A tip to anyone doing this in 2024 - If your experience is anything like mine and you have trouble removing the drivers-side clip for heat controls, you can leave it in place and just unclip the entire unit/seperate it from the radio shell, this will give you plenty of clearance to get those 10mm bolts out. Awesome product, definitely recommend it makes a huge difference in these cars.
What does it sound like ? Does it hiss ? When you put it at max volume does it feel like you want to put it up some more but can’t like it does with fm transmitters or does it sound like regular radio at max volume? Pls and thnx!! Hope to hear from you 🤞🏽🤞🏽😭
Bought it, no regrets. Easy installation, working as advertised. I am a bit picky when it comes to sound quality, and I give it 10/10 Customer service was great.
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Why wouldn’t you first disconnect the battery? Are you not taking a big, uncalled for chance between shorting out the computer or setting a airbag off? Dangerous possibility of causing some major issues !
I agree. This guy is clueless...not to mention that his microphone placement may possibly interfere with the side curtain airbag deployment. Absolutely clueless.
Why wouldn't you install the main unit in the compartment instead of under the shifter panel? This would allow you to troubleshoot any issues without taking a panel or two out. All wires looked long enough, you can drill a hole wide enough for all wires.
4 Year later and it's still working great. As a minimalist, this gives my old car all the modern tech I want. I use a Quad Lock phone holder suction cup on my drivers window to hold my phone and I've got Maps, Music, voice controls and couldn't be happier.
It depends how the sat radio was installed and which port it has been wired through. We do have a Y-cable which will work in order to add our kit and keep the XM functioning, if it wired through the same port. Thank you.
Can it connect to two phones via bluetooth? Wondering how it works if me and my partner pair depending on who is driving and what that experience is like. Like will it connect potentially to my phone in the house while she drives the car if I last connected? Cause in that case I would think the car would need to be out of range than to disconnect from my phone or I would have to turn off bluetooth in the house so she can connect before pulling out of the driveway.
I would've somehow secured the aux cable a little better with like a zip tie or something so nobody would ever have to take apart the middle console again but other then that, thanks for the video!
I have installed mine on 2006 Toyota Avalon it took me less than 2hr taking my time the unit works great I will change the cassette area into a storage Thank you
It says on the website that it’ll only work with radios without navigation but on the video you installed it on a car with navigation. I have the exact same jbl radio and nav screen in my car just curious if this would work since the cheaper one I got off Amazon did not
I just found a splitter to possibly make nav work? ill give you an update when its done but i had to find it on another site. The navigation and audio have seperate connectors so it might work?
@@atlredninja1 did you get the stereo audio version ? And I noticed if my phone is at full volume it distorts but at 3/4 it sounds crisp!!! Even at full volume on the stereo of the car just as long as the phone audio is 3/4
@@EveeBarletta666 I did get the stereo version. I tried Dolby on and off, even flipping the tape upside down....Still it was super quiet. You are right about the 3/4 volume. Anything more is distorted....it is the same for the bluetooth and the wired cassette... just the bluetooth cassette was super quiet. I even thought that maybe I needed a head cleaner for the cassette player, but when I switched back to wired the quality was better....so I just have a small BT transmitters connected to the wire.....doing some research on RU-vid after this, it seems the cassette player wires out has both positive and negative for left and right going to radio.....I bet I could splice an aux right into the harness ...
Your video helped me tremendously. I installed another brand Bluetooth adapter from Amazon (nothing against the GTA kit, it just wasn't available) and I'm very happy with the quality vs using tape or FM... so, thank you thank you thank you!!! The only update to share is that I suggest using a little cloth to protect the rest of the dash from scratches. This is because the back of the main audio face/dashboard section has metal on the back of it, so if you rest it or slide it etc while performing the other steps, it will leave marks. I found this out the hard way. Thanks again.
The factory radio powers the heating and ac and also the screen above it. You would have to relocate the factory radio and splice it into the touch screen. It's possible to do. There's a video for it on RU-vid.
