My AVIC Navi install

Thanks for sharing this. Your speaker installation looks very professional. Nice work!!

I assume you used the Infinity crossovers, right? And, when you installed them in the doors, you just use the grills built into the doors? Did you use anything else, in addition to the Scosche rings? Did you use the stock speaker wire?

Did you keep the stock speakers in the rear doors?

 

looks great! how do you like the pioneer HU?

 

I think I understand... you're saying that there's a connector on the stock speaker wires, and by soldering the wire to the speaker, you keep the connector, so you can easily disconnect the speakers in the future. Makes sense.

This sounds like a good speaker setup. I really like how you attached the tweeters, that is very impressive, but it doesn't look too hard. I also saw that Infinity has a set with a 6x8" speaker, which might be better with the 6x9 opening? What do you think?

 

rrolff,

Did you connect the antenna amp as Fairfieldwizard had suggested or did you just connect the blue wires? I'm still not convinced that connecting the blue wires together is the correct way to go on our Prius .. Also, how is the IPOD implementation on the unit? TIA

 

which Scosche wiring adapter you used?
on sonixelectronix there is
Scosche TA02RB - Wiring Harnesses - Sonic Electronix
Scosche TA02B - Wiring Harnesses - Sonic Electronix
what is the best???

thanks

 

There is apparently a non-blue wire that actually powers the antenna amp.

 

Thinking about putting in a Pioneer avh-p42000 unit. I don't have the skills of some of the people here so I'm looking to get it professionally installed. I got quoted $240, no parts, just labor for the install. I have no frame of reference to determine whether that's a fair price or not. Anyone have any ideas what would be considered a reasonable price for this?

 

If you're paying for an install, you have to account for what it includes: The gps antenna, Bluetooth mic, xm antenna, backup camera, speakers, amplifier?

For the head unit alone, I think $240 plus parts is a huge ripoff.

 

I am putting in my Avic Z110BT later this week, it should be arriving some time tomorrow. I wasn't planning on changing the speakers right now - but is there an easy way just to drop some better speakers in the front without any major mods?

If I just need the adapter kit and the speakers and can use existing wires I may go ahead and make the change while I've got everything apart.

Do you have a model / part number for the Infinity speakers? Should it just be a matter of getting the speakers and schosche adapters?

Does this look like the right part for the adapters?

Car Audio Accessories Accessories Speaker Adapters 03 TYTA 6X9 SPKR ADPTR

Thanks!

 

I was quoted $200 for nav installation. It was fairly easy to do myself though. I think a non-nav head unit was $150.

That's the right adapter.
I still have not changed my speakers. It sounds pretty good with just the head unit and subwoofer. According to pioneer you should put in a separate amp if the speakers are not 4 ohm (those infinity are 2 ohm). I thought the infinity reference have tweeters that are a little bright, but playing with the equalizer may be able make them sound right.

Rrolf are you running those through an amp and did you get the treble dialed in right?

 

Pioneer may have been paranoid about the impedance. Sounds like they work fine.

The speakers you have aren't efficient at 50hz and bellow. So a sub should fill in the vibration side of things. If you go to the audio settings you can turn the sub on and off. I'm not sure if the boss is big enough to do the job. On the stock speakers the bass is muddy, so my sub may be doing a lot more work.

I will change them soon. The mods so far sound good enough that there isn't a rush. I did already buy the speaker adapters. I am a little stuck on the squawker idea, that is to have a low crossover frequency so that I don't have localization issues between the mid-woofers in the doors and tweeters in the dash. How long did your speaker install take? How did you decide to mount the tweeters in the pillar instead of the stock location in the dash. Thanks for your help.

