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Originally Posted by rabbitron
just installed the usa spec adapter... best of all i was able to install it in 20 minutes. the only thing i removed to gain access was the glovebox and then reached behind the HU and pushed the plug into the back.
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Originally Posted by rabbitron
i see you edited your post, but i'll reply to your original post... it took a few tries but i got it in. whole thing took about 20 minutes.
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rabbitron, you are and awful, AWFUL person!!!
I also had Chicago's original post in my inbox, BUT I read it AFTER I'd already ordered the USA*spec unit. I can now see why he wrote what he very sceptically wrote, having just installed the unit myself.
I DOES work folks. Fearing removing the HU, I was elated when I saw rabbitron's glorious 20 minute claim. I ordered the unit. It arrived today. I rushed home, imagining that in 20 minutes I'd be experiencing musical bliss, and folded down my glove compartment door (just pinch in the sides, to clear the rubber bumpers/stops, with no need to remove any screws), reaching up and over, to plug in the adapter, and be on my way. Um, NOT so fast. The plug and the socket have to be well aligned to mate. OK, that's not a problem. I have average-sized hands, and they're fairly nimble. This'll be a snap! Um, NO! It is a TIGHT fit, and the alignment took, oh... I'd say about 47-93 tries. At one point, just before I started chanting, "I will not cry. I WILL not cry. I will NOT CRY..." I was racking my brain, trying to think of friends with small children, that I could explain to them exactly what their little hands needed to do, in the bowels of my dash. Then, in one magical moment, it seated. "NO! Is it...? Oh, it couldn't be. I think it is. Yes, it's plugged in now. OK, now watch, I bet it won't work. I DOES! It WORKS!!!" You have to familiarize yourself with how the plug FEELS in your hand, to be sure of what you're blindly doing, when you're trying to plug it in properly. The way that I was using, and eventually worked, was to take the plug up, and over to the top of the headunit, ease it down the back of the unit, slightly tilted toward the final position, keep feeling for the socket, and the 2 plugs that it goes between, and cautiously attempt small plugging motions at the position, occasionally using the attached wires, to help in positioning, until you overshoot it, and are now "plugging" at the air under the unit, before trying it again.
There is a clip on the plug, but I never heard a "snap" to lock it in place. So, I pressed hard, to seat it well.
Oh, my apparently clumsy hands, got it installed in JUST under an hour.
Some things that bother me, are that the iPod seems to "stay on", and not go to sleep, when that car is turned off. It does pause, but never seems to go off, and I don't like the idea of it endlessly charging. When the car/radio is turned on, the "initialization" is a bit strange looking, on the iPod screen. I have it in the default "hybrid" mode, and it works well from the iPod, and does the basic functions that I'd want from the radio controls, although I'm not clear on the "folder" control, from the HU. I literally just did it, and then came in to post this (OK, so I'm actually supposed to be packing, and not installing, or posting, but that's another story). So, I'll have to play around with it more later.
Anyway, again, it CAN be done, it DOES work, and it sounds great so far. So, it's both with a little bit of frustrated hatred, along with a big helping of aural happiness, that I thank rabbitron for his recommendation.
