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Has anyone added to their wheel some stereo controls using something like this:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Bluetooth-S ... 0b&vxp=mtr

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islandflyer wrote:Has anyone added to their wheel some stereo controls using something like this:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Bluetooth-S ... 0b&vxp=mtr

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I don't know but I'm interested to find out myself, they look pretty good and for the money is well worth doing.
Look very stock don't they.

Those are the highest level switches you can get, if you look around you can find switches without the climate control buttons. The hilux buttons are also typically silver, the buttons seen there are normally on the Camry (not any different functionally, just cosmetic)

The wiring depends on what stereo you currently have, and what clockspring you have - the base model clockspring found in earlier model hiluxs only have about 2 spare pins in the clockspring. This COULD be enough to get them to work AND light up at night but you'd have to wire it differently from the factory (ie keep all the earthing points in the steering wheel).

I'm about to do this in my Hilux as I've already swapped the steering wheel to a newer style wheel that comes with these controls (less buttons though) as stock. I am lucky enough to have a clockspring that supports it, but I'll still need to wire them up on the steering column side to my aftermarket stereo.

So yes it's very possible to get these working, but it's a bit fiddly and no single writeup is going to suit every Hilux out there.

Look good.
I have a 2012 SR with steering controls but it doesn't have the phone controls always thought that was weird does anyone know if this is plug and play if so I might replace mine so I can answer and hang up on steering wheel as well.

Thanks

Ok I've wired up my steering wheel controls this afternoon and tested all working perfectly.

The below instructions are half of what you need to do, as I have an aftermarket stereo I can't give the exact wiring to the back of the factory stereo.

To to this mod you will need a clockspring that supports steering wheel controls. The base model clockspring will not work there are too many connections needed.

The good news is that they all share the same plug on the steering column side that connects to the clockspring, just with varying wires going to it.

The plug in question



Connections are:

8: Horn (use its location in the plug as a reference)
4, 5 and 6: Connect to your stereo. 4 is the earth connection but that must go to the correct spot on your radio, not just any ground.
12: Illumination wire 12v

I inserted new pins into the above plug that I got from some spare Toyota plugs I had lying around. With the new wires in the plug should look as follows


Of my wires, the green is illumination (#12), red is #6, white is #5 and blue is #4.

The easiest place to connect the illumination wire is the headlight dip switch. The wire you want to splice into is shown here:


The finished plug harness is here


From the far right of the image mine continue through to where they connect to the back of my radio.

From what I've gathered from looking at wiring diagrams, the wires mostly only go to the stereo however some steering wheel button assemblies have switches such as Info and temperature controls, which obviously would run to the trip computer and climate control modules.

The phone buttons should run to the stereo but if your steering wheel doesn't have them to start with I don't know how the factory stereo (those with bluetooth) would react to having them connected sorry.

Hope this is enough to get started with.

I just purchased these controls for my 200 series and the plug was already there so just plug and play 15min job

Hey Jogal - what do you mean the plug was there, at the wheel already?

On the GXL there is only volume control and mode buttons! No phone or display buttons. Once I received the new controls it was a matter of unplugging phone controls taking the blank out and a factory connector was already there to connect to.

Has anyone managed to get the climate controls on steering wheel to work?
I need help with the wiring.
Thanks

Before

After

Plug and play.

It would be great if the Hilux is this simple! I'd love climate control buttons on wheel..

Ok so who's going to test it first? my basic skills and being half way across the globe put me further down the list.

Would love to know if the harness is there on my 2013 before ordering.

popped off the access panels on the sides of the wheel to take a look...here's what I can see inside...what's that little white plug in the last shot, just a ground?

If it's like the cruiser you would need to unscrew the air bag and carefully lift it up. The plug sat behind that unit.

Little white plug is for your horn

Cant be sure without removing the airbag but it looks like you the base model clockspring

Hey Steve,

It's Kush. You reckon the SR5 would have the correct clock spring being an SR5? I'm looking at connecting steering wheels controls to my stock Toyota GPS headunit. Seen the steering wheel pretty cheap on eBay.

unit_01 wrote:Hey Steve,

It's Kush. You reckon the SR5 would have the correct clock spring being an SR5? I'm looking at connecting steering wheels controls to my stock Toyota GPS headunit. Seen the steering wheel pretty cheap on eBay.

Hey man! Haven't seen you in ages!

Depends on the year and standard fitment moreso than whether it's an SR or SR5 etc.

There is only one way to be 100% sure and that's to pull off the current airbag - about a 5 minute job lol

Here's a quick pic showing my old steering wheel compared to my new

Ok I've done it! Added new control panel which I got off alibaba and fitted it to my 2013 sr.
For those wondering why I did it because when your on the phone as much as I am for work going from a sr5 with phone controls on steering to not it's a big deal. The unit comes complete with the right hand side controls as well for climate control but as sr doesn't have climate control I never fitted it. If I had the sr5 im confident it would work.

Oh and their black much nicer than the original silver me thinks