[Thelm]

For those with a Kenwood head unit and the Aerpro kit, can you please clarify on what Aerpro wants me to do in order to get steering wheel control to work on my head unit?
I can't use the 3.5mm jack that it comes with and need to wire up the "Key 1" wire to something and cut two other wires.

My understanding of the diagram is to clip the orange and green wires on the 12 pin patch cable and connect the steering wheel remote wire from the head unit harness top the Key 1 bullet connector.
If I feel a big froggy, I'll go ahead and do that and update here, but until then, if you know better than me, let me know.

Pic attached of the Aerpro instructions.
Thanks in advance.
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Hey there, I'm glad you were able to get your Kenwood steering controls to work. I recently bought this kit and installed an Alpine ILX 507 unit but I have no steering wheel control. Do you think you might be able to help walk me through that process?

 

[Thelm]

If you bought the Alpine setup, you should be able to use the 3.5mm "headphone" style jack and connect to the back of the radio, then cut just the green loop on the 12 pin harness (where the black connector goes into the Aerpro board). If you look close to the end of the connector, where it goes into the board, you'll see 3 small loops of wire. Green, Orange, and Purple. Going off of the Aerpro diagram, you'd only need to clip the green one and connect the 3.5mm plug.

That's what I assumed after a little more investigation. Appreciate the feedback! I'll try and get it working this evening.

 

[Thelm]

No problem, man!
Let me know how it goes and share your setup when you have it all buttoned up.

She's all buttoned up and everything is working. Super happy with it. Clean look and really modernized her. Went with the wireless charger in the cubby under the AC too.

 

[Thelm]

Hell yeah dude!!!
Looks great. Glad you got it sorted out. I didn't get a cubby b/c i was hoping my existing pod would work, but forgot it used the OEM radio as part of the mount and interfered with the bottom of the Aerpro. So that's why I had to make my own.

Thanks again for the help! I actually almost put a gauge in that spot too but ended up going with the Ortiz customs up top. The finish on them was pretty sub par so ended up wrapping them, the pillars, and the headliner in suede lol Now she fancy.