After over a year of neglect, I'm trying to fix a few odd and end things on my DeLorean. One of them is figuring out what to do with the Kenwood kvt-617dvd head unit that the previous owner installed. It seems that the brain (located in the cubby behind the driver seat) has gone bad, which means the system doesn't work and there's no music. I've tried troubleshooting it for hours and can't find anything wrong with the system, which points to the brain being bad. It used to work great. If I'm going to start driving this thing more, I've got to have tunes, which means I need a different head unit.
I've never felt the need to have a DVD player in the DeLorean, so I figure I should replace it with a non-DVD head unit. The Kenwood DVD unit has tons of wiring, which gives me pause when I think about replacing it. The previous owner put in a lot of work to install this thing, even swapping the location of the vents and the radio so that the vents wouldn't be blocked when the air is on. Gotta give him props for that, I suppose.
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For now, I'm fine with leaving the vents in their modified location. I have a few questions and concerns:
- The radio antenna cable currently goes to the brain in the cubby. With a new head unit, I assume that I'll have to get an extension cable so that the radio cable will go all the way up to the head unit, correct?
- I assume that the molex connection for the Kenwood unit wouldn't work for a different model head unit, like a Pioneer head unit. What all is involved in swapping from one aftermarket unit to another?
- I'd like the new unit to play CDs, MP3 CDs, and have an aux input for an iPod, but I don't want to spend a couple hundred bucks, if possible. Any recommendations?
Below are some pics of the head unit molex connection and the brain in the cubby. You'll also notice that the a/c adapter has come off behind the head unit, which is hopefully why I don't get a whole lot of air coming from my center vents. I'll put that back on there eventually.
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