Nav Cubby upgrade

[HIDave]

Aloha. After reading much bout this and watching a few videos, I decided to give it a try. Swapping the Nav cubby system for a Chinese made duplicate system, that integrates all the normal features.

there are absolutely no instructions in the box. Just this schematic

so I plowed on, thinking that it must be simple enough. Jump the back of the current radio with the supplied cables and connectors should do it.
Here is the rear of the unit with all the cables connected.
Now I’m full on into this conversation and the trucks radio stops working.
It does not turn on or react in anyway.

Has anyone attempted this conversation and if so can you help me out?
If no one has, are there any ideas on what may be causing this?

David

 

[ERover82]

Is this going into an LR3? Does the product have a name? Does the product have a website or description somewhere?

 

[HIDave]

Is this going into an LR3? Does the product have a name? Does the product have a website or description somewhere?

Yes it’s going in an 05 LR3. Product Name:
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They sent me a PDF with the with the connections but it exactly the same as the one one the website. Not very helpful.

 

[MM3846]

Cool cool. I saw a post about this online somewhere a while back. Def a neat option. I'm not familiar enough with the LR3s, but from what I understand you should be able to just tap the line outs of this thing into the Aux in of the LR3's stereo. Then it just needs power. That depends on how hardcore you are going with it, and if you have the fiber optic jazz I think.

That's how I'd run it anyway.. just piggyback it on top of the factory unit. Otherwise I'd just do a full on head unit replacement with a mainstream double din, that's pretty common and easy now.

 

[HIDave]

Okay, so I got the unit up and running and the radio back on. A small wire in the back was shorting the fuse to the radio.

The back of this unit has amongst other things an AUX out for the L/R. To test this I took a long AUX extension and ran it into the back seat. Connected to the AUX port back there and nothing. No sound, nothing.

Any options for and AUX in that others may have?

 

[HIDave]

Update:
I have sorted out the output from the Chinese Nav Cubby unit.
the output comes from the Front R and Front L RCAs to the AUX input.
I have pulled out the AUX jack from the rear, split the connection and added a jack to input the Nav Unit from. It now works.
may next hurdle is the antenna. The Chinese unit did not come with a splitter to bridge the connection and use the vehicle stock antenna. So I have to fabricate one.
it is looking like once this whole thing is done the stock radio will not do very much. All the updated features are in the Nav Unit. Still quietly working on the Apply CarPlay feature, which is just dead flat. No response of apps to work with and Chinese tech support is abysmal at best.

 

[HIDave]

Chinese unit does not come supplied with the correct number of connections nor the right type of connections.
Contacting them, coordinating with them or communication with them is horrid.

Requesting a refund now, but it seems pointless. The unit only does a few things.

I would strongly recommend staying away from Xonrich products, altogether.