Break out the dremel.
A little bit of swearing and here we go.
Make ready the way for the antenna and microphone cables. The one that comes with the ATOTO is just a clip, not a flat 3m'd style piece. Tucked it down and way through the A-Pillar. WiFi antenna cable was short...so I decided passenger A-pillar for minimal distance run instead of driver side.
The hole ready to accept the head unit:
Tight. Electrical test first. It works! No sonic analysis yet. I then decided to uckfay with the EQ on the amp. More on this later.
Next morning. Let's get the hand held spinny whizzy thingy and make the shroud fit.
Quite a bit of material removed. Ignore the apprentice marks.
Finished visually:
Also: Threw the quick charge/MTP connection USB's into the ashtray. Velcro. Because I didn't want to make a panel to mount it...
So driving that evening, I noticed how bright and tinny the deck sounded. I was like, I know I uckfayed with the amp's crossover potentiometers. So I found the manual, consulted Canuckrz, and tweaked with it. I think this ATOTO deck has artificially pumped up the mids and highs, because, damn. I can sing along to Sk8r Boi all day. However, with this deck, it was hard to listen to because of how uckfaying
bright the treble was. I spent a good 30 minutes in my work parking lot tonight messing with the EQ on the deck after setting the amp gains and crossover freq's.
This is what makes it tolerable, and decent sounding.
I wonder how accurate this EQ is. Canuckrz suggested to try a compatible 3rd party EQ. More research needed.
Navigation comes through the vehicle speakers, of course. Google Maps supports Voice activation so that's pretty neat. The map is HUGE and easy to read. The alert and search buttons however are tiny little circles
all the way on right, furthest from me.
Time to dig into finding a way to get SMS/Messages to show up so I don't have to look at my phone on ski-trips.
