{"id":3918,"date":"2012-09-13T22:32:06","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T05:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/?p=3918"},"modified":"2012-09-13T22:38:03","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T05:38:03","slug":"pioneer-avh-p8400bh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/2012\/09\/pioneer-avh-p8400bh\/","title":{"rendered":"Pioneer AVH-P8400BH"},"content":{"rendered":"
Interestingly, the impetus behind many of the upgrades I’m implementing comes from me being unsatisfied with a given feature of the car. If something needs to be fixed, it’s funner and more worthwhile to make it better in the same process. For example, the sideskirts and wing needed to be uninstalled, so the whole car was repainted. Old mounting holes were left behind on the chassis, so a new replacement roll bar was installed to fill them up.<\/p>\n
Now in this case, the lower DIN pocket that came with the car had an ugly, red carbon fiber overlay on its lid. I know you can’t see it because the lid is down, it was so bad I didn’t even want to take a picture of it:<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n I didn’t feel like slowly peeling off the overlay and buying a new DIN pocket is pricey. So essentially, I was pushed towards the direction of redoing the whole shebang with a Pioneer Double DIN head unit. Would I have done it regardless of the stuck-on overlay annoyance? Yeah, probably… <\/p>\n As with any head unit install, the harness wiring must sorted out first. All connections were soldered and heatshrinked, because just crimping wires together is lazy work. <\/p>\n