Pioneer DMH-WC6600NEX Install: Subaru BRZ Wiring, Parking Brake Wire and Mounting Problems

0:00What's up guys, it's your boy John and we're back again with another video on the Pioneer head head unit

0:04Now we have everything kind of set up and laid out right here

0:07We have the microphone the mounting brackets we have, it's going to be kind

0:30how to mount USB C female to USB C, USB female,

0:37USB type A female into USB type C male,

0:42and then we have unit itself.

0:44This is the 6600NX, the tablet style.

0:50And then I have the metric kit there. the,

0:52so this was, actually really on easy to wire up.

0:55Now, I go through head units a lot,

0:57so what I usually do is I just twist tie it,

0:59and then I put some electric tape

1:00so that's how I did it and then you know

1:03that's just I'll link down below on where to

1:06where to

1:09Now this ends from Pioneer and this end is for your car

1:13in this case to be a

1:15usually works for

1:17so, but this would be the

1:29the black to this pin and yeah you're pretty much off to the races we can

1:30We have accessories, mutes, AUX, rear camera input, we'll see how that works in our practicality.

2:04and stuff and then you can tennis right here so everything's laid out get the

2:10disassemble your head unit right here someone disassemble this in the BRZ and

2:13we're gonna move forward and this thing just even runs okay the we're in the

2:24car right now now this is a universal head unit for bipyramir so this will

2:28work with most almost every car that's universal. I'm just to show you the install on the Subaru but

2:35it's very similar. First thing you want to do is remove the trim. Now this is either held up by

2:41clips or bolts in this case. It just pulls right out because it's held by clips. So we got that out

2:50there. Then it'll expose usually 10 millimeter bolts or Phillips heads so in this

2:55case we have some Phillips heads there's four of them. One, two, three, four. You

3:00just remove that and then the whole bad boy just slides right out.

3:04So I'm just gonna remove these screws using a small Phillips. Again this would be either a 10 or some kind of

3:14bolts. And this, believe it or not, this is probably the most difficult part part of it

3:44It's it's pretty easy if you just read the instructions because it- it's just kind of like

3:50red wire goes with red wire, black wire goes with- a black wire, and some wires like dimmer and

3:56other functions like that you would just it's usually like orange everything's

4:01really color coded coded and user friendly nowadays so I like the put it a in

4:05in like fourth gear just to get some more clearance and this is also like a

4:11difficult part like you just have to unplug everything so try to do your best

4:15to unplug everything off your previous head unit which I'm gonna press right

4:21here there's usually a little plastic tabs where you just pull down I'll be

4:27careful because these brackets are very sharp so you don't want this to be

4:33scuffing up your interior at all that would be very bad

4:41Oh, don't need to unscrew that.

4:57Voila, the whole head unit comes out.

5:04This is also a single-den kind of like the Pioneer's head the head unit.

5:07I actually like single-dens because you get a lot more space to work with.

5:12When you have a double-den, let me look at this wires.

5:15All these wires necessary.

5:17That's just how they make them.

5:19So when you have a double-den, you run into clearance issues.

5:23I know it's kind of messy and stay tuned because this is some of this stuff is from

5:33And, it just had these two plugs right here.

5:36Now, again, we have the red, which is the power, yellow, which is the power again, but

5:42red turns on when you have your keys on, into accessory mode.

5:47Yellow is constant, and then we have the dimmer switch, which is orange.

5:51Blue wire is usually at some kind of amp wire, so if your car has an amplifier,

5:56which this BRZ actually does.

6:04gray is the front right speaker, white is the front left speaker, and the things with the

6:12black stripes, so the same, the same the same thing, gray of a black stripe,

6:15is the negative of that speaker, white with a little stripe is the negative of the other

6:21speaker and that's pretty much it. Now this end, similar story, it's actually color-coded

6:28purple purple purple. Let's see if it's labeled on the thing. Okay, so green is

6:31Let's see if it's labeled on the thing.

