My New Headunit and Short DIY, Installing a touchscreen on an HD Options

[hyundave]

Hey guys so as you may or may not have seen in some of my recent posts, I installed a new headunit a few weeks back. It is a 7" touch screen. It's a Power Acoustik PTID-7002NRB. I would recommend this product so long as you're willing to do some custom cutting.

I decided to buy this headunit for a number of reasons.
1) I wanted a new headunit. Simple as that. The stock one somewhat bored me and my subwoofer was only playing at a mediocre level with the line out converter.
2) I wanted a touchscreen. I figured I might as well get something that looked pretty sweet.
3) I was looking for a touch screen that could fit the HD. In the HD there is a plastic bar that runs across as a divider. This makes it only possible to install a single din dash kit (unless you do some major cutting to your stock dash which I wasn't prepared to do). So that meant a full out double din touch screen was out of the question. I also am not a big fan of the touch screens that fold upwards. I think they look awkward personally and I'd be afraid of pushing too hard and breaking it. So I needed one that would fold downwards. There are not many of this type that I could find
4) Relatively inexpensive. It has great reviews and for a touch screen it is a very good price. $235 for unit, dash kit, wiring harness, and three year extended warranty. I figured I couldn't go wrong.

So here goes. Caution: If you want to buy this exact unit, be prepared to do some cutting like did (steps shown later on)

Finally received the unit:




Organize all your tools and accessories. Begin the wiring. Follow all instructions. It's pretty self explanatory. On the harness packet and wiring kit they will tell you which wires do what. They work fairly color coordinated. Simply match up the wires, splice them, solder them, and then use electrical tape or heat shrink wrap. (I used the heat shrink, it's more convenient and tends to hold better)




Once the wiring is done, you can begin work on the car. REMEMBER. Disconnect your negative terminal. You do not want to blow a fuse or mess up your electrical components.




Take off your front dash panel. Insert a screwdriver with light cloth or some other flat object to lightly pry it forward. There are 8 connector pins. For more help with this, follow the DIY on the wiki page.





Disconnect the three terminals still holding the dash unit in place.





Once the stock unit is free, unscrew the four screws holding it in (in the picture I have already removed the screws).




Unplug the antenna and harness and remove the stock unit.




Install your headunit into your new dash kit. Line your screws up and tighten them so your headunit is firmly in place.




--------------------- This part of the DIY is specific for this model headunit -------------------------------------

So the one major problem I discovered was the single din of this headunit is slightly larger than a standard unit. Well, sort of. It's the right width, the issue is it needs to come out further so the screen can attach to it. Unfortunately the dash kit came with plastic stopping the unit from moving any farther forward.

As you can see from the pictures, I ended up having to do some cutting. It's very hard and durable plastic so it took nearly 2 hours to complete. I mainly used a screw driver to drill small holes next to each other and break the bits of plastic off. I finally sanded it down so the unit could come forward.



(Before)



(After)



---------------------------- This ends the cutting section --------------------------------------------------

Once everything is set up with your dash kit, plug your new wire harness into the stock harness.



Finally, plug the antenna, amp rca's and harnesses into the headunit.

Place the dash kit over the screwholes and attach it to the frame. Finally, plug everything back into your dash piece and snap it back in.

Remember to reattach your negative terminal. Test out your headunit to make sure it works.

Congrats it's now installed.


Here's some finished product pictures:



This is how it looks with the touch screen not attached. Very simple and you can clearly see how it is a single din. Does not look very appealing to robbers.



The actual touch screen not attached. (Aux cord is plugged in)












Features:

AM/FM Radio
CD Player
AUX input
DVD Player
Bluetooth
GPS (optional)
Steering wheel controls (optional)
Internal memory for background pictures
iPod ready
Multiple RCA inputs and outputs

For more features click the link at the top.


I hope you guys like it!

- Dave


Here's a video showing it off along with a few other items:

[Vinnie]

Nice great job!

[The Gegenator]

Not only a nice job, but great write-up. I'm sure this will help to alleviate some of the worries people might have about replacing their HU!

[Vinnie]

The shoutout to ECLUB!!! Sweeeet!

[hyundave]

Thanks guys! Yea I love it. And it really kicks out the bass. Helluva lot better than just stock

[elantragt]

I'll be adding this to ElantraWiki and Eclubtube. Great work, Dave.

[Louiceman]

Good job

[ronjr8102]

looks great, perfect write up & wonderfull product for the value.

[jamhandman]

Awesome work and write up

[sarge]

awesome!

Its pretty sweet that it's a removable full screen. They do make Double-DIN dash bezels though - Canadian spec

[hyundave]

Its pretty sweet that it's a removable full screen. They do make Double-DIN dash bezels though - Canadian spec

Yea I know they do but I didn't feel like having to try and hunt down one of the Canadian specs for whatever extra that would cost. Plus I was afraid I may run into some fitment or plug problems if I did that. Also, double din stereos are much more expensive than I would have been able to afford so this definitely worked out in the end for me.

Thanks guys I appreciate the comments!

[benman]