kenwood KSC X7016 wiring issue and no display

makanaka · 27th February 2011, 13:21

hello friends,
i recently purchased a kenwood x7016 headunit with bill n warranty for 12000 inr, before taking delivery i got it checked out and it was working just fine, now when my installer tried to hook it up with my car( maruti swift 2007 old model, the one with old lights and no steering control one) it does not light up and though the cd eject function is working just fine it does not show any display, my installer connected the black, yellow red and blue wire with yellow stripes being the ground, battery, ignition and remote wire and said i dont need to attach any more wires as i have just 2 speakers and im using twin amplifier setup and will be using output through rca's and insists on getting the unit checked out again, am i doing anything wrong here or is the unit at some fault, please advise. p.s. im using wiring harness for the old model suzuki swift which initially was used for my pioneer headunit which worked just fine and i mean the car harness which connects the headunit wiring harness to the car's wiring harness

makanaka · 27th February 2011, 15:25

problem solved, mods please delete this one thanks

abhibh · 27th February 2011, 20:49

What was the solution ?

makanaka · 27th February 2011, 21:56

it was supposed to go this way, yellow wire from hu harness to yellow wire from car harness( power/battery), black wire from hu harness to black wire from car harness(ground),red wire from hu harness to orange wire from car harness(ignition) we messed it up here and connected red to red, as soon as the swap happened it worked flawlessly and of course remote wire from the amps to P.CONT wire from the hu harness.
off topic:- i am happy with the head unit but i dont like the fact that this hu cant play wav files off usb, i guess i ought to have checked it out before i took the plunge, anyways i guess i will have to stick to 320 kbps mp3's for some more time, no lossless for me yet!

makanaka · 29th March 2011, 08:46

hello friends,
sorrry to revive an old thread but i wanted to ask that whether it is possible to turn this headunit on and off by a remote? if yes then how because i cant seem to find this function, im currently pressing the source button on the headunit to turn it on and off

DerAlte · 30th March 2011, 16:47

Nope, not mentioned in the manual. Try holding the SRC button on the remote for more than one sec.

akshay4587 · 30th March 2011, 20:24

AFAIK,you cannot,i cant do it with my 6539,so this should be the same.
another bug is that i cannot FF songs with remote

not sure if this feature is present in newer models.

Sankar · 30th March 2011, 20:46

Nope as others have said, its not possible to turn on this HU with remote. Source button is the only on/off button on this HU.

makanaka · 30th March 2011, 23:00

thanks for answering dudes, no akshay u cannot fast forward or rewind songs on this one via remote, for that you have to longpress the buttons on the headunit surrounding the volume knob, i always thought this was something very basic and standard, this feature was available on my second last pioneer headunit too which was about 6 years old, kenwood can learn a few things from pioneer i guess.

27th February 2011, 13:21	#1
makanaka BHPian Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Dehra Dun Posts: 154 Thanked: 7 Times	kenwood KSC X7016 wiring issue and no display hello friends, i recently purchased a kenwood x7016 headunit with bill n warranty for 12000 inr, before taking delivery i got it checked out and it was working just fine, now when my installer tried to hook it up with my car( maruti swift 2007 old model, the one with old lights and no steering control one) it does not light up and though the cd eject function is working just fine it does not show any display, my installer connected the black, yellow red and blue wire with yellow stripes being the ground, battery, ignition and remote wire and said i dont need to attach any more wires as i have just 2 speakers and im using twin amplifier setup and will be using output through rca's and insists on getting the unit checked out again, am i doing anything wrong here or is the unit at some fault, please advise. p.s. im using wiring harness for the old model suzuki swift which initially was used for my pioneer headunit which worked just fine and i mean the car harness which connects the headunit wiring harness to the car's wiring harness
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27th February 2011, 15:25	#2
makanaka BHPian Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Dehra Dun Posts: 154 Thanked: 7 Times	Re: kenwood KSC X7016 wiring issue and no display problem solved, mods please delete this one thanks
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27th February 2011, 20:49	#3
abhibh Senior - BHPian Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Back in the HOOD near you! Posts: 2,768 Thanked: 39 Times	Re: kenwood KSC X7016 wiring issue and no display What was the solution ?
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27th February 2011, 21:56	#4
makanaka BHPian Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Dehra Dun Posts: 154 Thanked: 7 Times	Re: kenwood KSC X7016 wiring issue and no display it was supposed to go this way, yellow wire from hu harness to yellow wire from car harness( power/battery), black wire from hu harness to black wire from car harness(ground),red wire from hu harness to orange wire from car harness(ignition) we messed it up here and connected red to red, as soon as the swap happened it worked flawlessly and of course remote wire from the amps to P.CONT wire from the hu harness. off topic:- i am happy with the head unit but i dont like the fact that this hu cant play wav files off usb, i guess i ought to have checked it out before i took the plunge, anyways i guess i will have to stick to 320 kbps mp3's for some more time, no lossless for me yet!
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29th March 2011, 08:46	#5
makanaka BHPian Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Dehra Dun Posts: 154 Thanked: 7 Times	Re: kenwood KSC X7016 wiring issue and no display hello friends, sorrry to revive an old thread but i wanted to ask that whether it is possible to turn this headunit on and off by a remote? if yes then how because i cant seem to find this function, im currently pressing the source button on the headunit to turn it on and off
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30th March 2011, 16:47	#6
DerAlte Senior - BHPian Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Bangalore Posts: 8,069 Thanked: 2,919 Times	Re: kenwood KSC X7016 wiring issue and no display Nope, not mentioned in the manual. Try holding the SRC button on the remote for more than one sec.
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30th March 2011, 20:24	#7
akshay4587 Senior - BHPian Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Chandigarh/Mohali/Ambala Cantt Posts: 4,151 Thanked: 4,525 Times View My Garage	Re: kenwood KSC X7016 wiring issue and no display AFAIK,you cannot,i cant do it with my 6539,so this should be the same. another bug is that i cannot FF songs with remote not sure if this feature is present in newer models.
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30th March 2011, 20:46	#8
Sankar Senior - BHPian Join Date: May 2005 Location: Location Posts: 5,766 Thanked: 9,054 Times	Re: kenwood KSC X7016 wiring issue and no display Nope as others have said, its not possible to turn on this HU with remote. Source button is the only on/off button on this HU.
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30th March 2011, 23:00	#9
makanaka BHPian Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Dehra Dun Posts: 154 Thanked: 7 Times	Re: kenwood KSC X7016 wiring issue and no display thanks for answering dudes, no akshay u cannot fast forward or rewind songs on this one via remote, for that you have to longpress the buttons on the headunit surrounding the volume knob, i always thought this was something very basic and standard, this feature was available on my second last pioneer headunit too which was about 6 years old, kenwood can learn a few things from pioneer i guess.
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