6:33Okay, so green is going to be rear left, so that's the plus, and this is going to be rear left negative.

6:40Rear right plus rear right negative.

6:45So, we should, I like, what I do is I like to have like a mock fitment, make sure all the wiring works.

6:51So, I'm going to plug it in, and I'm going to plug in the head unit.

6:57Now, I never plugged in this head unit, so I'm hoping things go smoothly.

7:04Plug it into the back.

7:09Alright, and then that should fire it up.

7:11Now, if things fire up, I can start adding more accessories like FM radio and all that jazz. GPS.

7:20So, we're going to attach the, well, this thing, the back of this head unit is called HDMI.

7:27That's more like a display.

7:30You want to match up all these pins.

7:35So, this screen is thick.

7:39Alright, so I have it plugged in.

7:43Hopefully it doesn't block the vents, because I know how you guys feel about that.

7:50Alright, I'm going to turn the car on.

7:55I need the keys.

8:08It is on, my boys.

8:11It is on.

8:13Alright, let's just close the door, so it doesn't beep.

8:18Alright, so, we have the display.

8:24Now, the resolution right off the back, I can tell you, it's nice, it's nice.

8:29It's not amazing, but it's nice.

8:32But like I said in the unboxing, the, the display is pretty far back so you have the glass

8:40element and then you have the display element and you can kind of see how it's not, it's like

8:47almost half a centimeter within the side of the screen which is, you can see that. I can see that.

8:53again you see the shadow you shouldn't be able to see the glass and then the shadow of the display

9:02I mean imagine using like a phone like this and then like seeing the shadow of the bezel

9:08I mean this this phone doesn't even have puzzles but I digress English yeah speaker mode

9:16Let's just talk and read that.

9:23Read all the safety.

9:24I hope every time, I know back in the day, every time you boot up your head unit, you

9:28have to hit okay to use the head unit.

9:30I'm hoping you can disable that here.

9:33So, some cool things about this that Android Head Units don't have.

9:37It's HD Radio, Serious XM, and that's about it.

9:45But, let's connect this to my phone, and make sure all the speakers work.

9:50Yes, let's switch this up.

9:58And that's the model of my head unit.

10:02So, it's searching.

10:10Looks like my phone's picking it up.

10:17Now, I have like a cheap phone, this is the OnePlus 7 Pro.

10:23Match the pairing codes.

10:25So, it's making that kind of blinking sound.

10:30So it's parent it's make that kind of blinking sound I do like the interface of the display it's very

10:40It's very nice and it does have the screen protector on it right now looks like I'm gonna keep that on just cuz

10:49There's my contacts and hearing beapings is pretty reassuring and now let's go to

10:56Bluetooth audio and let's see if it tracks metadata tags and how the skip

11:02functions work. So I'm gonna go Spotify. So I do hear some audio.

11:19I guess this unit must be in demo mode because I don't know if you saw that but I'm not using

11:42Apple phone right now but this does have Apple card play so I could compare that

11:48after a while I guess if you don't do anything it automatically does that.

12:12kicking good. These are using, these are using stock speakers so be very similar to most people

12:17set up that they're going to try to go for. They're going to try to go for just an upgrade

12:21on their pioneer head to a pioneer head unit. What their stock's going to be, to get more

12:27amperage, more power to the speakers and they wake it up. I think most people in this

12:33case, they go for Android Auto Apple CarPlay because their cars don't have it and it's

12:38a great thing there it is with the the demo but let me just play it one more

13:08Front, rear, alright. You can probably see it. I'm using my finger and it sometimes is not reacting the way it should.

13:25Like that. But once you do it inside, I guess it's better.

