mrspike

you should be using a harness that has rca's on it instead of the common speaker leads. for example the scosche ta07r harness. I just did one with this harness and the jbl synthesis system and it was cake. And no it's not a good idea to amp. a amp. signal. You'll probably blow everything in your car that way.

i thought that the rf 360 was for integrating into a factory system. Why would you use it when you have the rca out puts on the d3? The 360 converts line level to rcas to run amps. There should be no need for the 360.

i agree, you don't like it ill give you 100 bucks for it. If not, stop complaining! read signature below.

what kinda car is it?

what radio do you have? You can alway look at pioneer.com for the install guide for the radio and it will tell you where the wire is suppose to go or be.

ok, if you say so. i have tried using several of these for customers. They are junk. you would think with all the crying on this web site some one would have been crying about it already. Thats why i said just fo the stand alone tuner for pioneer. Not to mention its double the price of just a tuner box.

the stratus is a stand alone tuner. He is talking about using the pioneer tuner box to hook up to his deck. That pbus adapter works if you are using the universal siruis tuner box not the stand alone tuners for example-stratus,sportster,stilleto understand?

the pbus cable is the cable that hooks up to the deck and the tuner box to be able control from the deck and also gives you the audio. On the back of the deck there is a blue plug different from the rest that you would hook it up to. the siruis tuner box has the same plug, i think it says out to unit or something like that that you hook it to. It is a special cable made for pionner stuff. And yes you do need it to hook up the sirius tuner box to be able to control it through the deck.

Yes you can hook up most mp3 players to the usb input and it will bring up most the info (artsit,song,album). The zune is not suported by the usb connection on just about any aftermarket cd player. i probably do 20-30 pioneer decks with the usb cable a week and everyone has worked with my insignia mp3 player, the only draw back is it doesn't do any video. Now an old installer had a zune and we couldn't get it to work on any brand we plugged into. Just take the harness for the new one and hold it up to the old one and see if all the wiring matches up, if it does you should be good to go.

about the only thing you can use is the antenna. for the box (sir-pnr2) it would hook up to the avic with the p-bus cable to control it, you would also have a power and ground connection to hook up as well. Not a hard install as long as you have the right pieces, but witht he antenna already in the car the hardest part is already done.

wow you payed 2000 for a d3 and the bluetooth adapter that you could have bought from any stereo shop for about 600-800 bucks. sounds like some one should have done more research and bought from a shop that has a return policy. Just my opion but every one ready hates me hear since i tend to use logic and a little common sense.

very well put Mr. Womo! now get prepared because everyone will hate you for sticking up for pioneer. Its simple, don't like sell it and buy another brand. Pioneer is in every country in the world, do you reall think you are keeping them in from going bankrupt? You people are getting as bad as the customers that come in yelling "do you know how much money i have spent here?" then come to find out i personally have spent twice much as them. Things aren't designed for you personally, theres things on my deck i don't like but i deal with it and don't complain on every thread in here. GET USE TO IT

It was indeed the turn on lead like you suggested. I guess in the upgrade to 2.0, it reset those AV settings. I went in and changed the Antenna settings from "Radio" to "Power" (at least I think that's what the menu was labeled) and MP3's now play thats what you wrote, you did not say they switched the wire till your next post. If they switched a wire that yes it was a install issue. Everyone on this site gets so bent out of shape if any one has a different view other than there's.

so if it was the upgrade that changed your settings on the deck for your amp and stuff how would that be a install issue? It really wouldn't be the installers fault that the setting got changed after a software update.

so i'm reading all of these comments about not getting the signal for the sat. radio or it drops in and out and that you are putting them under dash piece and such. Sat antenna should be mounted outside of the car, not inside. I'm pretty sure it says it rate in the install manuals and i know it say's it in the mecp certification book.

did you hook up the orange or the orange/white wires? did you tape or put a crimp cap on them separately? Sounds to me like it something with the bulb or led that runs behind the gauges. Make sure you take the fuse out and look at it or just if you have another one of the same size replace it. Also check all of your fuses. I found that in the saturn cars the hvac fuse is the switched fuse for the radio. Anything else light up=center lights around ac controls. If so its the bulb or led that behind the dash.

didn't have any problems with mine. You probably have a powered tuner in your car thats factory. Did you hook up the the power ant. wire on the harness? should be a blue wire on the harness that connects to your factory plug. The 4000 won't have that wire just the blue white/system remote wire. just hook it to that and you should be fine.

yeah thats about it. i have treid running video from mp3 player through it to no luck. just audio. unless some one know something i dont.

there are a ton of other post about this, Fat 32 is what it needs to be formatted as. Search out the other post and see what they say.

what kind of rca are you useing? Cheap wal-mart/radio shack rcas come with the noises already built into them. If you are go get some better rcas like Rockford or monster cable. 9 time out of 10 when we get a customer talking about whinning noises it is due to the cheap ass rca from wal mart. The ground loop iso is just a band aid not a real fix. It also drops the voltage the amp is seeing from the rca 4v-1 maybe 2v if your lucky. I use to have a installer that would run the ground from the deck to where the ground was for the four channel amp. Might give it a try.

we are trying to elemiate the amp as the problem. if you unhook the rcas from the amp only and it still does it, then its not the deck its the amp. understand. process of elemiation.

If your just putting in a new deck and the old one didnt do that then it might be the deck. i would try unplugging the rca at the amp only and see if it still does it. Just make sure the rcas are still plugged into the d3 side. then if it doen't do it then its somewhere between the d3 and the amp.

have you check the intire rca line making sure there is no screws or pincked spots? does it just do it when the d3 is off or on as well? If just when its off you are getting feed back from your remote turn on source.

youre right, some how i missed the whole d3 thing. sorry.

install kit form scosche is fm2157b which is just a ford/mazda pocket. You can get the same thing at best buy 88-00-9000 for $21.99