iDoing CarPlay Head Unit: Subaru WRX (2017) Full Install, Shell Transfer and Reverse Camera

0:00We got the Subaru WRX about to do the install for the iDoing.

0:04Now this is the latest model.

0:05It says it's compatible with the Harman Kardon Edition.

0:10This one isn't HK, but, man, this thing is,

0:14well, that front kit is nice.

0:17But yeah, so this is a 2017 model.

0:19This is a base model, premium, premium.

0:34We have the OEM unit.

0:36It's B, it's pretty, it's pretty simple to disassemble.

0:41There's two 10mm bolts, so you do have to remove the glove box.

0:45And then you kind of have to remove these things on the side.

0:48Then the whole thing just pops out from there.

0:51Then there's

1:27So after you remove the little damper right here, which is this bad boy right here, you,

1:35you're going to see a 10mm that's kind of holding it in so we get the truck.

1:39But when I-

1:44Alright so we got to remove this and you can, I just use my hands.

1:49You get in between the cracks and then you just slowly pull it.

1:52There's no bolts.

1:53Be careful because there are wires right here.

1:55So you want to make sure this bad boy is removed.

2:00And again, those harnesses, what I do to remove these harnesses, I,

2:04and I get the, this one's usually kind of hard because there's not a lot of clearance.

2:11I usually just push the whole thing out.

2:15Oops, I don't know if you guys can even see that.

2:20Yeah, so pop the harness out.

2:22I pop the top part out and just get access to that clip like right here.

2:30There you go.

2:31So you can pop it back in but we're going to be transferring this stuff over to the new head unit shell.

2:36So you can.

2:37So you can pop it in because it's not too much work to keep everything in one piece piece.

2:41So we removed the trim piece right here.

2:44Of course you see the 10s to remove the 10s.

2:46We still need to do one more 10 on the side.

2:49But you know, we're just wrapping things up.

2:51Doing this stuff, it's reminds me of the good old days with my WR

3:22and you-

3:26Let me see if I can get it, so it's actually, you can kind of see it.

3:29It's that bolt right there I'm pointing to.

3:32It's actually really hard to collect it.

3:36And then after it's loose, try to pull it out with the magnet tool.

3:43Just so, you know it doesn't fall down into the abyss.

3:46I've done correctly, you're able to remove this bad boy out.

3:52Correctly right.

3:54The whole thing should just pull out from here.

3:57We'll see

3:58We'll see how that goes

4:01It's held by clips. Can I use this microfiber towel right here? Yeah, just so you uh because it is heavy and there's like metal like

4:29metal clips

4:30Then you just got unplug of it from the back so you remove all the plugs in the back. They're pretty simple

4:41Most of them have just this push style

4:44Push style At this one was reverse mounted

4:45This one was

5:14The head unit is off

5:17It's a it's a chunker

5:19It's a chunkerl.

5:23So we have that some of the stuff we have to transfer over like the AC

5:28Climb control buttons for the the vents and so forth so let's get to that before we

5:35Install everything we want to make sure the head. Heads so we're just gonna unwrap this bad boy right here

5:40This card is this car is no Starling right?

5:44No Starling yeah

5:50So at the head unit right there all right cool cool

5:55You got the harness and this one comes with the CAN bus

6:00Don't know what exactly this is gonna do but it says for Subaru wRx this is supposed to work with a Harman carton package

6:08That's what they say unfortunately this is not a Harman carton one

6:11So I can't test that theory, but just know that there is a CAN bus decoder so that it should work

6:21Main power source is the 10 pin so we're gonna make sure the 10 pins in there very good

6:27We have the steering wheel controls

6:29for WRX

6:30very nice

6:33Six pin connector

6:35This is for the rear speakers, so you definitely want those rear speakers

6:41Remember this one's for the AC which is going to be separate. I'm not gonna deal with that and then

6:48There's also the

6:50antenna

6:52for the FM radio

6:54plug bad boy in

6:56there's and

6:59We should be said there's also the reverse camera wire right here

7:03We have to double check that make sure everything's good with that

7:06Because reverse cameras a little bit tricky, but there is a camera

7:10That's not the main focus right now

7:11We just want to make sure the head unit actually turns on

7:16Plugging it back to the back of this mean power right here

7:25settle place

7:31Spotify or Pandora you can load it up. I actually like this more than my Tesla

7:38So I-yes all the first startup, but we do have it running and

7:43Yeah, it's good. All right, so we have the vents right here. I'm just gonna have to pop it out

7:49So we just pop these clips there's four clips in total

8:03Can I just wiggle it out?

