Chris
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So after golf yesterday, it was time to indulge in two of my favorite things: Drinking beer and car audio. So I headed north to my buddy Tony's place, and enroute picked up some goodies. I've been slowly picking away at replacing my stereo (this is the first car I've ever had a stock system in for more than a month 
). The subwoofer (15" Kicker L7) and amp setup was done a while ago, so tonight we'll take care of the deck.
As such, we start rippin' shit apart, and dumping out the contents of my glove compartment and center console all over the place.
The proper tools. Instructions on tearing my car apart, and beer.
You can see the bass control knob in the glove box, which will eventually go away in lieu of the sub control on the deck.
So long, stock changer:
Keeping these close at hand..
We get to work:
Moving right along:
A brief intermission for more beer.
Now we're getting somewhere!
All out!
Old deck, new deck in the bracket:
Now to swap over my AC/Heater controls:
Done.
Behold my gay vent-mount holder. I have a ProClip on the way which will look a shitload better and actually integrate with my existing dash. Basically it's a $100 iPod mount, but it'll look much better than this hack setup. However, since it's not going to be here until Monday, the $9.99 special gets the /nod for now.
So we plug in the iPod cable (which also charges it):
Crimp up the last of the harness:
And the basic wiring is done.
Now to stuff it all back in here:
But first, we test, and it works.
As does this:
Yay!
Awww fuck. Since we do NOT want to do this again, and we're not doing the speakers/component amps until I'm back from Australia, I have an
. Unfortunately, it involves pulling the deck back out. So we do.
We hop in his wife's car:
And head to Wal-Mart:
To pick up the RCA cables and pre-run them out of the deck. That way when we run the front/rear/sub channels, the RCA's are already in the back of the deck.
We're rewarded for our prudent planning by this random chick with a fantastic ass.
Alrighty then, let's put that shit back in!
Gotta route the cables:
Getting late, but we're almost done!
Last bit of the trim goes back together, and reinstalling the seat heater controls:
And we're done! For now, anyway. The cables hanging out of the trim are out of sight now, coiled up in my glove box. The iPod cable itself will go under the right side knee-trim there and tuck up hidden into the ProClip holder when it gets here.
Tah-dah! One Alpine CDA-9855 with full iPod integration.
30GB of tunes completely controlled through the deck with all of the default iPod controls.
Blinky dash lights = better tone:
Let's have a look inside!
). The subwoofer (15" Kicker L7) and amp setup was done a while ago, so tonight we'll take care of the deck.As such, we start rippin' shit apart, and dumping out the contents of my glove compartment and center console all over the place.
The proper tools. Instructions on tearing my car apart, and beer.
You can see the bass control knob in the glove box, which will eventually go away in lieu of the sub control on the deck.
So long, stock changer:
Keeping these close at hand..
We get to work:
Moving right along:
A brief intermission for more beer.
Now we're getting somewhere!
All out!
Old deck, new deck in the bracket:
Now to swap over my AC/Heater controls:
Done.
Behold my gay vent-mount holder. I have a ProClip on the way which will look a shitload better and actually integrate with my existing dash. Basically it's a $100 iPod mount, but it'll look much better than this hack setup. However, since it's not going to be here until Monday, the $9.99 special gets the /nod for now.
So we plug in the iPod cable (which also charges it):
Crimp up the last of the harness:
And the basic wiring is done.
Now to stuff it all back in here:
But first, we test, and it works.
As does this:
Yay!
Awww fuck. Since we do NOT want to do this again, and we're not doing the speakers/component amps until I'm back from Australia, I have an
. Unfortunately, it involves pulling the deck back out. So we do.
We hop in his wife's car:
And head to Wal-Mart:
To pick up the RCA cables and pre-run them out of the deck.
That way when we run the front/rear/sub channels, the RCA's are already in the back of the deck.
We're rewarded for our prudent planning by this random chick with a fantastic ass.
Alrighty then, let's put that shit back in!
Gotta route the cables:
Getting late, but we're almost done!
Last bit of the trim goes back together, and reinstalling the seat heater controls:
And we're done! For now, anyway. The cables hanging out of the trim are out of sight now, coiled up in my glove box. The iPod cable itself will go under the right side knee-trim there and tuck up hidden into the ProClip holder when it gets here.
Tah-dah! One Alpine CDA-9855 with full iPod integration.
30GB of tunes completely controlled through the deck with all of the default iPod controls.
Blinky dash lights = better tone:
Let's have a look inside!
My old boss had the same setup as yours but with the touchscreen display, it was badass! 
Might just suck it up and buy it once I can afford to... it hurts being limited to the stock 6-disc changer. 
