Aftermarket NAV/DVD/Bluetooth/Backup-Camera .... on a budget of $600

Thanks to all of the help on here, and along the same lines....my wife is REALLLLY PISSED at all of you!!!!

So my 2007 LT avalanche, with no bose, no nav, just a plain jane cd player with steering wheel controls is getting a slight upgrade.  

I had gone with a refurbished kenwood excelon dnx690hd (439$ on newegg), because it had all of the goodies i wanted (NON MOTORIZED screen, garmin nav, 3 preouts, camera input, bluetooth and dvd)

All adapters in one from pac, RP5-gm31 (108$ on newegg shipped) Does steering wheel controls, keeps the chime through the onstar, retains all xm and on star (though i don't care for it), but it does the antenna adapter, and is the wiring harness adapter as well.  Would have been about the same price to get everything separate.

Cheapie CMOS backup camera, for a mind boggling 11.99 shipped on ebay.

Dash Trim Kit, for another whopping 8.60 shipped,

So all this will tally up just under 600$ if all works well, maybe well enough to get a set of component speakers for the front, and some two ways for the rear.

And a 4ga amp wiring kit for 2 amps (second amp and new interior speakers to come in near future)

Garage Cleanup revealed a 10inch alpine type R and a jbl 600.1 and a jbl 1200.1, so one of those will be jammed under the back seats somehow.  

UPDATE
***BOOOOOOOO******The alpine 10" is not gonna fit very easily because of its 6.75 in depth,.  8 inch type R is ordered, and if it fits and sounds good, it'll get a twin.

Pics and info will be updated as soon as parts are in, hopefully before next weekend.  

So the parts have started arriving.  Here is the wiring harness from the kenwood and the PAC



Here it is soldered and taped up



and a quick testing




EVERYTHING seems to be workign fine, SWC needed absolutely NO programing.  just gotta tidy up the wires, test the backup camera, and after work the complete pics should be up.  Now off to the drawing board for a custom sub box for my "en-route" alpine type r 8" sub

*Backup Camera tuns on in reverse (just waiting for my new tailgate handle to come in so i can run the wire and install the camera)
*Bypassed the the dvd play parking brake (im a grown up, i don't need anyone telling me i shouldn't do it)
*Hid my 3 sets of preouts and amp turn on wire (will run those to the back when i get my sub box made)
*Hooked up the BT mic by the rearview mirror, after 30 minutes of trial and error, it seemed to be the best location for not echoing
*Mounted the gps antenna right above the driver side fuse box.
NOW THE NOT SO FUN PART
There is so much crap back there with the pac module, the door chime, all of the harnesses, plugs, wires ets, that i had to cut a few pieces of plasic out.  So this is the installed unit, with the display color matching the dash.

Looking good!

Thanks!!!


So friday I removed the a pillars, and took out the factory tweeters, and replaced them with the tweets from the 6.5 inch infinity components.  They are 1inch, and just a hair larger then the factory ones, but nothing that a little bit of jb weld cant handle.  The factory paper speakers are one-piece with the paper cone and spider being intergrated into the housing which is larger then 6.5 inches.  That just had to be "modified".  I cut out the old spider and cone and retained the housing to allow a better fit.  The dremel and the bosch 12v multi-x oscillating saw came in very, very hady. and the full speaker install took about an hour and a half. The difference in clarity just running on the 22rms from the head unit is night and day!!!