Hello, Prius II I am installing AVIC-Z110BT, I will update picture later. But I have a question, AVIC-Z110BT has ILL (illumination) wire out. Should I connect this to dimmer wire or illumination wire? Toyota wire harness has dimmer and illumination wire out and I am confused. What is the best way? And where is speed wire and reverse wire? Thank you.
You will want to connect it to the illumination wire. The Pioneer units have a dimmer of there own when it senses the car lights are on.
I just got off the phone with Kenwood, and he told me the same. Use the Illumination wire, not dimmer.
Speed wire is pin 3 of the 20 pin connector. Reverse wire is on pin 29 of the connector under the panel by the parking brake. There is a photo in the following thread. http://priuschat.com/forums/gen-iii...ket-nav-install-canadian-premium-package.html Connect the illumination wire as others have mentioned, it will switch to a different color scheme when the head lights are on.
Here's a link to Toyota's Nav installation from their European website. This shows exactly where to find the Reverse wire, and how to route cable to it. Euro Nav Install (pdf file) The main point is this: You have to route a wire from your Pioneer underneath the steering column to reach the Reverse wire. However, you should not do this for other wires, such as the Bluetooth microphone and the GPS antenna. For those, you should route the cables behind the glove box and up the right-side pillar; it's safer because you avoid any possibility of a wire interfering with steering, the pedals, etc. I am doing an install like yours, with a Kenwood. I'm going to try to put the GPS antenna inside the right-side dashboard speaker grill, out of sight, if it fits. And I'm going to put the bluetooth microphone above the rear view mirror, probably in the overhead console. Their suggestion to put the microphone on the steering wheel is terrible, in my opinion. I've installed a few of these microphones on other cars. Putting the mic in the steering wheel gives you several problems: Poor sound quality, easy location for the mic to get knocked out of place, and possibility of tangling the cable in the steering wheel, which is extremely bad. A better location for the mic is to route up up the driver's side A pillar, exiting at the edge of the sun visor. This gives good sound quality. The problem with this is that if you crack the window open, sound quality gets very poor. So the best solution is to route it up the passenger-side A pillar, across the headliner to the overhead console. This is very close to your mouth, and farthest from every other source of noise in the vehicle. Let us know how it goes.
Suggestion Mount the GPS on top of the HU Check the reception and satellites received and navigation. If all is well then enjoy your ride and save the additional effort. I have my JVC attached with the mag mount on the HU and have never lost the GPS siginal. It's your call Regards, Jim
I am thinking installing mic at the top console and hide it there. (there is a hole for factory microphone.) I will look into that and will update. Regarding GPS antenna, I am thinking of putting it at the same location as Stock nav antenna from EU nav installation manual. Protection filim guy is comming tommorrow After that I will start installation. What do you think?
I put the pioneer mic in the factory location by removing the cover/insert and wrapping the mic with velcro and pointing it to driver head. I ran the mic wire along with switch 12v for my V1 radar detector and it's pretty easy. I had the GPS antenna on the HU but was not getting good reception unless i'm open area so I moved it to the side base of front window at the root of a-pillar under the plastic cover and that gives me alot better reception.
Hey Everyone, I don't mean to threadcap but I figured all z110 installation questions should be one place. I installed my unit yesterday and noticed earlier that it only powers on in what I think if IG-Mode (power + power), rather than ACC mode (power). Is this normal or did I maybe mess something up? I'm going to pull out the radio tommorow to connect the VSS and PAC-SWI so I'd like to make any other adjustments that I need to then. Also...I found a really great place for the microphone. I'll post a picture tommorow but I basically pushed it between the steering wheel column, and the center console. It is out of site, everyone can hear me fine, and it sits there using just pressure, no tape or anything. Thanks in advance.
Here's what Frenchie did (I did the same) - very good sound quality, and simple to wire (no A pilars etc).
