Hey, I'm JR, and we're here in the install bay so that I can show you how
to install a Bluetooth microphone for your car stereo. When you buy a new car
stereo for your car, it's probably gonna have Bluetooth and it's probably going
to come with an external microphone. This would be one of those mics, and it
usually comes with about ten feet of wire so that you can route it from a
space in your car down into the dash into the back of your radio. The whole
point here is to get this microphone into a location where it can pick up
your voice nice loud and clear so that your callers hear you loud and clear. I'm
gonna show you several different common mounting places for these Bluetooth
microphones. There's a sticky tab on the back, and this sort of a hook here, so
that you can hook it on different things or stick it to different surfaces
depending on your car. Many people will put it right here on the steering column.
As you can see, that's kind of a good place because the microphone is pointed
directly at your face where it should be able to pick up your voice loud and
clear. There's also a nice short path for the wire to be route into the dash and
to your radio cavity. Another popular mounting spot is right up here on your A-
pillar. You can usually hook this mounting plate into that A-pillar trim
panel pretty easily. However, you probably shouldn't do that if your vehicle has a
side-curtain airbag in the A-pillar. You don't want your Bluetooth microphone to
interfere with that at all. Another popular spot, they call this actually a
visor mount, you might put it on your actual visor. It depends on how thick
your visor is. Sometimes they just don't fit very well there, but you might
actually put it directly on your visor or you might attach it right up here to
the headliner of your car, or maybe there's a trim panel, and in this car
that's where we've decided to mount it is to the underside of this trim panel
right here like this, so it it'll be just like that, we get the Bluetooth
microphone pointed at the driver and we're gonna route the wire up into the
headliner over here to the A-pillar, down into the dash and over to the radio
cavity. So that's what I'm gonna do now we're gonna take the small end that
plugs into the radio and see if we can feed it through here. So I've removed
this panel so that I can gain access to this area right up here so that I can
get the cable run into the headliner and
out the other side. All right, so I've got the wire fished through here, I'm going
to go ahead and pull all of the slack of the wire through to the other side,
go ahead and get the microphone itself mounted and looking good up here, there.
So microphone is mounted securely. There. It doesn't interfere with the opening of
the sunglasses holder, and the wire goes up into the panel and into the headliner.
I'm going to tuck it in over here into the headliner, all the way over to the A-
panel, the A-pillar. We're probably going to want to pry this out, and you should
of course have already disconnected the negative battery cable
so none of the car has any power including this airbag, and I'm gonna go
ahead and pry this out, and you just want to keep an eye out for where the airbag
is in here and try not to interfere with anything related to the airbag as you
route the wire through the A-pillar.
I get the wire tucked in before I put it all back together...you might need to use
like, a trim panel tool to get the wire up in there where it's not going to fall
out while you're driving. Now our wire's tucked nice and tight up in there.
Now I can finish right here along the weather stripping for the car, staying...
making sure to not be on the outside of the weather stripping. You don't want to
get it pinched in the door. Coming right down here to the kick panel this panel
pries right off, and I can route it up under the dash and over to the radio
cavity. Now when you route the wire under the dash, you want to make sure to steer
clear of anything important that moves like your steering linkage or anything
like that, the emergency brake, so we'll just take care to wrap the wire in a way
that doesn't interfere with the inner workings of the car. Some dashes, there's
a lot of very easy access. In fact, I think this one might work out, might be
able to do it without any kind of extra tool. So it doesn't look like I can get
my hands to touch so I'm going to go ahead and grab a coat hanger and use
this to fish the wire through. I'm gonna take the end of the Bluetooth wire and
put it through this coat hanger and just squeeze that tight so it won't come out.
So the wire's stuck in the coat hanger, we'll fish this up into the dash
just like that. All right, so I'm going to go back in and of course I'm going to
zip-tie underneath there, make sure it's not interfering with any steering
linkages. It looks like it's all nice and buttoned up up here, and now the cable is
hanging out of the radio cavity where the radio is gonna go with enough slack
so that when it's time to put our radio in we'll be able to plug this into the
back. We're not quite ready to install this radio yet in this car, we've still
got some more wiring to do, but when we are we're gonna take the Bluetooth mic,
we're gonna plug it in to the Bluetooth microphone input right on the back of
the radio right here. It's labeled "mic," and so that's just a little 8-inch mini-
jack that plugs in right there, and now when you're talking Bluetooth to your
callers they'll hear you loud and clear because the mic's right here plugged into
the radio. When you're using your voice assistant
with your radio, when you're telling it where you'd like to go, you're voice
texting while you're driving, the Bluetooth mic is what does all of that
and so good positioning is important so it can hear you, your radio can hear you,
your callers can hear you loud and clear. So this video should have covered the
basics of installing a Bluetooth microphone in just about any car. The
particulars can be different from vehicle to vehicle, and you might want to
give us a call and our advisors can help you figure out which radio and which
Bluetooth mic to put in your car. If you enjoyed this video, thanks for watching.
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