8:06Then you have these ones

8:28And voila comes out first vents out same thing

8:31And voila, it comes out.

8:33First vent's out.

8:34Same thing.

8:39All right, so we're going to add these vents onto the new head unit.

8:44So it's really cool that.

8:45There's there's a shell for this, again, if you had an aftermarket a..

8:48market head unit they're not gonna have this nice custom shell which is it's just

9:00The top because there's more flex that way you can add put it on here

9:05And then clip it on the bottom. Make sure it goes in correct and correctly

9:15Clip in and bam. Look at that. That looks

9:19Great. Fitment great fit. Same with this bad boy right here. Yeah

9:26Now we got to transfer over these buttons

9:29who know

9:38There's little clips

9:41Press on these

9:43You just squeeze that usually just press on them and then you squeeze up to

9:47Now this is starting to look like a full head unit, but you got to get that climate control

9:53So we're gonna get that the original

9:57Head unit here

9:59Oh things that just heavy get that good weight reduction. Okay, so we just got to remove it

10:01Get that good weight reduction.

10:09Okay, so we just gotta remove it.

10:16So these brackets are in the way so we're going to have to remove these brackets too.

10:26Be careful these strip really easily.

10:29All right, here's the power tool because it's these bolts or these little

10:35Screws are really soft, so you gotta be careful

10:5385 was my favorite mod for the car

10:57Oh, you sold all your stuff too. Yeah

11:00My least favorite mod was the Brembo brakes. Not too sure about that, but for my car

11:05I remember reading up that the plus 27 because they poke out so much

11:10The the Brembo it had plenty of room. That's the look cool

11:16And it looked great, but yeah, I might just pay my calipers and just call it a day

11:22It's not like I'm gonna be tracking this thing, so yeah

11:29May it look just reinstalling the bolts onto the new head unit. You can use a

11:44Just reinstalling...

11:46onto the new head unit.

11:51You can use a tool.

11:59This looks good.

12:09So we just have to connect all the other wires and we'd be pretty much set. All right, so let's first install the next center

12:19This is a GPS antenna

12:23Really annoying flying and it's all the GPS and it's gonna be it's a labeled so

12:38So we're gonna install the GPS and it's meat it's a labeled so...

12:50and they're good and then honestly we

12:59have car play on this unit so we don't

13:01have to install I get a good signal just by

13:05mounting it right on the top that's what

13:08I'm gonna do I think we have the Wi-Fi

13:25Let's screw this bad boy into

13:38And this usually you want to, I usually put this on top of the vents.

13:46Still hidden but on top of the vents.

13:49Screwed in that for now.

13:55There's a bunch of another like 4G and screw that in a little bit.

14:06crazy how much ports they have back there.

14:10One for TV too. It's not labeled so I don't know about once anymore.

14:15So I'm going to plug in the owner just in case he decides to use this in the future.

14:26So these are for RC out jacks for if you want to run RC A speakers.

14:33You have your microphone.

14:35So this is all the microphone.

14:40Six pin.

14:42This one has subwoofer, audio video out, CCDV ins, I'm also going to just install that

14:50so you can have that accessible to him.

14:56Extra USB.

15:08So we have that right here, and then we have the main one which is the 4G LTE, with SIM

15:18card.

15:19And that's going to go right here, and yeah, so all the wires right there are plugged in.

15:37forget the microphone so we're gonna install the microphone but we'll

15:47see it where he wants the owner once the microphone we have another intent right

15:56so we'll solve that there are so many in tenets this is a 4g one

16:04It's either both B. So it doesn't require two antennas

16:28Now we just have to plug it on the dissent should be set but we need to get that

16:32reverse in reverse camera. Unfortunately, there's no good label. So we're just

16:37going to have to play guessing it's CCD AVIN. You want to hook it up

16:42onto this other end right here. This is camera. So we're going to marry

16:48those two together, hook it up together and see what happens.

