Crux SWRTY-61J Radio Replacement Accessories

It worked perfectly, easy to follow instructions. Steering wheel buttons needs programming for it to function.

Easy to install, keeps steering wheel controls, got my audio system online and works great.

I chose the Crux Swrty-61J to upgrade my stereo with a Sony unit and retain the JBL speakers and amp in my Toyota SUV. I read the other reviews and don’t feel the need for the fade option for the rear speakers not pay an extra $50 for the PAC SWC. The instructions were pretty self-explanatory. It looks intimidating out of the box due to the extra harnesses so make sure to find the right harness for your car. Once I found out which one worked for my car, the rest of the install was just soldering the corresponding wires and installing it to my head unit and car. I had no issues and my steering control unit works without issue. Regarding the gain function dip switches, I set all three to off. By default all three are set to the on position. When I tried to test my Sony head unit after the install, I felt the volume was way too loud and created distortion. I don’t want to blow out my current speakers. Aside from that, I would recommend this unit to anyone that is looking to upgrade their head unit and retain the stock JBL speakers and amps.Update:7/20/22I tried using my steering control buttons on my SUV and they stopped working after I updated my firmware on my Sony head unit. They worked after the initial install. I changed my review to reflect the stoppage of the steering control buttons.

Return or do not order. Instead order a idataalink by Maestro. You can get from Crutchfield.These units do not work at all. CRUX knows these units will not work, and have known for over 2 years.The problems are the amp will turn on once, might turn on again. Steering wheel controls do not function etc. etc. Calls to technical support were not returned, had to follow up, and they finally admitted that they have no fix...and not with a poor pcb but they lack the understanding of the digital control line. So just do not waste your time. I have tried CRUX on a Subaru as well. That also did not work. Just junk.

I purchased this interface to upgrade the head unit in my Tundra. I wanted to maintain all the factory steering wheel controls as well as the stock amp and sub location. This unit integrated my Pioneer touchscreen seamlessly! Installation was simple and my only negative would be the loss of fade control. I have two Tundras, an 05 and an 07. I plan on ordering another unit to use on my 05. Without this unit I would need a separate unit for the SWC, amp and head unit. Way to go CRUX!

I wanted to upgrade my 04 Solara stock radio to one with bluetooth and a backup camera, but the car has a JBL factory amp and I wanted to keep this install as simple as possible (especially including steering wheel controls). Crutchfield recommended this model to make that happen, but it was out of stock so I ordered it here instead.Well, for starters it only supports control over L+R, fading from front front to rear isn't an option as it just sends both front and back speakers the same signal. That's fine for a limitation, I did read that from the description here so I wasn't surprised, but it was just the first sign of a product that seems half baked. Next up, the steering wheel controls DID NOT WORK. I have an Atoto head unit, and none of the dip switch SWC settings worked. You have to set the buttons on the Atoto, but no matter what switch settings I used, I only got SOME of the buttons working and not others. Like, sometimes only vol + but not vol -, or a different setting gave me just mode and track down, but never all of them at once. I reached out to customer support and it took several tries to get a response, after which they gave me a different set of switch settings to try (not one from the manual) which still didn't work.In the end, I cut the SWC wires from the harness and fed them directly to SW1 and SW2 on the Atoto harness directly, and got them ALL to show up and set correctly! So basically, buying the model with SWC retention was a waste of extra money as it didn't even work.Then I had some ground loop noise I was trying to troubleshoot. To be fair, it could have been the radio, so I tried wiring it directly to speakers to see if the output from the radio had it... it did not. Another weird issue is that I noticed a faint hiss coming from the speakers EVEN WHEN THE RADIO WAS POWERED OFF. As in, I'm not playing anything and want the car to be dead silent, but the adapter still turned on the amp even if the head unit is off! It was more pronounced when I had ground loop noise, but now that I've mostly fixed that, there is still an obvious hum like there is power going to the amp and it is waiting for sound. This should power it off if my radio is off, but that is not happening. I reached out to Crux again, multiple times, explaining the problem and got no response. I reached out again and asked if I could just buy another wire harness in case there is something wonky about the one I have (the swc issue I later realized might have been one of the wires not communicating to the adapter, since connecting only sw1 or sw2 at a time made it act the way it did before with only half the buttons working at a time- but obviously my wire to the car was working as was the headunit because different settings switched around which buttons were active... so the fault must have been in the adapter or harness). No response. It was too late to return it so I tried troubleshooting on my own.I'm living with the faint hiss for now, when the car is on it isn't a big deal and usually I'm listening to something anyway so that's fine. The fade from front to back is fine because its a coupe and not like there's a lot of difference between the front and rear of the car. The SWC buttons are working because I bypassed the faulty operation of the Crux unit, so it's mostly fine now. But I feel like I overpaid for something that under delivered. I wish I had gone with a different interfacing adapter and/or bypassed my factory amp. This was supposed to make the installation EASY and it ended up causing me more grief instead.Also? Crux customer support has been terrible. When they did finally respond, it seemed like they didn't want to help because I didn't buy it from one of their authorized retailers and I wasn't a professional installer. Their website also went down for weeks in the middle and I feared they went out of business due to the pandemic. They have since responded so I know they are still around, but were not really helpful. The technical team at Atoto was worlds more helpful (they wanted it to work and were trying everything to see if the problem was on their side). It seems the problem was with Crux's adapter and their lack of support.

I started out trying to use wiring kits from metra and it caused me a hassle, wasted money, and ultimately did not work. This kit from crux made the installation of a pioneer head unit into my 2007 Camry with JBL audio a breeze. Steering wheel controls and all. I'll buy their stuff in the future.

Ordered my radio from another site that included the wire adapter. That adapter was wrong and this was the solution. The new radio wouldn't have worked at all without this kit. This kit allowed me to keep the factory JBL system and steering wheel controls. Does take a bit of know how and wiring diagrams to hook up properly.