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Unibit the hole out a little bigger?

I have had problems in the past taking a NAV out of one car and putting it into another but what I have found is that you need to clear everything out of its memory as far as the screen that has a picture of a car with green bars around it. I don't have one in front of me right now but it will clear speed pulses average speed and some other stuff, should be good to go after that.

Don't know of any log file to see things like that. Whats the year make model of car it's in? Do you have an amps and subs? How old is your battery?

The Z2 has 2 harness for the back. A power/speakerlead harness and a RCA/Video harness You should have both plus the harness that goes to the Suby- metras 70-8901, or Best Harness BHA8901

Check out the PAC-Audio TR7.

I put an AVIC N2 in one a few years back, speaker impedance was not an issue. Also I didn't do any rewiring, I used a harness but I can't remember which one. I just had a thought I could pull her receipt tomorrow and see which harness I sold her.

Check Out the BOYO VTK350 or the ACCELE RVC1300. I can get you either one if you want.

Depending on funds and application for your car I would look into Vizualogic, SAVV or ACCELE as as full replacement head rest with covers to go over the whole headrest.

Since you're putting in the Z I figure you don't already have the stock nav with integrated climate control or premium sound. I havent been in one of those dashes in a while but I think you should look into either the PAC-Audio TATO or even the 70-8112 Metra harness with the RCA's on it. Not an exact match but a lead. If I get into one of those dashes soon I'll let you know. If you pull out the factory radio and send me pictures I could probably tell.

Just came back from another test drive. The results are as follows, tried disconnected either the VSS and GPS antenna at different times. Left with the GPS antenna disconnected - speed sense connected and had video all the time, pluged it back in and it kills the video shortly thereafter. Tried it the other way around and it just didn't work. It will also lock out with no GPS antenna connected, by connecting and disconnecting the VSS. Not too sure what to make of this. My head hurts, is it 4:20 yet?

I don't think that it is the GPS antenna because if it were that would make the Z2 unbypassable because you can't interrupt it, shy of disconnecting the antenna. This is the same unit being shipped all over the world, to places where watching video while driving is not illegal, are they supposed to have the unit hanging out so they can disconnect and reconnect the antenna? That alone tells me it can't be the antenna. I think that our fix may be going back to the N1 where we completed a circut by solidering on the bottom. There are two solider joints that are labled but for the life of me can't remember if they're labled the same as the N1 and for fear of frying one of these I'm reluctant to try it. I'm on the fence about it being a software bypass. That would be a simple fix if you were able to get your hands on some sort of upgrade disk but I don't see that hapening. The bypass has to be something that virtually any shop can do. We don't want to leave any topic unadressed but at the same time I think that we may be reading too deep into this. Its got to be almost a duh answer.

I don't have a bypass but perhaps a clue. After installing the unit as if it were a later gen Z1 I went for a test drive. It was playing video at speeds well above 15 mph for about 4 minutes with access to all menus in the unit. I was switching between map view and DVD to see that both were working, with the DVD being fine and the MAP arrow not tracking and still showing the factory default LA area. Like I said the DVD lasted about 4 minutes, what I noticed is that after the Nav initialized and locked on to my area and arrow tracking I lost DVD. I don't think that Pioneer would make it so the GPS antenna has anything to do with it. I'm throwing that theroy that someone mentioned out the window. I'm leaning on the idea of the speed sense wire. I also completely disassembled the unit, removing all PC boards from the chassis in hopes of finding a switch similar to that of the N3's with no success. Well at least the unit still works after that mission.

I don't have a bypass but perhaps a clue. After installing the unit as if it were a later gen Z1 I went for a test drive. It was playing video at speeds well above 15 mph for about 4 minutes with access to all menus in the unit. I was switching between map view and DVD to see that both were working, with the DVD being fine and the MAP arrow not tracking and still showing the factory default LA area. Like I said the DVD lasted about 4 minutes, what I noticed is that after the Nav initialized and locked on to my area and arrow tracking I lost DVD. I don't think that Pioneer would make it so the GPS antenna has anything to do with it. I'm throwing that theroy that someone mentioned out the window. I'm leaning on the idea of the speed sense wire. I also completely disassembled the unit, removing all PC boards from the chassis in hopes of finding a switch similar to that of the N3's with no success. Well at least the unit still works after that mission.