Heres a quicktip, If you guys dont want to tap into the car side of the harness to wire it up you can peel back the wires twist tightly and shove them into the empty pin holes. theyre a tight fit so they wont come loose and if your like me and hate tapping into factory harnesses then you dont gotta do that either
oh yeah and you need your own wire for the black pin 15
ASWC - Car
blue/gray - blue
gray/red - pink
- black

I hooked my aswc up to a pioneer avh-p4200. I have had the head unit working in my car for 3 months and I just decided to hook this steering wheel adapter up. I got through the install fine and hooked up the pink blue and black wire up to the car and grounded pin 15 to the same ground as the rest of my radio( I hope that is okay). I also hooked up the red wire from the aswc to the orange ignition wire. I programmed the unit manually and every thing worked fine. So I turn the car off put the dash back together. I go to turn the car back and the radio is going hay wire. I can't change sources and the radio will not stop on a station. My back up cam will not work. I tried resetting the radio and still nothing. I took the dash apart checked all my connections. I then took the aswc off and turned the radio back on everything works fine. So I hook the aswc up again everything works. Turn the car off and then back on same thing radio goes hay wire.

What do you guys think bad aswc? I was thinking of trying to hook up the red wire from the aswc to the red power wire on the radio. Thinking that it might need to be powered all the time so when I turn the radio off it doesn't loose power.

I am calling metra tomorrow to see if the can help.

Oh yea I have a base '10

Weird setup. The instructions say to connect to pins #6 and #16. Pin #6 does not go to the HU if you are not wiring rear speakers. So I wired the rear speakers anyway. Too tired to fuss with it today after spending half a day ripping apart the interior and running amp and subwoofer wires. The Clarior CX 501 HU works along with the Sound Ordinance powered sub. I will see if it will work manually in the morning.....

nope, gotta go back in and rewire. Pink and blue wires didn't seem to work...

Mine was a snap... except for the instructions provided by axxcess.......
2 wires plus power and ground....
It auto programmed itself, and is working perfectly since.
If I remember correctly, you have to press and hold the volume + on your wheel to get it to accept the unit...

Anyone have success getting all functions working on a touring? Going to tackle this by weeks end.

Do not go by the wire colors to do this DIY unless you have the same stock HU. A base stereo does not use the same wire color to pin combo as a Bose system does. Follow the pin call outs and all should work just fine. On a bose system pin 6 is white, pin 15 is black and 16 is gray. No pink wire to splice to here. Make sure when you look at a connector illustration, that you know if it is the pin (terminal) side or the wire (harness) side you are refering to also.

http://www.the370z.com/attachment.ph...1&d=1332351159
This post should get the phone controls working http://www.the370z.com/diy-section-d...rol-phone.html

These were the same colors for me as well.

The blue/pink/black wires were my 6/15/16 pins and I have a 2009 Touring w/ Bose. Overall, the ASWC was pretty easy to install. After reading through the instructions in the second link of the first post, I was able to manually set everything up. The diagnostic only had a long flash on the blue/gray wire and not the red/gray wire.. but everything works fine.

good read.

For step 5 connect pin 15 of vehicles harness to ground, does that mean cut the wire and ground it? Shouldn't it already be grounded since it IS a ground wire?

Yes cut the wire and ground it. Through the stock head unit it was grounded however with the new head unit that pin does not go to anything.

Na you have to ground it. I just finished an install and had to get help to figure out why it wasn't recognizing controls. That wire does have to be grounded for the steering wheel controls to work.

I can't get this to work other than the volume +/- buttons. I got a Kenwood DVD HU and I verified the wire harness pin to pin. I tried the manual setup also. Any tips?

One problem of the ACCESS ASWC, is that if you have an old version that needs to be upgraded to work in your application, you either have to send it back to ACCESS and have them update the firmware or buy a $40 cable to be able to do it yourself.
I have a Kenwood DDX-719 and all steering functions work except for the phone pick-up and disconnect. Kenwood said that it will not work and there are no known plans to update the HU firmware to allow that function to work in the near future.

This install sounds like its gonna be fun.