I installed my DIG OPTIONS TP09X1 Entertainment Unit tonight and thought i would write up a installation how to for others out there who might want to do the same. This was the simplest stereo install i have ever completed, cant stress enough how simple it is so give it a red hot go!
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First of all you need to remove the original unit. To do this, pull all three turn dials for the heating and fan off with your fingers, they come off easily.
You will see there is one screw in the centre fan control, use a phillips head screw driver to remove.
Now you can proceed to remove the fascia around the original stereo. Get your fingers in behind the fascia from the inside of the two little compartment holders and gently pull the fascia off. Try to do this as slowly as possible to prevent the yellow clips from detaching like i found happend to me. I found the yellow plastic clips underneath the gear stick surround which also comes off easily by starting to pull from the centre console upwards with the centre console lid open. You will need a torch. Good thing they are bright yellow as it made it so much easier to find them! Well done Mr Toyota! Remember to attach the clips back to their mounts on the fascia mounting clips before reinstalling the fascia.
Once the fascia is off you will need to detach the AC button plug and the Hazard light plug. There are little tab levers on both of these and come out with ease once depressed.
After this you should be left with something looking like this.
There are four 8mm screws on the left and right hand side of the original unit. You will need to use an extension on your ratchet to get to these. If you have a magentic tool handy i advise using it to collect these screws once out as they can fall into the abis also.
Once all the srews have been undone and removed, pull the stero out, detach the antenna, and two white plug harnesses from the rear. They look like this.
Now its time to get the TP09X1 ready!
Find the TP09X1 Toyota wiring harness that came with the unit and plug it in to the factory wiring harness.
I like to test things (probably too anxious to see it working
) before commiting to a full install, so i plugged my unit straight into the wiring harness and turned it on to make sure it was all working perfect which it was! Detach the wiring harness from the back of the unit.
Once this is established you need to remove the two LEFT and RIGHT frame mountings off the original head unit. You can either use a phillips head screw driver or 8mm socket to remove the screws. I reused these screws and attached the two mounting frames onto the TP09X1. They are labelled L and R funnily enough. These frame mounting should be screwed in the same orientation as the original unit.
There is a tiny screw on the top of the unit with a warning that says to remove this before installation into the dash, remember to remove this, i believe this has something to do with the DVD/CD drive.
You need to ground the PINK cable labelled "BRAKE" to stop the video warning message from appearing all the time when trying to watch a DVD/TV etc. Im really not a fan of using wire connectors so i crimped the cable with a round terminal and used some washers on either side and screwed it to the metal that the bottom right hand screw attaches to. You could however just use a wire connector and splice into one of the ground cables in the back if thats your thing (i believe it is the black wire on the wiring harness).
Re-attach the wiring harness, GPS antenna cable and radio antenna cable to the unit. There is quite a bit of room under the unit once in the dash so i just left my GPS antenna resting there, it seems to work fine with no issue getting a signal. If you want you may want to route it somewhere else. I also attached the IPOD cable that came with the unit and ran it over into my glove box where i normally keep my ipod.
Gently place the new unit back into the dash and do the complete reversal to removing the head unit in the first place. Again if you have a 8mm magnetic socket this will make life so much easier. If you dont have one like me, you just need to take it slow as the angle you need to put the screws back in can make the screw fall out of the socket.
Congratulations you have just installed the TP09X1 in 30 minutes!
There is more to come on this install. Part 2 will look at installing the reverse camera and wiring the unit so that video can be watched without getting the annoying warning message. Im also waiting on the digital tv antenna to arrive so this can be installed also. Stay tuned!