Installing a HUGE Apple Car Play Unit & Sony Sound System (2021 Tech in a 1996 Car!) 

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Awesome install. Quick tip for anyone installing a new head unit, always get everything wired up and make sure the thing turns on before fastening things down and making it look pretty. It sucks when you spend extra time getting everything neat and organized to find that you missed a step and need to pull everything out again lol

Wire grommets for the holes drilled in the metal would have been a good idea. Cars move and shake, so the wires will rub the metal over time and possibly short to the body.

New drinking game, shot when Randall says, "She ain't goin' nowhere".

Would've loved to see the tweeters on the A pillars, or the sails on the door.. you need them as close to ear level as possible for proper stereo imaging. Fantastic build though!

This build is insane, also the wire management and how organized y’all are is so satisfying💯

As a current stereo installer myself, I thought this was a very satisfying and clean install. Props to you both for your excellent work! Excited to see this project progress!

Use mdf spacers to mount your speakers and your quality will improve. Mounting directly on metal is just tacky

You need shirts that say "Everybody needs a Randle" with a picture of his boots lol.

holy crap man, cam really has amazing quality on his videos and his editing has always been top tier it’s crazy

Dude you and Randle are ONE hell of a team. Keep up the grind. Love watching all your content. But like you kept telling us stuff is coming up just wait. You have taken you videos to the next level. Continue to stay humble.

Cameron, I want to say I’m a huge fan of your channel. I’ve been watching your videos for a very long time and you are going to be my inspiration to building awesome cars for my personal collection.

Love the "Preferred Lifestyle Cutters" lol

Good to see Sony still makes nice looking in-car gear. That Sony big screen looks magic. Your install looks great too. I'm wondering how you justify sticking a tweeter near your feet since they are extremely directional unlike woofers?

I have no car, nor would I be interested in having an upgraded sound system in it if I had one. However, this video is mesmerizing. It's especially satisfying to watch Randall going the extra mile with organizing cables, making connections extra safe / rigid by using heatshrinks, cable organizers, zip-ties etc. A true work of art.

About a year ago I installed my own stereo system. Like your own, I covered all bases on front, rear, and a 10-inch sub. Everything your saying is spot on. Every day I get in my car, it's a good day

Those crossovers are so clean! I would want to leave a cutout in the door panel for them as well! Let the engineering be viewed as well!

It’s smarter to just get the factory harness adapter for the 10-15$ saves anyone else who would have to ever work on it trouble and usually it matches up to the colors of the radios wires

all those little details is what makes for a solid install with no failures good job Randal.

Bro you hit the nail on the head when describing the love for daily builds. Subbed up & can’t wait for more content.

You need spacers and some sound mats to got around those speakers there is definitely going to cause interference or static along with rattling. Happened to me redoing all the speakers in my 2003 forester. Love and supporting the build man.

Very surprised by the limited amount of “modernization” builds out there. I love the idea of a great, comfy, modern daily driver with 80/mo insurance and low taxes🤌🤌

You're one of the only car RU-vidrs I watch that has done an in-depth install video on a sound system... and more need to do it!!

always love your simplicity in explaining anything, thank you fir this video!

The wiring looked super clean,I like where u mounted all the crossovers. All in all it looked amazing

I would add a rubber grommet or plastic wire sleeve where the wires are going through metal panels. They can rub on that sharp metal and short out

Love your description of a proper crisp sound setup at the end. That’s exactly how I describe it also 👌🏼

This is so dope. And man I love it when he says ‘it ain’t going nowhere' lol

Also a quick tip that is “illegal.” To bypass the parking break wire just put it to the ground. I haven’t finished the vid yet but I noticed y’all didn’t do anything with the green parking break wire. You will lose a lot of functionality without that properly installed or bypassed. Also never put the fuses inside the car. Always want them no more than 18 inches away from the battery unless the battery is in the trunk but still only 18 inches away. Other than that great bud bro.

Nice work good clean install, I did cringe a little at the placement of the fuses though, they should be mounted as close to the battery as possible, they're not there to protect the amps they're there to protect your car from catching fire if something ever happens to the wiring (car crash etc) as then you have 1 or two 0 gauge wires with dead shorts coming from a high current battery!

Randal is honestly the man! Love his attention to detail and how knowledgeable he is! If he started a channel I would be the first to subscribe!!!! Give home my respect! Love his work!

