This will cover most any make or model car stereo reciever with the brake video disable function aka ebrake or hand brake sense wire on it. www.lesscosales.com
I've installed a lot of aftermarket stereos in my kids cars. I've gotta tell you. I have no intention of bypassing the parking brake for video, but you have made an amazing video, with excellent explanations of how the relays work, etc. You even explain the proper way to crimp wires. I have picked up three or four gems in this video. I see that this video was made 11 years ago. I wish that I would have seen it back then. I hope you are well and prospering. You are a talented teacher, and I appreciate you. Thanks brother!
Just did this with my Pioneer. The Radio shop was wanting 60$+ for the kit and I spent just around 5$ Thank you kindly for the video time well spent and pointless money avoided!
Thanks so much!!! I thought I hooked my radio up wrong because all it said was audio only when DVD played. So I took the green wire and put it under a bolt underneath my dash and now it works great!!!!!
Thank you for this! I was going nuts looking for a wire coming off my ebrake and couldn't see anything! With all the screws on the head unit, this was an easy fix. Thank you!
Thanks a lot brotha. I was kinda mad that I couldn't get that feature on my radio and entertain my daughter in my truck. That was the whole reason why I bought it. You made my day. Thanks and great tutorial! Gracias!
great tutorial. Thanks. can you wire the ground into to the ground coming out of the stereo back or is it safer to run the relay ground separately and directly to the frame?
First, thank you very much for posting this video, it's very informative However, I do have a question, the standard car relay draws about 120 mA, can the amp on signal from the aftermarket radio handle this current? wouldn't it be better to use a normal relay that draws about 30 mA?
sadly some newer ones are getting smart, and gets the speed signal from the GPS... if it's moving but the parking brake wire is grounded, it still won't show the video and will say "parking brake signal incorrectly attached" and won't let this bypass method work. in this case, you'd have to do some research and find a workaround for it. mine? I had to click "off" and hold a certain spot on the screen for like 5-10 seconds... then got a message saying "set on"... now I can watch movies and mess with navigation settings and such, all with the parking wire cut and not attached to any ground at all.
hi James I got KIA CADENZA 2015 and would like to ask you some question regarding bypassing the DVD since its getting the speed from the GPS. Would you please contact me on Essatop16@hotmail.com
dude you'er super cool...i was getting so stressed in trying to verify the location of my parking break wire and with your help in 2 seconds i'm done. Thanks again !!!!
Hey thanks for the video...Please post the link here for the PDF that you were talking about regarding the RELAY. It will be so much useful to me..Thanks
Lessco Electronics hello I recently watched a video about bypassing the e break feature for a double din DVD head unit. in this video a PDF about relay uses was mentioned. please send me the link for this PDF. thank you and looking forward to more videos.
You could also use a on/off switch. I have used this on hundreds of headunits and all have worked with the on off switch. Just run the teal wire fro. The relay to one leg on the switch and the other leg of the switch to ground. If the radio requires it to switch after turn on just flip the switch off and back on. But I also see why the relay might be a more appeasing choice seeing that it automatically does this for you. But on the other hand the switch uses less wires
I was going to ask if this would work. For my pioneer I just bought, I can bypass by connecting the green wire to my ground wire only AFTER the connection is made after the unit is on (the car is started). If the green wire is already connected to ground and then I start up my car (and head unit powers on), it will display a message stating that I need to make sure my parking brake is applied. Its only when I part the connection and reconnect will it trigger and bypass. So, I was thinking about using a toggle switch so after I turn the car on, I can toggle on and trigger a connection between the green wire and ground.
Awesome mate, did this on pioneer sph da250dab, didn't allow me to do most of things because it was thinking I was driving, worked perfectly grounded to it.
Got lucky on mine was able to ground directly to radio as you did in beginning so added a small ring terminal pulled screw out back put back in with wire connected so now my dvd works keep up the videos they are helpful
I took your excellent advice and tested the "grounding to radio chassis" before buying a bypass and even though you said Pioneer units require a pin swap my 2015 AVH-x3700BHS works flawlessly. thanks for the info!
Thank you so very much. I wish more people in the world were like you, it would be a better place. I too like sharing knowledge instead of making a buck out of it. Hope you are doing well.
hea bro, I just bought the new Pioneer AVH-X64500DVD. I installed it and could not for the life of me figure out how to get my DVD to play. I watched your video, i went back outside and grounded the parking lot wire from the deck to a good solid ground and Viola!!! It works, thanks man you are the best and i just subscribed to your channel
I just grounded the brake wire to my stereo unit and it worked took me 5 mins to pull out the stereo, ground the wire to the unit and put the stereo back in, thanks for the video Awesome!
Thank you, bought a relais 3 euro. installed it according to your video in my mitsubishi outlander with clarion NX501 factory installed. I had to disconnect the green wire and the rest all according to your video.
dudeeeee !! your tutorial rock!, it works!!! i try in my new kenwood ddx749 wiring directly to the chasis of the device and... tada!! my tv receptor works!
Nice trick. I was going to wire to chassis, but like you said Alpine made it tricky because DVD player will know that a ground wire is already grounded and It wont work. I have a bunch of those relays in my tool box, very handy things.
My alpine had to have a positive signal than a negative signal but I apreciate you putting this out their instead of trying to sell me something, especially since u r a car audio seller
Thanks you so much. Did this to my Kenwood DNX570 and it works every time. I can hear it click as the HU is powering up. Now to keep my eyes on the road instead of the movie. :) Thanks again. 'Merica
this is a good video on the bypass. i tried to ground the wire to the dvd frame but didnt work so i just stuck the parking wire in the antenna adapter and it works just fine
Thank you so much for this, I especially liked the jumper idea. I thought i could only play dvds on my Pioneer 4600bt with the emergency brake on. I only had black wiring in my garage so I used green and blue heat shrink on the tips to differentiate between the amp turn on and e-brake leads. Just a note for everyone, buy these relays online because locally at auto zone and oreilly they are ridiculous.
Nice video, I just connect the parking wire to players ground and use that relay to drive the remote wire to pre amp, 4ch amp and sub amp. Very useful.
Ever since I started in the buisness of car audio installer 16years . I learnd so much about relays that I use them for so many installs and mods from killswiches like horn and brake press while you crank it or others, rewired windows or doorlocks . People that are in these kind of buisness should take more time to study how a relay works , it helps alot in different funtions that you might need to modify or customise