Easiest Way To Bypass Park Brake Wire! 

This will work on MOST units with a Park Brake wire. Putting the Park Brake wire directly to GND tricks the unit into the thinking the Park Brake is always on. Some (not many) units with GPS antennas can still tell the car is moving- though this is rare. We do NOT recommend doing this nor condone watching your head unit/phone screen while driving. This video is for testing purposes only.

I just installed an Axxera AV6118Bi DVD head unit in my vehicle. I was gonna purchase a bypass off amazon till I came across this video. I was a little skeptical at first thinking this is far to easy but decided to hold off and give this a try. Just finished hooking up the entire system in my car and wouldn’t you know it, it actually works!!! I was pleasantly surprised. My only slight confusion was that I only had the e-brake wire from the head unit side and not the vehicle side. But I wired it to the ground as stated and it worked. Thanks for the tip

Not that I would ever do this because of safety reasons, but interesting to know 😏 thanks a million bud 🙌🏻

Wow thanks a lot man! I’ve always done the switch method and flip the switch back and forth to simulate the brake but that’s such a pain in the ass! Thanks again for the tip!

Thank you, this is exactly what I needed to know and it was short, sweet, and to the point!

Thank you so much we take our cars on road trips and my fiance likes to watch movies while we are on the road and I like to listen to them while I drive wish the radio manufacturers would just give you a warning that you can click to bypass it

Thanks a lot bro! Really helped me.

Just would like to say a massive thank you for this tutorial! Worked wonders on the Alpine INE-W960A.

Worked so easy thanks

thanks. I did this and it worked great!

Thank you so much for your invaluable information, highly appreciate it, have a great day.

Awesome video. Thank you

Worked perfectly fast and easy thanks

Your viedeo help me sooooo much thank you from Austria

QUESTIONS: I have an '09 Corolla and installing 9" head unit. 1) To have a camera icon on the head unit and to see behind the car without the car being in reverse, do you connect the reverse trigger wire from RCA cable from rear camera to red Accessory wire and also the head unit reverse wire (mine is a brown wire) for when car is put in reverse? 2) I have two yellow RCA connectors from head unit. One connector is labeled 'CCD AVIN' and the other connector is labeled 'Aux-V'. The Camera RCA cable connector coming from the camera plugs into which of the two RCA connectors in order to establish a signal for the rear camera? 3) I have a pink wire from the head unit labeled, 'With protocol model output 12V can be connected to the camera'. Is this pink wire like an accessory wire for the rear camera to view behind the car with out being in reverse? Should I use this wire instead of the red accessory wire to have a camera icon on head unit and see behind the car without being in reverse? 4) I connected the RCA cables together at the head unit and the trigger wire to the red wire off of the RCA cable, but I get no reverse camera picture on the head unit. When I look at the rear camera, the LED lights up when in reverse. Why no reverse camera picture on head unit? Thank You for All Your HELP!!!

Thanks for the tip! This is only going to be used for Testing of course!😂

Absolute ⭐️ mate 👏

Ty for this video it worked on my pioneer double din 💯

It worked for pioneer carrazorria Rz05 .thank you.

Cheers 🍻 that was perfect 👍

Thank you,, l was getting mad, cause the damn dvd didn't want to play unless lm parked and emergency brake on. Awesome tip.!!!

Ive always done this when ive installed my avh205 into the various cars ive owned, but for some reason is didnt work eith the recent car ive put it in, going to try a couple of things tomorrow, hopefully i can sort it

That method works as it should on lower brand radios like power acoustik, boss, etc ect ect brands like jvc, pioneer, clarion, alpine ut will only work 1 time unless you hook up a toggle, relay, or even a bypass

THANK YOU 🖤

Many thanks this solve my problem on the Bluetooth memory

Great video

Are the wires always the same two colors? I have a light mint green wire but it's a Kenwood DDIN

Thank you brother. Just bought a used truck with DVD installed but wouldn't work even with parking brake on. This worked

Great video thank you so much! I am in Australia and just bought the JVC KW-M150BT I am guessing this method will work with it??