13:38All right, that's that's looking good

13:50Sounds good

13:52Things are working so I'm pretty happy about that this thing even has Alexa

13:58Got HD radio now the radio is not plugged in right now

14:02the the wire

14:04so so it it so it and you have to buy the antenna for the radio-2 depending on

14:16your car so you have to have something like this now in this case you see how there's

14:22a blue wire that's really annoying I gotta turn it off you saw there's a blue

14:27wire this antenna gets extra power and yeah in this case we're gonna have to

14:35wire like a 12 volt to boost up the radio signal but

14:40let's just pull like it ends the radio, turn the music a little lower, then you have this bad

14:53So I don't have it powered right now you just have to tap this into like some

14:58kind of radio 12 volt or just any wire that gives a signal. So let's try HD radio

15:01or any wire that gives it some signal.

15:04So, let's try HD radio in a garage

15:07with no power boost to see how this thing goes.

15:13Different presets have different audio.

15:15I don't know if you saw that, but I was on Bluetooth,

15:17and the volume changed to radio, and it swapped over.

15:22Now, is there any way to seek this?

15:32I guess and the other UI that Android Auto has but the Android head unit has a leak like Seeker.

15:50The radio is working and yeah, it's working, so that's good.

15:59The signal's not very good because I'm in the garage and I didn't boost the signal.

16:00and I didn't boost the signal.

16:02But it works, and I'm not sure if it's showing any tags.

16:07But that's going.

16:08That's going to be more testing later.

16:15I know Kim, who owns this car, uses radio a lot.

16:20So, that's going to be, be good for her.

16:22But most people like me, they're going to use a...

16:28They're going to use Android Auto.

16:30So, we're looking at the...

16:32Remember I said there's HDMI.

16:34It's actually, this plug right here is actually the HDMI.

16:37This cable, even though it's HDMI right next to it,

16:40is the touchscreen display.

16:42So, if you want true, that looks like a micro HDMI.

16:47That'd call playing some games or something.

16:50Now, I need to hook up my USB-C cable, and the back of this USB...

16:56The back has a USB-C outlet.

17:13That was on here earlier today so we'll see, how it works so

17:19It's shown this stupid life thing like the

17:22The phone in and see how it's reading it

17:30So

17:31First thing you get is, is this is make sure your car is an eat the e-brake is on, on

17:38And it is on, but i guess

17:40our car has to be in park. Select up the 28 pin. Usually you can count the pins

17:48on the head unit and you can see what wire needs to go where. In this case

17:55looks like the 15 pins. I don't know how that's showing up but number 15 is the

18:01parking brake so it knows when it's in park. So we got to get number 15 and the

18:07way you can do that is just look at the wires in the back and you can kind of see

18:11that this gray wire is the one we need to tap into because we're just kind of

18:15facing it so we got to get some access to that 28 pin so I'm crimping

18:22the parking which is the green wire into the the parking that numbered 15

18:27I was talking about let's fire the

18:28about let's fire her up and see how what she says here all right here's the

18:34boot again so it detects my cars in parking

18:42sure right I want that I'm sure you guys in a cool angle but honestly doing

18:53what I can. So we have Android Auto Working Let's Test Spotify. Now the audio quality

19:19sounds good let me play the previous song I think

19:26think through USB it should sound better than

19:29Bluetooth could Bluetooth you've you're

19:48Now, let me go a little bit slower and see if that helps.

19:57I don't know if you guys can see the frame.

20:00I shoot my videos in 24 frames per second.

20:04I don't want you to know that the frame rate looks like 15.

20:10Scrolling seems a little better, but it's not a pleasant experience.

20:21of course.

20:23So, now let's go back to doing some more of the hard work stuff.

20:26We know that Android Auto is working.

20:28I'm really curious on how the mounting works on this,

20:31because it's just the way it's set up.

20:33So, the screen has these, these little screws right here.

20:40So, it's going to sit like this,

20:43and you have these little screws.

20:48It looks like I've actually screwed it up.

20:55Let's just screw it onto the top.

20:57So, even though I screwed these brackets,

20:59I actually did that wrong.

21:01You want to screw the brackets.

21:03These ones probably on the bottom.

21:05So, you can't screw it like that.

21:13And it just refuses to work.

21:16So, it's pretty annoying.