The engineer in me is always satisfied seeing people using crimps, proper soldering technique, heat shrink, and zip ties in their projects. It ain't OCD to go the extra mile and ensure with 100% confidence that you made a proper connection, splice, or what have you. I can't tell you how many times I saw wiring harnesses fail in my aerospace class, taught by an accomplished electrical engineer, due to poor quality connections. Go that extra mile, it pays off in spades

Literally my dream build… I’m living through this man! Please keep this coming. Drown me in it lmao

Randall = 🐐. This build is gonna be amazing when everything comes together

Great vid! I have been in the car audio industry for the last 20years and it never gets old. I love this stuff especially clean and quality builds. The only thing I would have done differently would have been putting the front tweeters up higher on the door...A-Pillar possibly...just for better sound staging. Either way nice build!

Car play is a MUST! I have it in my Raptor and when I got my 13 ZL1, my first upgrade was a new radio with car play.

Thanks for the video man, awesome looking screen. When installing speakers I mark the holes, remove the speakers then drill the holes. Its not worth getting all the sharp metal swarf over the new cones and stuck to the magnet. A couple of things I would do different mate. Put rubber grommets in the holes where any cable is passing through, use a wooden spacers for the speakers to screw into and screw the amps onto a wood board instead of into the metal sheet.😀

Should've made a blow-through port on the rear deck for the 10", or just mount the 10" on the rear deck and build a box over it in the trunk.

man there was a lot of neat tools in this vid that i might totally use in future projects

this wiring is so clean, i wish i could have such a nice organization in my car. Awesome job!

So having the fuses at the amp side? Interesting.. does that mean if too much current travels through the car before it reaches the safety fuse your cars burnt out? Curious as I have always fused amps close to battery..

People that know car audio are screaming right now.

it sounds awesome!! that system is so responsive too!!

As someone who's love for car audio goes back to the 90s.. and was doing home installs in high school, this was highly satisfying. Not even sure how I got here 😂😂😂 Good job. Super clean install. Dynamat everything 😋

Looks great! Just a heads up, when you install door windows. The bottom of the window will hit the back of the speaker without a ½” spacer.

I really appreciate this video, some of the back story especially. I got the feels, it just took me back to high school when me and my brother got into car audio messing around with his 1st car. We were poor so we were experimenting a lot I mean we had the factory radio wire to an amp powering a old heavy house sub somebody put out on the curb for garbage. Eventually over time we saved up money to be able to buy proper equipment but trail & error learning, and your absolutely right the 1st time you hear/feel that bass its something special.

absolutely clean and perfect work man. Good job, love it.

What a pleasure to see the perfection of the wiring! 🤯

The cleanest wiring job I've ever seen, amazing job! I love the customization of how the amps were mounted and how you were able to get the rear deck speakers mounted with using that other material (idk what that material is). And the head unit its self is massive! Love what you've done so far to the Subaru and can't wait to see how this build turns out once completed!

7:21 Not all copper wire is the same. You have access to CCA or OFC which do make massive differences Multistrand vs single core too 7:55 Heatshrink isn't for holding wires in place either, it's for insulating, primarily as well as making the install look more appealing 26:00 you need to fuse closer to the battery, the idea is, if the fuse pops it protects everything after it. Say a wire shorts in all that distance before the fuse, it'll cause an issue. However, if there's only 6cm before the fuse, the chances of any damage happening before that is minimal Perhaps i'm just being pedantic, but should a "noob" reference these minor "issues" it won't be as good of an install as it could be! Not hating, more advising

that color is absolutely stunning

I seriously cannot wait until the car is done. Please keep it up and show us more great content. I appreciate the works!

I remember the old Sony car stereo just being poo, but I've been really impressed by a lot of their new stuff and I wish I could hear through youtube what yours are like. It seems as though for as much care as was taken to wire this up, you'd have shielded the wires in the doors that are resting against sharp metal edges. He soldered the connections to the speakers in the doors, but used an all-weather connector on the sub and didn't solder it. Also, one of the benefits of components is being able to get the listening angle of your highs closer to ear level and yours are put on the same level as the mid-bass, which doesn't really buy you as much benefit over a coaxial speaker placed in the same location. Do these ES amps have DSP built in? This is the first video I've watched on your channel, and I'm not a die-hard Subie guy, but I really dig the car!

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Took a little hiatus, so I could have some content to binge. JEEZUS you've grown :) Super good job on that wiring hot damn!!

Just as you started off with audio systems in your old Chevy, I too am beginning my first journey with car audio on my old Chevy. Ripped out the passenger seat and put two 12 inch subs in. Cool coincidence that we both began on our trucks in highschool.

nice work fellas. finished the sound system in my '16 Focus ST this past summer as well. HUGE improvement over stock lol.

Cameron, you make everything simple. I appreciate that, Thanks.

