[antics22]

HOW TO INSTALL FACTORY BLUETOOTH INTO EVO X GSR

Please note that any work you do on your own may void your warranty so do so at your own risk and only if you know what you're doing!

Level of diffilculty from 1-10 (1 being easy): 8 (due to custom work on steering wheel, and modifying harness loop...)


PARTS NEEDED:

LANCER/OUTLANDER BLUETOOTH KIT Part # MZ313819 (All three items in the picture below are included)

STEERING WHEEL VOICE CONTROL SWITCH Part # 8750A122

STEERING WHEEL AUDIO CONTROL SWITCH Part # 8701A193

CENTER CONSOLE SWITCH PANEL Part # 8011A267

BLANK BUTTON PLUG Part # 8050A018 (you will need 2 of these)

AWC CENTER CONSOLE SWITCH Part # 8610A019

TOOLS NEEDED:
- PHILLIPS SCREWDRIVER
- 17MM SOCKET and RATCHET
- PLIERS
- DREMEL WITH CUTTING TOOL
- JB WELD or SIMILAR ADHESIVE
- T30 TORX SCREWDRIVER

STEPS:

1) Remove the negative terminal from the battery in the trunk

2) Remove glovebox by squeezing the sides towards each other. As the glovebox starts to drop down, take note to the right side of it, there is an airshock attached to it.
Remove that by pulling towards the drivers side. Now the entire glovebox should drop down on its hinge. Pull towards you to remove.

2) Remove the glovebox liner by taking off 4 phillips screws along the top, and one plastic clip in towards the rear.

3) Look through the glove box "void" and pay attention towards the left drivers side. There should be an unused harness taped with blue electrical tape. This harness will connect to the handsfree module supplied in the Bluetooth kit.

4) Install the bluetooth module inside the dash with the 2 provided phillips screws and plug the harness you found into it.

5) Remove the map light console from the roof by prying the entire assembly downwards. Disconnect it from the harness.

6) Install the microphone included with the bluetooth kit to the map light console.

7) Locate the unused harness taped by blue electrical tape and plug that into the microphone.

8) Plug the map light harness, and re-install map light console.

9) Reverse steps 2 through 1 to re-assemble the glove box compartment.

(Thats the end of the "easy" part)

RELOCATION OF THE AWC SWITCH TO CENTER CONSOLE AND INSTALLATION OF AUDIO CONTROL SWITCH ON STEERING WHEEL

In order for the bluetooth to work, we need to move the AWC switch on the steering wheel and replace it with the radio audio control switch.

1) Start by pulling out the center console tray. Pull straight up and it will come out. Notice an unused harness attached to it. Disconnect it.

2) Replace the tray with the center console panel. Assemble it with the blank button inserts along with the new AWC switch. Plug the harness you just found, and plug it into the AWC switch.

Continued on the next thread....

 

[antics22]

...Continuation:



REMOVING THE STEERING WHEEL
(It gets harder and harder at this point)

Best thing to do at this point is to study this diagram and familiarize yourself with the different components of the steering wheel and how to take it apart....

1) Look at the bottom of the steering wheel, and remove the access panel (#1 on diagram) in order to reach the Airbag harness and Horn Harness...

2) Unclip the yellow Airbag harness taking care not to damage it. It is held by a "slip-type" harness.

3) Unclip the black horn harness

4) using a Torx T30 screwdriver, remove the airbag by loosening the two torx screws... one on each side of the steering wheel. It helps to wiggle the Airbag Unit as you loosen the 2 screws on each side. The screws will keep turning and feel "long". They are locked in place and will not come out completely... so keep loosening, and it will release the airbag unit...

5) Carefully take off the airbag, exposing the 17mm nut holding the steering wheel and another "Gray" harness attached to the steering wheel position sensor.
MAKE SURE NOT TO MOVE THE STEERING WHEEL SENSOR THAT THE GRAY HARNESS IS ATTACHED TO.
IT WILL SWING FREE ONCE THE STEERING WHEEL IS REMOVED.

6) Remove the 17MM nut and the steering wheel will come off. Make sure to mark the position of the steering wheel with a sharpie so you know the exact position to place it in when re-installing...

7) With the steering wheel off the car, we will now disassemble the steering wheel by removing the 4 phillips screws.

8) Pay attention to the drivers side section of the steering wheel housing and dremel the necessary section out to accomodate the steering wheel voice control switch.

9) Locate the orange unused harness. Plug it into the voice control switch.

10) Once you have the switch fitted, Use adhesive to attach the switch. I used JB Weld. Test fit everything twice before gluing...

The finished product should look like this....

11) Next, flip the steering wheel around and disconnect the AWC switch harness. Its RED in color

12) Take off 4 Phillips screws on the BACK SIDE of the steering wheel. The front silver part should come apart exposing the switch.

