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  1. Hi I'm trying to hard-wire a radar detector in. I'll be selling the car within a few months, so don't want to tap into the fuseboard and the hassle of running the cable from there up and under the head-liner, so figured (after some googling) that the best solution was to tap into the 12V present around the map lights, just aft of the rear view mirror. The problem is : I can only find a permanently on 12V feed up there. I need one that goes off when the ignition is turned off, otherwise the radar will drain the battery. Any hints? Maybe there's not one up there?? I had a good prod around with the multimeter, with the negative probe earthed on a bolt hole in the ceiling - is that what I'm doing wrong? Matt
  2. It is a Pioneer double-DIN unit. Under that is a fancy covered 'pocket' - then the AC control panel. Am reluctant to ditch it as it's got the hard-disc in it - no idea how big but have loaded 35 CDs so far... I thought I'd have to spend $600 to get a decent unit (was quoted $600 + $400 fitting) - so not too keen to drop $1000 on it, especially when the current one has the HD. I'm also concerned that if I replace the HU, I'll lose the steering wheel control functionality - do you know if that's correct? The current HU does have digital TV, toll card.... It's a pain that periodically, a Japanese voice comes in telling me to take it easy - I guess it thinks I'm somewhere 'dangerous' (based on the GPS) and sends the warning. Would be good to turn that off! Are you saying there will be a built-in reversing camera? I did turn on the reversing camera option in the HU, but it comes up with a message about it to being connected.
  3. Just tried the Fat32 formatted USB drive - no go. Get a message on the HU saying that it needs to be formatted. Is a strange drive in that it mounts 2 volumes on the Mac desktop-will try another USB drive that mounts just a single volume, and will try formatting that. Wouldn't pickup my iPhone or iPod either - not via USB. Frustrating as can see iPod and BT options on HU screen - but they're greyed out. I do have the full stereo manuals...but they're in Japanese! Also tried BT options on iPhone - couldn't 'see' the HU. Perhaps the cable in the glovebox isn't plugged into the right input for what I'm trying to do?? The cable actually terminates with a strange pin connector, but there's an adapter that plugged into the pins that allows USB devices to plug in. Hmmm.
  4. Just looked in iTunes (my version is 12) for the preference described in the link (i.e. the CD-Text feature) - it wasn't there. Perhaps it will pop up as an option once I go to burn a CD- will have to borrow a CD burner for that though! If iTunes can't do it, I may well look at burning CDs for the car's HD using another burning app such as Toast. If I could just get the damn FlashDrive and/or iPod interface working, I wouldn't need to bother with CDs!
  5. Have located the kit - however I don't think it's the problem. It seems that the motor that folds the left wing mirror doesn't hit its 'stop' - and just keeps on running until it goes into thermal overload - at which point the motor stops running. Today it ran for about 5 mins before that happened! Anyone know how to open the mirror up to get at the motor?
  6. Hi Kiwijoe - thanks very much. Will check out the links you've provided. The Pioneer manual also talks about (in Japanese!) iPod and BT audio - I hope to make sense of that too.
  7. Thanks a bunch guys. I turned off K and X - and note with interest Boon's comments re the new speed cameras operate on Ku. The V1 has Ku detection (off by default I believe) however I think I'll turn that on. That said, if the beam operates as it did with the old cameras, you don't get enough warning until you're snapped... Re laser : unless I'm mistaken, isn't that when the cop parks sideways to the traffic flow and aims a gun out the window? If so, I've seen that heaps up here.
  8. The Valentine detects the laser too - I'm most concerned about tickets that have demerit points, so I guess that's anything a cop hands you - i.e. not a speed camera ticket. The way the speed camera beam shoots across the road (rather than down it) means it's apparently very hard to get much warning on. I recently experienced it and didn't receive notification from the detector until I was basically in the camera's zone of operation...so not much point attempting to detect that. Plus, the vans are usually pretty easy to spot.
