Alpine parking brake bypass ILX-W650 

Almost forgot great job on explaining how switches work. As a mechanic and electrician I already know but it is great info for the people that don't know.

You DO NOT have to wire to OBD2 harness guys. FIRST huge credit given to Brock. Much deserved dude. Honestly never could've done it without your discovery of the HU requiring a switched signal. That said, I installed mine today. I watched this video then I experimented around myself. I asked myself, if it does not require a live current but only a open/closed signal, why not just wire to same chassis of vehicle with a toggle switch in the circuit? Voila, your welcome guys. Ground to chassis with a simple toggle on/off switch. Thanks again Brock.

IT WORKS EXACTLY HOW YOU EXPLAINED IT! I connected a switch between the yellow/blue from the harness and a wire to the 5 pin on my OBDII and I've got all functions working perfectly! Thanks for the video and how you nicely detailed the procedure!

There's such a thing as a momentary off switch. The circuit is normally closed, but it opens while the switch is held. This is the best way to do this.

Wow thank you so much Brock I installed my ALPINE ilxf259 myself my settings and stuff wasn't accessible and I didn't think I needed the parking break wire hooked up but when I connected it to my obd2 it worked perfectly Thank God I didn't have to rip apart everything THANKS BROCK!!!!!!!!!!😎😁

This definitely works and if everyone tried I’m sure you see that. Thank you for your assisting clarifications.

Thank you! You are the man of the stupid safety switch. Made it very easy

If this works for me I'll be so happy after installing this thing for a week I wanna be done. Lol. (Didn't hook speakers up at first, didn't realize it till afterwards, plus got snow storms that delayed the project in progress.) That's why it took a week for those wondering. Now I just have this issue left to fix. Edit: update, it worked for me by attaching the wire shown in the video to any bare metal or screw head that connects directly to the body of my car. So seems like as long as it's a ground point it'll work.

Just a small hack that worked on my dual radio was that when I touched the wire that goes to the parking brake on the metal bracket on the radio it worked. So I just grounded it to the radio and could watch movies when in any gear

Just wanted to say this helped me out. I had wired the switch to the ground wire on the radio and that wasn’t working! Ran it from the OBD2 and it was smooth.

They make a alpine micro bypass for 13 bucks on ebay and Amazon. Very easy to wire up. Blue wire to blue white alpine remote wire. Yellow wire to yellow blue alpine parking brake wire. And black to alpine black ground wire. Green only hook up if your alpine has it. Your ilx w650 doesn't so leve green unhooked. I have the newer model of yorh stereo the ilx w670 and it works great. No need for a switch. Just turn radio on and every time you have all controls and can passenger can watch video while driving. Don't watch while driving of course. But this works. Complete bypass parking break

You my friend are a life saver

Nice work around I was about to just tie it into remote might work but might not. This video just saved me the time of finding out if it might or might not work and going with a way that does work. Lol thanks for saving me some time.

Much appreciated, works like a charm!

I just bought this stereo but bought the brake bypass $10 bucks and saved me all the trouble seems to work I guess just trying to figure out how to watch movies still messing with it

Another option if you have it, wire it to the illumination wire and you can access your settings any time you turn your headlights off!

What signal does the wire want a positive or negative? What is pin 5 on the dlc positive or negative? I've wasted a lot of time watching multiple videos and no will just say hey this wire wants to see a ground or battery voltage or 5volt reference nothing

I would be really careful grabbing ground at the OBD2 connector. Especially if it's a data ground. Because those grounds don't go directly to the Battery. They go through the computer first. So that could very easily fry your computer.

Thank you so much

thank you for your help

Just run that wire to a toggle switch or push button and ground the other side of the switch and mount the switch right next to the radio.

What format did you use to play video from the USB or any software

Hi, Does it have 3 way audio crossover support? I was going to buy it but if it does not have 3 way I will not buy it

My car don’t have obd2 or parking brake so is there any other place I can conect it to

Can i use a fuse tap and put it in my stopping brake light?

Can you splice into the wire that goes into pin 5?

Hey in theory... You could use the regular push button wired into the OBD 2 all the time... You could use the unit regularly without pushing the button EVERY time you turned the car on... but if you wanted to access the settings, diagnostics, or video you would then have to push the button. Right?

The disclaimer at the end killed me

I'm attempting this right now but I'm wondering if the pin spot is the same on the OBDII on my Maxima.

Do you plan to put the actual bypass you ordered in? I just bought this radio today and didn’t realize I needed one.

