Anyone tried to upgrade their sound system in 03 era XL-7? Im tryna keep the steering volume/skipcontrols, new unit has wires for it but no idea where they go.

Iv seen one or two diagrams but no idea if they're correct, the harness that original in the car definitely has more wires than the adapter I bought. Do I need to buy another adapter or? Any ideas ppl. Tia

The steering wheel controls use a three wire resistive matrix - the challenge here is that whilst I have an fairly good idea of what the car has, I have no clue what you bought, which means I'm unable to answer your question.

Some of the newer head units are "self learning", meaning that they can be directly connected to the steering wheel controls and then "taught" what to do when a particular button is pushed, others require an interface.

 

Some of the newer head units are "self learning", meaning that they can be directly connected to the steering wheel controls and then "taught"

Can confirm that. I'm in the middle of setting up a 9" (too big for the car, perhaps not too big for my clumsy fingers), and the headunit is a second hand 2020 or so with Android 9. It does have that function in the menu. I hope I had buttons in the steering though...

 

My local motor factors provided this an it does fit perfectly, but the one that's in the vehicle (2003 Suzuki XL-7 HDi) iv noticed has alot more wires going to it.

An after fitting the harness everything seems to work but not the steering wheel controls? I'm guessing what the other wires are, do I need an extra adaptor or?

 

Just fitted a JVC unit to my -09 and it required a special adapter for steering controls and then some investigating to find the actual wires in the car to hook up to the adapter between car and stereo. Once that was done, it was into the settings on the stereo to ”teach” it what button does what.

 

Can you let me know how you went about getting the right special adapter, an where from please?

 

Any idea where to obtain this "special adapter" an which wires needed from the car? Any help using appreciated (although mines era before XL7

 

Which special adapter or interface you need is going to be largely determined by the head unit you have chosen, which we still know nothing about.

 

 

Apologies yea its just a generic android type, id just rather have the steering controls also as it seems a waste without.

 

@fordem do you have any ideas? As I sent everything over.. or don't you actually know?

 

I think yours should look like this

https://www.brl.se/sv/artiklar/rattstyrningskablage-suzuki-grand-vitara-sx4-swift-vitara.html?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=21011925043&gbraid=0AAAAADmy5vOcShYjJCF393yTlp4t2AAdE&gclid=Cj0KCQjw267GBhCSARIsAOjVJ4Fm6DGSKCPhnTRlV03HAef6MQVWzCW_jTK8QRX1xJTqnaYHShnnLYEaApoKEALw_wcB

 

Iv already bought something similar above its just the steering controls bit that ik having issues with..