I finished installing my 8000 into my FX4 over the weekend and thought I would do quick write up. I'm not a very verbose person so the pictures will have to do most of the talking.

The install consisted of the following:

AVIC-8000NEX Head Unit

iDatalink Maestro RR interface

iDatalink F01 Wiring Harness

Scosche Dash Kit

Scosche and factory faceplates.

I didn't like the flat black so I decided to paint it.

I scuffed it up so the paint would stick better.

Here it is ready for paint.

The paint didn't come out as good as I would have liked. It got some dust in it and I didn't have time to sand and recoat.

To install the radio I took my dash apart

and I wired up harness.

Here is the radio on for the first time in the truck. Sorry for the dark picture, I was doing a bunch of the work at night.

Here it is all back together.

I tried to tap into my stock Sync microphone (sorry no photos of that). And after many frustrating hours of tracing wires and trying different combinations I couldn't get a good signal so I just used the mic that came with the 8000. I decided to put it in the upper right corner of the instrument cluster.

I also made a custom iPhone mount that goes in the centerconsole tray right in front of the shifter.

I made it out of some scrap wood

Cut a hole in the tray for the cable.

Did a little sanding and such to make it fit.

Painted it black to match.

And installed it in the truck.

It works pretty well and you don't really notice it when the iPhone is not plugged in.

That's about all, you can see more photos at http://s1089.photobucket.com/user/ShireLover08/library/FX4%20Upgrades/Radio%20Upgrade. It took much longer that I hoped it would mostly because of my wild goose chase to try and use the factory mic and because I wanted to paint the faceplate, but I enjoy tearing my truck apart and I am happy with the radio so it was worth it. Also I tapped into my factory rear view camera so now I have my rear view camera on my rear view mirror and radio.

Thanks for reading.

Looks great, awesome job

Nice work!

I like the dock. I was thinking of making a custom dock but on a mount. I don't really have a good place to integrate it. Might have to rethink it now!

I like the dock. I was thinking of making a custom dock but on a mount. I don't really have a good place to integrate it. Might have to rethink it now!

I was thinking about using a different dock but I didn't want anything bulky showing in the truck when I didn't have my phone docked. I got the idea for the dock i made from a youtube video from a guy who had done something similar so I can't take credit for coming up the idea. Nice thing is that if I want to get rid of the dock I can just remove it and put the rubber insert back into the tray and no one will be able to see the hole I cut in the bottom of the tray

Awesome job. I like it.

Great idea with the phone dock. If I had somewhere to do that in my Mazda I would have done something similar as well.

Look into www.proclipusa.com

I looked at the proclip before I made my own dock. The proclip looks like a well thought out dock but I wanted something that would "disappear" in my truck when I wasn't using it.

I have a 2010 F250 and want to install this HU and want to have the backup camera displayed on the HU.  What did you have to do to hook up the camera?  Does it automatically come on when you put the truck in reverse?

Looks amazing! Question for you--how exactly did you cut out the hole in the wooden iPhone mount for the Lightning connector?

Nice job, it looks good in your dash. Does the microphone pick up your voice well enough in that spot?