21:19So, there you have it.

21:23Now, now you have the screen that kind of,

21:26I guess just goes in like this.

21:32I'll just control it.

21:38I guess it won't sit the mounts right here.

21:46It's supposed to like clip in though.

21:54It's actually very stable.

21:56I'm very happy.

21:57That feels really good.

21:59Like, that's great.

22:07Now, as great as that is,

22:12I'm wondering how you can install this

22:19with the trim piece on.

22:24That's actually, that's actually like

22:31what I'm concerned because now how are you

22:33supposed to, I can't put the trim piece on now.

22:39You can detach it because it's attached here.

22:42Super solid.

22:47That's unfortunate.

22:49This design is just, I don't know,

22:52it's not good.

22:57How could you screw this on?

23:00You can't.

23:02Like, okay, you can have this in here now.

23:10Alright, so you can have it in spot.

23:16You can clear all these damn wires.

23:18You have it in spot.

23:23Alright, and I'm already running to fitment issues

23:25because the screen needs to be sticking out more.

23:30Other than, how are you supposed to put this trim piece on

23:36if everything is screwed on?

23:43I feel like they just didn't think about

23:52all the use cases.

23:54Because now like, it just won't fit.

24:00The way the BRZ sits, you have this trim.

24:03It's just too, like, it kind of slopes a little bit.

24:06And they just didn't think about that.

24:09This, I don't know, it just,

24:12if it was flat, perfect, but

24:16in what world are these things completely flat?

24:23Yeah. kind of a nightmare to install this head unit.

24:28Alright, so I have the head unit on the bottom

24:31just with no brackets.

24:33And I'm just going to try to mock fit this here.

24:37Honestly, I'm very surprised.

24:42See, imagine trying to squeeze this in here, right?

24:48It's not a good look.

24:54Unless they want you to do it like this.

25:04But then how are you supposed to bolt it?

25:10C and like now now now I can't bolt the I can't bolt the pieces it's a

25:18it's a very strange limitation

25:23I don't know if I'm making sense like okay if I have the brackets on

25:32I can't believe this is $1,000.

25:44And it's just poorly designed.

25:49That looks great, but it's not even bolted on.

25:55That's how I want it to look.

26:01Maybe sit a little bit higher like that.

26:04That looks good.

26:07Now, how am I supposed to get back to these two bolts?

26:11Like, how do it?

26:17It's just, you can't.

26:20You just can't, you can-

26:28You can't have the screen on at the same time.,

26:30time. And. Unless like you try to do... This. No, you can't. Man, this and it. Man, this unit sucks.

26:50The, the mounting hardware is just really bad. It's, like, super hard bolt on. But then you can't.

26:58The problem is this screen is way too big to fit and they the want you to bolt it on the screen

27:05Man, because then you run into issues.

27:08You can bolt in this and then slide the screen,

27:11but how are you supposed to bolt on the screen then?

27:16It's just bizarre, man, man..

27:19The way join does this is it has it on these fronts,

27:22it's just clips, and you can move the thing.

27:25So then once you've, you bolted on it, clips in.

27:28This you actually need to somehow get to the back of of this head

27:28, unit, which is important.

27:35You, I don't know what Pioneer is thinking.

27:38Kind of disappointed.

27:40Honestly, this thing is just terrible.

27:43, installing wise.

27:45I'm going to play

28:05is it go a little like this because of the way the BRZ sits.

28:10So there's a little gap that I can see, which

28:56up. It's pretty annoying. I think it goes away after a while, but it's still pretty annoying.

29:03Like what the heck. But yeah, here's the head unit. It

29:11looks like in the car. It actually looks pretty nice.. I spe. I'm not I

29:26um

29:28It's a

29:43it's really hard to install to mount depending on your car.

29:48The way the way the mounting system is, it'sa bad.

29:54Thank you guys for watching.

29:56I'll see you guys on the full review on this.

29:58Hope you guys like that kind of struggling install because it was

30:01because it was, it was the reverse