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Hi all.

Just installed my old doube din pioneer head unit. With the jdm facia kit, so the buttons look legit and all looks very nice!

Gps screen and controllers fit very nicely.

Just for anyones information, I bought the Metra 70-7550 wiring harness. Which is suited for the non bose system. Installed it, hooked up all the wiring to the pioneer wiring. Fired it up and holy sweet mother of god!

The sound that comes out of those speakers is absolutely incredible, I know what having a sub or two sounds like and this sounds exactly like having a single sub blarring away in the back.

It seems using this harness would bypass the bose amp, so I'm not entirely sure whats running what. But for anyone ever wandering what the sound quality is like with stock everything but headunit. Heres your answer!

You can buy the wiring harness which uses the bose amp, which is about 40 bucks delivered...Metra was 6 bucks!

Anyone have any experience using the stock amp with that harness? Love to hear how your install went.

Cheers all!

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I believe the difference with the 'bose' version of the interface, is it reduces the level of the HU speaker outputs to suit the bose amp input. the non-bose interface does NOT bypass the bose amp

For the Metra

http://www.ebay.com/...984.m1497.l2649

For the Facia Kit (best quality) Better than that metra crap they sell....

http://cgi.ebay.com/...em=261056734411

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The Facia kit appears yellow. Believe me in saying that its not, it almost matches the silver stock. I think you can get the silver, however i like the different contrast in colour.

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For the Metra

http://www.ebay.com/...984.m1497.l2649

For the Facia Kit (best quality) Better than that metra crap they sell....

http://cgi.ebay.com/...em=261056734411

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The Facia kit appears yellow. Believe me in saying that its not, it almost matches the silver stock. I think you can get the silver, however i like the different contrast in colour.

hey mate, whats the difference between yours and the metra kit? looks the same to me...but the metra is only $250 delivered...

cheers

Dont the facia buttons illuminate?

The buttons do illuminate very nicely!!! And very bright i think, reason they weren't on was the headlights weren't turned on.

And the metra one has that disgraceful ugly ac controller. This one is exactly! the same as the stock and the buttons press and feel really nice.

And yeah, i bought the stickers off ebay somewhere! 20 bucks delivered i believe....Only thing is, you lose the illumination, no biggy really.

That song is the sex!

PS that song sounds unbelievable in this car! With that unit it really makes it sound like theres a sub. So worth the price.

if he has a Bose system.. he does have a sub.. unless he has removed it??

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