Metra 70-9003 Receiver Wiring Harness

Couldn't find the stero wiring harness any I looked. This was the only place I could find it. Thank you

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works great.

this device works perfectly, I just had to make slight adjustment to the BMW side of the connection.

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Not bad. Should have wires and pins on all socket. Some were blank holes

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Metra Wiring Harness for a 2011 Porsche Cayman

First I want to say, I have successfully used Metra wiring harness to install several audio units in multiple cars. They are "game changer" and worth the $$. I used this wiring Harness to install a Kenwood DDX57S into my 2011 Porsche Cayman. 90% of the wiring was quick and easy. The other 10% was a PIA. To get power to the unit, you have to run a separate wire from the fuse box to the unit. It's not an elegant solution. Next, I had to run a ground wire from the back of the head unit to the parking break switch. To do this, on my Cayman, you have to take the center console apart. (NOTE: This was required to play DVD's. If you get a head unit without the DVD feature, this is not needed.) After I finished the install, which took me all morning, I had NO SOUND. To fix this, I had to contact Crutchfield support (they are excellent). To correct the NO SOUND problem, I had to get power from the Kenwood to the amplifier that provides power to the speakers. To do this, I used a MINI Posi-Tap to tap into the cars stock wiring harness and run a wire directly to the power supply in back of the Kenwood head unit. Basically, I had to bypass the wiring harness to get this to work.

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Bad instructions

No clear instructions for Saturn vehicles. Was told to run the red wire to the fuse box but wasn't long enough, I called in and was told to splice into the yellow/green wire going to climate control. Still no power to the stereo so have some exploring to do.

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RADIO HARNESS

ACCORDING TO TECH, I WILL NOT NEED FOR THE INSTALL

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Works well

Direct plug in. Fits nicely. The extra wire pin that isn't designed for my car worked perfectly to hook up the data connection for the steering wheel control interface.

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this does not work for Audi cars with Concert II head units. Your rear speakers will be silent as the power to the amp is not supplied thru this harness.

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Bad harnesses

After the Crux harness didn't work (no rear speakers), I was told I needed the Metra unit. It didn't work either and when I called tech support I was told the Crux harness was correct. After reinstalling it I found that it still doesn't work

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Metra 70-9003 Receiver Wiring Harness

Great product. Worked as it should. Crutchfield was very helpful!

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Buen producto

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Expected quality part and CS

As expected, this is a quality part, easily mated up to the head unit connector. I had to call customer service regarding a wiring connection and received a quick answer.

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I've had trouble with BMW harnesses before but this one plugged right in and works great!

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Easy to install. Works great.

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Nice connection

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This wiring kit was the perfect one for installing a new head unit in my 07 BMW Z4 with the factory 10 speaker and amp setup without DSP. I read many forums and half the people said it wouldn't work while others said it would. I'm here to say it does work great. Thanks to Crunchfield for the help and Tatum for walking me through all the right parts to purchase to make my install very easy.

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Plug and play

Wiring harness fit great color coded with the car stereo wires very easy to connect great job Crutchfield.....

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Got this pre-connected to my head unit from Crutchfield which I highly recommend. It fits like a glove to the factory wiring.

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Works great and saves time. I wish it had all the wires for the connector though. I had to buy a second one to hook up the I-bus and Illunination wire. I could have just as easily used a wire tap instead of buy the second connector, but thought it would be cool to be able to have everything go through the connector.

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If this is the ready harness, it was not wired properly

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easy as 1-2-3

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Works fine but instructions can be difficult to follow I would recommend having them set up your connections

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This adapter does not come with all the pin outs populated. For my 2006 Mini Coooper no HK, it was missing the illumination/auto dim wire. So i went out and bought a Scosche VW03B which does have all the pin outs populated. Do yourself a favor and just get the Scosche instead because it's better to have the pins and not use them then not have them and need them.

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Plug and play

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Perfect fit.. fast shipping

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Well built, easy to connect

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Made the installation a lot easier.

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Works perfect.

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Part worked Great as always!

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Not plug and play

Sounded like plug and play..it isn't...at all...for BMW Z4, 06...didn't want to spend all afternoon figuring. It out so took my car to a local installer and paid them 80 bucks to do it...money well spent

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I loved that all the wires had identification markings on them which made the install that much more easier. Sure I had to splice the wires from this harness into the new stereo wiring harness, but it went smoothly. The receiver wiring harness snapped right into my SLK's factory wiring connector.

