I just recently upgraded to the Pioneer AVIC-F700BT and i love it. I never installed a radio in a car before and i wanted to try it with this one. I looked up all the install guides on here and the wiki and thought it was going to be a breeze, well without those i wouldnt of been able to do it, so thanks. The unit looks OEM with my blue conversion bc all of the lights in the whole car now match perfectly.

So anyway i got to work, i got a little nervous when i had to drill holes for the mount but it came out flawless, then i had to run a wire all the way to the rear reverse light and had to drill a hole thru the trunk to sneak the wire (that was a little nerve wrecking). The hardest part of it all was trying to stuff all the wires in. (its alot easier with an extra hand, esp when your trying to screw in the 2 ground wires).

After it was all done i had my brother turn to key to see if it worked and it did!!, i was extremely happy i didnt mess anything up. GPS worked perfect, bluetooth was great, and ipod is nice.

By the way i custom ran the ipod wire and cut out a hole in the console in the armrest so i never have to take my ipod out and you dont see 1 wire.

im in the process of taking all that nasty felt out of the center console, so there will be pics of it soon.

(does anyone know a good place to get cloth and a good spray adhesive to refinish the console)


OK this is for everyone asking what other things you will need with this install.

depending on the year of your car 03-05 or 06-08 you will need 2 things.

For 03-05:

1. Metra dash kit

http://cgi.ebay.com/Metra-99-7402-Ni...2em118Q2el1247

http://www.amazon.com/Metra-99-7402-.../dp/B0006Z9K28

2. Wiring harness

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Radio...spagenameZWD1V



For 06-08:

1. Metra dask kit

http://www.audio-discounters.com/99-7602.html

2. Wiring harness

http://cgi.ebay.com/06-NISSAN-350Z-C...2em118Q2el1247


FOR ALL

Ipod wire

http://www.amazon.com/Pioneer-CD-IU2...7142979&sr=8-1

Here are the pics (i also just got the Evo-R Titanium shift ****)

 

Nice!

 

looks nice! I was thinking about it but does yours take 2 minutes to boot up too?

 

Nice work!!

 

Dl the new firmware for it, it will make it boot faster, and help the BT. Also its a lot easier if you bypass it prior to installing (moving mute wire to an additional plug) so you only have to ground the reverse, and mute, instead of runnign it back.

 

its a great gui huh? i have the avicd3 but was mulling getting this, hope it turns out good for you

 

Looks pretty good, but one thing that really popped out for me, WTF is wrong with your armrest console? Looks like there's mold and looks pretty dang disgusting, you should clean it out once in a while...

 

^^^ +1 that **** looks gross! clean that for sure

 

its like old felt or something i dunno what i can do with it

 

Very nice.

How much did you get the unit for?

 

total was 577 for unit, harness and trim

 

Try some products, and scrub it out, steam vac, and dry it? Or see if you can take the actual felt off and replace it maybe.

 

would an 06+ center console fit in there instead? like the whole center unit

 

Is the volume control and those stuff on left side of steering wheel, work with your new stereo ??

 

i dont have the voume control on the steering wheel, but if you have it, it works.

you might need to buy an extra harness tho, im not sure.

 

I just bought one a 2 weeks ago, i might do the Avic f700bt bypass from avic411

 

what the heck happened to your console? other then that looks awesome love the blue conversion matches well.

 

wow, looks awesome! im actually looking to get the same headunit.

did you just buy the headunit, harness, and dashkit? im thinking about buying the easy plug-and-play harness (dont really care for the bypass), but i dont know if that works with this unit of not. are you running stock speakers also?

much appreciated if you could answer the couple questions

 

hey, how did you do the different colors on the gages and the A/C controls?

 

nvm, found it, sorry guys.