Does not work for newer American stereos. A bypass switch that can provide an on-off-on signal is required to trick the stereos.

Will the backup camera still work with this modification?

Works like a charm with my Jensen CAR710W… the pink and black wire!

If it comes with the plug and play harness do I still need to connect it or can I leave it inside the din?

I have a Pioneer Ca9pa v6 650 which is from a Mazda Atenza. Which one is the parking brake wire or do I need to add a pin to it, as all I got with the unit. I have 3 wires left... A pink, a second ground, and a brown. Help would be appreciated please.

Thank you for this Trick

thank you so much for solving my problem.

now do you connect those 2 sets of 2 wires together or just tape off and leave separate

Question I hooked up my pioneer NEV 5201 as you suggested. The results are when in park and drive my rear-view camera guilds adjustment are displayed. When in reverse, the pioneer home screen is displayed. Before I do anything else could you help me out?

Had to make sure it was a ground i had to connect it to. My jeep doesn’t have a park brake wire due to it being form the 90s

Thank you 😊

Confused so the grounded yellow and black gets connected to the green and black? so 4 wires all together? Thanks

Just fitted a Pioneer sph-da250dab and grounded the green wire and it works just fine 🙂

What I did is I wired a switch between the parking brake wire and the ground, so then I just flip the switch to make it think I have the parking brake engaged. It's a redundant step but I like it.

Can you tell me just what the stop lamp switch does on alpine radio and how it works? Does it have anything to do with muting the radio?

Hey mate thanks for this. I've just installed an Alpine ILX 650e unit and need to bypass the parking break in my 2013 i30 (no nav), which wires do I solder between the headunjt harness (I've got the plug and play Aerpro kit) and the car wiring?

I'm using a wire harness from an older pioneer on my 2nd hand avh 2550nex that didn't come with a harness, the colors are slightly different

Will this work for my 98 f150 with pioneer AVH-110BT?

I have a pioneer avh-241ex and I’m installing it on a 2500hd duramax. My harness has a mute wire that is yellow black is that the right wire?

I used a switch in case got pulled over while playing it hit switch and the writing comes up on screen as I had head rest screens hooked to my main screen so ya could see out side the car I had screens on

I have JVC KW-V11 and presently using for listening in home as domestic audio system. However, when I try to play to play any video CD, it plays only the audio. How to play a video CD/DVD and display the DVD on the screen.

Hello, Ive a Blaupunkt philadelphia 845 for WV and the wires color code are not the same, how can I identify the right wire? Thanks!

I did this technique, but I can't gain access to the menu settings. I have access to volume and so forth.

What voltage switch? Does it need to be 12V? Can anyone recommend a plain black round switch? Thanks.

Ok, I did this and it works fine. I have one question though. Could this have any long term problem with the unit? Could it cause something to short or burn out?

Do you know where the park brake wire is in a ba falcon so i can do it properly for android auto?

Does this work on the clarion too?

Any chance you know what cable is for a 2021 tacoma radio ?

Would this work on a JVC KW-M560BT (Without DVD & GPS)?

I'm seeing a lot of comments about in the states it needs the bypass - what about UK? will this work or will i need to get the bypass too? I've just got a SPH-DA2300 for my '06 A3 - just waiting for the wiring loom to come before i try the install but trying to get all info together so i can get it sorted ASAP! Cheers!

Thank you so much for this video, the vehicle i’m putting this in doesn’t even have a parking break sensor

on my sony ax5500 i just left it floating and i press the ok button on the screen but if i forget it times out after maybe 30 secs and starts playing!

Same question...different model. Will this work with the Pioneer AVH110?

Ive also read some units require a change from hot to ground to enable VDO/BT. There is a device sold on EBAY that does this step...

If you do this will you still be able to use the back up camera function if you connect it to reverse?

