Disabling parking brake safety for head unit
 

I just got my new head unit yesterday. Pioneer AVH-P5100DVD.....the most important question is HOW DO I OVERRIDE THE PARKING BRAKE SAFETY (the brake needs to be on for the monitor to pop up)?! I wanna be able to have the monitor up while driving. A buddy of mine from work has done a ton of stereo installs and he said he would tell me what to do tomorrow but im too curious. i wanna be able to bang this out tomorrow night/friday morning. anybody have any ideas?!? PLEEEEAAAASE HELP! lol.

Not to sure. My JVC I just grounded the parking brake. Ive heard of people installing a switch and having to toggle the switch to get it to work. Off-on-off.

best bet would be to ground it through a toggle switch

I'm sure that it is illegal to watch Tv and drive in your state.

it depends,

If there is two wires for the parking brake.... one needs to be grounded and the other goes to a switch so you can do the proper procedure(on-off-on(depending on what unit you have))manual will say which one.

Unless there is one wire then just ground it... but a switch under the dash is nice if the cops ever check.... and they do, so you can disable it before they get in.

**Disclaimer** :whistle:

This is for information purposes only and does not reflect on any intentions or suggestions givin by this poster.... it is illegal to operate the monitor while the vehicle is in motion almost everywhere!!

Its a BS law crap anyhow.

I will put a movie on and I still drive and not watch it. My kid loves to watch movies in the car...

It's pretty tempting to look down at it. As if drivers need more shit to be distracted by. Driving is primary, so many people think it's just a secondary function and whatever goes on in the cabin is far more important like reading a book, working a laptop, putting on makeup, searching for CDs, and end up causing a very dangerous situation.

It scares me sometimes.... A few months ago there a was a chick beside me at an intersection actually foiling and dying her hair!!!!! :eek: .... looking in the vanity mirror waiting for the light!! I tried to take a pic but the light changed. lol!

Just because i wanna disable it doesnt mean im going to stare at it while im driving....obviously driving comes first. but i would like to have the display up so i can actually use it instead of having it down all the time. i never just sit in my car. why should i use a off-on-off switch? why not on-off? lol

thanks for the help guys. i will update tomorrow night when i have everything torn apart. i wont be starting till a little later, like 7ish. no work friday! wooo

idk but the avics have a sticker on the bottom that says do not remove or warranty void and it is a bypass but i think you also have to ground out the parking break wire as well. i have a fixed double din avic-d3 and you actually have to switch a couple pins in the harness and ground one out i dont even have my parking brake wire run, though i do need to run the speed sensor wire to keep my arrow steight when im using my nav for more than 50 miles. best bet is to call a shop. not any chain stores most have a policy that forbids them to do it or disclose that information.

Here let me help you out:

Links to bypass

lol yea.....but then i have to pay $10 so it can tell me how.....i wish someone was 100% on what to do....i will have to ask my buddy at work see what he says

here call this shop and ask for derek 315-265-8100, Northern music and video out of potsdam NY. he knows how to do it i helped him install a 5100 that he bypassed.

not to be too offtopic, but is this why i cannot make dvd's play in our corvette, even though it has the monitor and a dvd drive for the navigation map dvd?

possibly what kind of deck do u have?

idk, its the stock navigation system....

On old one I had had to use a toggle and then found out the hidden menu code where you can turn that feature off. That prolly has one to just have to search

just put that wire in with the ground... that's what i did and my passengers can watch movies no matter when.

I havbe a Alpine and it has to be hit in a sequence. Instead of a tottle switch you can get a little black box that will do the bypassing for you. It just mounts to the wires. Here is a link to something like I have.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/PAC-T...item2ea7d867e8

Just grounding doesn't work anymore usually has to be on off on and it'll pop up.

Thats why I got an overhead 10inch with 360 swivel...don't have to deal with all of this...LOL!

ok. so im almost done soldering. BUT i have a yellow wire on the harness that plugs into the stock one....it says "12V memory" and then i have 1 yellow wire coming out of the harness that plugs into the CD player and it says "mute"........ ummmmm how come there is no 12v memory on the new harness? also, in the book is says if you have subwoofers dont connect the green wires (back left) but connect the purple (back right)......how come im only connecting one?


i need some help asap, so any HELP would be appreciated! thanks

Ok lets take care of one issue at a time.

The Pioneer has a yellow wire for constant 12V. Its a fused 10A yellow wire. That connects to the 12V constant on the adapter harness.

The yellow mute wire is a yellow wire w/black stripe. You wont be using this wire.

Now the subwoofer... They are saying if you are wiring a very small cheesy (factory) subwoofer up to the deck. So just wire the speakers up as normal.

well first off i dont have another yellow wire on the adapter harness! the only yellow ones i have is the mute one and the constant 12v with the fuse is coming off the plug that goes into the head unit.....but there isnt another wire to solder it to! i do have a red wire that says 12V power coming out from the left (im pretty sure its the ACC wire cause i do have a red ACC wire on the new harness. ).

i also have a black wire coming from the harness that goes into the stock one....im thinking its a ground but i already have a ground coming off the new harness that im grounding to a bracket.

ALSO....can i just take the wire for the parking brake safety thing and wire it in to a fuse? lol i dont have a switch and i would like to get this done tonight although its not looking that way......

AND the 12v constant that comes off the new harness isnt long enough to go to the fuse box so idk what to do. dont have any good wires laying around either......


ryan u need to turn ur damn phone on.....it would be much easier to call instead of running upstairs to the computer to check for answers.

i think they grounded the mute on mine as part of the bypass but don't quote me and mines is different, mabe that was the one switched.

not only that but i am aquiring my EMT-B license and i have seen way way too many videos and after math pictures of people driving with distractions and mangling themselves in ways most could never picture in their minds..... so i would say even if it is legal dont watch and drive hahah cause i dont wanna be the one with the snow shovel collecting brains and intestis of the pavement lol..

Ok, this gets confusing.

Lets have a Radio harness (RH) and an adapter harness (AH).

The Mute wire from the radio harness you wont be needing.

The Yellow 12V constant wire off the RH will go directly to the AH 12V constant wire. Same with the Red 12V ACC and the Black Ground. The Ground you can ground yourself if you like directly off the RH.

After that its a matter of hooking up 8 total speaker wires and running the cables to the brain box.

Its similar between all head units. I havent installed one of these types of decks, but its all common.

if i recall correctly, if he's using a chimes harness there wont be a 12v constant. i didn't really read the whole thread so I'm not sure if he is. But yeah, if he is he'll need to run a 12v constant line from the ignition switch and fuse it. Alero is the easiest car to do it in imo. Actually it might be the ACC wire I'm thinking of /shrug

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to answer the question about viewing video while driving, i have a pioneer AVH5700DVD. just ground it with a switch before the ground. in order for it to display video it needs to see ground - nothing - ground. just flip the switch up and down and she-bam. video. make sure to just ground the parking brake wire (to view the video while driving)

edit : my bad for thread jesus-ing