Maestro and Kenwood Sync Retention
06-02-2014, 08:47 AM
#81
F150 Forum
Thread Starter
I have connected the maestro to the ford harness and the only thing left to connect is the pink cable to the sync cable.
Can u please tell me which one is the sync cable on the truck? The only one left is one that looks like the antenna (but is not, the antenna I already know which one it is). F150 2010 FX4 sync no nav. Kenwood 271, maestro & ford harness
Can u please tell me which one is the sync cable on the truck? The only one left is one that looks like the antenna (but is not, the antenna I already know which one it is). F150 2010 FX4 sync no nav. Kenwood 271, maestro & ford harness
Hi,
On page 12 of install guide is wire chart for your truck. Wire is blue/orange and the Sync module is easily accessed by removing the tray on top of dash.
You will need to cut this wire and connect the pink/red to the side going into the car (not the side going into the sync module). Leave the side going into the sync module disconnected as shown on page 34 of guide.
Hope this helps. If not, please call tech support.
Cheers,
[QUOTE=12V Guy;3526042]Hi,
06-28-2014, 10:29 AM
#84
Ok, I read through all of this and read the website and I still have a few questions.
Based on my reading: with the appropriate adapters/connections and a kenwood receiver, HVAC control buttons will become inoperable when replacing the factory HU, correct?
1) is there a way to retain the physical button controls? If no, does anyone know of a replacement dash to eliminate the buttons as if they were never there?
2) does the factory back up camera and parking sensors continue to operate as with the factory HU?
3) does the system control the heated and cooled seats correctly? E.g. Can control the three levels of heat and cool.
Relevant data: vehicle 1: 2012 F150 FX4 w/ Sony Premium Sound
vehicle 2: 2010 GT500 w/ Shaker 500 and factory Nav.
So my mustang only has the HVAC controls I'm worried about. My truck has the backup camera/parking sensors and heated/cooled seats as well as HVAC I'm worried about.
Based on my reading: with the appropriate adapters/connections and a kenwood receiver, HVAC control buttons will become inoperable when replacing the factory HU, correct?
1) is there a way to retain the physical button controls? If no, does anyone know of a replacement dash to eliminate the buttons as if they were never there?
2) does the factory back up camera and parking sensors continue to operate as with the factory HU?
3) does the system control the heated and cooled seats correctly? E.g. Can control the three levels of heat and cool.
Relevant data: vehicle 1: 2012 F150 FX4 w/ Sony Premium Sound
vehicle 2: 2010 GT500 w/ Shaker 500 and factory Nav.
So my mustang only has the HVAC controls I'm worried about. My truck has the backup camera/parking sensors and heated/cooled seats as well as HVAC I'm worried about.
07-18-2014, 07:27 PM
#85
12-02-2014, 11:21 AM
#87
F150 Forum
Thread Starter
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).
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12-02-2014, 11:23 AM
#88
F150 Forum
Thread Starter
Ok, I read through all of this and read the website and I still have a few questions.
Based on my reading: with the appropriate adapters/connections and a kenwood receiver, HVAC control buttons will become inoperable when replacing the factory HU, correct?
1) is there a way to retain the physical button controls? If no, does anyone know of a replacement dash to eliminate the buttons as if they were never there?
NO idea.
2) does the factory back up camera and parking sensors continue to operate as with the factory HU?
Yes.
3) does the system control the heated and cooled seats correctly? E.g. Can control the three levels of heat and cool.
See below.
Relevant data: vehicle 1: 2012 F150 FX4 w/ Sony Premium Sound
vehicle 2: 2010 GT500 w/ Shaker 500 and factory Nav.
So my mustang only has the HVAC controls I'm worried about. My truck has the backup camera/parking sensors and heated/cooled seats as well as HVAC I'm worried about.
Based on my reading: with the appropriate adapters/connections and a kenwood receiver, HVAC control buttons will become inoperable when replacing the factory HU, correct?
1) is there a way to retain the physical button controls? If no, does anyone know of a replacement dash to eliminate the buttons as if they were never there?
NO idea.
2) does the factory back up camera and parking sensors continue to operate as with the factory HU?
Yes.
3) does the system control the heated and cooled seats correctly? E.g. Can control the three levels of heat and cool.
See below.
Relevant data: vehicle 1: 2012 F150 FX4 w/ Sony Premium Sound
vehicle 2: 2010 GT500 w/ Shaker 500 and factory Nav.
So my mustang only has the HVAC controls I'm worried about. My truck has the backup camera/parking sensors and heated/cooled seats as well as HVAC I'm worried about.
In your truck, the HVAC controls get mounted into the new kit. Maestro not involved with this and no HAVC on radio screen.
In your Mustang, we can hypothetically retain and control everything, but our dash kit is only designed for the non-navigation vehicles. Sorry.
12-02-2014, 06:40 PM
#89
So, I installed my Kenwood DNX690HD and Maestro. Everything worked great. I took the dash apart to install my back up cam, and while I was in there, I was going to reflash the module to change the seek button on the steering wheel to run through presets instead of individual channels, which apparently you cannot do.
The problem is, now that I put it back together, the my sub and rear speakers no longer work when listening through Sync BT Audio. They work fine on Sirius, and I don't know about FM since I do t listen to it. Everything else is fine.
I've gone through every setting I can, and cannot make it work. I really don't want to have to pull everything back out, but certainly will if it means I can have full audio again.
I have the radio and maestro as noted above, infinity components in the front and coax in the rear all running on a JL 360/4, a JL sub running on a JL 360/2 through a Kicker crossover. No OEM wiring is used for anything more than power and ground for the head unit. All of the wires are hooked to the Maestro off of the kenwood, but I ran speaker wires from the amps to all of the speakers and zip tied the oem connectors out of the way. I've had the speakers and amps installed for about a year on the oem head unit and it worked great. It also worked great for about 4 days after the kenwood/maestro install.
Any advice?
The problem is, now that I put it back together, the my sub and rear speakers no longer work when listening through Sync BT Audio. They work fine on Sirius, and I don't know about FM since I do t listen to it. Everything else is fine.
I've gone through every setting I can, and cannot make it work. I really don't want to have to pull everything back out, but certainly will if it means I can have full audio again.
I have the radio and maestro as noted above, infinity components in the front and coax in the rear all running on a JL 360/4, a JL sub running on a JL 360/2 through a Kicker crossover. No OEM wiring is used for anything more than power and ground for the head unit. All of the wires are hooked to the Maestro off of the kenwood, but I ran speaker wires from the amps to all of the speakers and zip tied the oem connectors out of the way. I've had the speakers and amps installed for about a year on the oem head unit and it worked great. It also worked great for about 4 days after the kenwood/maestro install.
Any advice?
12-02-2014, 06:47 PM
#90
Senior Member
Heel70 - I and others just paralleled a coax to the existing circuit and it works fine. Then you have the image in both places. Handy when you want to use the mirror. Also Ford keeps the image on in the mirror so you can pull up and take another shot at backing.
I bought a 6ft or so composite video cable and used that.
Also note that the camera is always on. So you can activate it on the HU anytime the key is in run.
I bought a 6ft or so composite video cable and used that.
Also note that the camera is always on. So you can activate it on the HU anytime the key is in run.
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