What’s the best way to identify the correct wire? Namely in a 2019 MUX with the Panasonic head unit? Cheers

Just a question if anyone's still active on this video. After you connect the unit's gound and park brake wire together, does it then have to be connected to vehicle ground os is it grounded through the wiring of the head unit? Thanks

This doesn’t work for newer Alpine units. I tried it on my alpine iLX-507 and the unit requires a change of state. So basically if the head unit starts up with the park wire grounded it will not allow you to use certain functions. It needs to turn on, have no ground connection to the e brake wire, and then get a switched ground signal from some where. If you wire it to your embrace and then actuate the e brake, the ebrake basically works like a large switch. You could wire the ground wire to a switch along with the e brake wire and turn it on after the head unit has powered up. I don’t know if there is some sort of resistor or other electrical device that you could wire inline from the ground wire to the e brake wire that would regard the ground connection for a second so that the head unit see a change of state from non ground to grounded after the head unit powers up. If you know of a device that can do that please let me know.

👍👍some model used another "second layer lock"... GPS navigation lock 🚫 when the vehicle move > 5mph

Can anyone confirm that this works with Sony units? I just purchased the XAV-AX150 and Android Auto doesn't work due to this (I didn't know about it upon installation)

Hopefully you can still respond but, how do you make the green parking brake wire from the stereo become “grounded” to the chassis of the car or the metal of the stereo itself? Like how do you make it stick with the end of the wire to the metal so that it’s grounded??? Hopefully you get what I mean, im new to this

Hello! I have a pioneer Avh-270bt. I have not installed the light green wire. Can you help me and tell in which pin should i install it? Because without it i cant clear the memory. Can you help me? Thanks a lot

THANK YOUUU

Does it need to be soldered?

Hello everyone! I have a pioneer Avh-270bt. I cant pair my bluetooth with my iphone. It says memory full. How do i clear the memory? How do i put it in parking brake mode? Which wire is the ground wire? Can anyone help me.

Will this work for rock lights.

I’ve had the same radio for over 6 years (BV9967B, Boss audio) been through 4 vehicles.. I just slip the parking brake wire into the back of the radio harness and it’s good to go..

My break light stays on after putting down the break any suggestions bro

Will the PAC TR1 work on the Sony XAV AX5600?

Hi! I have a pioneer sph-da120 and the light green cabe is missing - it's not in the connecter. Where is it's suposed to be connected?

Will this work with pioneer dmh-z5350bt? Or does the handbrale have to be switched on off on etc?

Will this work for Android auto and weblink for Sony xav 3200

Can I use the little pinch connectors instead of soldering?

I'd connect a switch between the black GND and light green wire and install on the dash for easy access.

So will this bypass fix the problem of my maps not acquiring gps signal? (Mind you I have neither bypassed it nor hooked it to my parking brake)

my brake pedal shakes a little like if it was having some sort of short whenever I’m about to take off in my truck and then on my pioneer display screen it says improper connection of parking brake lead what can I do

Erhm ? So i need to solder the green pb wire to the yellow wire and also the t ground wore? Or did i misunderstand this

Will this work with the pioneer avh- 120 BT

Hey would this work for the 4600nex pioneer?

So jus put the parking brake wire to the ground and that’s it?

Hello, mine was already hooked up, so what should I do with the extra length that was already connected to the brake? Thank you!

would this work on a pioneer avh4000 DVD??

In the rust belt of the USA it's extremely rare to use the parking brake because the cars get rusty and the cable seizes up. Even with manual trans we just leave it in first or reverse. It is usually labeled "EMERGENCY BRAKE" in the USA.

Does this bypass work on Pioneer DMH-w4660nex?

Will this work with Stinger HEIGH10 UN1810?

Well, i have another problem. All my sound settings are greyed out after i installed an aftermarket amp. My unit is a Pioneer 3100dab. Does anyone know a way to fix this?

would this work for the Audi Q7 2014?

Worked like a charm! Thx

Can i use the aerpro APP9 Harness over the Alpine ? If so what colour is the Park brake wire on the Aerpro harness

Will this work on a pioneer mvh-300ex model? I need to bypass it to clear my Bluetooth cache in the system because it never detected my e brake

When I mirror my phone to my head unit, it only displays black on the unit. I can still control my phone from the unit, but cannot see what I am doing. Any help is appreciated!!