I got my double din from Yoshi's Garage like everybody and finally had a chance to install it (took me last night and tonight, takes a while to get to the radio). Anyway, as others have mentioned before it looked like the new AC control was pretty much set up for dual climate, but was missing the button (see red circle in pic below). So I just took my handy fine tip soldering iron, removed the dual climate button from the old board, and soldered it on to the new board (the new board even had solder on the contacts already, how nice). Dual climate works fine...and now I can play all my mp3's again. The only downside was I lost the stock xm radio, cause alpine's "xm ready" is really only ready for alpine's xm radio. So I might replace it with alpine's xm radio, and throw in a CD changer for fun as well. We'll see.



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Here's the new AC controller after I soldered on the button. You can see it's a little crooked

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Here's the stock NAVI unit. Nice and isolated, wasn't any problem installing the double din with NAVI.

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Here's my trunk, care of Sound Innovations


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Excellent. Looks like a simple fix for dual climate control. Nice setup in the trunk as well.

-Alan

 

Excellence work my friend. Now once my unit arrive, i should be able to have the same setup as you.

BTW, how long after you order it did it arrive at your door? I finish ordering mine last week but not sure how long before i get it.

g35mt

 

I orderd around Oct 15th, and Yoshi sent me an email today with a tracking number!!!

I am so excited!!!

Still trying to find a DVD player though...

 

I'd love to know more aobut your audio setup. Is that a W7? What amps, etc.. Thanks

04' G35 / 6MT / Tein Basic Coilovers
Volk 19" GT-7 Gunmetal

 

paintballbitch,

Make sure you get one with mp3 player. I got the alpine dva-7996...love that mp3.

I ordered the double din a week after you, so hopefully mine should be here in about 2 weeks...like you, i can't wait.

g35mt

 

is it possible to make my single climate into a adual climate with that? or do i need to change my entire system?

G35S 6MT
Technosquare ECU
350Z Springs & Struts
6-wire ground kit

 

that looks great jgainsle, im glad you got that to work, i was just afraid to go thru all that and not be sure it would work. but now i might do it but damn i dread taking it all apart again, oh well i didnt us dual climate anyways, but still glad you got it fixed for the other guys.


03 BS/Graph 6MT Prem Cp
19" Gunny TE37 275/30 MichPSports
kg/mm springs
camber rods
injen
Alpine/JL/Stinger
double din

 

how's the sound on the navigation work out? too loud, too soft?

 

narkotic: I have focal utopias in the front, focal polyglass in the rear powered by a JL audio 450/4, a 10w7 in the trunk powered by a JL audio 500/1. It's pretty sweet, though I wonder if should be running a 1000/1 for the sub...I think it could use a little more power, esp since there's no flow of air from the trunk into the cabin.

nuttyprof: I have no idea. I had the premium package so my coupe came with dual climate. Who knows, maybe all the parts are standard and they just make it unusable for those who don't want to get the premium package. Wouldn't bet the farm on it though.


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jgainsle,

i have the focal utopia in the front and rear. I used the phoenix gold ti 500.4 to drive the component. Recently the amp went south on me and replace with arc audio(4150 xxk). Man, this amp is a killer. Now my high are more smoother and softer. Anyway, just thought i let you know if you decided to upgrade in the future.

g35mt

 

tig: yeah, I don't really use dual climate either, so I figure if my solder job didn't work no big loss. But it's still cool to retain the functionality I paid for.

hksjza70: There are several drawbacks to installing an aftermarket head unit in this car. 1) steering wheel controls stereo controls won't work anymore, 2) you lose the NAVI audio, 3) if you have the stock xm radio, it's not compatible with at least the alpine radios. If you got a clarion head unit then it would prob work. But I like alpine. (4) also, it's about $300 shipped from japan for the double din with new AC controls. You could conceivably get around (1) if you somehow wired up the steering wheel controls to the head unit's remote (if it came with one). (2) seems much harder to get around, altho it could be done with a mixer somewhere in your audio path.

Those were the cons. The pros are: (a) much better audio - with the 4V preouts the sound quality is noticably better on my focals vs the Soundgate LOC's from the stock head unit, (b) whatever cool features your head unit has: mp3, sub pre-outs, time correction, etc. I can't live without my mp3's on CD-RW.

I liked how it sounded with just the stock unit and the focals and sub, but I felt it was only 80% of the way to the sound I really wanted. Now I think it's much closer to 100% - have some tuning to do, I haven't had a chance to readjust the amps yet.

g35mt: Sweet, thanks for the tip. PG is nice, but Arc, man, that's pretty high end stuff. I do notice the focals are a bit bright at times. I'm hoping they'll tune down a little as they get more broken in. Or maybe I'll just wait for my high end hearing to fade a little

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