Cool Cat

uhh, you answered your own question. IT SAYS "illumination/dash light" what do you think that means?

 

Yes, but the wire color doesn't match up. I wanted to ask people who know more than I do if that's the correct way to hook it up. All of the other wires go to their matching wires, going that way would hook it up to the one labeled "dimmer".

I've searched and searched and searched and I can't find the answer to my question, so I'm starting a new thread. If there's a search guru out there who can find this answered somewhere already then I apologize, but I couldn't find it and I've been trying different searches all day.

 

I'm trying to figure out where to connect my N1's ILL wire, which is orange with a white stripe. The wiring harness I've got for my Pilot has two wires that seem that they may be correct. One is orange with no stripe marked "illumination/dash light", the other is orange with a white stripe marked "dimmer". Which is the correct one? Based on the name I'd suspect its the one marked "illumination/dash light", but based on wire color I'd think it goes with the "dimmer" wire. The installation manual only says to put it to the "lighting switch terminal", which doesn't help at all.

 

Can anyone help? Thanks in advance!

I'm not currently having any issues with my N1. I'm moving it from the car its been installed in for about 3 1/2 years into my new Pilot. I'm considering taking it apart to solder in the jumper bypass.

Here's my question.

If I open it up and solder the jumper, will Pioneer still honor the recall on the ribbon cable if that problem crops up later on?

I don't see any kind of "in warranty" qualifier on their web site. Since my N1 is way out of warranty the modification I want to do shouldn't have any effect on the ribbon cable, but I'm worried that if I do any kind of modification at all to the unit they may blame the failure of the cable (if it ever fails) on the fact that I've taken it apart myself and then refuse to replace the cable.

Can I just plug a microphone into the mic jack on the back of the N1 or does it require more than that? Is there something special about the included remote that makes it work?

Voice recognition would be nice, but I don't really want to spend another $70 on it, I'd rather get a backup camera (which I also can't afford right now).

I'm moving my N1 into my "new" Honda Pilot, so I thought I might take one of the microphones I have laying around and wire it in if it would work, as long as I'm installing it anyway.

Is the wiring the same for an '03 Pilot EX?

I'm moving my AVIC-N1 from my '98 CR-V into my "new" '03 Pilot and I don't have the service manual yet to find the wires myself.

Thanks!