16:54But each head, unit always has a little bit different each time.

16:59All right, so we have the reverse camera now for the 17WRX you want to get the there's a pin coming

17:06out of this 28 pin. I know it's pretty bright but there's a 28 pin and you want it. the camera

17:15on this bad boy right here. I know it's hard to see but it's this camera and on the back of

17:22CCD AVIN that's the one you want to hook it up to now on certain models like the

17:29more premium limited ones they have a different harness but iDoing does have

17:37the reverse wire signal right there and there's a harness for that too so if you

17:42do have the more difficult one they have you accommodate it for that too as

17:46well so they have the other notes very bright but they have the other

17:51harness right there too for you so let me just show you guys how it looks like right

17:56with it kind of mock fitted right here I have it in put the car in reverse and then

18:02you can kind of see right there car automatically goes in reverse it just

18:06it's it's actually a mechanical thing so great there's a like there's a wire that

18:11tells you that it's on there maybe good so the head unit is looking really good

18:16and I'm just gonna route some of these wires over here over here and so forth

18:21No, it looks crazy right now but something that I have all the accessories that he's not

18:28using right the owner comes to use it, he can use it right there but let's go over the wiring

18:34one last time.

18:35So there's the microphone hookup right here, it's going out of this harness and I have

18:40it routed behind this, behind this trim piece and just have it sticking right there.

18:45There is a built-in mic on the head unit, but we're just going to have two mics, so it

18:49has better audio for the speaker and stuff like that, for Siri and stuff like that.

18:55We have the rear speaker harness, the radio harness, the 28 pin right here, which is

19:03the steering wheel controls, reverse signal and and stuff like that the main power.

19:09Other than that, we have all the GPS wiring right here and we're done.

19:13Don't forget to plug in the AC harness

19:20AC harness and then we have a two

19:23For the midfield display and the hazard button

19:28Got one last thing I have three USB, B's, going the owner says route those wires right here and have it in the glove-box

19:35So we can charge his

19:37Yeah, I see it as a dash cam. So if he has a dash cam or stuff like that, you can have access to all that

19:43All right, so just tuck all, these wires back. I'm gonna record this spot to my foot the fitment

19:49I know a lot of users have issues picking this head unit in sometimes. It is tight squeeze

19:55That's why I'm gonna demonstrate this you want to like fish all the wires in the back make sure there's no wires in England and

20:01Don't forget that a see so we're gonna

20:03This one luckily is a single thing like in the rear or like the smaller style

20:09It's good because there's a lot of cables back there

20:13it just helps with the cable management

20:16After I have in this position right here

20:19I like to have it kind of anchored on the bottom to get these two to get the hazards up

20:33So everything's hooked up, double check, make sure everything looks right, and then we're

20:47going to squeeze it.

20:48I like to hook it up from the bottom first.

20:53So now it's anchor towards the bottom.

20:55And now you want to kind of flex it like this.

21:00? Flex it.

21:06it. Then you want to push.

21:07There's these clips right here, each side.

21:10Try. Try to get in there.

21:11Try it.

21:13You're on both sides.

21:18Okay. Okay. So look at the fitment now. You can see right here, there is no, there's not

21:30even a fingernail gap right here, which is perfect. Check your gaps right here which is perfect.

21:36So everything is in and it's. This button, there you go. So now the button is fitting

21:43looking good check all this stuff is working then of course you want to make

21:50sure the car actually fires the head unit up alright so the car is on so it's

21:56charging up the battery a little bit the head unit is working I'm gonna test a

22:01few things main things again with a reverse camera so throw this car in

22:06reverse camera shows up beautiful beautiful stuff right there and then

22:12and let's see what else.

22:14Let's check out radio.

22:24Radio's working, great.

22:29Blue Tooth, we'll check that with the owner

22:30We'll check that out with the owner.

22:32Then Z-Link and stuff like, like that.

22:34Yes, so that's really good.

22:40Woo, WRX install done.