hey guys in today's replace your radio
we're gonna show you how to put a double
din and your Chevy pickup so to get this
radio on the dash what we want to do
first to make sure we drop the stream
wheel all the way down put the emergency
brakes on put the key in the ignition go
ahead and drop the gear shifter down the
other thing you want to do is make sure
the air conditioning is off make sure
the lights are off the reason why
General Motors typically draw a lot of
power doing those things and this may
take a couple minutes you don't want the
battery to go dead now just go ahead and
grab it here put your fingers underneath
and gently pull next take a seven
millimeter go ahead and remove it three
screws holding the radio give it a
slight tug remove the harnesses behind
the radio depending on your system you
may have two or three harnesses if
you're only doing the c2 R or the RP for
this little black harness is not gonna
be used you can tuck that away what is
gonna be used is the main harness now
this could either be gray or this
greenish blue color here you may also
want to remove this pocket and or the
airbag switch so you have access to
behind the radio you can go ahead and
pull that in I also recommend pulling
the antenna in there for right now it
also take your main harness and stuff it
up into the dash the reason why we want
to do that is because we're gonna have
to do a little bit of cutting you can go
ahead and turn the car back off put your
steering wheel to cut the - we like to
use one of these guys here it has one of
these cool reciprocating thingies you
can use an air saw you can use a dremel
there's tons of tools you can use the
one thing you want to make sure is that
while you're cutting but there's no
wires behind that you could possibly
damage
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so as you can see this is a portion of
the - that we removed basically that
shelf along with the two sides that were
holding it in place so for this install
he's gonna upgrade his factory Chevy
radio to a pioneer double then he's got
steering wheel controls so we're gonna
use this guy here the RP for GM 11
this'll allow us to integrate into his
Bo's and retain his factory steering
wheel controls let's open it up and take
a look real quick now inside the box
you'll find smart harness adapter
on the side you're gonna see this guy
right here this is for setting the type
of radio you're putting in for steering
wheel controls we always recommend
setting that first so go ahead and open
up your instruction manual turn it to
page 2 and on the top it lists the
different types of radios it'll work on
we're doing a pioneer which is number 7
so go ahead and take a small screwdriver
set it for number 7 the reason why this
tape is on here is so that you don't
forget to do that so at this point you
can go ahead and remove the tape now all
these come with cool notes that you want
to peruse just to make sure that none of
these have anything to do with the card
you're working on it's also gonna give
you a breakdown of all the colors and
what they do as well as talk to you
about the steering wheel controls as
well as give you a basic wiring
schematic when you open it up it's gonna
talk to you all about the steering wheel
controls now these come pre-programmed
for basic functions that's what it's
talking about right here if you'd like
to modify them change buttons to do
something else this over here is gonna
tell you how to do that now they make
several different versions of this smart
harness now if you don't have steering
wheel controls they make it what's
called AC 2 R version if you have OnStar
and you'd like to retain that they make
an RP 5 if you want one that'll cover
everything no matter what pickup an RP 5
an RP 5 is compatible with the most
basic all the way to the most advanced
on the harness itself it's gonna have a
set of RCA we have a bose system so
we're actually gonna use these if you
have student roles but no bows you're
gonna want to cut these off that's what
this is talking about
right here now because this has a bow
system when we plug these in we're gonna
get some funky GM noise it's gonna go
dat DT it's gonna sound like little
Morse code thingies crawling around
inside the stereo to prevent that from
happening we use these guys here this is
the PAC audio s and I one noise filter
pick up two of these plug them in
that'll fix any funky GM noise that's
created also the dash cam for this we're
gonna use the best kits buy pack BKG MK
4 2 2 this is the double din kit that
goes in this car as well as ABA a 4G m2
standard antenna adapter this guy right
here is the second harness that comes in
the box for the RP 4 this is your
steering wheel control adapter that's
what's talked about right here on the
instruction manual it has two
connections it has a blue yellow wire
this is for Kenwood or JVC if you're not
doing one of those you can cut it up cap
it off tape it up just keep it out of
the way this 8 inch looking adapter this
is gonna be for pretty much everyone
else go ahead and pull the little rubber
cap off so that you can plug it into the
back of the radio now if you are doing a
JVC or Kenwood make sure you leave this
rubber cap on you don't want this
tapping metal while it's in the dash you
can also cut it off if you if you want
to that's entirely up to you now because
we are gonna do a pioneer I'm gonna go
ahead and cut this short put a cap on it
so that it doesn't affect that all right
now because this is a small piece of
wire let's go ahead and plug it into the
brain so we don't misplace it on the
bench later now let's go ahead and take
a look at the hornet you can leave the
hardest taped up the weight is to the
factory that's entirely up to you or you
can go ahead and remove the tape so you
can do a little bit cleaner install now
the harness is broken into a couple
different categories you have these 5
wires here which are talked to in the
first box
well these wires consist though is a red
white wire which is parking break a
purple white wire which is vehicle speed
sense a orange white wire which is
