Car Tech forum: Pioneer AVIC-F900BT

you missed the point

You might have some people over on sounddomain.com that can help you out. see if anyones installed it in your car over there yet

Who spends $1300 to watch movies in their driveway? No one ! We need to be mature enough to not get caught up watching a movie while driving. Can my wife watch the movie or my son from the back seat. And who prints 192 pages to carry out to your car to find the issue you are having. They clearly will lose customers with this release. If there was a way to return it, I would and get the Kenwood. you do get a real manual and it can be bypassed. AVIC F900BT what a joke !!!! Or shall I say PIONEER.

your talking about the Kenwood DNX7120?

Thanks for this

only takes 10 mins max pull the yellow and black mute wire out and place between the two blk wires . But Do this at your own risk. You will be able to watch movies while driving be careful. The only thing I found is that once I reset the unit I lost my TTS Samantha, I contacted Pioneer and they said send it in or take it back and try to exchange it,but the bypass does work.

I have the unit for 3 days now. It's good so far. I have bought the XM receiver with it. The radio and XM works great, i don't have any complaints. When you first turn the car on, the radio or other AV source will play almost instantaneously but you will have to wait 5-10 seconds for the TOP MENU to load, due to the fact that the GPS is initializing. Also, during the first 30 seconds or so the unit is sluggish. Again, I think it is due to the fact that the GPS is initializing. The work around mentioned above, to get your DVD running while driving works great and is not difficult to execute.
So far I like the unit.

during installation your are going to have to ground the parking brake wire (it's either pink or purple, can't remember which color, but it should be labeled "park brake") don't hook it up to the black common ground. find a spot to ground it by itself.

Hey,
I've been watching this for months. I have a monitor in the back and was planning on using this unit and it's A/V output to power the monitor. Does anyone know if this can be done? I don't care if the screen plays the DVD, I just need the output (audio and video) to work while driving.

Thanks for anyone's help,

David

I own a Pioneer Avic N2 in-dash GPS unit. It requires me to be stopped, with the ebrake engaged, before it will allow me to enter navigation information. From searching various forums over the internet, all other in-dash GPS products such as Kenwood and Harmon Kardon also have a similar requirement. Factory installed GPS units, to my knowledge, also have this restriction (Toyota Prius). It has also been variously stated that this safety feature is required by law. Now an interesting fact: none of the portable GPS units have this restriction (Garmin, TomTom, Magellan, Moov, etc). They are perfectly fine with you entering nav data while the car is moving! So the obvious question is, is this safety feature really a LEGAL requirement, or is it just a "cover our butts" precaution by the in-dash manufacturers, put in because it is so easy and convenient for them to do so? And if it really is a legal requirement, why hasn't the law come down hard on all those portable GPS makers? This seems like an obvious question to me, but amazingly I have not been able to find it being asked anywhere through Google search. All internet forums dealing with the nav lockout restriction concern themselves with defeating it, and most offers of solutions also come with the warning that it is illegal to do so. But is it really?