iDoing CarPlay Head Unit: Subaru WRX 2015–2022 Full Install

0:00Happy Subaru WRX 2015.

0:03Now this one's a little rough, but it is modified,

0:05so we can check it out real quick.

0:07Look at that shape.

0:08Clear coat is peeling, okay?

0:10That's the only thing and the fitment,

0:13you know, the butt fit, man, that's great.

0:16You, you got the dash wheels, you got that rotors.

0:19This dud is on some rotors.

0:23Cool sticker, woo, got the WRX logo right there.

0:28Beautiful NRG wing.

0:31It was huge, little, woo, so bright.

0:36Turn it down for you, looking good.

0:44All right, with the Subaru WRX 2015

0:48with the iDoing head unit.

0:50Should be a very simple install.

0:52My phone fell.

0:53I already kind of unboxed it right here.

0:59Beautiful.

1:03All right, so we're in the Subaru WRX.

1:05We have the 2015 really ugly old radio.

1:10To remove this bad boy, it's actually pretty easy.

1:13There's these clips up top.

1:14Now these clips are actually super hard to take off,

1:20but you have to use a prying tool.

1:22Looks like this one's already been taken off though,

1:23so that's good that's good, but you just pull it.

1:30Oh, well, it's very brittle.

1:38There you go, sorry man.

1:41We'll get you a new head unit.

1:44So you can tell this car bus has been sitting in the sun a lot

1:48because you can tell it's faded here

1:49and the plastic is really brittle.

1:56.

1:56After that, you remove these.

2:00Oh, you've never had that happen before.

2:03I guess it'll let these cars get it.

2:07There you want to keep these buttons and the vents.

2:13Oh my gosh.

2:16Same thing right here and you just pull it out

2:18and then you have the AC climate control.

2:22Easy take off.

2:27Now I think this head unit has been removed before

2:30because they're Phillips and it's usually 10 mils.

2:35So that's kind of unusual that's Phillips, right, Phillips.

2:41All right, so we're just going to screw these power tools.

2:46Oh, and very easy to remove.

2:49This I have to put over here.

2:51Usually you put your super keys right there.

3:00No, pull this whole thing out and unplug.

3:05Just make sure you don't scrape the, oh wow,

3:46you just kind of lift it up

3:48and pull it out.

3:53Judging by the state of the unit,

3:57you want to be super careful.

3:59These are usually pretty flexible,

4:01but because of the, it's how brittle this thing is.

4:05You definitely want to.

4:08So you just pop them off.

4:20They're just trying to be slow, so then it should be safe.

4:25All right, so after you remove those vents,

4:28you do the reverse of put the mech into the new head unit.

4:30Here are the climate controls.

4:33You want to unscrew the four right here

4:36then transfer it over as well.

4:41All right, so we have the vents removed

4:44and we had the climate control removed.

4:46Let's

5:01but yeah, you want to get that.

5:03All right, so I'm sure that I'm

5:07really sure that video goes

5:09this way for you to push it out.

5:11You just legitimately you just push it out that

5:16and it comes out.

5:18Same with this.

5:19You'll see these a little clips right here.

5:20There's four of them, tiny, usually with just force.

5:24Like if you just push on it, it will go out.

5:30Yeah, now we have these vents.

5:33Make sure they're nice and straight.

5:35I like to do one side first.

5:39So do the bottom.

5:41And then don't all the way push it down.

5:45You want to kind of flex it.

5:54All right, so this is the unit.

5:56It has the vents installed.

5:58It has the hazard, the midfield view display.

6:03We have the AC.

6:04It's clipped on on top and then we screwed on here.

6:07So now we need to a plug it in.,

6:12with iDoing it comes with all these extra harnesses,

6:15which is like great,

6:17especially if you want to do the camera.

6:19Also great.

6:21They give you iDoing does give you the wiring

6:24to have the camera from the top to the bottom.

6:27ouse.

6:27The problem that we're facing is this car is kind of old

6:31and the plastic is kind of brittle.

6:34So we were debating if we want to remove this,

6:38which is a really difficult piece to remove.

6:41It's not it's it's simple, but difficult in terms

6:45of you. You need to put a lot of force into it,

6:47pulling it this way.

6:48And imagine if we try to loop some zip ties

6:51or we try to pull it.

6:53We just feel like the plastic will be so brittle

6:56that this little plastic needs to hold a ton of force

7:00when we're trying to pull it out.

7:01So we're gonna not do that to install the head unit.

7:06The iDoings are the one of the few manufacturers

7:09who iDoings are the one of the few manufacturers who just have

7:09the plug.

7:11So you just legitimately just plug it in directly

7:14and that controls everything.

7:17So we're going to just test it, make sure it works.

7:22And then we'll put all these Wi-Fi antennas and yeah,

7:28Wi-Fi, GPS and so forth.

7:33So we will

7:38So the thing great about it is there's very little wiring.

7:42What's not great about it is there's a very little slack.

7:44So you just plug it in.

7:47There are two plugs.

