Bypass NAVI How do you Bypass the lockout on the new 2008 Pioneer AVIC-Z3/Z2 that allows you to watch movie and control other options on the unit wile the car is in motion.

there is no way , the new radios now look at the gps antenna and it notice the vehicle is moving,
why you want to watch a movie and drive at the same time

just ground it to any part of the car

Yes, there is a way to watch a movie without the parking brake engaged. The parking brake safety mechanism is there for a reason, and I do not suggest that you disable this sytem so that you can watch movies while driving. With that said, the simplest way to bypass the parking brake system is to take the parking brake wire from the head unit, run a wire to a chassis ground point, and then put a toggle switch inline so that you can flip it on and off. This will simulate the engaging/disengaging of a parking brake.

Again, I do not condone or recommend watching movies while driving. There are enough distracted people driving on the roads.

Heres a good site that has alot of bypass guides for Pioneer Avic Units

http://underground-secret.com/avic_n1_bypass.html

Pioneer Avic D1, D2, D3, N1, N2, N3, N4, Z1, Z2, Z3, F700BT, F900BT & F90BT.

This forum should have what you are looking for:

http://www.avic411.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=11&sid=d2e7eb58b07df6e1abc1cd149fb69b3a

Apparently, you are not alone!

There are two ways to complete this project:

1st

underneath the mounting bracket of the radio not the brain theres a silver sticker like mentioned above there are two silver solder points right beneath the sticker it must be jumped with a wire or you can use the solder to connect the two contact points after this you must still ground the green parking brake wire to the car.


2nd-(also my favorite choice and the one I'm using on my N5 & on my 7800dvd those who know pioneer know what i'm talking about)

buy a ptr7 pheriphial device and wire as follows (they come factory ready to bypass alpine and pioneer units)

wire as follows-white wire to green parking break of the deck your bypassing
red wire to vehicles 12v source
green wire from device to remote
black wire to vehicle ground wire
final important step I know because this happended to me
make sure you take a little screwdriver agfter wiring or something and switch the
PTR 7 to the off position-or else this will make the PTR7 not function correctly

Look really hard on avic411.com. Goodluck buddy.

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Run your parking brake ground throught a manual switch and switch it off before you turn off your car everytime. Goodluck.

I installed my pioneer avic z2 DVD/Navi myself and I realized that the wire that connects to the parking break is just a power wire that comes on when u pull the parking break. I think, all you have to do is to connect it to any other power wire that will be constantly provides the on power while driving. I'll try it out tomorrow and let you know!