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Oh, I want to have my iphone stream music to the car using last.fm or pandora.
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Now all I have to do is figure out how to work it.
It was a real trial and error installation. The 996 installation kit assumes an early 996/boxster and is missing lots of stuff. Nothing a bit of plastic fabrication, super glue, four missing wires added, lots of unneeded wires removed, etc. couldn't solve.
Sound great though. Somehow, even though it's sending just four speaker-level channels to the Bose amp, it completely wakes it up.
Marc, you were right about it working well with the Bose amp and speakers. I remain confused, though, how.
Is the Bose amp so clever that it's taking the different equalization and effects from the AVIC and processing them to fit it's idea of the 996 "soundstage"? I'm not sure how to understand how the AVIC can seem to have so much control, when it really only has the RF, LF, RR, LR speaker outputs to work with.
If so, that would mean that the signal paths within the radio itself were the previous limiting factor. Perhaps the factory radios had less shielding, or maybe there are better capacitors in the new radios and that smooths power fluctuations.
Looks like a great install... I am keen to do this to the Boxster as I have PCM 1 and it is essentially useless.
I thought late 02 got MOST. Anyway, you're all lucky. I'm going to try to do the same thing, but I have to go around the MOST amp. Guess I need to look at the outputs first to see how difficult that might be.
Funny that the Z3 was so cool just 2 years ago.
I tried Pandora for the first time a couple of months ago. IMO, the perfect thing for driving: when you'd rather not pay too much attention, but just listen to well chosen music.
Of course, if it involves the music industry—and increasing convenience or enjoyment—it must never be allowed to happen!
Jon,
What do you think you spent on installation parts? ie cage, harness, face plate.
I'm trying to decide if it's worth $300 to go with the CF kit on Fleabay.
Aaron
I did the $179 kit from euromotorspeed.com (also on ebay). Can't speak to CF. The bezel was the best part about the kit. Otherwise, the wiring was not appropriate and the cage needed me to figure out and fabricate supports. The instructions were for a Boxster and they really didn't prepare for the combination of 2002 + Bose (both of which are major variables from old Boxster). See renntech.org for details.
The startup graphic was posted on avic411.com--a great resource, btw--by a 997 owner. I'm planning a C4S variation. The bypass instructions are there too.
You can have a custom wall paper but the wall paper is written over by the buttons and functions of the unit. This interferes with the logo and looks terrible.
The startup wall paper shows the Kenwood logo. You can't change that, that is the only time I would want the Porsche logo to appear.
Marc
Thanks .
The black harness that came with the ebay kit has 4 pairs of extra wires - white and grey. I assume I should connect those to the AVIC speaker wires right?
Also I assume I ignore the RCA jacks from the HU?
And finally the orange plastic harness/connector that came with ebay kit - do I keep that? Thanks
Yes - the yellow one...I think I still have to splice the one wire to the "REMOTE CONTROL" wire on the Avic.
But I have a question on the black harness that came with the ebay kit.
There are 2 wires marked LEFT FRONT and 2 wires marked RIGHT FRONT.
The AVIC has markings on the wire for left front, left rear and right front, right rear. Which ones go where without having me do a trial and error wiring?
Thanks
On the brown plug that goes to the amp:
pin 1 - brown - RR+
pin 2 - brown/blue - RR-
pin 3 - red - FR+
pin 4 - red/brown - FR-
pin 5 - yellow - FL+
pin 6 - yellow/brown - FL-
pin 7 - white - RL+
pin 8 - white/brown - RL-
Match up the pins on the black harness plug to the above.
