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Thanks Morrissey , It's the solution , as I know you are the second man who did the soldering.

I am happy you enjoy your Ipod in your legacy!

Are you please with the new 2.0 R engine ?

Hello Jazzy,

It's not a good news for Europe Customer, we have not same radio , I deassembled my HU everything was good except the ribbon caming from radio , this ribbon has 22 wires and yours get 14 wires , so it's impossible to plug your aux in card . I am really sad about that news. And now we haven't any solutions except crappy FM mod. Even we get extra plug for cd-changer but as Mario said , it doesn't work. We must buy extra cd changer and simply hack audio in....

Sad news sad day.....

Found it on the web, but the site seems to be down for now.

 

I need help:

 

Facts for japanese outback owners:

1- The Kenwood HU has a 20 pin rectangular input for an external CD changer and NAVI system, and a selector for band-cd-tape (yes, it has a cassete deck)-chr.

2- The CHR option does not work if no cd changer is connected, the same as the tape option does not work if no tape is in the player.

3- The optional CD changer is a kenwood c-929, with a special Subaru cable to fit the rectangular HU input, that does not have the standard 13 pin round Kenwood CD changer input, that cable seems not to be sold.

4- The CD changer must return some sort of "protocol" to be detected as such by the HU, not just connecting the cables to audio chanels (I did that and it doesn't work).

5- Kenwood makes the kca-ip500 adaptor to connect the ipod to combatible kenwood HU, with 13 pin round plug input, so I assume it returns the right protocol for it to be detected as a CD changer.

6- I have the pin diagrams for the Subaru HU rectangular plug, the c-929 (out to radio) changer, and the pin input of two kenwood radios compatible with both the kca-ip500 adaptor and the c-929 changer with the standard (not Subaru) cable.

 

Now, the question is, if I get hold of a 13 pin kenwood female plug, as the one on the back of some aftermarket units (should not be that difficult), and wire it to the right equivalent pins of the Subaru HU rectangular input (by the way, computer power source cable terminals fit very nice on the pins):

1- Could I connect a kca-ip500 to that?

2- What cable do i need to connect to what? (some are easy, but CLK, DATA C, DATA H, CH CON, etc?), I am only an electronic fan.

I include pictures of the pinouts.

Thanks for any help.

 

PD: if you have the full details (brand, model) of the USA SUbaru HU I could try a search for those service manuals.

That's really interresting because in Europe We get same HU with 20 pins plug. It's really a nighmare because this plug doesn't work except pluging C929 cd-changer.

So I decide to buy Jazzy solution, when I receive Jazzy solution and modify my HU, I will tell you if it's work.

PS : I don't think that kca-ip500 works with our HU because it only works with some Kenwood unit.