illumination a blue white wire which is
the amp turn on and then a solid green
wire which is the reverse output the
reason why these are taped up by
themselves is because they want you to
pay attention to these and the reason
why is because these wire colors don't
necessarily correspond to every single
radio so for example if you're doing an
alpine radio the reverse trigger is
going to
orange white if you hook up this wire to
an alpine because they match up you're
not going to get reverse because on here
the green is reverse the same is true
for a pioneer or a Kenwood pioneer in
can with both used purple white wires
for reverse so if you grab this purple
white wire and connect it you're gonna
have vehicle speed sense to the reverse
trigger on this there again it's not
gonna work you need to use the green
wire the next up is the parking brake
wire if you're gonna hook it up to the
parking brake wire there again Alpine
uses a yellow blue or a yellow black
Kenwood pioneer they both use a light
green warrior but pack uses a red white
wire that's why they put this harness
all by itself so that you can pay
attention to what's going on and read
this now for us we're gonna need reverse
because this radio has a reverse input
we're gonna need the remote turn on now
for all you guys that are gonna install
this in a non Bois system make sure you
hook up the blue white wire even though
it's not amplified you are going to need
it it's what wakes up the module so
always hook this up orange white is
illumination this has an illumination
wire we're gonna use that the two we're
not gonna use are the emergency brake
wire as well as the VSS for this install
we're gonna go ahead and install a micro
bypass so that he has access to his
menus while he's driving we're gonna go
ahead and cut these two wires short as
well and cap them all on the harness
also is this orange wire here this wire
is not gonna be necessary because we're
gonna use the orange white that's
created here digitally also on the
harness is this little black thing right
here this is a relay this is a 30 amp
relay this allows you to do is hook up
more than just the radio to the
accessory power so if you're putting in
a backup camera you can use this the
power of the backup camera if you're
putting in an EQ or any form of
processor and it needs an accessory to
turn on you can use this as well
so let's go back and talk about these
speaker wires for a minute you have four
pairs there's a solid and a stripe in
each one of these white is the drivers
front the gray is the passenger front
the green is the drivers rear and the
purple is the pastor rear the solid
color is positive and the stripe color
is negative now if you don't have bows
you can go ahead and cut these off and
throw them away and connect up your
regular speaker harness to these wires
because we do have Bose Bose system
makes a little bit of noise so to
prevent that what we do is we buy these
here these are just bay
take inline noise filters you can go
ahead and cut off these two brown wires
and then all they're gonna do is plug
into the corresponding pair so for
example gray and white be in front
you're gonna go ahead and plug it into
the left and right on here the left is
going to be one the right is gonna be
two which is white and gray now you can
go ahead and plug these into the back of
the radio now we strongly recommend that
you go ahead and write on these what
this is so that when you go to plug it
in the radio you don't have to guess now
also on the harness you have a yellow
and a black yellow is memory or constant
12 volts black is ground there's a pink
wire in here that's a data wire there's
also a green white wire that's a date of
wire for steering wheel controls there's
a blue wire that is in here for turning
on or waking up the Bose amplifier these
are all wires that are connected between
the harness here and don't have a
pigtail to connect to so don't cut them
or anything like that they're just
merely there for communication between
the smart module and the car itself one
bit of know this green wire here is the
same exact color of this green wire here
so if you cut these off and you tape up
your harness and make it look all pretty
make sure to maybe tie this in a little
knot so that you know this is the
reverse wire and then the one that's not
into knot is a speaker wire because
otherwise you're gonna have to go and
meter between the two to find out which
one is your drivers rear speaker
positive so now let's go ahead and get
this harness connected to our
aftermarket
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so if you are doing a bose system and
you're not going to be using your
speaker level outputs on your radio make
sure to cap them off individually don't
just grab them all and wrap a bunch of
tape around it go ahead and put some
form of either tape each one
individually or cap them off like we are
gonna do here with some blood connectors
because if any of these wires happen to
touch depending on your radio
manufacturer they do different things
ken will come up and say protect pioneer
we'll just mute the sound altogether
either way you'll assume there's
something wrong with the radio when in
reality it's just something wrong with
the install pioneers all have this wire
here which is a yellow black wire the
yellow black wire is used primarily just
for OnStar mute so if you're doing like
this the rp4
there is no mute for OnStar because it
is not an OnStar compatible device you
can just cap it off and put it with the
speaker wires
now of course there's several different
methods to which you can use to connect
the two harnesses together soldering
with shrink wrap crimp connectors white
connectors the only thing you really
don't want to do is just twist the two
wires together and tape them or use wire
nuts don't ever use wire
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now if you're adding any formal backup
camera to your install what you're going
to want to make sure you do is tap in
the accessory and the ground for the
camera behind the radio
