Head unit wire extender

Originally Posted by makeao

Okay, I tested it enough and I can say that it's working as expected.

I removed the audio decoder box that came with my nifty city tesla screen, and replaced it with the harness I made. After replacing it and wiring the RCA to the tesla unit, the sound went back to it's normal volume before the install, also the hissing noise that I had is gone using the custom harness.

For the wiring, I used the pinout posted earlier in this thread.

I tin soldered the connections between wires and tapped it with heat shrink sleeve.


To remove the pins, there is a tiny hole in each pin, I mean, each pin has 2 holes, one for the connection, and another one tinier, which is for unlocking that pin out, so you can gently insert a small tool on that hole and pull the wire with the pin out.
I used this tool, which is for removing pins of PC power supply:


After that, and according to the pinout, I removed every wire that was not needed in Metra 70-7553 and 71-7552. Took the extra pins from the Metra 70-7552, because Metra 70-7553 lacked some pins that were needed for steering wheel controls.

Also removed the audio pins from the Metra 71-7552, because the audio is wired to the RCA from the tesla unit.

Here is the harness finished:


And here how it should be wired:


I finally wired the shield wire like a normal wire, no issues.

If you have spare audio decoder box and you dont mind breaking it, you can do everything with only the Metra 70-7553 and take the male connector and the rest of the pins from the decoder box.

Note that this worked for my car (2019 Nismo with factory NAV), but I checked the pinout on the AV manual, you should check yours before doing anything, I am not responsible for any problems someone else may have with this wiring, and this post is for informational purposes only.



Hope it helps.

Originally Posted by Da Flash

Thank you for this post makeao! I haven't had the hissing issue but, I did make a custom harness to go back to my amp and spare tire sub and then back up to the car harness and new speaker wires. Everything works great EXCEPT for the steering wheel controls. I can see now that I probably didn't connect pins 6, 15 and/or 16. I shouldn't be too bad popping out the tablet and testing/fixing it!