So is there anyone with an AVH unit that this works for? It appears not.

AVH uses the micro bypass or a double pulse relay switch. Remember unit doesnt have NAV to see if the vehicle is in motion'

i grounded it to the radio ground and yes its solid. it only happened twice so far. yes mine kept the bypass after disconnecting the unit a few times.

AVH uses the micro bypass or a double pulse relay switch. Remember unit doesnt have NAV to see if the vehicle is in motion'

Yeah I understand all of that but that wasn't my question. Regardless Ive edited the title to get the point across to 4000 users.

Worked on 5000nex (I'm taking mine back for the 6000-8000nex*there is no HDMI on the 5000nex. And that means no app connection with Android.)

 

Step 1 ground parking brake wire

 

 

Quick question. I did a bypass on an AVIC D3 back in 2008 and don't remember exactly how you do this. Do you come straight off of the HU's harness and ground it or do you connect the green parking ground wire to the adaptor harness and then ground it? I'm leaning towards just grounding the green from the HU.

Thanks in advance!

Pardon the Newb question but how do you ground the parking break wire.  Any DVD head unit I've installed in the past I always had to hook up a bypass relay so I'm not quite clear on the specifics on how to do that with this head unit.  Appreciate the help.

Mark

Connect it or splice it into a ground wire from the head unit or nearby source.

Quick question. I did a bypass on an AVIC D3 back in 2008 and don't remember exactly how you do this. Do you come straight off of the HU's harness and ground it or do you connect the green parking ground wire to the adaptor harness and then ground it? I'm leaning towards just grounding the green from the HU.

 

Thanks in advance!

It doesn't matter, just ground the wire.

Connect it or splice it into a ground wire from the head unit or nearby source.

Again, my appologies - but do you mean the parking break wire coming from the wiring harness coming from the head unit?  Thanks.

Mark

Again, my appologies - but do you mean the parking break wire coming from the wiring harness coming from the head unit?  Thanks.

 

Mark

Yes. Ground the parking brake lead from the head unit. If you were to hook up the parking brake lead as instructed by Pioneer, it would be grounded whenever you engage the parking brake.

One wonders why Pioneer goes through the exercise of requiring it if they provide a software bypass.

That software bypass is meant for service centers and techs only. At least that's the plausible deneyability they use in court if it comes to legal action. We're not suppose to know about that so as far as Pioneer is concerned there is no bypass. This is also clears them and opens the liability solely on you when you smack into someone going down the road. Of course they will never admit in court that they intentionally leak the bypass info to the public.

Never mind, I got it working.  The bypass works on the 6000!

That software bypass is meant for service centers and techs only. At least that's the plausible deneyability they use in court if it comes to legal action. We're not suppose to know about that so as far as Pioneer is concerned there is no bypass. This is also clears them and opens the liability solely on you when you smack into someone going down the road. Of course they will never admit in court that they intentionally leak the bypass info to the public.

Given the propensity for victims to go after the deepest pockets available, it seems Pioneer has all of the legal protection of a fig leaf. They'd have to demonstrate why service centers and techs would need to bypass a safety feature in order to troubleshoot.

Given the propensity for victims to go after the deepest pockets available, it seems Pioneer has all of the legal protection of a fig leaf. They'd have to demonstrate why service centers and techs would need to bypass a safety feature in order to troubleshoot.

Well said...

All they would need to do is bring a brand new unit vs the unit in question and if yours plays regardless of driving while the new one doesn't they'd be free and clear.

Unfortunately this procedure does not work with the EU version of the 8000, the AVIC-F60DAB. I tried it several times but no luck. Any ideas or other experiences wit EU versions?

I've just installed the radio without test drive.. maybe the bypass is not needed for EU versions. I'll try tomorrow.

UPDATE: There's really no need for any manual input mentioned in post #1 for the AVIC-F60DAB unit. Only ground the parking brake.. that's it!

Unfortunately this procedure does not work with the EU version of the 8000, the AVIC-F60DAB. I tried it several times but no luck. Any ideas or other experiences wit EU versions?

I've just installed the radio without test drive.. maybe the bypass is not needed for EU versions. I'll try tomorrow.

did you ground the parking brake wire to the chassis?? or the ground of the harness??

I had no luck on a nex 4000. I tried it upon initial setup(forces you to pick a language first) unlike in the above video. I also tried it numerous times at startup, not at startup, no luck. I would safely say its a no go on the 4000nex...hopefully the micro bypass will do the trick?

I can confirm that the microbypass will work on the 4000NEX. Specifically, I used the bypass from DIYBYPASS.

Anything dealing with non AVIC units is off topic in this thread.

Thanks for the info. I'm up and running. Now I just need a Bluetooth, Ipod bypass...

Well you are in the bypass thread so what is the problem?

The bypass posted for this thread gives you full functions on the nex

The 4000 is from the NEX line up. Someone start a thread for the NON AVIC BYPASS UNITS

Thanks for the info on the bypass. It worked the first time on my 8000.

Worked like a charm on my 8000. Thank You.

Verified, works on the 7000. Just took a couple times to find the exact spot. Hopefully Pioneer doesn't disable this feature in the next firmware release.