Ha. I was about to ask that. I got into it today a bit. Removed my wiring. The 3.5mm plug I have has 2 wires. One is red which I’m assuming is right side, one is white so left. Both are wrapped in wire and I’m guessing ground. So red to white, blue to red and should I connect both black wires to the two ground wires on the 3.5mm connection?

Before removing connection.

After removing my wiring.

 

Thats different to what mine is, looks like you have the MOST fibre optic system. I have a small plug with just 4 wires and nothing else .

 

Red to factory blue
White to factory red.
You have one ground, so yes just ground to ground.

Basically you are correct in what you are thinking. I put an AUX port in my front dash and said good-bye to the rear one, hated its location.


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Ok. So I got it reinstalled and took some pictures. My issue from the first time was the right/left connections. I had them backwards. I did figure out how to pull out the connectors from the plug.
I used a safety pin after un clipping the red front piece. Sticking the safety pin in and lifting up on a small black tab holding it in. I could not get a good pic of that.

Red face clip

Soldered and shrink wrapped

Before re inserting into the plug
I did have to trim off a bit of my shrink wrap to get it back into the plug. All in all it worked out. Hope this helps.

 

Does it work well? I could not leave my factory aux input connected for some reason. I forget why, but it caused issues - which from a wiring standpoint was odd. Maybe it was too quiet? I forget. But when I clipped the factory aux input connection that went to the back all was well, that I do recall.

 

Yes it works great now. The first time however It did not works. The aux chord I bought had a red, white and ground. I had connected red to red, white to blue and then black to ground.
I redid it to red to blue, white to red and ground to black.
I was thinking the red in the vehicle was right side like on the chord but I was WRONG! 😂
When I had it the wrong way it sounded funny and really low kind of like when you pull a aux plug halfway out. Now it works fine.

 

so happy to see this pop up last month. I have my 2006 LR3 SE V8 opened up right now working on it.

 

How hard was it to remove the aux trim piece from the center console? Did you just pry it out? I have the same problem with someone broke the jack in the port and now it's stuck in there.

 

Hey Dakota, that position looks great in the front. Does wiring as you described fix the "low volume" issue? When I use the rear aux, media played from my phone is much quieter than the radio. Sometimes I'll have it cranked up for a podcast or something, and then when I turn on the radio it about blows the windows out and usually scares me half to death!

 

No volume fix, sadly. So when switching from aux to FM radio, for example, I have to be sure to turn things down first. Of note, my aux port failed. I went with another brand for a new port. Those first ones I bought were too cheap and broke apart internally or something. I also just picked up a well reviewed bluetooth module interface. So I may install that soon and not even end up using the port anymore.