DB,
Thank you. My parking brake stays on all of the time no matter what I do. What I do get is the parking break warning.
Thats good, if you want to get rid of the warning now you have to hit the recessed (reset) button to the right of the eject button. But until you fix the second wire it will come right back when you start driving.
I had the install done friday night and when I did the 3 flashes of lights I could get the nav functions to work, but when I started playing the Dvd player it came with you are not allowed to watch the Dvd player while moving and then it would cut out.
This is because when you parking brake is grounded it interferes with the flashing of the lights, and no matter what you can't watch DVD's while moving. You would have to unground the parking brake and reset the unit (as above) before the flashing would work again.
What color is the speed sensor wire coming out of the AVIc-z1.
I don't remember it's in the manual. Pink seems to stick in my mind, but I don't remember, look in the installation manual. Look for VSS.
Or download the manuals here
http://www.avic411.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=351
And look them up. I don't have them convenient.
My Z1 is a refurbished unit does that matter?
Shouldn't. Only thing might be the update might already have been installed depending on how it was refurbed. But if flashing the lights worked before, it was not updated.
DB,
One more thing, when you you say on your site to ground this pin (Connector 2) do you mean I take a wire out of the big whte plastic plug, and stick the yellow wire into that actual pin the bottom far right pin? then take that yellow wire and splice it into a black ground wire somewhere else on the vehicle?
Unfortunately I don't know how to say it any better than I say it on my site.
Look on the back of the Z1, there are 3 main connectors.
As you are looking at it from the rear, the connector on the bottom right (closest to the FM antenna plug) is labeled on the back of the Z1 as "connector 2".
The 4 right most locations in that connector DO NOT have wires in them.
You need to add a wire to this position and ground it as well.
Personally I took the "cell phone mute" wire out of "connector 1" by taking a jewlers screw driver and lift up on the white plastic connector part just behind the "metal tang" in the connector. Some times with these connectors, you push on the metal tang to get the wire out, with these connectors, lift up on the plastic tang retainer, don't push down on the tang. It's much easier. I then inserted the cell phone mute wire into this position and grounded it.
You need to take a wire out of one of the identical white plastic connectors which you are not using and relocate it to the location I indicate. You want to extract the wire and the metal terminal crimped on the end of it. Both of those have to be relocated to the new location in connector 2. Then when it's inserted into that location and the snap is heard, ground that wire.
If my parking break is always staying on in the hardware settings no matter what how many times I lift it up and down, what else should I do to check my connections?
The "second wire".
I use NERO and I have the AvicBlueTooth Iso sitting on my desktop. It is one of two states 1. in a folder that needs to be unzipped. Should I unzip it and then drag and drop it into a the E Drive where I have a CD RW disk waiting for it?
If you downloaded this zip file
http://www.sminntech.com/AvicBluetoothFix.zip
Then you want to unzip that to a folder on your computer. It will give you an ISO file. That's what you want to burn.
Or should I leave it unzipped and drag and drop that into the Drive E with a CD RW disk waiting?
In windows no, actually in nero no as well.
Can you give me the exact steps to burn it using Nero 7? I've tried buring it many different ways and I cant get my Avic z1 to update. I push on the map button, I'm already displayi9ng the map screen when I load it, I ve tried getting it to update from every imaginable screen and no matter how I do it iot wont read the bluetooth update cd.
Unzip the ZIP file to put the ISO file on your machine somewhere in a directory.
Open nero burning rom, not the smart start or anything like that. Open Nero Burning Rom.
If you get a smaller "new compilation" wizard hit cancel so you have a large blank gray screen.
Click on RECORDER and then on BURN IMAGE.
Browse to that image and let-er-rip.
When it's done if you want to make sure it worked, stick it back into a cd drive and look at the drive. Does it have multiple sub directories and tons of files (100's or so)? Good. Just to make sure everything is well, highlight one of those files and then hit CTRL-A to select them all. Then right click and hit copy. Then go to your hard drive and make a new directory somewhere and right click in there and hit paste. Make sure the pc copies all the files from the CD to the folder. If so you can delete that folder, it was just to check that all the files can be read off that disk. If it fails for a read error, you need to burn it slower or something, better for your PC to get a read error when just copying the files to a folder for a test than your Z1 to get stuck in a read error which won't let you use it until you get a good disk. If all files copy over and no read errors, it's good to go.
Then insert into the Z1 and it should update.
