Parking break and Illumination question
 

I have the Metra Kit, and just got done installing my avn 5510.


None of these are working but are hooked up.

All of the orange and orange whites are together, and the parking break wire is attached to the green wire coming out of the metra kit. Is this correct?

How do I do a parking break by pass?

Thanks

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i want to know as well

Soo no one knows??

Put a switch on the parking brake wire so you can control if it completes the circuit or not? You're being awful vague so it's hard to help since I don't have the kit.

Unwrap the connections. Use a multimeter on the connection to see what's going on. The parking brake wire should sit at +12V under normal conditions. Then when you pull the parking brake, it should drop to zero. The orange wire and orange/white wires are NOT the same. One is dimmer and one is illumination. Usually solid orange is illumination, but I've seen them swapped on more than one occasion. Usually the illumination wire will read zero until you flip on your headlights. Then it jumps to +12V.

If you do the above tests and see that they are working properly, then obviously you have a setting wrong on your new headunit. Maybe the illumination feature is turned off or something. As for the parking brake, your particular headunit may require you to engage parking brake, disengage, re-engage the brake for it to activate. MANY of them do that now. Tell us what headunit it is and we can help you with that further.

OK I figured it out.


None of the oranges are supposed to be tied together as told by the Metra Tech support. So I had to snip them all apart and replace the 10 fuse under the hood for illumination and it worked.

As for the parking break all I have to do for my head unit is attach the parking break wire to my ground.

Anyone know where the speed sensor wire is??

My GPS is a tid bit laggy

Should be right in the Metra harness. Was in my Corksport harness atleast.

Again, the fuse blew because you tied the dimmer and illumination wires together. Connect the solid orange to the new headunit's illumination wire and everything should work fine. Leave the orange/white wire isolated. As of now, the display is gonna be awfully bright at night.

I'll re check the metra book.
Yeah the screen isn't dimming at all.
So just connect the solid oranges and I should be all set with my illumination? Thanks man

Yup. Double check in the Metra owners manual that solid orange is "illumination." It almost always is, but I've seen them swapped on certain Metra harnesses I've used before. Multiple times.

If you cannot find that info in the manual, just connect them. The worst that could happen is that you blow that same fuse again.

OK my illumination is all hooked up along with my speed sensor.

Thanks!!

One last question, I used the rca method for hooking up my speakers and I get a slight "humm" noise. I have the avn5510 touch screen headunit and if I shut the screen off it goes away.

The wires are butspliced and electrical taped together.

Try touching a wire from the "outside" or "barrel" part of the RCA connection to ground. Play the music with the screen on and see if you still get the hum. If not, solder it on and make it permanent. People have complained about Pioneer's RCA connections for years. I've had a couple issues in my shop as well.

Are you using any aftermarket amps?

No after market amps yet.

Next time I feel like taking my head unit out I'll solder them and butt splice them.