Greetings friends,
Hope you are all enjoying the holiday season! First time poster... We've been working on a radio replacement for our 2022 Thor Windstar motorcoach for about 4 (or more?) weeks now, and after today we're really pulling our hair out. Hoping you more seasoned RV veterans can steer us in the right direction; we need to head out in February for our 6-week trip and we're getting a little nervous
The built-in radio screen started flickering and experiencing poor sound quality and other issues, so we purchased a Jensen CAR8000 2DIMM radio unit (certified refurbished from Amazon) as a replacement for the stock Axxera radio. Having done car radios before, swapping the basic audio and power harness was easy and straightforward. However we've been struggling with the cameras and steering-wheel controls.
After reading that the Jensen would need a different SIM box than the Axxera sim box that came with the radio, we purchased a RVS-501N-3. We also have tried 2 different SWC modules (ASWC-1 and an analog version PWC-SWC-1). We haven't had any luck getting the steering wheel controls working nor the cameras to display on the new radio.
Today, we tried backpedaling and putting the old radio back, and much to our despair - it no longer works correctly for steering wheel controls or cameras either!! All we get is basic radio controls (same as with the new radio) and no cameras. We took pictures when we first started and put everything back the way it was but still the cameras and SWC aren't doing anything. I'm worried we may have inadvertently caused another problem with another one of the components involved while we were troubleshooting the new radio.
We are desperately in need of some guidance for troubleshooting steps to identify what issues we are facing so that we can get this sorted out and get back on the road. None of the RV shops in our region have been able to provide much help within the timeframe we need.
Thank you in advance for any suggestions you have!
---Phil V, III
Hope you are all enjoying the holiday season! First time poster... We've been working on a radio replacement for our 2022 Thor Windstar motorcoach for about 4 (or more?) weeks now, and after today we're really pulling our hair out. Hoping you more seasoned RV veterans can steer us in the right direction; we need to head out in February for our 6-week trip and we're getting a little nervous
The built-in radio screen started flickering and experiencing poor sound quality and other issues, so we purchased a Jensen CAR8000 2DIMM radio unit (certified refurbished from Amazon) as a replacement for the stock Axxera radio. Having done car radios before, swapping the basic audio and power harness was easy and straightforward. However we've been struggling with the cameras and steering-wheel controls.
After reading that the Jensen would need a different SIM box than the Axxera sim box that came with the radio, we purchased a RVS-501N-3. We also have tried 2 different SWC modules (ASWC-1 and an analog version PWC-SWC-1). We haven't had any luck getting the steering wheel controls working nor the cameras to display on the new radio.
Today, we tried backpedaling and putting the old radio back, and much to our despair - it no longer works correctly for steering wheel controls or cameras either!! All we get is basic radio controls (same as with the new radio) and no cameras. We took pictures when we first started and put everything back the way it was but still the cameras and SWC aren't doing anything. I'm worried we may have inadvertently caused another problem with another one of the components involved while we were troubleshooting the new radio.
We are desperately in need of some guidance for troubleshooting steps to identify what issues we are facing so that we can get this sorted out and get back on the road. None of the RV shops in our region have been able to provide much help within the timeframe we need.
Thank you in advance for any suggestions you have!
---Phil V, III