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Great connection. Worked flawlessly

Perfect fit, finish

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Necessary for success

Works as it should, connecting Crutchfield receiver to BMW 525i. Only complaint is the blue wire(s) are not covered in the MasterSheet, but a quick call to the helpdesk solved the problem.

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Took about 10 minutes to make the cable assembly using this and the pigtail that came with the car stereo, this makes install a breeze

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Fuse adapter wrong!

Harness great! Let down by Crutchfield not telling me the fuse adapter is for a mini fuse size, but my car has full size fuses. Took 30 min of fighting with it trying to get it to work until i went and compared it to others at the auto parts store and found this out. 39 cents later i had the correct fuse adapter.

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good harness. works great

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Plug and Play

As usual, the products included by Crutchfield are perfectly matched to my vehicles. This wiring harness was the perfect fit and matched right up to the car's wiring.

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Metra 70-9003 Receiver Wiring Harness

I used this to replace the factory unit from my 2005 Mini Cooper S with a Kenwood X700 unit. The diagram provided by Crutchfield was great and mating the Kenwood harness to this adapter harness was a snap. If you have a Mini, be aware that the ACC power wire (red) is already part of the harness and the pinkish-red extra wire isn't necessary. Crutchfield support is always there if you have a question.

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factory to aftermarket

I used this to adapt the factory head unit from my 2004 Mini Cooper S to the Kenwood X998 head unit. The included diagram was very helpful in the install and matching up the kenwood wiring harness to this adapter harness. You will need to pay attention to the ACC power wire (red) but there is a note in the instructions regarding when to use this. I have always had good success with the Metra Kits.

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Not Quite Plug N Play

It took me a while and a call to tech support to figure this one out, but I got it done. The speaker wire part was excellent...after much research for online videos and the Crutchfield site.

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They advertise this as a plug and play for the Mini Cooper with harmo kardon sound system. But it will not work unless you purchase a secondary plug and play harness from the UK. If not you have to rewrite all of your speakers to bypass the factory harmo kardon amp.

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Helped ease installation

Greatly eased installation of head unit in '04 Mini Cooper S. Came packed with wrong fuse tap but a quick call to customer support got that sorted

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Worked perfectly, but missing one thing.

Instructions weren't too clear, but once I figured it out, I was good. I liked how the red wire was an optional part of the harness. I really wished there was an additional red wire to turn on the remote amp though. I used this on my 2003 BMW to replace the basic business CD head unit.

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Simple

This make installation simple, worth the money for the time saved. never going to install a unit without one.

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2003 mini cooper S with HK system for JCW

do not purchase the wire harness. it will only use three wires. the rest you have to splice. all the other wires do not function with HK system and you still will need to splice into a fused accessory power supply.

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Metra wiring kit

went in perfectly and made install easy

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Not really sure why it didn't pass through the dimmer, but everything worked well. Installation to the radio was easy and straightforward.

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Fits perfectly

The adapter worked perfectly to connect a Kenwood radio to the Mini stock connector.

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Worked just as described!

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Works well

The wiring harness worked well after figuring out how to connect the wires with those from the receiver. The documentation could be more clear.

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Actually Impressed

Not the best looking but it fit and had all the pins to make the thing work. Oh except the dimmer wire, that was not there and I had to hardware it oh well...

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exact plug and play!! Crutchfield tech support helped with a couple wires i didn't know what to do with

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Made life easier

Made my easier as I was able to wire my radio to the harness at my kitchen table instead of in my car and I did not have to cut any wires in the car. There was a problem however. Apparently my BMW has an amplifier in it. The wiring harness had a blue wire which I connected to the blue wire on my radio which was for a power antenna. After installing my head unit only the radio placed. No sound for aux or CD. I called up Alpine, the maker of my head unit and was very quickly told that I wired the power antenna wire to the amp. So the amp was only getting power when the radio was on. I had to pull out the radio wire the amp wire from my car to the amp out put from my radio. All was good after that. It took an extra 5-6 minutes to do plus the time to call Alpine. I give the harness only four starts because of that

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Not as easy as I thought...

