Thread: Pioneer head unit

Go online and u need a wiring harness for it...costs about 100 new

you can buy a pig tail that plugs into the factory plug, the wire from it are labeled, so theres no guess work.

and you'll need one of them adapters to make the door dings and steering wheel controls still work. most loose the clock too iirc when they do a aftermarket HU.

Yup it's not exactly simple. Your going to lose the calender feature on the DIC but who needs that anyways. Your going to need to correct module to retain the door chimes, onstar etc as well as one if you want to keep your steering wheel controls. It gets pricey.

Do you have the stock Monsoon system and/or onstar?

ahhh, moonson. you gonna want to just flat out run new speaker wires to the speakers. the new HU wont like the factory wires to the speakers.

Let me see if I can find you the right harness if not I know I believe spazz on here deals with a lot of installs and can probably chime in.

Originally Posted by DrBass93

. I bought an adapter to keep the steering wheel controls but still don't even understand how to hook that up. I was thinking just speaker wires to connect but nope, bunch more wires.

It's never that simple w/ modern day cars now. Hell I have had my steering wheel module installed for 4 years and have yet to bother programming it. I tried the first day and gave up

Here's the harness wiring

Radio 12v orange + radio harness
Radio Ground black/white - radio harness
Radio Ignition (Class 2 Serial Data)
Radio Illumination gray (dimmer) + radio harness
Factory Amp Turn-on same as power antenna wire
Power Antenna purple + radio harness
LF Speaker +/- tan - gray +,- radio harness or amplifier
Notes: The amplifier is under the rear deck.
RF Speaker +/- lt. green - dk. green +,- radio harness or amplifier
LR Speaker +/- brown - yellow +,- radio harness or amplifier
RR Speaker +/- dk. blue - lt. blue +,- radio harness or amplifier

Originally Posted by DrBass93

Haha oh great that's not good. Alright thanks man! I really didn't know how much stuff I'd have to buy just to put in an after market head unit.

Trust me neither did I. What went from a simple...I want subs and still want to keep everything stock...went to completely gutting all the monsoon crap and running 2 amps, aftermarket speakers, aftermarket headunit. It became way more expensive then I thought it would be.

Which module did you buy for the steering wheel controls?

Originally Posted by DrBass93

Thanks! Yes I wanted a nice headunit and I mainly want it for my subwoofer. The steering wheel control is the Axxess ASWC. I saw a video on YouTube of a guy using the same one and the same headunit I bought. He was also putting it in a Grand Prix haha.

It may point out how crappy the stock speakers are...lol at least that's what happened to me. Don't want to scare you but figured ill let you know.

http://contentdocs.installernet.com/...icle/12426.pdf

To make it easy on yourself as well as probably sound a lot better. I would just unhook the the Monsoon amp and run new speaker wires from each speaker to the headunit. Probably easier to do it now since your replacing the headunit anyways. that way the new speakers will run off the pioneer headunit instead of the factory crap and sound way better.

hey! thats what i said. lol

everyone who does this has some sound issue using the factory speaker wires. the speakers should be changed too, something about using different power levels or some crap that i dont understand fully.

i would leave all the wires that are unused there, so if some day you want to put it back to stock you can.