Good yop. tnqz

I connected my ILX-702d to a permanent ground, ive turned it on and off and it seems to work

Could you tie it into the remote wire. That wire is to send a second 12v signal to the amplifier to tell it to turn on. It will interrupt the signal and give power when the head unit powers on and off.

Thanks for the video. Very helpful, I installed my Alpine screen about a week ago now, and come to find out, the parking brake wire isn't working, so therefore when I pull the ebrake itself, it's not kicking the signal back to the stereo that ebrake Is engaged. So I've been locked out since I installed it. I have a 2003 Jeep Grand Cherokee, is it pin 4&5 in the jeep as well? I'm asking only for educational purposes only, really tho lol, bc I am still leaning towards getting the bottom line problem fixed. But just for educational purposes I'm asking is it the same pins for obd2 with your vehicle as for 2003 JGC?

I was wondering of you were using a thumb drive or a 2.5 external drive? I haven't seen any videos on if a 2.5 external drive will work or not. Nobody has showed what the file sorting looks like either. I know this might sound crazy but I wanted to buy a radio and add a ton of music to it and was wondering of this radio would work for what I am looking for. Thanks

All you have to do is put a toggle switch on the parking break wire and find a ground

We used to use a momentary button when we installed screen years ago. Connect it to the wire and the other side to ground. Push it and the bypass would work.

You can buy a micro bypass on Amazon now that wires in behind the HU and no need for any switch.

I got this exact model,i conect it the wire to the parking brake and yet nothing happens,i am positive i did it right,but it just wont work Some help please

Thanks

A single pole double throw relay will work too.

Why couldn’t u do a momentary switch in a normally open set up to where the switch momentarily breaks the circuit

Hi, how are you able to watch your movies ? Is your phone hacked or something? I can’t watch movies or videos with the same stereo. Thanks!

Do you know how to turn off the tracking system in it?

Can't you just ground out the park brake wire?

Or you can put a switch on the wire

Haha .. I hooked it to my illumination wire all I have to to is flick the headlights on and off and I'm good to go

So you can’t just connect wire to ground wire?

Is it pin 5 on all vehicles? Another video I think the guy was in a kia, he used pin 5 on obd as well.. Im desperate because I can't even order a bypass in canada..If someone does in fact read this, With the deck having no access to the settings, does that mean the usb won't play music either because I can't get it to play from multiple different usb sticks in fat format nor my mp3 players, and well since its basically locked out I can't even mess with android auto... And I think my s6 is too old for android auto anyways because its also saying its installed but not working lol.. Just problem after problem.. All I want is to play my mp3 music and nothing but the radio works.. Im in a small northern ontario city, covid destroyed the local shops etc.. There is one car audio installer left surviving and his price for install is outrageous, like all other service industries or contractors. He wants 800 to put in 4 speakers, the head unit, 2 amps and a sub.. If It wasn't for this god damn minus 10 weather, spine busted 6 ways to sunday and no garage, I'd have most of this done by now.

Why not just add a relay? You can have pin 30 to ground and pin 87 to head unit. When you turn the ignition on the relay would click the two together for you and no manual switch required 🤷

New cars have a parking brake. Old cars have emergency brake and they all still should

Why don't you just ground the other wire

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"Im not liable for any damages" In other words: Please, I already spent $400 on a radio

Aka Mickey Mouse. Pretty witty though.

Pretty?!? Tuck it under your dash won't even see it. Who cares if it works. Lol. Saves you lots of frustration and time.

Never use the OBD for such stuff. That is a totally wrong advice. Why so complicated? The Radio already has ground!!! Just splice it into the ground of the radio itself or even more easy, ground it to the chassis itself! These are the vids which teach the wrong things to people!!! And by the way, older cars like this use a simple ground switch anyways for the parking brake or emergency brake signal. Just splice it into the parking brake and get rid of such hack solutions in the first place! NEVER ever use your OBD to mess around with such things. Its a direct line to your ECU and if you short something out it could potentially kill your ECU which will let you have a dead car and a very costly repair bill for a new ECU. The CAN Bus is a delicate system which does not like such things. Your last sentence is just ridiculous. If no one should replicate what you did and you are not responsible for possible damage why are you showing this then which such a wrong advice? The feature blocking with parking brake applied is not new folks. It is there since more than 20years already and as said above the parking brake signal switch is on 99% of the cars a ground switch hence if you ground this cable from the radio to ground it will do the same as the one from the parking brake. Don't forget that Alpine and others in the last years introduced the double set parking brake requirement. So you have to apply your parking brake, release it and apply it again to unlock the settings! This means it will not show you the settings on the first ground signal! You have to double activate it! If you dont want to press the button twice there are bypass modules available which do this for your automatically! They are cheap on Amazon and work.