So, I am new to the Lancer community. I have wanted a Lancer all my life. I finally got one and I LOVE IT!

I bought a 2014 GT. It comes with a double din touch screen CD player/Ipod...blah blah blah. It is not all that great and I love after market radios (much better quality in my opinion).

Here is my install:

My head unit has two USBs in the back of it. I wanted to add a USB so I would have two. One from the glove box (factory) and another in the arm rest console (added by me). I bought the USB plug off of Amazon.

I took the trim off of the off of the parking brake:




I then took a 3/4 inch drill bit and drilled my hole into the console.







and viola!



I then ran the write through the parking brake along another set of wires. After removing the trim around the radio and removing the radio, I reached behind and pulled the USB wire through.





To get the trim off so i could remove the radio, I opened the glove box and removed the screws on the trim piece to the far right of the glove box. You must remove the screws, otherwise you will damage the long trim piece if you try to pull it. It's screwed in here.





Then I removed the long trim piece



Then I removed the hazard light button. There are screws here also.



Then I removed the rest of the trim.



I removed the radio by removing the four screws holding it in.





I took the brackets off of the old radio and used them to mount my Pioneer AVH-X8500BHS. There is some serious gap with the new radio. It was apparently smaller than the factory radio.



Back of the old receiver:



The new radio. The trim wasn't put back on in this picture:




So, I have completed the install, but I have a few issues that remain and I was hoping someone could help me out.

1. My backup camera does not work
2. My USB in the glove box does not work
3. The XM radio doesn't work
4. I have a pretty big gap that can only be covered with trim

I am by no means an expert. I enjoy figuring things out, but I don't do installs often.

Does anyone know the Lancer's radio write scheme?

Any help is appreciated!

 

I'll start with #1.

The camera should have its own power and ground, and then the yellow RCA for video. Assuming the camera is actually powered up, you need to feed a +12v reverse signal into the head unit - this is a wire that reads 0 volts, unless the car is in reverse, at which point it reads 12v. This is how the radio knows to switch over and show you the camera. Have you hooked up the reverse wire, and if so, to what wire in the car? If you think you've hooked it up correctly, find the settings in the Pioneer radio - there should be one to turn the camera functionality on or off. Even if everything is hooked up correctly, the camera functionality on Pioneer radios typically comes turned off by default.

What do you mean by radio write scheme? Did you chop off the factory wiring harness to wire in your new radio? You should have needed a dash kit and wiring harness for the install, one should have filled those gaps you refer to and the other makes all the wiring color coded so that your new radio plugs into the oem plug. I hope you didn't hack up the wiring, for your cars sake.

 

No, I did not chop up my wiring harness. I bought the 2007+ lancer harness from Metra. The backup camera came with the car. I don't know which wires from the harness go to the camera. That's why I was wondering if someone had a wiring schematic (which pins on the harness go to what wire). There currently (as I am aware of) a dash kit for the radio. I took the brackets off of the old radio and put them on the pioneer. They fit fine, but the pioneer doesn't fill the entire gap. I saw the dash kit for the 2013, but it's very different than what the 2014 looks like. I didn't want to purchase the piece and it not work. The 2014 comes with a double din opening....so I guess I will have to wait.

 

Gotcha. Good news re: the harness, and those are and good details that help others provide information.

The bad news is that the wiring schematics I use (Mitchell) do not have anything on the 2014. That means that you'd have to do things the old-fashioned way, with a trusty meter.

If you pull back the tape on the factory harness, you should see one wire that is wrapped in a shield instead of looking like a normal wire.

(This is what I mean by shielded wire, although in a car it probably won't have the gray plastic jacket shown in this pic)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ed_wire_4F.jpg
You'll see in that pic, there are normal wires in the middle that have a plastic jacket, and then a bare wire. In your case, there will only be 1 wire in the middle that has the plastic jacket. The wire in the middle is your Video (+) and the bare wire is your Video (-). You'd probably have to buy a cheap RCA cable and cut it, and then solder its ends to those factory wires.

That handles the video itself.

Then comes the power. Without knowing where the camera gets its power, we need to see if the +12v signal (from reverse gear) is fed through the radio and then to the camera. The easiest way I'd do this is plug in the factory radio and put the car in reverse, and then use a meter to test all the wires near the video signal wires (from above). If you find a wire that goes to 12v in reverse, that ALSO gets no 12v signal without the factory radio plugged in, then you should be pretty safe to send 12v to it to power up the camera. You may also be able to take apart the trunk to try and get a look at the wire colors back there - they may line up to the colors up front - but I haven't touched a 2014 lancer so that may or may not be any easier. The camera might also get powered from a connection somewhere else, but more often than not the connections are at the radio harness(es).

 

Selling your stock?

 

http://www.connects2.co.uk/
use the asx (outlander sport) kit to retain the camera