"luxury" amp transplant

[Doubeleive]

Integration mostly. I haven't found an interface that I like for door chimes car phone, rse, and backup camera that I like, at all. Tried the maestro rr based on recommendations here and it keeps the steering wheel buttons great, but the chimes are ass and the rse is glitchy for some reason, but perfect when I go back to the factory radio

The pac doesn't have a feature set I like either

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chimes are adjusted in the DIC, the bluetooth mic in these trucks is crap use one that comes with your deck, RSE only works with a deck that supports dual zone. I have the maestro, everything works fine with a pioneer nex and wireless android auto

 

[chaingun427]

Chimes and such in the base model are generated in the radio

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[chaingun427]

So far have been able to get the amp to power on by tapping the amp circuit which is on x4-pin 6 of the I/P junction block in my 2012, as opposed to x3 pin 8 on the premium/luxury equipped trucks (confirmed after actually opening the I/P Junction block and manually verifying the circuit).

Installed aftermarket radio and idatalink Maestro RR, programmed for OEM amp, and i have chimes working like stock with no radio at all connected.

Next step is to move and rewire the speakers and low level inputs to get all of the sound moved to the amp, then upgrade the speakers themselves. Will post updates and a write up when i'm finished.

 

[chaingun427]

Decided to grab some pins and connectors from Mouser, and made an intermediate harness between my idatalink interface, and the original radio harness, this routed the low level sound down to the amp, and the high level out back up to the front speakers.

I was confused at first, because the rear speakers have no input on the uqa+y91 lux amp, the sound is matrixed from the fronts only and there is no fader control available (I have some ideas there, but nothing done yet).

Even without that, I have full function of the original speakers, + the bose sub. If I were going for all out sound, I'd probably replace all of the output wiring to the speakers with larger gauge, but this seems to be sufficient for stock and stock replacement.

Highly considering buying a uqs amp to play with as well, just because. Not sure if I'm going to add d pillar tweeters, or the front center channel at this time but it wouldn't be difficult to do so

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