I got a CD player from work today that I plan on putting in my 06 Tacoma. I got too use to the USB input in my last truck, and am badly missing it with the factory stereo in this truck... so I snagged this deal for $15, and order the single din dash kit this afternoon

But anywho, I've installed a LOT of stereos in my life. Usually on the constant power in line there's a fuse, and that's it. On this one though, there appears to be just a black box that holds some sort of coil or something. I've never seen anything like it on a CD player. Is this just some sort of noise suppressor or something? Would I be fine just lopping this box off the wire all together? If I need to use it, I'm going to have to solder a new wire end on it, because the guys who removed it from the car it came out of cut the wire right at the box










Here's the unit itself. I looked it up online, and all I could find was a user manual, but not any technical or installation manual. I also found out that this stereo use to retail around $300!







it's got one little flaw in the top left where the chrome is a little rubbed off, but I could car less...


oh and it also came with a Sirius and iPod interface adapter and the cables for it; about another $200 worth of hardware

 

$15= the seller was a tweeker

 

LOL, no that's $15 over the counter! I paid with a debit card! gotta love that employee discount working at an auto recycling yard D

 

how do you know that's not stolen? lol

edit: oh i see.

since it was so cheap bypass it and report back

 

Kind of looks like an amplifier. Maybe solder in some fresh wire and keep it there.

 

great, so I have bypass it and I have leave it


I think I'll go the safest route and just solder on some new wire so that it's still there like it was when I was new

tracking number shows my installation kit should be in tomorrow, so hopefully I'll have it installed Saturday! unless I get antsy and decide to put it in tomorrow afternoon, lol

 

From what i can see online, it looks like that box belongs on the harness. I would keep it as its there from the mfg. Purely a guess but, my vote is its a capacitor. Holds a small charge from your battery so when the system hits a loud note it doesn't try to pull all the voltage through your stock wiring. Can't think of anything else they would put on the primary power wire.

http://www.uneeksupply.com/Pioneer-D...ss_p_3546.html

seen here in another image of somebody for sale thread
http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/buy...-dash-kit.html

 

That box is a noise filter. A inductance coil you should just solder a wire to it to extend the yellow wire(batt+) it also should be fused a 15 amp fuse is what they usually have ,unless it has the fuse on the chassis by the wire harness plug. Good luck it was a great deal with the sat and iPod combo.

 

yeah I'll have to add on a fuse holder... probably get one and just solder one of the wires on the fuse holder right to it

there's a fuse on the ACC input, but not the constant for whatever reason but I assume it DID have one at one time and just got cut off...


thanks!

 

x2....

 

well I just picked up an inline fuse holder and soldered one end to the open wire, so I kept the box in-line so it's more "original"


and yes, I got antsy and put it in the truck today since the dash kit came in The color of the dash trim that came in the installation kit is a little "off", but it's allright... I like it!

 

Looks good dude!

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thanks

 

Just out of curiosity, what was your motivation for removing the stock headunit?

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the lack of a USB input pretty much

I got REALLY use to just throwing 300+ songs on my USB drive and plugging it into the stereo of my F150 and putting it on random... and only being able to put 20 songs on a CD and then having to juggle them while driving to find the one I want really bothers me, lol

 

Totally understandable.

I bought an iPod specifically to keep in my truck for the Aux port - I just hope the audio quality will be good enough.

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yeah this deck has 2 aux 3.5mm jacks on the back, but I just have them disabled right now because I don't have an cables to hook to them I plan on getting a pair of them later and routing one to the glove box (with some extra wire on that one so it can be pulled out and plugged into a laptop maybe ) and the other just into the center console

right now I just have the USB routed to the glove box, but I plan on routing that to the center console too

 

double check that one of those is not the Wired remote plug. I have yet to see a radio with dual 3.5 jacks on the back, not saying its not possible, just saying to check. Most radios will have one aux jack and one for the wired remote, so you can adapt steering wheel controls if you desire.

 

oh yeah I'm sorry, there's two 3.5mm jacks on the back of the unit, and one is definitely for stereo sound input (Aux1), and I guess the other is for a wired remote. but there's also what Pioneer is calling an IP Buss on the back that can have a dongle plugged into it with a left and right RCA end on them that can be used as an input, and it's calling that Aux2

and that being the case, I don't have the little RCA dongle, so I'll just run the one Aux1 input to the glove box (or center consol... undecided) and call it a day

 

Everybody loves a good dongle.

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