Get the Axxess ASWC working - All buttons

Originally Posted by MX52Z

Re:'09 Bose, non-nav, axxess ASWC, Kenwood DNX9990HD

I've been at this for three days, reading everything I can here and on the Axxess site. The specific guide for the 370Z says when programmed, there should be a solid green light. When reading two other generic product manuals, however, they say it should be solid red. I've never seen the solid green but I have the solid red which I took to mean a fault.

I've gone through everything multiple times: #15 from the car radio harness is grounded to chassis and the grey/blue (to #16/blue wire) and grey/red wires (to #6 pink wire) were properly connected, even soldered.

Axxess diagnostics flashed five short greens and a long sixth then short seventh which means it detected only one of the two swc wires (grey/blue but not grey/red too).

I was only getting volume control and nothing else.

About ready to throw in the towel, I decided to swap the grey/blue and grey/red wires and reprogram. All of a sudden, all of the buttons are responding in some way. The volume up and down work, the source button goes through all of the Kenwood's various sources fine but the preset up and down is now seek and the phone answer and hang-up is also seek.

While this is not ideal, I'm finally seeing signs of life from all the steering wheel buttons by purposefully connecting the Axxess incorrectly. Yes, I double checked the Axxess plug's pinout too and the grey/blue and grey/red are where they're supposed to be.

I feel like I'm either getting close to success or close to screwing things up. I'm frustrated, sore and tired of seeing my Z's interior stripped out plus I need it back on the road asap. I would like to know if I can access the swc pink/blue/black wires at the steering column instead of behind the radio because I'd like to actually finish the Kenwood install and worry about the Axxess later.