Stereo Instiallation?

Originally Posted by crash1369

Thanks for the help so far guys
All of my stuff is supposed to be here on Tuesday, so I am hoping to install it all on Wednesday morning. Obviously I would like to make the install as easy and smooth as possible, these things seem to have a way of getting out of control and a simple project ends up taking three days... which would be Christmas

Any last minute tips or suggestions, wire routing, etc?

I am still not sure what I am going to do with the antennas, I know they always recommend putting them on the roof by the back windshield. Besides looking stupid I have a convertible so that is not an option. As suggested I am planing on putting them under the grilles on top of the dash, hopefully I will be able to feed the wires through. Obviously they will need a clear line of sight though and the grilles seem like they would be pretty obtrusive or is the plastic transparent to the Satellite/ GPS signal? Do these antennas need any sort of a ground plane, or otherwise need to be stuck to metal or are they only magnetic for ease of instillation?

I'm not to worried about the head unit, that's usually pretty straight forward. But what about the steering wheel control adapter, does that have to be wired separately or does it connect into the wiring harness or something somewhere? I will need to hook up a power and ground right, can I just tap off the wiring wires for the radio? Any chance you know which wires those would be? Any problem with using those fancy vampire taps radioshack has?



Axxess told me there is a problem with some Kenwood radios and I will need to connect a 12ohm resistor in order for the adapter to program correctly? Should I even bother, in reading through other threads it seems everyone ends up programming it manually anyway?

The only other thing I'll need to figure out is where to put the camera I guess and how to get the wires through and up to the radio