  9. I'm looking at that too, but as I can read some Japanese (used to be fluent...many moons ago!) I'm persisting for now. It's a pretty capable HU, so would be a shame - and an expense to ditch it.
  10. Hello I just got a Valentine One radar detector and would like to know which bands I can turn off, and which I must leave on. The X band seems to be the one that all the automatic doors operate on, so would love to turn that off as it's ALWAYS going off - so much so that I'm beginning to always ignore the radar around town, which isn't good. Not that I'm speeding around town, but having had a ticket for 52km/h in a 50km/h zone, they're not showing much tolerance...hence the detector. Any advice of which bands to turn on/off would be MUCH appreciated. Matthew
  11. Hi I recently imported a 2010 JDM Legacy GT - it has had a proper Subaru "optional extra" kit installed that folds the wing mirrors in when I turn the engine off. It worked for the first few weeks, then suddenly the motor that folds one mirror in started running continuously without actually folding the mirror in. I was forced to disconnect the relevant fuse - now I can't control the mirrors at all (tilt etc) nor can I fold them in. Am picking the kit is faulty - I guess I should just remove it? Any ideas where to locate it? Thanks! Matthew
  12. Hello I have two questions : one that relates to displaying track/album info on the stereo unit, and another that relates to connecting a USB device to a mysterious cable in the glovebox. I recently imported the above car, which has a Pioneer AVIC-HRZ900 sat nav/multimedia unit in it. Enquiries and research so far shows that it's not possible to get the GPS functioning here - bummer, but I can live without it. However, there is an integrated HD which I've succeeded in ripping about 20 CDs to. However, as all the CDs are compilations I've burnt on my computer, the Gracenote database (which must be embedded in the unit's operating system?!) can't recognise any of my "home-made CDs' so displays them all with meaningless track & album data - i.e. it lists them as "unknown album" and 'track 01' etc. I understand that one can burn CDs, then submit the track names (to the Gracenote database) and then a few days later, the track info for that particular CD will be available should that CD be played in another CD player that has access to the Gracenote database. My question is : how does my car's Gracenote database get updated? Surely it has to connect to the internet - and how does one do that with a car?!? Or is there another way to get the stereo to display track/album data? ----------- Question two relates to a mysterious USB cable that sits in the glovebox. I've plugged an iPhone & various USB drives into it, as I assume that's what it's for. No response from the iPhone, however when a USB drive is plugged in, it tells me that the drive can't be read as it isn't formatted correctly. I researched this, but haven't found a way to format the drive/s in a format that can be read by the stereo - I always get the same 'invalid format' message. I'm formatting the drives on a Mac and don't have access to a PC - and suspect that the Mac is causing the problem. Any Mac users out there know how to solve this one? Any help will be much appreciated! Matthew Auckland
  13. Yeah - that\'s what I need to do now - just got to try and do it without paying Subaru $120 for 10 mins work....
  14. Seems there\'s no immobiliser and the alarm silences once you insert the key. I got a locksmith to scan the working key - he confirmed there\'s no transponder in it. So he copied the working key - so now I have a backup key blank that opens and starts the car. If the car was locked with the original key\'s remote - and then opened manually (ie via the door) using the backup key - the alarm sounds - however silences once you insert the backup key into the ignition. You can then start the car - and it stays running - ie doesn\'t cut out after 90s or so. I even did this procedure with the original key about 50m away from the car - and it still worked fine. So seems that the only use for the genuine (but incorrect) backup key that I have - is if I can get it coded to lock/unlock the doors, and silence the alarm. I might have to try that open/close door - ignition on/off thing again...
  15. Thanks for the help. I have a spare genuine key - it\'s just not for this car - it doesn\'t fit into the lock - nor the doors - nor do its buttons operate the central locking/alarm . I had hope to get it recoded - but I understand there\'s also a chip in the key fob that deals to the immobiliser. Then there\'s the key blank itself - however surely that\'s the easy part?!?!
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