MikeAWood

UGH!! Since you and I have similiar setups, I am hoping maybe you wouldn't mind comparing notes. I just put a z130BT in my '04 4Runner Limited (w/ JBL Synthesis). I used the Scosche TA07SR to adapt the system to the JBL sub. I actaully have a few problems with this setup. These aren't related to the Pioneer so much as the way the JBL adapter(s) work. Or quite possibly, my problem is totally different than yours. I have a post-navigation "bump" in sound after she stops talking and the music restarts. Anything below 12 or so on volume fades out all the rear speakers. (Except on USB

Works great in Los Angeles, CA. I installed mine Thursday night and used it on my way to and from work on friday. I had an Avic-D3 with XM Navtraffic before. This seems almost the same to me. Though I haven't really dug into the navigation yet. I haven't figured out how to look at the details for the incident yet. But i suspect its in there somewhere.

I plugged my Zen Vision W into the AV1 input on the rear of the unit and hid the cable under the center console. (I used the AV cable that came with the unit). Works great.

Mine does the same thing. I think the button only activates if you have a route selected. (Cause that is normally how it works from the map screen,otherwise it just shows you traffic incidents in the area).

Just thinking outloud here... Apple sells a A/V Composite cable that would work with the A/V inputs on the AVIC. couldn't someone just hack the pioneer cable and make a new apple pioneer hybrid cable to make it work? I assume since the apple cable includes the "Authorization" chip in it, maybe someone can wire it up to work? Then again, it's probably using the data connection to talk to the "Auth" chip and it couldn't talk to the AVIC and the "Auth" chip at the same time...hum... Well regardless, you can still playback the video, just have to swap the connectors. (yeah, I know it s

Might be me, but my coloring is backwards from that, during the day, it's white and at night the ground is a brownish color. Assuming they'd want the display dimmer during the nighttime, that makes more sense. If you change the nightime setting back to normal (where it just dims) does it get darker or brighter when you turn the lights on and off? (i can't remember where the "nighttime" setting is off the top of my head). Mine is brighter with the lights off. when you turn the lights on, the display dims. Maybe you need to find a different wire for your illumination. There are a few peo

The distance differences you mention are probably "as the crow flies" as was mentioned above. I'll pay closer attention when I plot a new route over a longer distance and see if that is the case. If the final number still is off after the route display is up, then maybe she took you the long way. Not being familiar with the highways you are reffering to, I can't comment on them, but as you'll see by my attempt to hijack your thread below, some of the routing decisions might be based on freeway vs highway vs roads and the fact that it treats them with slightly different priority because it wi

I've only had mine a few days and from what I can tell, the navtraffic downloads kinda slowly from the XM sats...so basically if you give it a minute it might/might not have more info from the sats. You'll notice this on the traffic lists too, the update button pops up from time to time. Typically mine has been doing this right as I get in the truck after being on for the first few minutes. My guess is that to keep the displays faster and not tax the CPU, the update to the display only happens when you go into the screens or when you ask it to update. But you're right, it's a lil goofy.

I mounted mine here on my Tacoma back in 2005 and haven't had any trouble with it. In fact now that the antenna is dirty, it doesn't even stand out. I put my D3 in last weekend and mounted the GPS antenna right next to it and it works fine there as well. ok..I am retarded and can't get the picture to work.. blah... basically it is on the front fascia piece under the windshield where the windshield wipers mount. Good part is that it blends in nicely with the truck and unless you knew to look, you'd probably overlook it.

The green and yellow connectors are from the olden days. (thinks back with fondness). Originally (I think) the terrrestrial and sat signals came in from the antenna seperately. the older Pioneer units had two connectors, but I am not sure if they'll support the 16 chars vs the older 8char displays (or any of the nav units for that matter). i know that I originally had a GEX-P903 plugged into my DEH-7500MP and it had the two plugs. I even had that ugly Terk antenna that always seemed to work great! i couldn't find any pictures of the unit, but my guess is that is what those two antenna conn