7:49Let's see if we can get it from here.

7:52But there's the 28 pin and I believe it's a 20 pin at the top.

7:57If you can get a view of that.

7:58Those are two that I plugged in.

8:00This one's for USB and the other one is for like a satellite radio.

8:06And that's the only two you really need.

8:11And then you have the AM and FM radio,

8:16which looks like this and that plugs into the back.

8:19So we have three things plugged in.

8:21We're just going to give it a little test run.

8:33Boom, that's an instant turn on.

8:35It didn't do nothing.

8:40Great.

8:41So we got sound, it's working.

8:46We are at where we need to be

8:47so we're going to hook up through this little Bluetooth

8:49and then report back.

8:51So we just connected to the Bluetooth really simple

8:53like any car and now we can use car play.

8:55So if you can get that used car play.

8:58This is an iPhone 13.

9:02Pro Max Ultra.

9:05And it works.

9:08He's picking his words up.

9:10All right, so we have the head unit and this is for us.

9:15You need the Wi-Fi plugged in.

9:17We have the microphone plugged in

9:20and we just have it routed right there.

9:24GPS antenna and that's it.

9:26Everything else is for reverse camera,

9:29which we have up there.

9:31You could use it if you wanted to.

9:33And then you have our C-JX

9:35and we don't need 4G antennas that we don the plan on using.

9:38So it's a pretty simple install.

9:40So after that, you plug in the antenna

9:42and then these two ports 28

9:45and I believe a two, four, six,

9:59snake through here.

10:01And it's right here.

10:03So the user ever wants to charge their phones

10:07or something like that, it's there.

10:09Another thing that I wanna add in the description is

10:11this kit didn't come with it of you wanted to

10:14retain your OEM USBs,

10:16which I believe is in the center console.

10:18You have to buy an adapter

10:20and you plug in the adapter right here

10:23and then you plug it into one of these USBs.

10:26So we're just pushing it in.

10:31There are clips down here

10:33and make sure you push right here.

10:35You see how there's a little gap?

10:37Push it in.

10:43If you don't push in right here hard

10:45you'll have a gap and it'll mess up all the gaps

10:48up here.

10:50So that that actually looks really good.

10:52And yeah, we're done here.

10:54So that's the iDoing head unit.

10:57Maybe we'll get a quick turn on.

11:14You can't believe it instantly boots like that.

11:16We just unplugged it.

11:18And then it's gonna look for iPhone,

11:22connecting, verified,

11:28and it'll play music.

11:30Great.

11:33Now there will be an error right here.

11:36I totally forgot about it.

11:37For the 15 only

11:39you have to unplug a fuse

11:42then reset it, then re-plug the fuse in.

11:44I don't remember what fuse is

11:46so I have to look into the description

11:49or the comments and then I'll reference it.

11:51I haven't done it in like eight years

11:54so it's been a while which fuse the pool

11:56but there is a fix so it doesn't say

11:58check audio system.

12:00Thank you guys for watching this.

12:02WRX head unit.

12:03This is the latest and the greatest.

12:05Let me turn this on real quick.

12:07So I just wanna show you the settings.

12:09What kind of how it looks like

12:11if you guys were interested.

12:12We have all these

12:14functionalities right here.

12:16One of my favorite is the lantern settings.

12:19So keep it red.

12:21And what you guys were probably more interested

12:25is seeing the about device.

12:28So he's using Android 10.

12:31It has a octa core cpu information.

12:38Don't know how much RAM is in it.

12:40Maybe it's gonna be device info.

12:43Oh, don't look at that.

12:45But yeah, it's gonna be a speedy 720 displays.

12:49So these are now using 720 displays

12:52now which is a really nice you just shows

12:55your RAM right there.

12:56You see it?

12:57Oh, so you got 4 gigs of RAM 64 gigs of storage.

13:00Perfect.

13:01It's all in the cpu.

13:03Which for the systems are so much faster than OEMs.

13:10If you move into another 2023 you know

13:15Honda core or Subaru it's not an octa core.

13:18It's not this fast.

13:22My NSX right there, it's super slow OEM.

13:26You press something, it lags for a second.

13:29Then it changes and you can see it transition really slowly.

13:34Even my Tesla kind of slow too..

13:39These are faster.

13:40Now the new AMD Teslas are way faster than this.

13:44But before then, Tesla is like the fastest when it comes to cpu computer times.

13:49Lucid, I was in the 2023.

13:52You would hit a button and it would take three seconds for it to go

13:57and I'm like dude, this is a brand new car.

13:59How could it be this slow?

14:00So this is a very fast unit and I don't have any issues

14:03and it'll be faster than anything besides the newer Teslas.

14:07But yeah, thank you guys for watching.

14:09If you're interested in this iDoing product

14:11we'll leave in the links down below.

14:13It's really easy and slow.

14:14It could take you about 20 minutes to do.

14:16It took us about thirty, forty minutes, but we were recording.

14:21So there's that.

14:23Thank you guys for watching.

14:24I'll catch you guys next one.