Maestro and Kenwood Sync Retention
#91
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.
#92
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.
#97
Senior Member
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
#99
Senior Member
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.
#100
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.