Size is great, spent the extra $10 assuming that it was easier to instal than the other products based on reviews. One important note for a 2006 Mini Cooper: the instructions aren't 100% clear on where to connect one of the wires. You must splice it into the wiring harness thats built into the car, not the intermediate connector between the stereo and car.

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It works

Easy install and connection for a 2006 MINI Cooper S. No issues.

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Meta 70-9007

Easy to use. It would be nicer if more plugs were available, such as illumination, rather than just the basics.

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Just works

It just works , gave me plenty of wire , Fit connector perfect.

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plug and play just like they advertised it.

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Didn't fit

Didn't work. Came with the Pioneer head unit to adapt to the stock 2005 MINI Cooper wiring harness. It didn't mate with the stock harness pins correctly and wouldn't produce sound from the rear speakers. I ended up eliminating both sides of the harness and hard wiring the unit directly.

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great product works perfectly

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Receiver wire harness

Easy to connect except for Red jumper wire.

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Very good harnes

I didn't end up using this because the SWC harness had this part built in but it was very awesome that it was free anyway.

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Receiver Wire Harness

Easy to use with great instructions. Made installation quick and easy on a MINI Cooper

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Meh, it worked.

I cannot give it five stars as it is a wire harness that simply worked. Nothing fantastic, but a good product or my installer would have griped about it.

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A must!

Simple harness saves time and effort!

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Problem

It doesn't mount flush. You have to wire in your own constant as well with a fuse tap because the constant in the bmw wiring harness isn't a true constant.

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Works well.

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Receiver Wire Harness

Easy to use, no real problems noted

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The wire harness was very easy to snap on however the power to the fuse box(red wire) tend to pop out of the fuse location occassionally.

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Wire Harness For Saturn Astra - Easy Fit

This was a great and easy fit after I struggled to find an adapter to fit the wire harness for my Saturn Astra. Although there are a couple connections from my Pioneer 3400 that don't link and therefore cannot be used, I am thrilled to finally get my new stereo connected and working. It was a very easy install with this. The toughest part was getting the ignition switch power. The fuse box is basically in the trunk of the Astra, so I had to go out and get additional wire to reach the wiper fuse. Maybe there was another choice undr he dash, but I am not aware of it. 5 stars for this if all the functionality crossed over. Otherwise.. awesome!

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Not even close.

Couldn't give it a zero. Not even close. To put it simply, the harness has 11 wires, the head unit 16, and the car about 27. The ball was dropped with this one, not too happy as I have to wait 2-3 weeks for things I get wherever they station me. Car is a 2005 VW Passat station wagon without the monsoon system. NOT a beginner and NOT even my 10th time completing such task let-alone the first. Probably could make it work, but would defeat the purpose of this harness and saved me a couple of weeks.

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It works - almost

But for two missing wires, this part would get five stars. Everything fits, it's hard to miss which wires get spliced to the radio's wiring (well, with one exception for the BMW X-3). But this item is missing the dashboard lighting signal, and the fact the BMW X-3 needs power for an external amp was missing from the documentation. Additionally, the information about where to find switched 12 V for the radio (that is, which fuse to tap) was missing. In the end, I had to read through BMW docs to find what I needed - tech support was simply wrong on this point. But everything else was fine, so three stars with two missing for the omissions and error.

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Worked great

Harness and instructions worked great. Colors matched up perfectly.

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The part where you have to tap into the fuse box for the power wire is annoying, but it if has to be done, it has to be done. I like how this adapter has a place to hold the second connector which only plugs into the stock stereo so that it doesn't dangle around.

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The wire contacts kept falling out of the connector housing.

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Works as advertised

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This is the harness to get, fits 2003 GTI perfectly, even though the website says it does not fit, this is the second one of these I've used, (third stereo to get stolen from this car) , it comes with power lead to run to fuse box and you save money since you don't need the PAC interface.

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Good Kit , It works

Good Kit. Strong connections. I dont care for how it taps into the fuse box, but you can always hardwire it.

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Fits

Fits and works as it should.

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Great!, now what.

Love Crutchfield and their products, however, they kinda dropped the ball on this one. The wire harness is very easy to install, but doesn't allow the back door speakers to work on my 2007 Audi A4. And crutchfield did not have remedy for this. Not too pleased with that, sorry Crutchfield, this time you dropped the ball.

