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I purchased the tool from China... Could be here in a week or a month. I would hard wire the unit in, but I would rather take my time and do it properly with the correct pins and plugs. I did the rounds trying to find some new pins, Toyota Spare Parts said the shell was about $30. A set of pins was about $100 or more, way too expensive. One of the stereo installation companies said they only hard wire, I told them that is why they did not get my business, another said just buy an adapter cable that has the same square pins as the Toyota. I found a Mazda cable ($20) with the same type pins, so I will take the pins and crimped cables of the appropriate colours and join them to the Joying wires that do not have pins. I will end up with an easily removable adapter cable that looks neat tidy that can be disconnected in minutes if needed.

Go for it ;) I cannot finalize until I get the depinning tool to rewire the harness :( it was easier to buy one than make one.

The above shows the pinout for the plug going into my Toyota Head Unit This plug is connected to an adapter harness shown previously. The other end of the harness connects to the C-HR Vehicle Harness 28 pin supply side which has only 6 wires connected. Supply side pin 2 - Red to Harness - Green Supply side pin 15 - Purple to harness - no connection Supply side pin 17 - Purple to Harness - Purple/White trace Supply side pin 21 - Grey to Harness - Red Supply side pin 22 - Green to Harness - White Supply side pin 23 - White/Black trace to Harness - Brown

Cheers I should be able to trace the wires back from your pic.

I haven't been game to try the web site again. I would be interested in finding what the wires in the pic below are. I will test on the weekend but I think the green is reverse, purple maybe sw1 and sw2 but not sure on the red, white/black or grey on the 28 pin connector that the Toyota Head Unit connects into. I did a quick hookup of my unit last night with everything working except the reverse and steering wheel talk switch, which is to be expected as the reverse and switch wires into the new unit was not attached to anything. I will be depinning the Joying 28 pin molex connector so I can reconfigure to suit the C-HR wiring harness and the only thing slowing me down now is identifying what these Toyota wires are. I will drop into my favourite electronics retailer tonight to pick up some new molex connector pins for the job.

Excellent idea.

What are you waiting for? I bought a 2 wire rear camera voltage adapter, so everything is ready to go for the weekend. I will need to solder the adapter power and ground wires into the harness and it should all be plug and play.

My 1 DIN, 8" head unit has arrived 4 days early :) I removed the fascia panel from my car for size comparison. The screen will line up level with the top of the fascia, as expected. The bottom of the fascia curves away at the bottom but this should not be noticeable when installed. Now I have to wait until the weekend so that I can fit it :(

I agree that white LEDs are much nicer than the standard yellowish lights.

Hi Robbie. The problems with the Toyota and third party software is why I am going Android and replacing the head unit altogether. I don't understand why Toyota tried to move away from core business. I still cannot login to the app on my android phone. The update did not take long enough for it to be a map update, the map is still 2015 :(

Hmmmm

A working product would help

I knew it too good to be true.... Tried to login and returned the message "Toyotalink services currently unavailable".

Google informed me that it updated Toyota link after 2 years! I'm not near the car at the moment, does it work now?

Rather that you are obsessed and posting. The alternative would be tinkering and be hiding My unit was posted today... Now the wait, at least they have provided a tracking number. Keep up the good work.

Does the cable you bought drop the voltage or is it just compatible plugs? I've just placed my order for the Joying 1DIN, 8" Android 6.01 and Joying Toyota Cable :)

3amp Drop down power converters are available from about $4 on EBay or a couple of resisters.

I saw a Lexus the other day and it obvious that the design teams are moving toward angular designs

If I read the above correctly, the Toyota Camera is 6volts. Is this correct?

I thought you bought a new unit Chitty? Surely it comes with a Toyota Cable that should remove the need for chopping? If you need to draw power I would use a piggyback fuse adapter similar to the one I used for my USB Charger mod.

My Google Pixel XL does everything correctly. The standard HU reads text happily

Hi Trent No issues to date with my car. I am aware that a rail machine was recently sent to Australia from Europe without windows because of a bad batch or batches of glass being manufactured in Europe and it was cheaper for the importer to buy non-European made glass in Australia than to have the European glass tested and recertified.

Have you sourced an adaptor for the reversing camera?

Sorry I didn't notice but my GPS is accurate enough.

A couple of pics with the plugs in.