I have a 2013 Fit - I installed a Pioneer MVH-X360BT Digital Media Receiver
to get bluetooth for phone calls. The install went well and everything is working.
My issue is that now that I don't have the stock radio anymore, the USB charger/connector in the upper glove box no longer has power.
There is a disconnected cable coming from the USB cable from the glove box that is just sitting behind the fancy new radio, but nowhere to connect it

Can anyone help me find a way to restore power to the the USB cable so that it can charge things? I don't need it to connect to anything, I just want to use the cable as a charger.

Thanks

 

Doesnt the new headunit have it's own USB cable coming directly out the back?

Just remove your original cable and route the new USB cable to where the old one was.

 

No USB cable coming out the back of this unit - it has a USB thing in the front but my goal is to return power to the glovebox USB cable.
Thanks

 

Ah I see. I don't think there will be any way of doing that then since the rear connector for the stock USB cable is probably proprietary.

 

the original USB cable has a proprietary plug that went to the USB module on the OE radio, which in turn had a proprietary plug going to the radio.

There's no way to make it work short of cutting open the cable and carefully determining the power wires, and providing a switched 5v power supply that is fed from 12vDC.

You're better off buying an aftermarket USB power plug, connecting this to 12v behind the dash, and running a standard USB cable from this through the upper glove box.

Not sure it's worth the trouble for a charging point that doesn't connect it to the radio for playing through the new head.

 

What Steve244 said.

Or a better option - go with this Pioneer for just $30 more: Pioneer MVH-X560BT Digital media receiver at Crutchfield.com Essentially the same unit but with a rear USB.