Been waiting for another video in this series! Lets gooo.

A good stereo is a MUST in any car! Been plotting out the stereo system for my 240 already

I love to see it done right. It must have been so nice to do this when the car is just a shell. It has always been a pain for me when the interior is in the way and im trying to remove as little of it as possible😭

Awesome job! I built my sound system based on alpine components about 2 or 3 years ago using components, crossovers, and a sub on the rear, just as this but not as impresive, yet, just as the comments at the end of the video, the single biggest difference was not the power / volume increase but the sound image... some tracks that I've heard a lot while driving were so different, it's insane how much of the original recording is lost on low end / OEM equipment...

Dope install and love the equipment used. Any reason why soundproof wasn't applied to door panel?

First time here. Randall looks like the most organized person ever, love it.

amazing vid! Love the end result!

I’m glad you spoke about bass on a little bass go a long ways.

Way to finish off the vid bro. I love being human, I love being alive. Love it dude.

19:35 “or some people call them preferred lifestyle cutters” 😂😂😂

Clean set up! Props to randall and the clean wiring! Hope to one day have a 2.5rs swapped sti one day. Gives me some motivation to find one

This is crazy. I was planning on buying and installing an entire sound system (speakers, apple carplay, and subs) into my yaris. Watching this video made me finally decide to do it. Your vids are amazing bro keep up the good work!!!

I must say that the wiring is so clean! shoutout to that dude! I think there's nobody in Sri Lanka capable of doing such a nice wiring! Impressive 🔥

thank you bro you pushed me to a system i cou;dn't figure out what i wanted and people kept telling me to build 1000w+ systems but this sounds clean and it's sleek and modern and your presentation of it was amazing. I will be coming back to this video to use your affiliate link.

I thought there was no way I’m going to watch half an hour of this guys car audio video… 33 minutes later I don’t even know what happened, that was mesmerizing.

So awesome seeing that tastefully modified K1500, I have a green 98 Silverado 4x4 that is almost identical, even for sound system specs and I've loved it everyday since high school. The rust is starting to show and I'd love to do a full resto. But man did you bring back memories talking about slamming those subs for my friends in the backseat all through high school and college, great times!

HUGE sponsorship congrats my man

This is a clean install. Well done, guys.

wiring was on point that car is going to be so clean, good job on sound denting pads those help a lot i bet.

This is my dream build and you're doing it so clean. Nice job.

I don't normally subscribe to people after watching just one of their videos. But your work was so clean. And you explained things so well. Good job!

What a great video man Loved every second of it

Okay well i doubt that you will see this but i jusy wanna say this is the first video ive seen on your channel and i cant stop feeling like you stole my life because this project woukd be my dream car, i feel the exact same way you do about tech and the nostalgic body and everything and i wanna say it looks gorgeous man, if i ever get to do my porject im going to aim for something like what you have. Keep up the good work man!

WooooW very nice idea man this upgrade dont look bad on old car like this, is super cool :D nice job !

Good timing on the post as I just bought some of the same stuff for my Subaru! Good information:)

Very nice finish adding that tid bit about the coaxial compared to components! Not a lot of people know how big of a difference it can make.

Great vid my man! Just stumbled upon your page. Really thought out and complete

Congratulations on sponsorship brother!

if you use crutchfield they make it really easy to know what head unit will fit in your car and adapters you need

Clean job, awesome set up. Just wondering how much does it cost for the whole unit?

I love this it really shows what a good compo set , sub and radio(also very important) does to tge quality of sound in your car. And that wiring looks really good the only thing i would have done diffrent is the cable inside the sub box. I would have tacked them to the bottom so it isnt completely lose but that more for my own sanity i think.

That radio just sets the car apart, it turns it into like a retrofit type deal where the car is brought into the new Era of technology

Clean clean work. Another vote for tweeters in sail panels

loving these vids Cam keep it up!

Man that screen looks super clean in this dash!

No grommets through the holes he drilled for the wires?

First video ever and I love this guys cuz my favorite line is “ain’t going nowhere”

Going all out on all aspects……love it boys 👌

Great advertisement from Sony! Looks great and I didn’t know about this system!😁🤙🏽🤙🏽

This fr reminds me of 2017 RU-vid great video keep it up

I buildmy widebody type r 4 years ago. I daily drove it to work for 1 year and honestly it starts to wear thin commuting in that thing every day. Every journy i would have people waving and giving me the thumbs up it was great but after getting myself a bmw 530d to drive to work and back i didnt realise how much i was suffering in the subaru haha

Ain’t goin nowhere! Seriously great install guys.