 

I read a little about this unit. As for installing, it is a pretty simple do-it-yourself depending on how many options you choose. There are a LOT of add-ons for this unit:

GPS
Satellite Radio
iPod Interface
Bluetooth
Amplifiers
Speakers
Rear-view camera

The thing is, installing this is really simple. You buy two things: A "dash kit" with the plastic, and a wire harness. You match the colors of the wires in the wire harness with the wire harness that comes with the pioneer unit. This gives you a bunch of wires joined together with modular plugs on each end. Here are the steps to installing the unit:

1. Crimp or solder together the matching-colored wires on the two modular harnesses. (You do this on a workbench, not in the car.)
2. Attach the "faceplate" to the Pioneer unit. Takes four bolts. Very simple. Also done on a workbench or table.
3. Remove the plastic face plates, as described in the sticky post in this thread. This requires no tools.
4. Remove the old radio. This requires a wrench with a deep socket to loosen four bolts. Very easy if you have the correct tool.
5. Attach your new harness to the connector that was attached to the old radio. Attach the other end of the harness to the Pioneer. It just presses on.
6. Attach the antenna wire to the Pioneer. It just presses on.
7. Slide the new radio into place, then screw down the four bolts that you removed in Step 4.
8. Replace the plastic coverings you removed in Step 1. You're done!

That's all there is to a basic installation. If you want additional accessories, you need to run wires to various places. With the exception of the rear view camera, these are very easy to do. I've installed radios in my other cars, and the Prius is definitely the easiest, because the plastic parts all remove very easily, and when they're removed, you have a LOT of room to work with. For example, the glove boxes both come out without any tools at all, and the center console is also very easy to take out if you want to snake cables up there.

Take another look at the install guide in the sticky post. He did a lot of extra things -- he used a fancy dash kit, and he used a little blue box that lets the steering wheel buttons control the unit. If you skip that, and just use the standard kit from Scoshe, you won't have to cut or grind anything. You can always go back later if you decide to buy the steering wheel control.

Think it over, and let us know if you have any questions. If you plan it out, it becomes a very simple project.

 

Rebound,

Great info as I am picking up my unit today and installing either today or tomorrow. I am adding a few items which you might want to consider. Steering wheel audio controls for sure, the PAC-SWI I believe is what you want, it's outlined in the sticky for the HU replacement and looks to be very simple to add. Also, did you do the bypass? Also very simple - just google "Avic Forum" and go to the Z110BT forum and bypass instructions are stickied.

I'm also adding a rearview camera to mine. I got the Boyo VTL300 from Amazon. It's a LIC plate version. I'll let you all know how that works out. I'm also putting in a self dimming mirror - Gentek for around $80 and hardwiring my radar detector while I've got everything apart.

 

The problem is, when you put everything together all at once, it seems overwhelming. So I wanted to just lay out the basic things you do.

I bought & installed a Kenwood head unit with the Scosche face plate. I ran wires for the GPS antenna and the Bluetooth microphone. I've had it that way for about three weeks, and I'll add more as time allows.

The only problem I had was with removing the A-arm pillar. When you do this, you just pull at the top and a plug unsnaps. Then, about halfway down, there's a small black strip of plastic that loosely holds the A-arm. I tried and tried to get it to come loose. I finally figured it out... you simply reach in with your fingers or a pair of needle-nose pliers, and you rotate the little black retaining strip towards you 90 degrees. It's so simple! No force or tricks required at all, you just need to know that you reach in and rotate it 90 degrees.

For myself, I still have a few to-do's on this project:

1. Solder the backup light pin to the ground pin, so it will play DVD's.
2. Install the PAC unit (came free with my Kenwood, but I haven't installed it yet)
3. Run the USB cable somewhere useful, like inside the center console.
4. Run the backup wire (I know where it has to go, I just have to do it).
5. Install the backup camera.
6. Install the new Toyota face plate I bought to replace the Scosche.
7. Buy & install the Infinity speakers that RRolFF bought.

Besides the backup camera, these are all really easy things to do. In fact, the backup camera is pretty easy too, it just takes time. I'm not in a big hurry. I live a busy life.