Anyone Upgrade From a D1 to F-Series?

Posted Sep 14, 2009 · 04:05 UTC#1

Has anyone done an upgrade from a D1 to F-series? My mom had the D1 professionally installed in her G35 and now the screen is starting to exhibit digitizer drift. Figured It'd be better to upgrade to a F-series than to replace it with another D1. Does anyone know if I can re-use the pre-existing wiring from my D1 and just plug n play a F-Series?

Posted Sep 15, 2009 · 00:34 UTC#2

yes I upgraded from a D1 to a F90BT.

No it is not just plug and play, the wire harness is different. It wasn't that difficult to swap out though. I just sat the two harnesses side by side and as I disconnected a wire I hooked it up to the appropriate wire on the new harness.

Posted Sep 15, 2009 · 03:20 UTC#3

Hmm.. I should be able to handle the harness. What about the sattelite receiver? I know the D1 and D3 used different connectors.

Posted Sep 15, 2009 · 04:32 UTC#4

I went from the D3 to the F90 and the main black plug were exactlly the same. But the D1 might be different.

Posted Sep 15, 2009 · 04:34 UTC#5

Going from a D1 to an F Series will require all new connections. (Harness and GPS Antenna)

Posted Sep 15, 2009 · 05:09 UTC#6

you can use your GPS Antenna if you remove the plastic housing from the end, bin using mine now for a few weeks no issues, if you hook up a backup camera your not gonna like it the D1/BC2 set up showed much nicer then my f700tb/BC2

Posted Sep 15, 2009 · 06:22 UTC#7

I just replaced a d3 with a f700bt in my girlfriends SUV. The harness was plug and play. I did have to pull the VSS wire from the harness & put into the new f series harness. I also did the same thing with taking off the grey fakra & swapping it with the green fakra adatper for the gps.