Erisin 2 din radio

[genpk]

Just though I'd pass my experience on fitting a Erisin 2 din radio to my Mgzt as there seems there is a lot of varied feedback online ranging from good to bad ,mostly issues that relate to getting any satisfaction from sellers if there is an issue but also a few regarding radio reception being poor etc.

First of all, its cheap, has a heap of functions , pretty darn good for the bucks.
Has provisions to connect to the net via a dongle,comes with free Igo map SD card cables etc.
Didn't get the Digital TV box but was refreshing to see that the TV does actually work on the dedicated TV screen rather than having to use the AUX function on the other units I have got.
Not tried the mini usb jack at the front to see if this unit charges my iphone out of it (unlike other ones ive had)
Bluetooth works great and has phone book download capacity.
IGO sat nav works great as well.

Not so good - the aerial fitting on the rear of the unit is somthing call a Fakara plug ??!! and not like a normal aerial fitting and is not supplied.
Only supplied with one block wiring loom connector - old type BMW round pin which didnt fit my car.


INSTALLING
The one I bought had the normal mounting metal plate for fixing the 2 screws into the console but also had a couple of plastic tabs that were sticking out a little.
These appear to be for fitting it to another brand of vehicle as well I think.
You need to cut these plastic tabs off back to the side edge of the unit.
I carefully used a small angle grinder with a super thin blade,worked a treat but as the side of the unit is inside the console, close enough should be ok.
WIRING
Not much instruction in the booklet that came with the unit,just a wiring layout on the top of the unit showing what all the plug pins relate to.
All I got with my unit was the unit block connector from the unit to the old BMW type block plug (round pins),a GPS aerial,a couple of smaller plugs with RCA connectors on the end,a small microphone.
I cut off the main BMW round pin block end of the cable as my car has the later 40 pin iso plugs and wired 2 female ISO block connectors ( brown and grey) to the appropriate pins so the factory ISO plugs would plug straight in.
On the top of the unit the schematic there has a list called "40 P Original" with a list of 18 pins and what each does.
The first 8 relate to speakers (+ and - ) and connect directly into the 8 pin brown female ISO plug.
If you buy a brown female ISO plug the wire colours on the plug will match exactly to the wire colours on the units factory block.,just join them together and insulate or solder etc
Ok, next need to wire the remaining 5 wires to the grey female ISO plug.
This block is for power,illumination,earth etc.
As I recollect, there should be a red,yellow,black ,green and orange left.
On this unit it appears you need to swap the yellow (normally battery 12 volt) and the red (normally for the ignition switched 12 volts) when wiring up the grey female iso plug to match up to the factory iso plug.(so from the unit -red to yellow on the ISO plug and yellow to red on the ISO plug.
Black is earth and as I recollect that matches a corresponding earth with in the GREY factory ISO plug which lines up.
Orange -illumination, matches to the orange on the iso plug.
This now leaves you with a blue (antena / amp control) and a green wire (can)
The green wire appears not to be required to be connected to anything ? however, the blue wire (anntena ) NEEDS to be connected to pin 5 on the grey ISO plug (should line up with a factory wire coloured purple / yellow)
This gives your powered anntena power to amplify your radio signal.
I made the mistake of not wiring this and had crappy radio ,it was searching for signals etc all the time and thought I had a faulty unit until I connected it up and it was perfect.
I suspect alot of complaints re radio signals on these units are from not connecting this blue wire up as alot of the other 2 dins leave this wire unconnected.

Next plug in the small 8 pin plug with cables into the back of the unit which has the 2 X brown wires listed SWC (STEERING CONTROL)
Find the 2 x wires going to the factory steering unit (purple and ?? ) cut and connect each these directly to the 2 x brown steering wires on the unit.
You will need to go to settings in the unit to program the unit to respond to the button controls to work.
Also on the small cable there is also another blue wire (antenna) and orange (illumination) connect these to the same functions on the main block (blue to blue and orange to orange)
If you want to connect cameras etc there is RCA plug points there as well.

Switch the sucker on and enjoy !!!

forgot, also is able to change the units display lighting to any of 4 colours- great for the ZT as its blue !!!