rev up your engines, welcome to mechanic Monday today I'm going to show you how
to install an android 8.0 into your car and at the end of the show I'm going to
give it away to one of the viewers, now it's a lot easier installing one of
these android 8.0 than you might think, this particular one is an Eonon and it
comes with even the tool you need to take your dash apart and here it is but
before we start taking it apart, why do you want to put one of these things in
in the first place, well in this case this 2007 matrix hey it's just got the
factory system, it's a radio and it's a CD player, you can't hook your phone to
it, it doesn't do GPS you can't play videos on it, hey it's a pretty basic
thing and it's so easy to replace them, now the first thing you have to do is
remove the plastic cover, so you get the tool, you stick it in and you start to
pry out a little at a time until it starts to come out, then you lift it out
but you'll notice it won't come the whole way because it's got all these
electric tangs in, and they can be real stinkers but you push the little Tang in
here and then pull them off, but since I'm lazy I took the two in the middle
off and the side ones I'll leave on because I find you can twist this whole
assembly and you can get it out of the way, so now you have working room to get
to the radio and you don't have to unplug all that cuz those are really
hard to get off, then you get a 10 millimeter socket and take the four
bolts off that hold it into the car and that's pretty easy, they're never in all
that tight, you can even use your fingers then and out comes one, then two, then you
need a long extension because the other two are further in, their way down here
there's three, and there's four, and then the whole
radio slides right out, well it slides partway out, of course there's the
antenna you got to unplug in the back and another set of wiring clips you have to
unplug, as you can see on the back side there's the antenna over here, we unplug
the antenna and then we unplug these two wiring clips this one and that one, and
they're the same as the other ones you push a little clip then pull them out,
and two and there goes the radio, now here's
where it can be kind of a pain if you don't think ahead, all these wires you
can see I'm all coming out of here, they have to be connected to the new radio
and since they rarely have the same clip as you can see this is completely
different than the other ones, get a wiring splice kit that goes from factory
to aftermarket, in this case it's the Toyota, so these plugs will plug right
into the car all you got to do is wire these up to your new system, as you can
see on the kit it tells you what wire goes to which, what's your power which
are for which speakers front and back left and right, and make sure you get a
decent you don't like this because it's got all the wiring diagram
here, so it tells which of these wires go there, you won't get confused and mess up,
and here's a tip I'll give you from my years of installing these things, it's
not a good idea to buy a universal adapter that says, oh it'll plug in your
car and will plug directly into your new system, because a lot of times those are
made incorrectly and when you plug it in it fries everything, sure with these kits
you do have to solder the wires together but really it doesn't take that long
like I'm gonna show you now, since you're not gonna be using this connector you
can just cut the wires right near it and we just follow directions, it says that
red is 12 volts and on the new unit it says red is the power 12 volts with
the ignition switch on which is what you want, so you just get your little wire
splices and cutters and make some bare metal, then get your adapter, twist the
wire around itself and then you have a nice tight joint
that won't come off and of course get a little electrical tape, slice it with the
razor and wrap it, because you don't want all the wires touching each other that'd
be stupid, and you just follow the rest in this case, the yellow goes to yellow
that's power on all the time to keep memory alive, now of course there's various
ways to connect wires you can get those little twist connectors and stuff, but
really if you solder them they're gonna stay nice and crisp you're not gonna get
crackles and the connections are gonna be perfect, now the only other thing you
have to do is take the brackets off of your old radio and put it on the new
Android, they just unscrew then go on the other side and then screw it in snug,
and don't forget to do the other side and snug them up and you just put the
radio in the car first snap the connectors in, one and two, plug the antenna
wire in for the radio, then slide the radio in so the little line ups line up
and you can bolt it in, get off four bolts nice and tight up here, down in
here, and on the other side, and there she blows it's warming up,
and take my advice, try it out before you put the dash all back in because you
might have messed up with a wire but in this case I didn't, so I guess now I can
throw all these old CDs cause this Android is the killer music machine and
much much more navigation, radio, music video, you can do all kinds of things
with these Android only your imaginations gonna let you up on that,
so I guess when you consider all the things that this Android can do, maybe
this was a bigger change over than when I was a kid and had no radio at all and
put an old tube Buick radio in the glove box and since this is mechanic Monday,
I'm giving away one of these Eonon Android 8.0 an early
Christmas present, to have a chance to win, just place a clean non offensive
comment on the YouTube comments below and the winner will be chosen randomly
by computer to get one of these cool android 8.0 s' to put in their car, so if
you never want to miss another one of my new car repair videos, remember to ring
that Bell!