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this is great info. thanks for sharing.

can i verify the process flow for the stereo swap to get aux-in? here is how i understand it. buy one part (86201AG67A Radio Ay Up2 $450). remove old stereo. chop up the i85 so that the wires from the harness are fed to the correct pins in the new stereo. connect new stereo and screw into car. is it that simple? does the new stereo come with an aux-out cable? instead of hacking up the i85, did anyone cut all the wires except the green one off the harness, leaving about 2 inches on the connector side. then use wiretaps or bullet plugs to reconnect and change up the wiring configuration? i think it would be way easier than trying to rework the connector and remove the wires etc. it would def be cleaner, but as DK said, it is hard as hell.

i would too.

let me know. if it is fairly reasonable, i'd consider going half in for the cost of the materials, and if you give me a finished working product, i'll call it even. you'll have cash, i'll have my harness, and the handful of other people who are interested and lazy like me can pony up some dollars to have their harnesses too. a win all around.

deer killer, how hard would it be for you to put together a wire harness for the i85 rewiring job? i assume you'd need a female that you'd plug the i85 from the car into, some wires that are rerouted properly (using the config that you showed in post #2) to a male i85. if you could go ahead and put that together, that'd be great. i'd be willing to pay a more than fair price for it. aside from redoing the i85, everything else is plug and play for installing the 07 stereo in an 05 leg it seems. no?

where's that how-to, you git!? i am wating to pull the trigger on a new headunit, pending this explanation. i don't need to replace the arm rest unit so that the aux-in female plug is available in there. i am content to run the aux wire to anywhere in the cabin.