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Easy peasy

The harness worked great and was a breeze. My only complaint is the fuse box jumper wire required for key power. I'd rather it be worked in somehow other than that way.

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Having a harness like this saves so much time and makes the installation so much more convenient.

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Overall very good and works as advertised, didn't come with instructions for backlighting/dimming when dashlights turned on so I successfullly winged it, otherwise it'd have been a 5 of 5.

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New radio for Golf Gti 2002

Purchased this radio to replace an existing Pioneer radio that I had previously installed. I used Crutchfield due to the additional free VW antenna connection, VW wiring connection and VW dash pocket. When I got the parcel I realised that the antenna connection was not the correct one for my car neither was the wiring harness and since I didn't have the in dash CD player I didn't need the VW dash pocket although it was a nice though by Crutchfield to include it. Luckily I was able to reuse my existing wiring harness and antenna. I don't know if it is just my car that has the different connections but I ran into the same problem when I swapped out my OME radio with the pioneer. All in all Crutchfield delivered on time and with all the equipment necessary to do the job eventhough it was the wrong equipment.

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Almost perfect

As usual, the folks at Crutchfield made it almost idiot proof to install this unit. My only issue is the unit will not power off when I turn off the car. I have a VW Touareg. Other than that, the wiring was clean and simple.

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Metra 70-9003 Receiver Wiring Harness

LIKES: it snaps right in with the factory harness. DISLIKE: the directions -- the part for antenna was confusing, good thing I called the experts at Crtuchfield, which told me to hook the confusing line to antenna wire. I also didn't like the piggy back for key power onto fuse box. They recommend hooking it to windshield wiper fuse, which makes me nervous since I hate overrides like that. Why couldn't everything be hooked to the wire harness like the factory radio?? Anyway, I had to take the bottom apart, hide the wire inside and into the fuse box. Just like the other person who didn't like piggy backing onto a fuse: it takes some shoving of that prong and trusting what they say -- because it is nerve wrecking to override something you don't quite understand. END RESULT: I was able to get it to work - but the only way you can turn the radio on is with a key in set to ON, which is okay for me since I don't want the radio to drain the battery if I forget to shut it off. One thing for sure, you can totally rely on the experts @ Crutchfield, they're awesome!

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My only complaint is with VW for using a digital signal for turning the radio on and off.. for a professional install, there is a wire on the ignition that does exactly what the radio did before (turn off when the key is removed).. which is pretty easy to setup.. (I forget the color of the wire, but I think it was brown and red on my 2003 GTI).. just break out the multi-meter and turn the car off (if it still has power you're close) and if you take the key out and the meter goes to 0 power you found it.. just be sure to put a fuse on the wire (so you don't accidently cause more trouble than you want)..

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Installed fine

2002 Jetta TDI with the OEM Monsoon double DIN system. The harness works fine. Yes, the accessory clip to the fuse box is a little kludgy, but it isn't difficult to route and hook up. Not sure why the other reviewer could not find the 25 amp fuse that this should hook into. Seemed pretty straightforward to me, although the increased size of the blade of the fuse makes it a bugger to get back into the slot. VW owners, make sure you add power to the antenna! There was a 12 V lead from the Kenwood amp, that needs to be connected to the power wire of the antenna, but the Crutchfield instructions said nothing about this. Essential for AM reception. Worst part of the installation was getting the wires to move aside to allow for the head unit to move all the way back.

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How very nice!

Boy, this makes installation so easy and non-destructive. You can solder the socket to the stereo in the kitchen, then it just snaps into place, no destruction of the car's wiring. Another rating complained about the extra red wire, and it is a pain, but it's VW that causes the pain, not this wire. For the life of me I can't figure out how VW's radios get turned on and off with the key, there does not seem to be a wire around anywhere! I am guessing there is some kind of signalling setup rather than a switched wire. I ended up tapping into a wire our of that fuse rather than using the supplied tap, but it looked like a good idea. If you look you can find several fuses that are good for this job. Thanks for including this gear!

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only cause I can't give it zero stars

This harness did not work as the instructions said it would. The kit requires you to run a separate wire to fuse box and give you small device to piggy back off of another circuit for switched power. Besides the "iffy" power hook up, the fuse they tell you to tap isn't actually there. I sent mine back.

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