Which Stereo Adapter Includes wires for Steering Wheel Remotes?

[ShapeShifter]

I have a 2006 and I am wondering if anyone knows if this harness includes the wires for steering wheel controls.
http://www.metraonline.com/part/70-7903

Anyone ever used this one?

 

[mdbuilder]

I have a 2006 and I am wondering if anyone knows if this harness includes the wires for steering wheel controls.
http://www.metraonline.com/part/70-7903

Anyone ever used this one?

Just bought a 5 over the weekend, haven't torn in to the stereo yet but I will in a week or so. I'm fairly certain this is going to be the same as my MX-5 meaning you would need 2 connectors in order to harvest a couple pins off the extra shell and install them in the firt to get the steering wheel wires. I did that on my Miata and got the steering wheel controls to work with an ASWC universal controller. Oh yeah, you need a controller not just the two wires



Here is a quote off an MX-5 forum:
"120707904 Mazda Wire Harness receiver
This was a Crutchfield item (part number 120-70-7904), there is an equivalent harness from Metra (part number 70-7093).
Free from Crutchfield
If you plan on using a steering wheel adapter, this harness does not have the two wires for the steering wheel control in it (pins 9 and 10 according to PAC's connector nomenclature, pins 1P and 1N according to Mazda's nomenclature). I bought a second harness and moved two wires from that harness to the other one for these connections. This way, I didn't have to cut the car wiring. The wires are relatively easy to remove, but you have to coax them out with a small sharp tool to press down the wire retainer. Hopefully this will be pretty easy to understand if you had a harness to see it. You have to reuse two of the same color wires as used elsewhere, so mark the wires according to the locations you put them and you should have no problem figuring out which one is which, later. You have to ground one of these connections for the PAC to work. I grounded pin 10 and it worked fine. I have a feeling you could ground either and use the other to connect to the white wire of the PAC as the steering wheel buttons just switch in various resistors between the two wires. Someone posted a message indicating that the color coding on the Mazda harness was reversed on their car from what others had seen, so this lends creedence to my belief."

 

[ShapeShifter]

Thanks for that.

What is PAC?

 

[mdbuilder]

There are 2 popular aftermarket control boxes to mate aftermarket head units to the steering wheel controls. One is called PAC and the other is the ASWC which is the one I have used. The ASWC generally programs itself so it is a little easier to install.

 

[ShapeShifter]

There are 2 popular aftermarket control boxes to mate aftermarket head units to the steering wheel controls. One is called PAC and the other is the ASWC which is the one I have used. The ASWC generally programs itself so it is a little easier to install.

Yikes! The ASWC unit is $70 at Crutchfield!

 

[ShapeShifter]

Actually Crutchfield has free shipping and gives a free dash kit and 16 pin cable with purchase of head unit so I guess that's not too bad....

 

[mdbuilder]

$46 @ Amazon, Crutchfield tends to be pretty high on everything despite the "free" included items. On the other hand, they ship very fast and provide generally good installation notes, which other do not, and a decent tech support department when questions arise half way though <g>.

 

[mdbuilder]

Definately confirmed that you need to either steal the two steering wheel pins off a second connector shell or steel 1 + move 1 unused pin (amp turn on not used). Last weeked I did 95% of the install of a pioneer AVH-4400BH along with the XM receiverback by the spare tire and a U220 nav add on under the glove box. I say 95% because everything came in ACCEPT the dash bezel which should arrive tomorrow. So at the moment the headunit is just sitting in the empty space waiting for the dash kit. It all works though, pretty nice having actual Ipod integration, blue tooth streaming and phone and nav in the dash.