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Never mind. Turns out half the work was already done for me. All I had to do was run a jumper wire from the hole above the Mute wire to one of the grounded terminals on the 40Amp relay. That grounded the parking brake wire with the jumper, so I did not have to cut or move anything. I like it because now if I ever have to take the radio in for warranty work, I can just pull the jumper wire and there's no evidence that I hacked it.
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Please pardon my ignorance, but I am new to the whole aftermarket stereo field. I just had an X940BT put into my '10 Ram. It was installed by a national stereo chain, and I asked them to bypass the E-Brake. What they did was to put a 40AMP relay in the wiring, but it did not over ride the speed monitor, so my video and certain nav features still cut out when I start driving. Is anyone familiar with what exactly they did, and can I just move the mute wire up and ground it to unlock everything, or should I pull out the relay and run the bypass like has been described at length? I see where the e-brake wire plugs into the 40Amp relay, then it looks like a ground that jumps between 2 terminals, and a dark blue wire on the 4th terminal, but I'm not sure where that goes. I can snap a pic if that would help.
Thanks.
Dave
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Greetings. I just had an x940bt put into my '10 Ram, and I love it. I do have some questions about the bypass, etc, but I'll start a new topic where it is appropriate.
Dave
AVIC-X940BT Bypass Problem
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If you don't want to deal with pulling out the mute wire, you can also just run a jumper wire from the hole above the mute wire. Just strip about 1 to 1-1/2 off the end, and thread it through the hole so several of the wire strands (probably need about 4 or 5 threads) come out the little hole on the back of the plug, then fold them up and over the top of the plug, back towards the front, and plug the harness into the back of the radio. I believe this has been referred to as the redneck bypass, and there is a Youtube video out about it. That's how I did mine, and it works just fine.