Hey everyone and welcome back to the Sawickipedia. Today we're back in the Cube
as we're going to install some steering wheel controls. This model of the Cube
doesn't actually have steering wheel controls, so I've ordered these little
guys off eBay which basically just have a little double-sided sticky piece that
sticks on to the steering wheel, so we're gonna try that out. This is the little
controller box, so these are little wireless controls which have a
cr2032 battery in each of them. They claim that it will last up to two
years of use but we'll see about that, won't know for a while I don't think.
So the first thing we need to do is pull the stereo out once again, which is
fairly simple. I've done it a few times now, so we'll do
that and after that we hook up the little control box. So it does have
I think five different cables so you've got power, ground, there's four cables,
power, ground and control one and control two or key one key two, which I've just
quickly wired up to a 3.5mm audio jack so hopefully that'll work out.
I haven't actually soldered anything yet because I'm not sure which way
around the cables are gonna go, but we'll pull the odd stereo out find out from there.
If you haven't seen how to get this out, you can definitely check
out the install videos from when we installed the stereo.
If you don't want to do that, it's really simple just pull the ashtray out, there's
two screws at the bottom that need to come out, and then this you just pull
straight off, and there's just a little clip for the hazard lights up here which
just needs to be pushed in. Of course I can never actually manage to do it properly.
I'll just grab a tool for that.
A flat-head screwdriver will do it. And the cigarette lighter, just need to take out the four screws
that hold the stereo in, try not to drop anything.
Alright once those four screws are out the
stereo will just come straight out. I'm not sure if I can angle it around enough,
but towards the back, but next to the microphone input is the input for the steering wheel controls.
Obviously double-check with your stereo manufacturer if your
unit is actually capable of handling steering wheel controls, so I'll just plug that in.
Now this little control box obviously needs power as well, so I'll
have to wire up the red cable to the auxiliary power and obviously black to ground,
guess I'll have to pull that out, I'll just use the existing wires on the stereo to do that.
We've hooked up the ground and accessories wire, so hopefully our little control box
should have power we'll just turn the accessories on.
Turn that shit off.
Ok, so the Pioneer system gives the option for a steering wheel control without adapter.
I'm just gonna go for Japanese car and with any luck we should be able to program
these little guys to the corresponding buttons.
So volume down, hold that for a second.
Mute, left, right, that's pretty much it for that one.
And on the other side, so it's got a GPS button, I'll probably just program
that to the microphone so if we need to talk to Google assistant or Siri,
hitting that GPS button we'll bring that up, seems like the most logical choice.
Obviously they're little phone buttons so off hook, on hook,
stop, I guess we'll program that to..
I dunno, it doesn't really matter, let's just program that to phone.
And in the middle is a little M button so I'm gonna actually program that to AVsource
so when you hit that it will cycle through radio or Bluetooth audio or whatever.
So that looks like it, let's give it a test. So yeah hitting that M button will go to radio
and then as I said Spotify, whatever's programmed on the head unit.
Pushing the stop button will open up the phone book, because that's just basically
turning the phone function on. Off hook and on hook don't seem
to do anything because we're not in a call. You'll probably notice there was a random
pause there because hitting the Google assistant button automatically brings up
Google assistant on my phone, so that was probably a bad idea but that'll explain that.
The rest of the buttons, obviously volume up and down, left and right will
just switch through radio stations at the moment otherwise it'll skip tracks
if you're in Bluetooth audio or playing a CD whatever you doing and mute mutes.
So that's really about it, obviously it's a really simple one today and these
little guys were like 15 bucks off eBay. So it's a piece of piss putting them in.
You can't really go wrong as long as your head unit is compatible with
steering wheel controls that don't require an adapter.
And the cube steering wheel is almost ideal because it's got these nice little flat spots,
so they'll sit perfectly on them. There are other ones that I saw on eBay that sort of
wrap around the steering wheel, so the controls are just on the inside, but I
imagine that it get quite annoying because you'd be running into them all the time.
So yeah I'd grab a pair of these if your head unit can handle it.
It's definitely a goer. As always thanks again for watching,
I hope this has helped you out, be sure to hit the like button if it has, and you
can subscribe, and we'll see you for more crazy Sawickipedia adventures.
Thanks again!