KickerCS Upgrade with Kicker Key amp Install Assistance

Nothing there to worry about
There is a screw poking through at the top of the screwdriver. That is the grommet location i mentioned. The circled area is where the kidney shape is

 

okay so I’m about to take my ass Out here and hook up lights and get this shit done in the cold! I’m ready! Lol

 

In the middle of this install but holy crap there is so much noise without anything playing. It’s constant static. I purchased the key with the harness already made for stock entune unit. But I am using it on a dasaita headunit. I figured the new key harness would just go in between my aftermarket head-unit harness that’s already in place. Would I have to wire this differently? Any help would be much appreciated!

 

I wouldn't think you would need to wire anything differently, so long as the new HU is PnP. It sounds like the adapter harness takes care of rewiring it for you so that it is essentially PnP and you would just put the key harness before the new HU adapter harness. I could be wrong, and destin would probably know more.

The static is more than likely caused by the gain being turned up too high. The speakers really don't need much at all

 

That’s exactly what I had assumed... I thought that also but both are at zero. Even with both knobs completely turned counter clockwise it’s still really loud static

 

Well I’ve done it froze my ass off and still thawing our but this thing is just exactly what I needed it sounds AMAZING! I’m tired af and I’ll probably wake up sick in the morning but what a relief I really made that seem much harder than it was and idk why I can’t use punctuation right now lol I tapped into the right speaker wire behind harness using T taps I took my time and ran loom and flex tube around everything I ground under seat where a ground was already made but I sanded the heck out of it to make sure I had a good solid ground super excited to be done with this I’ll have to bolt seats back down and rehang and straigten up some of the under hood wiring. Installed lights under hood tonight also just and led strip from wal mart in the morning was too tired I’m out! It was nearly 3 am when i finished

 

On my small connector for the key harness I have on pin on the lower row that goes into a blank spot on the trucks harness; and vice versa on the other connector. Should those make contact or are they supposed to stay “open”?

 

Can you grab a pic of what you’re referring to?

 

yes i will get that soon! Thank you! I am in the middle of throwing in some kicker ks speakers right now so I will take the radio and amp out after. I’m hoping maybe with all speakers and tweeters being the ks line that might help with better sound.

 

It will help

 

Got the ks speakers installed and they sound awesome bit the headunit still gives some static

 

Turns out it was the harness that was supplied with my aftermarket headunit. I knew it had to be something like that since the member I bought the key amp from used it flawlessly before shipping it to me

 

Gotcha! All is good

 

I am a newB who just got his first Tacoma (2014, TRD crew cab) some time ago. I am interested in adding an amplifier to the stock audio system I have as a first step and then replacing the speakers in a second step. Specifically I'm looking at adding a Pioneer GM-D1004 400W 4-Channel Amplifier in the dashboard. I've been following this thread with much interest and was wondering if there is any information anyone can offer about how to create a T-harness for a 2nd gen tacoma without JBL. If I understand correctly the excellent information provided here is for 3rd gen tacoma ... . Please excuse me if its a trivial question

 

Lucky for you, they are the same!

 

Thank you so much for the info and the quick reply!

 

I have completed the full write-up on the Kicker Key T-Harness with full schematics. Find it here: https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...icker-key-t-harness-wip.642415/#post-22214527

 

I installed the kicker speakers and subaru tweeters...but....Best buy advised me not to install the kicker key amp..they said it would only produce louder music..not better quality music...he sujested only getting a sub....

 

Wrong. Sub is great, as is the Key. It has a built in DSP and in fact does greatly improve the audio. You spoke to an idiot.

 

Great........thank you for the reply..he is one of those guys..he says its his career (not belittling that)..but there is no arguing with him...its almost like he dosnt want to do it.....