Adding Steering Wheel Controls to an Axxera AVM70LH Radio

[Peterrrr]

Most vehicles today have steering wheel controls for the radio and cell phone for hands free operation. Ford's bodybuilders option for the Motorhomes is a steering wheel with the SYNC capability. Instead, I added a very inexpensive
"ALLOMN Universal Steering Wheel Wireless Remote Controller." These are available on Amazon for $38 Canadian or $30 American, with free Delivery.

The instructions came in Chinglish, thus the challenge for the install. Along with the controls is a receiver box which you attach to the radio wires. I attached the power red wire to the constant power for the radio, while the black to the ground. The white and grey wires to the labelled SWC1 and 2 brown and brown/black wires out of the Axxera.

This is where the fun began. Going to the settings for the radio, it would not recognize any of the signals. With a multimeter in hand everything checked out. The Axxera schematics showed a SWC black ground, which I could not really pinpoint so, I assumed Thor had grounded it in the harness. In the process of looking for the ground I had pulled the fuse out of the back of the radio. Upon re-inserting the fuse discovered within the settings for the SWC in the Axxera, it was now looking for a key. The Chinglish instructions from my interpretation said to input up to 5 keys, then power off both the receiver and radio. Powering off did nothing. Pulling the fuse would allow me to enter one of the keys. If I hit “enter” in the Axxera settings I could not add any additional keys. Further playing I discovered, that if I pulled the fuse for the radio, then going into the settings, I could enter all eight keys and voila.

So for the price of not even one case of beer here in Canada, or about a case and half of beer in the US you can add one of these.

[Gidyupgo]

Interesting, thanks!