck out once in a while.For the dvd bypass, just ground the green long cable, most likley connected to your e-brake, to the three grounded/capped black wires in the harness. Then its bypassed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chilled man Posted August 20, 2008 Report Share Posted August 20, 2008 :rolleyes: just take the the green wire and attach it to a ground like the one behind the radio that the radio is grounded with problem solved ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maiku Posted August 20, 2008 Report Share Posted August 20, 2008 for some reason it doesn't work with my unit.I tried grounding it and it still did not work.I bypassed it just now.Set the wire to ground, then add a switch in line. When you want to play a movie, just toggle the switch so it cuts the ground connection, then let go of the switch so it's grounded again.I have a makeshift switch right now. Will find a factory switch to splice to make it looks more OEM.Works great now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chilled man Posted August 20, 2008 Report Share Posted August 20, 2008 for some reason it doesn't work with my unit.I tried grounding it and it still did not work.I bypassed it just now.Set the wire to ground, then add a switch in line. When you want to play a movie, just toggle the switch so it cuts the ground connection, then let go of the switch so it's grounded again.I have a makeshift switch right now. Will find a factory switch to splice to make it looks more OEM.Works great now.The only way it didnt work was your ground was bad ... other then that its no different then what your doing now :huh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maiku Posted August 20, 2008 Report Share Posted August 20, 2008 yes, it is initially groundedbut the unit wants to see that 'toggle' for some unknown reasononce i toggle ground/no connection/ground then it worksit's strange Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HtownTurboBrick Posted August 20, 2008 Report Share Posted August 20, 2008 yes, it is initially groundedbut the unit wants to see that 'toggle' for some unknown reasononce i toggle ground/no connection/ground then it worksit's strangesome systems require a specific "routine" to actually convice the system you're in park. i had one of the first gen alpine flip out screens and the process to activate the dvd was a combo of e-brake lifts and brake pedal presses before it would activate. i ended up having to install a toggle to do the bypass.actually i had to install 2 toggles, 1 for brake and 1 for the e brake so i could do the switches on the fly. instead of randomly braking Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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