It looks like you'd have to do some cutting and splicing since the connectors changed in 2015, but it should work.

2015 SV OEM Navigation Swap - Completed

Hi Folks, I just finished a complete OEM navigation swap to my 2015 Nissan Frontier SV. This project is not for the faint of heart. My SV only had the original display radio, no nav, no backup camera, etc... Attached are the 2015 pin-outs for the stock display radio, and the navigation radio...

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I'd like to install the 7" touch screen radio from an '18-'19 into my '16. Looking at eBay pictures, it seems like it should be a direct swap. Mine has XM radio (which I never use) so I'm wondering if I'll get some error message with the antenna not being hooked up to something.

For anyone curious, the OEM part number for my '16 is 28185-9BM1A and the OEM part number for a '18-'19 radio is 28021-9BS0C.

 

Next question: Does the Bosch nav radio need a "radio code" to be keyed in as anti-theft measure? I wasn't clever enough to ask about that prior to purchase, and the unit came without an obvious code. When I circled back to the seller, he was unable to find any code in his manual.

 

No it doesn't.

 

I bought a 2013 SL nav head unit (Nissan P/N 259159FMOB) from forum member SLfrontier (thanks!). His dash pix show the expected "Rockford Fosgate" logo strongly suggesting that the head unit does not have internal audio amplifiers, rather just pre-amp outputs. At least that's what all my reading suggests. I do some homework, knowing that I'll need a small 4 channel amp between the nav head unit and the six speakers. I decide on a Kicker Key180.4, but alas, that has been superseded by the Key200.4, a bit higher power unit for a few bucks more. I also buy the secondary connecter shell from Mouser Electronics (P/N 571-1318917-1) and a bunch of pins (571-1123343-1, also Mouser), as I will need to build up the secondary connector for the nav unit, as it is a different pin count from the display unit removed (32 pin). As I understand the secondary connector interfaces with the existing rear camera, aux port, and factory Bluetooth.

I order the "Nissan Rear-View Camera Add-On to OEM 2010-up" (Metraline P/N AXBuch-NS) from the "Wires Zone" as Metra doesn't sell to end users (sigh). I will update when it arrives and I have a chance to try it out.

I ordered a GPS antenna from Amazon, a Bingfu with "Fakra C" connector shell (blue color, just like the mating connecter on the back of the nav unit. Fakra connector shells are color coded, and clock-keyed).

In the meantime, I installed the nav unit to see what works, and what does not.

Works: GPS, iPod interface, steering wheel volume up and down, mode, XM radio (preview, I'm too cheap to subscribe). AND radio through SPEAKERS!! Seems I don't need an external amp after all. I do need to buy an updated map SD card, the nav unit reminds me. But not until I get everything working.

Doesn't work: backup camera, Bluetooth, nav radio backlight for buttons.