![]() depends on how flexible I feel tomorrow.) If my harness hadn't been hacked, I would have possibly installed it today.Īnyway - I wanted the connector with a longer length of wire on it so I could stagger the splices back into the harness and avoid having a very thick difficult spot in the repaired harness (I'm debating soldering it, or using Positap Connectors (I have skills dating back 70 years with soldering, but I also have a small pile of Positap connectors. I waited until it arrived to make certain it DID come that way, and I happily found it did. This headunit was supposed to come with a plug-and-play harness that connected directly to the factory radio harness and transitioned to the connections on the headunit. Whoever installed the first aftermarket radio in it hacked up the harness, leaving that connector behind with about 1" of wire sticking out of it. ![]() The trip to the junkyard was a quest to find a factory PCM connector for the car. $225 + shipping and tax = around $255 total. OK - a bit of info: - the 2nd one, 2GB/32GB 8-core, 4G-LTE, Bluetooth, Wifi, Android-12. Cost is less than $300 - a bit more affordable than the very nice but horribly costly Porsche Classic replacement (also Android.): Plus I insist on buttons and knobs - way less distracting than doing all the good stuff via a touchscreen. they did do an almost perfect job of matching the styling and knobs that Porsche used for the console components. ![]() ![]() ![]() Plus I'll have Torque, so I can make up a nice instrument panel. I realized I never use CD's in the car so having that was a waste of time, and I can save money and still have SiriusXM by using the Android Sirius app (which is free to use if you have another car subscription, which I do) and either getting another 4G/LTE data connection from Verizon ($10/month) or just using my Android phone as a hotspot and since it will be connected to the unit for Android-Auto anyway - just streaming the data through the "Ethernet" USB connection (they call it that, I didn't.) from the phone. It will be replacing a Rosen headunit that replaced another Rosen headunit that replaced the CD30 radio. ![]()
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