Radio Installation NV 2500 Aftermarket Radio and door speaker installation

[Keathbordeaux@aol.com]

Please see attached file.

Nissan NV Radio help.doc

[Keathbordeaux@aol.com]

            I want to install an aftermarket radio/cd player, and speakers in the doors. I am looking for detailed information including diagrams so I can remove the dash panels and door cards or speaker grills without damage so that I may successfully complete said installation. Also, very important; the company I'm working with (Crutchfield Audio) tells me they do not have a listing for an interface that will allow me to use the steering wheel controls with the new system, however they do list one that will work with a Nissan Titan. Will this unit work with my vehicle, a 2012 HV 2500 High Roof Cargo van?    

 Lastly, does anyone know if there is a way to put all four channels into the two front speakers during the install so that I don't have to mess with trying to figure out where I would put a set of rear speakers? Thanks a lot for your time and help!

[Glidedon]

This is the harness I used http://ae64.com/20-pincombinedharness.htm it may be useful to you or not it does not include stearing wheel control functionality. My installation did not affect the steering wheel controls.

 

I did not use a after market head unit. I added rear speakers ( above wheelwells, factory location) and amplifiers and a sound processor.

 

Also you can get a digital copy of the factory manual on eBay, it's very thorough.

[Keathbordeaux@aol.com]

Thank you, Shasta Lake, for your time. All this is quite new to me and I'm really not very tech savvy...

Either you answered a question that I didn't really ask, or I wasn't quite as clear as I could have been...

 

I am working with a Crutchfield Audio advisor, to upgrade my factory radio and speakers, in my 2012 Nissan NV 2500 High Roof cargo van. (I love this vehicle, 2 and a half years, 39,000 miles, driven every day, it's just awesome...).

He suggested a Sony CDX-GT710HD head unit. I don't even want to think about an external amp for now, maybe I'll want one later. Infinity reference 6&3/4" speakers for the front doors, leave the tweeters in the dash for now...

 

If I understand the Crutchfield advisor correctly, I will get a wiring harness free with the order to connect the new head unit to the factory wiring harness, and an antenna adapter. My questions for this blog community are; 

 

* Where can I find instructions (Crutchfield doesn't have them) to remove the front speaker grilles and/or door panels, and the dash trim to remove the old equipment, without damaging them?

 

* Crutchfield doesn't list a steering wheel control adapter for this vehicle, would one for a Titan plug right in and work the same?

 

* This van is full of tools on a built in shelf unit, so if I opt to hang some surface mounted speakers somewhere, as my 2 rear speakers, how do those get wired? In other words, when I am fiddling with the audio controls on the current factory radio/cd player, I can fade all the sound to the two front speakers, but none to the rear speakers, because NONE came in the vehicle. So, when I pull the old unit and wire the new one in, where and how do I locate what was supposed to be the rear speaker wire leads, so that I can tie into them and run new wires to wherever in the vehicle I'll be mounting the new rear speakers?  Because after all, I am acting under the presumption that;

 

​* Is it impossible or inadvisable, to somehow during the installation of the new components, wire it up in such a way so that instead of adding a new set of (rear) speakers and running new wires, I can send the signal and power that should go into a rear set of speakers, into the front two?

Thanks in advance to anyone who takes the time to help me out here!

[Jean Desjardins]

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