Hi all,

I thought I heard someone was going to try switching the metra buttons with the oem ones to clean up the look and save some $$ over the JDM.

Has anyone actually done this...and is this worth looking into? Or should I just try and find a JDM Kit....Man those are hard to get ahold of!

 

bump...im interested in this

 

no.... search first
https://g35driver.com/forums/audio-v...-din-dash.html

i laughed once i read this entire thread...

 

I searched. I was not interested in the buttons. I'm interested in switching the metra AC controls with the JDM control unit. I know it costs more in the long run but the metra's fitment is perfect for my D3. Don't always assume people didn't search. This site's search isn't the best.

 

Won't work.

If you're asking what I think you are - that is, using the climate control portion of the JDM kit, but using the dash fascia portion of the Metra kit.

I have a Pioneer F90, and just as you have in your situation, the fascia opening of the Metra's is a perfect fit for the Pioneers head unit. Unfortunately the button arrangement of the climate control piece of the JDM kit is off eeeever so slightly as to make it a no-go; unless you started hacking away on the fascia piece with a Dremel or some such, which pretty much defeats the purpose.

Afraid it is a Catch-22 sitch. Either a perfect fit for the headunit and not so "pretty" buttons, or "pretty" buttons and ugly gaps around the headunit.

Your choice.

Cheers,
Kev

 

Use the JDM kit.. use a scosche DDin spacer (see my thread) -- gap problem solved.

There are plenty of metra and scosche gap spacers that can be trimmed down to size and implemented to cover that gap -- just gotta take time to do so.

Metra DDin kit looks like Play-skool .. sorry.