Installing a DD in your 4th Gen

[0212353]

yeah, its a DD - but they make a comparable model in a single din that would fit your truck.

 

[HKkid]

Yeah I used to have the comparable model and Loved it, but it was farkin expensive...

 

[0212353]

ALPINE IDA-X305S DIGITAL MEDIA RECEIVER MADE FOR IPOD - eBay (item 130397430244 end time Aug-01-10 13:43:15 PDT)

I wish mine had the Pandora stuff included. That would be SWEET!

 

[HKkid]

Yeah I had the previous version of that one, and I paid a lot more than that for it. I guess I'll stick with what I have for now.

 

[OklaHemi]

double din is the way to go. a little cutting never hurt any one. jeremy i have a 640 gig external hdd i picked up at best buys for 79.99, toshiba brand. i have the usb port on the back of mine so i plugged it in. it wouldnt read all the folders and was kind of a pain in the ass to navigate compared to using the ipod. i may have just had the hdd set up wrong? for the HU to read it properly but all of my computers read it fine. who knows i need to do some googleizing to see if there is an answer. also did you have to buy the 12v to 5v to charge the iphone? i know mine is an older version but just curious. one more thing for you alpine fans is that alpine makes an amp that is strickly plug and play no power or ground wires needed to be ran and it produces 45-50 w rms. you can pick them up on ebay for around 100.00.

 

[HKkid]

I really want the double din, but then when I sell it with the truck I gota start ll over again....

 

[OklaHemi]

I really want the double din, but then when I sell it with the truck I gota start ll over again....

dont sell it, duh. imjoking i have this problem every truck i have owned. but i enjoy doing the stuff i do so its not that big of a deal. pm weedeahoe he will tell you how to make a custom bezel or make one for ya either way they look good and his plan is simple

 

[HKkid]

I like doing the stuff, and I like wiring it all up myself...I just hate having to pay for it each time.

 

[OklaHemi]

that part does get old. my wife doesnt like it either. but i am now a master at replacing all speaker and power wires in these trucks. i have done it so many times rockford fosgate wire is the only way to go. we hijacked jeremys diy thread.

 

[HKkid]

Yeah it sucks, I only use RF stuff, speakers, subs, amps. Alpine headunit all the way! Ehh its fine, the important stuff is at the top.

 

[OklaHemi]

i have all alpine except the 3.5" tweets in the dash and the rf wire. 6.5 components up front and rear and the ida-x200 hu with a pdx-4.100 amp pushing the doors. im planning on a pdx-1.1000 and two 10 type-rs in my fox box. i should be done. besides and upgrade to the hu

 

[HKkid]

I want to upgrade the HU but that may have to wait a while. I want to get a bigger amp which might come first.

 

[0212353]

I am VERY tempted to pick up that amp that plugs directly to the back of this one - run it for the doors. I could then sell my 700.5 and get a dedicated amp for sub. Maybe a 500.1 or who knows..........

I need to look into that Alpine amp and see how it hooks up.

 

[0212353]

double din is the way to go. a little cutting never hurt any one. jeremy i have a 640 gig external hdd i picked up at best buys for 79.99, toshiba brand. i have the usb port on the back of mine so i plugged it in. it wouldnt read all the folders and was kind of a pain in the ass to navigate compared to using the ipod. i may have just had the hdd set up wrong? for the HU to read it properly but all of my computers read it fine. who knows i need to do some googleizing to see if there is an answer. also did you have to buy the 12v to 5v to charge the iphone? i know mine is an older version but just curious. one more thing for you alpine fans is that alpine makes an amp that is strickly plug and play no power or ground wires needed to be ran and it produces 45-50 w rms. you can pick them up on ebay for around 100.00.

oh.......other thing? I think most of these HUs only read from FAT drives, not NTFS. I tried with my 250GB portable HDD, no go. And yeah, the way it reads from the USB drive SUCKS. I think I'll just go with a dock of some sort.......someway........

and, it charges my iphone - no issues.

 

[OklaHemi]

I am VERY tempted to pick up that amp that plugs directly to the back of this one - run it for the doors. I could then sell my 700.5 and get a dedicated amp for sub. Maybe a 500.1 or who knows..........

I need to look into that Alpine amp and see how it hooks up.

it just plugs into the wiring harness between to hu and the adapter to you oem harness

 

[0212353]

oh I know - but nothing has been easy with this install - so I question EVERYTHING on it

 

[OklaHemi]

ha ha i know the feeling. but alpine sympathizes with us and finally made something for us blue collar folk

 

[HKkid]

Jeremy stop your belly aching and let me know if you need any help.

 

[0212353]

I think my concern is that my setup isn't a simple 4 channel setup. On my 08, simple - I would have nabbed the amp at that time. With this one all of the wires run to the factory amp and out from there. From what I have assumed in staring at the wiring diagrams, the door speakers are not amped, and the wiring harness from the back of the HU to the hook it up to the factory **** only hooks up 2 channels. Its goofy as ****.

 

[OklaHemi]

wow yeah i have never looked in to an 09+ setup. i just bypassed all the factory **** and ran all new speaker wires