Adding Bluetooth to your ride
05-19-2010, 01:09 PM
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Adding Bluetooth to your ride Hi there, this is the Ego Maniac. I am a certifiable audio nut. I love car stereo and bluetooth systems too. I wanna hear pro's and cons of bluetooth systems that you have installed in your rides.
On Thursday of last week I did a 2002 Acura 3.2 TL bluetooth install. My company owns US sales rights for Ego, but we (PCS) sell many other bluetooth kits. So on this day I was doing an install for my boss. His buddy wanted the Drive NTalk kit installed in his car and also wanted the kit to integrate into the Bose Audio system smoothly. I also had to do a 2002 Lexus ES300 with the Mark Lev. system; that one was easy with the QCJBL-2 harness.
Anyway, the TL is hell to take apart, not like most GM stuff that is much easier. Glovebox, whole center console and even the knee guard on the driver side had to come out and with all that fun the Bose sub is wired on a separate harness from the main harness on the back. Quick Connect references that you will need a Amplified adaptor; which in most cases is true, but this time around I used the QCHON_1MK harness and it played well. The Drive NTalk kit worked great and the streaming music played through all but the sub. Bummer, but it was loud enough that you couldn't hear it anyway. The "Man" and Quick was suprised but had heard of this before.
There was no info on the web for this install and it did require me to take some time. If you are looking for a place to get info? Try www.metraonline.com, if you select the car you want, then select kits, it will give you a pdf on how to take yer dash apart. Here on this forum there should be gigabytes of info on Hondas.
The Drive NTalk kit gives callers 2 channel phone calls and 4 channel A2DP music streaming. Also a wireless remote and email/text to speech on ALL phones regardless of ability.
I know for some it is hard to find an ignition wire on your 2002 and newer GM's, there should be no shortage of people here with info on the brown wire in the ignition harness. But be careful as this wire on some GM stuff looks safe but can be a data wire too.
For more info:
www.egohandsfree.com
www.cellularstore.com
On Thursday of last week I did a 2002 Acura 3.2 TL bluetooth install. My company owns US sales rights for Ego, but we (PCS) sell many other bluetooth kits. So on this day I was doing an install for my boss. His buddy wanted the Drive NTalk kit installed in his car and also wanted the kit to integrate into the Bose Audio system smoothly. I also had to do a 2002 Lexus ES300 with the Mark Lev. system; that one was easy with the QCJBL-2 harness.
Anyway, the TL is hell to take apart, not like most GM stuff that is much easier. Glovebox, whole center console and even the knee guard on the driver side had to come out and with all that fun the Bose sub is wired on a separate harness from the main harness on the back. Quick Connect references that you will need a Amplified adaptor; which in most cases is true, but this time around I used the QCHON_1MK harness and it played well. The Drive NTalk kit worked great and the streaming music played through all but the sub. Bummer, but it was loud enough that you couldn't hear it anyway. The "Man" and Quick was suprised but had heard of this before.
There was no info on the web for this install and it did require me to take some time. If you are looking for a place to get info? Try www.metraonline.com, if you select the car you want, then select kits, it will give you a pdf on how to take yer dash apart. Here on this forum there should be gigabytes of info on Hondas.
The Drive NTalk kit gives callers 2 channel phone calls and 4 channel A2DP music streaming. Also a wireless remote and email/text to speech on ALL phones regardless of ability.
I know for some it is hard to find an ignition wire on your 2002 and newer GM's, there should be no shortage of people here with info on the brown wire in the ignition harness. But be careful as this wire on some GM stuff looks safe but can be a data wire too.
For more info:
www.egohandsfree.com
www.cellularstore.com
