2017-18 RAV4 Head Unit wiring manual?

[garthkh]

Is there a manual wiring available for the Rav4 2017-18 head unit. This is the unit in my car. I'm trying to find a replacement head unit with the right cable harness

[KAA]

Good photo's for the unit Garth, personally I would be scouting online for your closest Audio specialists, find a unit that does all you are after and then the connecting harness for existing wiring and the facia surround so it all sits nicely in your RAV, there are a lot available and once you find the one you like then asking tons of questions to do with install. Unless your really capable of installing it all yourself I would go with the pro's. Last thing you need is to have a short or incorrect wiring as it is so damn annoying to track wires. Let us know your outcome

KAA

[garthkh]

Thanks Robert. I am trying to find and chat with local Audio specialists (one of the local ones here in Wyndham hasn't got back to me) - and I've done a lot of research on-line till my head is spinning.  I will be going down to see if anyone at A'bahn has expertise in this today. As for the wiring and harness, I have many years of experience fitting radios etc to the various cars I've owned and I have spent most of my life making electronic stuff and soldering - I was a radio ham for many years before coming to Aus. So making up a harness is a fairly simple job IF (and a big IF) I can get a correct wiring diagram of the unit and the ability to buy the relevant plugs and sockets for a harness. I would rather just buy the correct compatible head unit and the harness and facia surround. Questions I want answers to is, as I use an Android phone, whether the head unit can be a plain Android 10 system or must it have Android Auto specs to be able to stream/mirror my phone for nav maps (eg Waze and Google maps)? I presume, if the head unit can have these installed I will only need to use the phone as a hotspot for the maps to work live. As my current system already has DAB+ built in, must the new head unit be DAB+ compatible or does it just need to have a 2nd USB port (for a DAB+ Box - to be purchased) and have an app like DAB-Z installed? I don't have experience in these apps. I think these head units all handle the phone connect for calls and reversing camera, so really the only other specifics I want is current free maps and the DAB+.  The system in the car now doesn't have a separate DAB+ box between the unit and the antenna.  It looks as though the unit has the DAB built in.  I might take a look later and see if I can pull the DAB out of the unit but I don't think it would have the necessary USB plug on the one end for me to re-use it. So it will probably be a lot easier to just buy a new DAB+box.

Edited March 30, 2021 by garthkh