im making a new thread since no one has answered my question in a previously existing one.

intalled the D3 last night but ran into a couple problems.
please HELPPP!!
1.) i modified the bracket by drilling out the indentations with a 3/16 drill bit....but my radio door cover still doesnt close...
2.) The factory subwoofer is no longer working.

any idead and suggestions?
please help!

 

1) the placement has to be very specific, a sight change in th angle will make it fit.


2) Im not sure for 2008 subs, but is it connected to the original plugs for the stereo? If it has its own plug, its not going to work.

 

Sand down the back of the door where the **** is with a dremel and it'l close fine, thats what i did, no drilling new holes or anything.

 

yea sanding down the door was my second option.

05 TRD, what do you mean placement, its screwed in so how can u adjust the placement? lol

im going to check it out tonight because i still need to hook up my steering wheel controls so well see how it goes.

 

the 08 sub hooks intothe back of stereo with its own harness so it is not gonna work with d3

 

isht. any special harnesses anywhere to make it work?

if not, guess thatll urge me to get my subs sooner.

 

to make the stock sub work you need to hook up the remote turn on wire to the solid blue wire from the harness that connects to the vehicle. Also when doing the brackets you need to move them so far forward that the round edge extends past the D3. You then cut those off.

 

ok we got thedoor to close finaly, and ill have to try that thing with the sub.

now one more problem. we cant get the steering wheel contorls to work. I think they changed the factory harness for the 08's compared to the 05-07's cuz the instructions that came with it say the harness has 20 slots....mine only has 16, we tried everyone but still couldnt get it to work. and it also seems like the wire on the 08's are diff colors than the previous years, bcuz the instructions say something about an orange wire, but i dont even have an orange wire on that harness.

anyone have a writeup or know a link on how to hook up the steering wheel contorls for an 08?

thanks!

 

http://www.pac-audio.com/swixprogram...ehicles&ID=357

your only going to use the white wire from the pac-swips. Then obviously the red and black for power and ground. Connect pin 6 wire to ground. Connect pin 7 to the INTERFACE's White wire. Connect one end of a 150 ohm resistor to pin 8, then connect the other end of the resistor to the INTERFACE's white wire. So basically you will have two wires, one with a resistor in series, connected to the INTERFACE's White wire. If the vehicle has Phone options on the steering wheel and you want to use them to control the radio, please use a 560 ohm resitor instead of the 150 ohm resistor indicated. Map/Info button is not used.

 

just finished my steering wheel controls the other day on my 07tc. Where are you looking for the connector? You should be looking at a connector that was originally pluged into the back of the oem radio.

 

:watching:

ive been wanting to do this to my 08 too and was wondering if i could get all of the controls and sub working with the d3,
so i guess you will be the guinee pig

 

Ya it all can be done. I have had an 06, then two 08's and put the D3 and the steering wheel controls in them all. It takes some patients but once you do it the first time it is cake.

 

Just make sure you take the D3 remote turn on wire to the blue wire on the after market harness that plugs into the vehicle. Usually it is for power antenna but in this case they are using it for the remote turn on wire for the sub.

 

yea thats the one im looking at...its the only one left. lol
but the 08 is diff.
the wire colors are diff, and there are only 16 spaces in the harness, not 20 like all the diagrams show

 

ok we tried hooking the steering wheel controls up...again.
this is the thrid time with no luck.

we did get the sub to work though so thanks for the info guys.

heres some pics of how we have everything set up, it also shows how the 08 harness and wire colors are diff.





Please Help! this is getting annoying. lol

 

OMG... all the t-taps!!! AHHHHHHHH

 

u may wanna check inside the swi-ps unit and see if the wire came off the solder. mine did due to me pulling so hard and it would never save my programing. resoldered it back and worked

 

same thing that I noticed too.

 

lol, well the pac savesd the programming, its set on mod 8, and the led still flashes and everything so idk wtf is wrong...

 

yeah mine flashed too but never worked.. open the unit and look at the pcb