13) Remove 2 phillips screws holding the AWC steering wheel switch and remove the switch carefully. It is also clipped-in on three sides.

14) Replace with Audio Control Switch and re-use the RED harness to plug into it.

15) Re-assemble the steering wheel by reversing steps 13 through 7.

16) Re-install the steering wheel by reversing steps 7 through 1.



CONTINUED BELOW....

 

[antics22]

Continuation To Final Steps...


FINISHING THE BLUETOOTH INSTALL.

1) Take apart the center console by opening the arm rest. Reach into that, and the cup holders and firmly pull up. The center console is held in by clips.

2) Find the center harness that is terminated by a black harness loop with 1 blue wire, and 1 black wire. (Its right in the middle UNDER the cup holders...)

3) Unclip the harness. We will have to modify the black harness attached to the car.

4) Study the back of the harness and note how the wires are clipped in. We will have to move pins 4 to 3 and pins 6 to 7. This will re-route the signal of the steering wheel switch from operating the AWC to operating the radio controls.

5) Re-attach the harness, and re-assemble the center console.

6) Re-attach the car battery.

7) Have dealer program the car with the MUT-III scantool program to recognize the bluetooth module. It will literally take 10 minutes for them to do.

8) Test all the functions and enjoy your new FACTORY BLUETOOTH.

The hardest part is probably custom-fitting the voice control switch and also modyfing the loop harness. I love the new Evo 10 and the CAN-BUS system it runs on. Everything is pre-wired in the car and its wonderful to know how easy it is for us to manipulate the functions...

 

[TriStateEvo]

Truly excellent write-up. Thank you very much.

 

[Mr. Win]

Well done/written. Time and cost estimate?

 

[PDXEvo]

You sir, are awesome! Switching the AWC ECU to accept the inputs is what I needed. Thanks for this excellent write-up and 5 gold stars for you!

 

[antics22]

Thanks guys....

Well done/written. Time and cost estimate?

As far as costs go, ill go by memory.... I sorta went crazy ordering parts to try out, and didnt really pay attention lolz....

Bluetooth module kit: $200-ish
Steering wheel voice control switch: $65-ish
Steering wheel AUDIO control switch: $56.00
AWC Switch: $26.00
Button Blanks: $6.00 x2
Console bezel (for the buttons): $3.00

Total cost: under $400

Total time:

Installing the Bluetooth module kit took 20 minutes
Steering wheel dissasembly/reassembly and custom mounting of switch: 1hr
total time: around 2 hrs....

Figuring out the center console harness with the mother-in-law in-town:
1 week

 

[PDXEvo]

Yeah, that center console harness has not been easy for me. I was getting ready to see if I could change the S-AWC ECU directly to get this working. Glad you figured this out though.

 

[Jackygor]

I probably won't be using this tutorial anytime soon, but this write up kicks ass! Thanks for your time and effort

 

[on2it]

Great article!

 

[GoKimiGo!]

That's freggin sweeet! Also looks like it wouldn't be too hard to repaint the silver accents on the steering wheel either. Absolutely worth the $400. I feel ya on the mother-in-law.

 

[silvreclipse]

nice i would have to remember this later.well done man thanks for the write good job.:rock::rock:

 

[mywave]

Bluetooth availability was one of the reasons I'd been holding out for an MR...decisions, decisions.

 

[Web9]

Dude... you ARE the How to Guy! :rock:

The steering wheel section gives me a bit of apprehension myself. Think I'll stick with the motorola BT visor speaker for now.

 

[toytec]

That was one awesome write up1:bowlol::bowlol::bowlol:

 

[PDXEvo]

Verified working. Installed everything this weekend. The only thing I would add is maybe making a template for the cutout so I can put it into the How To and let people print it. Might be somewhat difficult though. Also, getting the pins out of the harness is easy, once you know how. DO NOT PULL THE WIRES OUT! Instead, you will see the connector is wrapped in a plastic connector. If you pop the connector open, on both sides of the harness, you can then use a small screwdrive to push in the pins, and then they pull out easy.

Other then that, everything was great! Thanks Antics!

 

[antics22]

no probs PDX.. Glad it worked out for you. Isnt it awesome? voice controlled phone dialing FTW!!!

 

[dkevox]

Just got my evo today. had the voice on my gts and i'm thinking I'ma miss it.

Am I the only one who can't see any pics? if i could then I would have to imagine this write up is awesome.

EDIT:
see the pics now... that was wierd. great write up.

 

[voodooman79]

orrrr... you coulda just bought an MR and it comes with bluetooth!

 

[antics22]

orrrr... you coulda just bought an MR and it comes with bluetooth!

negative on that... The SST tranny was the deal-breaker for me on that one. For the extra cost of the MR, I chose to go for the mod-friendlier path and use the extra coin saved for suspension, wheels, etc...