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all right so while that cools off for a
minute let's go ahead and prep the noise
filter what we want to do is mark one
has front and one has rear and then come
down here and put an R in and out so
when connecting these two together I
like to go ahead and put a piece of
double-sided tape
lining them up connect in like that and
I'll go ahead and put a piece of tape
across the middle of the units
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now we have rear rights in this purple
rear left is green front left as white
and rear right is gray go ahead and plug
those in and now our harness is complete
and ready to go like I said we add it in
we're doing a backup camera on this
particular one so we've added in the
backup cameras harness now let's go
ahead and move on to - get this kid's
gonna come with instructions this
particular kits works on a ton of GM
cars for a ton of years that's what's
listed all right here for this we're
gonna take the double din piece go ahead
and remove these four screw eyelets here
we don't need this piece we're gonna
need the bag of screws now there's a
whole bunch of clips on here that we're
not gonna need the only ones we're gonna
need is this very front one here this
one so we can go ahead and remove all of
these and then the same on this side we
just need this very front one here this
the big guy here in the front so we can
go ahead and remove all these clips
now this is just going to snap onto the
kit like this and there we go now how
this goes in is the same way it came out
from the factory you have three screws
on the driver's side and one screw on
the passenger side slide this over like
this and make sure it fits what I like
to do for these motorized units is these
corners are rounded I like to just go in
and square them off because the corners
of the radios are square and it fits a
little bit better and opens and closes a
little nicer so to do that just take a
razor blade and gently work into the
corners until they're all squared out
alright now go ahead and open the screws
and screw the radio into the side making
sure to Center the radio between the two
gaps when screwing in a radio like this
I do strongly recommend just using a
regular screwdriver and not a drill you
can be a little bit more precise alright
so this is all set ready to go make sure
you check these gaps all along here make
sure the radio is good and centered and
that it's gonna clear when it opens and
closes and when trying to find a place
to mount your USB aux jack or anything
like that depending on your version of
the car there's several different
options they have these areas available
here you have cup holder areas glove box
we like to mount them in these whenever
we have the option it's really
convenient it's easy to get to so we're
gonna go ahead and run our wires into
this we're gonna drill a hole in the top
and then fish them through and back into
the dash so we went ahead and drilled
our hole in the top we ran our RCA and
aux jack into it just like we said we
would now we're just gonna go ahead and
fish it up into the dash we also want to
make sure that we pull back means an
adapter that we had tucked in there you
could also on the antenna adapters they
come wrapped in this goofy foam you can
remove that it doesn't need to stay on
there at this point the dash is gonna be
pretty tight and that takes up a lot of
room now we can go ahead and snake up
our wires
now what we have to do is Mount the
balut is the Bluetooth Mike can go in a
couple different places in the truck
where we like to mount them is either up
here by the rear view mirror or here by
where the a-pillar meets the ceiling
either one of these locations are pretty
good in a pickup truck
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all right so go ahead and get the excess
wire behind the - put a couple zip ties
around it and make sure it's secure all
right so at this point all we need to do
is plug in our intended after plugging
our harness that we've already made up
and screw the radio back in place and
test it to make sure it works
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now when you're plugging your radio in
specifically with a pioneer make sure
you plug the remote and the aux into the
right holes are identical in size but
they're in two different locations
now before you stuff all this in the
dash this will be a good time to check
the steering wheel controls to make sure
they're the way you want because once
you get all this stuff up in there it's
a pain to take it in the back out
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that's reprogram we're going to go ahead
and reprogram the sternal controls
because we want to do is add in phone
answer this has a source up and down
we're gonna program the bottom source to
answer and disconnect phone so to do
that there's a red light right here on
the same as the button what we want to
do is push this button we're going to go
to page three of the instructions and go
to the Pioneer column alright so here we
go ready volume up volume down press it
to skip skip skip source track up track
down skip skip answer call press source
down press and hold ok press voice all
right now there's a blink a couple times
to timeout its source okay
I should answer the phone press it again
let me make sure it's Lincoln okay and
they're blinking at this point you can
pair your Bluetooth so that you can test
to make sure the phone functions are
doing what you want there again you
might want to do that before you put it
back in yep perfect
all right so we got steals program the
way we want we're gonna go ahead and get
this tucked in the stash so make sure
when you're snapping this back on
there's all these little metal tabs here
make sure they align with the holes when
you're pushing this on sometimes
especially in this area here they tend
to bend a little bit so you just want to
make sure that you have those all in
this snaps in nice and tight
all right guys that's it Fernando all
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