RENAMED!! The adventures of Chase and his 2006 Yukon XL Denali!! Follow along on my travels!

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Can’t wait to see which model you’re putting in there!


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It took me some figuring out to get everything up and running on the new head unit. Unfortunately I’m not super tech savvy so part that was a bit frustrating. But now that I got it setup I really like it. I do however need to make an adjustment with what I believe will be a small wire change. With my clarion unit, the feature I loved most was that I could activate my backup camera even if the truck isn’t in reverse. The new pioneer unit also allows this but I don’t think the shop wired it in so that The camera stays the way it was on the clarion setup. Which is a major no no for later in the year when I have to tow our family friends boat and then when I have to haul the jet ski, stand up paddle board and kayak back to the house. Need to be able to have the camera pulled up so I can watch and make sure nothing moves on the trailer while I’m taking it to her storage. Lol. But otherwise the new pioneer is pretty sweet. I’ll post pics shortly.
 

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It took me some figuring out to get everything up and running on the new head unit. Unfortunately I’m not super tech savvy so part that was a bit frustrating. But now that I got it setup I really like it. I do however need to make an adjustment with what I believe will be a small wire change. With my clarion unit, the feature I loved most was that I could activate my backup camera even if the truck isn’t in reverse. The new pioneer unit also allows this but I don’t think the shop wired it in so that The camera stays the way it was on the clarion setup. Which is a major no no for later in the year when I have to tow our family friends boat and then when I have to haul the jet ski, stand up paddle board and kayak back to the house. Need to be able to have the camera pulled up so I can watch and make sure nothing moves on the trailer while I’m taking it to her storage. Lol. But otherwise the new pioneer is pretty sweet. I’ll post pics shortly.
Just put a constant hot wire to activate the camera, instead of the backup wire--which only sends power when you're in reverse.
 

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Yeah that’s how it was before. I just don’t know which wire I’m gonna have to tap into for that.... lol
If you have a test light, just probe the harness with key on/key off, and whatever gets hot with key on, splice into that. If I remember correctly, on my Pioneer dd, red is constant, orange dims the display when you turn headlights on and yellow is memory. But I'm not positive. Your backup cam activation wire is a light purple--ish, also there'll be a tag on it. It's really easy.
 

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