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Old 12-02-2014, 07:01 PM
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If you purchased the Maestro RR unit and the Ford harness, the install is pretty straight forward. Just installed almost the same setup last weekend. Splice wire color for wire color from the kenwood harness into the idatalink vehicle specific wiring harness. Other than that there are just a few wires that need to be connected to the OBDII harness and I think in your case since you have a 2010 one to the sync unit. Not to bad of a install. Pretty good pinout schematic for your vehicle on the website. Most annoying part of the whole install was removing the passenger side air vent molding, which requires removing 3 bolts from the pass airbag assembly and popping it out a little to get to the top screw that holds it in place...overall not to much of a problem or pain with the install.
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Originally Posted by bigburns12
Is there any write ups on this installation? Picked up this unit yesterday. DNX890HD, T harness, maestra,
2010 FX4 w/o nav
If you purchased the Maestro RR unit and the Ford harness, the install is pretty straight forward. Just installed almost the same setup last weekend. Splice wire color for wire color from the kenwood harness into the idatalink vehicle specific wiring harness. Other than that there are just a few wires that need to be connected to the OBDII harness and I think in your case since you have a 2010 one to the sync unit. Not to bad of a install. Pretty good pinout schematic for your vehicle on the website. Most annoying part of the whole install was removing the passenger side air vent molding, which requires removing 3 bolts from the pass airbag assembly and popping it out a little to get to the top screw that holds it in place...overall not to much of a problem or pain with the install.
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FWIW I never had to remove the pass side vent trim piece. Just lifted it out of the way.
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Originally Posted by 12V Guy
Website is correct. People going this route are having custom dash panels fabricated or making the stock one work (looks kind of bad, but people are doing).
Thanks for the reply. I'm going to go ahead and do the swap with the factory panel for now and fab something up later when I decide what I want to do with it. Or the wife makes me change it sooner.
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Any one have an iPhone 6 and an 890hd?
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Nope sorry. I still have another year on my Droid HD before I can even think about a phablet, I personally wouldn't bother with just an iphone but the 6+ may be interesting when I can swap out.
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Originally Posted by Heel70
BigRed or anyone for that matter, just installed a Kenwood 691hd unit in my 2012 last weekend and love it. Looking to integrate backup cam on this HU. I understand the harness from the camera is driver side kick panel just beside the parking brake. Just looking for a little advise as far as connecting it to the head unit, it's a thin coax im guessing? Can I use a RCA cable from the HU and just cut and rewire into the Kenwood unit? Appreciate the input
My back-up cam came with the harness that plugged into the head unit. I bought mine from camera source who is a vendor in this site. As such, I unfortunately can't answer your question.
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Like Big Red said. I would think there is a correct harness to avoid any cutting and splicing.
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The only way to use the factory cam with that head unit is to get to the video signal. That is in the harness on the drivers side kick panel. It goes thru a ~20 pin connector. There is a lot of other stuff in that connector. Unless you de-pin the connector, you'll have to splice.
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Any links to the wiring harness for the aftermarket HU for backup camera? I looked at the website just noticed the complete kits, no separate harness. Don't really mind hooking into the harness just would rather keep everything stock as possible.


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