Re:Gadget's 2019 hearing aid SZ5

EssexJimny - who did your dinitrol and how much was it (if you don't mind me asking).

I'm looking to do mine but seems crazy expensive everywhere.

Cheers!

Gareth

I hate it when there's some minor, tiny imperfection in something which no matter how hard you try, you can't ignore. From day 1 I've wanted a stereo with a volume knob on it. The steering wheel controls work fine, but sometimes the wheel is rotated and I've always liked something tactile that I can just whack up or down rapidly.

Like I said, a tiny annoyance.

So anyway, I've now cracked that tiny nut with mahoosive great sledgehammer! Behold the monstrosity that is the Kenwood DMX9720XDS! 10.1" of knob-twiddling pleasure!

 

Fitting it was fairly straightforward. The gen4 Jimny doesn't have any specific wiring adapters listed for it, so after getting in touch with Connects2 I plumped for wiring meant for the 2017 onwards Suzuki Swift, plus the Jimny-specific replacement bezel.

The things you need in addition to the new headunit are:

Connects2 CT23SZ21 - Suzuki Jimny 2018 onwards gloss black double din fascia
Connects2 CT27AA180 - Fakra to SMB DAB antenna adapter
Connects2 CTSSZ003.2 - Suzuki Swift/Ignis steering wheel control stalk interface adaptor
Connects2 CTMultilead.2
Connects2 CAM-SZ1-RT - Suzuki Swift/Ignis reverse camera retention interface
Connects2 CT27AA88 - Suzuki DIN antenna aerial adaptor

Which you then throw at the back of the unit and end up with this:  



All those adapters mean that you keep the OEM steering wheel controls, USB port, reversing camera (if fitted) and DAB/FM aerials. You don't get to use the OEM GPS aerial or microphone. The headunit was supplied with new GPS antenna (lots of places to stick it inside the dash behind the clocks) and massive ugly microphone - which I managed to squeeze into the camera housing at the top of the windscreen, so that's invisible too. 



You bolt the screen into place last, not forgetting the small plastic hinge cover (otherwise the unit won't start).  



The screen sits proud of the dash and can be angled by hand. It has four height settings, but those require the screen to be removed and bolts undone to adjust. I think this is on the bottom or next to bottom setting. 



The screen itself is lovely. Android auto works perfectly and is much snappier than the standard headunit. The only problem is that I now need to get a new phone to use the wireless Android auto that this headunit supports!

  

Looks a beast of a screen.

Good job fitting that unit, personally l don't like the look of it sat in front of the old unit like that.

But l agree that it would be great to have a proper volume control, the one on the screen is hopeless but the steering wheel controls are OK

There's no old unit, that's all new. Having s bit of buyers remorse over cost and if screen is too big, but I'm sure it'll pass!

That's awesome! I don't envy your cable management but I love the floating effect of the screen.