Has Anyone Relocated or Extended a Cable From The Aux Audio Port?

I have a 2010 Tacoma with the auxiliary audio port underneath the climate controls. I would like to take an audio cable, splice it into the port, and then extend the cable to my center console. This will keep the cables and sound shocker out of sight and make it look a lot cleaner.

Has anyone done this before - I looked all over Tacoma World and the internet as a whole and could not find much of anything.

 

curious about the same, aftermarket stereo i put in had an aux port in the front but a wireing diagram so that one could use the factory port would be pretty cool.

 

I'm surprised nobody seems to have thought of/done this before considering some of the bizarre mods that get posted.

 

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Why do you need to splice the audio cable into the existing 3.5 mm jack, and WTF is a sound shocker?
I don't know the 2010 model year AUX port, but on my '13 there is a USB/Aux port combo. I assume you don't want to extend the USB connectivity?
Before you cut anything I would try this. Get a 3.5 mm extension cable with the correct male/female connector at the end which mates with whatever your source is. Make sure it is long enough for the run to land into your console. Connect it up, check to see that it works. If all is well then you can proceed to install it the way you want. Tear down the Head unit and supporting interior items and pop out the Aux port 3.5 mm connector from the harness. Then run the new cable under the shifter (assuming auto trans). into the console. You would then need to close up the area where the resulting hole would be from the old aux port, maybe a new cover?
I have seen tear down vids of routing cables into the center console area, that should not be too hard to find.
Now that I think about it, lots of folks running custom subwoofer(s) route the power cable to the amps under the shifter and under the console. You could do something similar to this to land your 3.5 mm connection in your console.
@ ~6.30 mark you can see the removal of the shifter. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zMX2piCvhA

 

A 2010 doesn't have USB - so no I don't want to relocate or extend that.

Sound shocker is a passive preamp due to the poor volume output from the existing aux port. Lots of discussions on this.

I want the existing port in place and want to run a cable from it (under the center partition - that I know how to remove) to the center console.

 

I'll post pictures tomorrow. For my '10 I drilled a small hole towards the right side. Ran a male to male 3.5mm rca cord back through the center console ... shifter ... drilled a hole in the bottom of the console box .... this is where I placed my amplifier ... plugged in 3' 3.5mm male to male .... plugged in my mp3 .... the top closes with lots of play to set the mp3 next to the shifter .... from either seat your cannot see the cord coming out of the aux plug in the lower dash ... I'll add photos in the morning.

 

My set up ...

I cleaned up the hole ... from the driver and passenger seats you can't see this. Pulled up thge shifter console ... tie-wrapped cable to the side ...



Drilled a hole in the bottom and fed the cable through ... the Sound Shocker (double sided tape) really pumps up the sound ...



There is anough of a gap with the cover closed ... doesn't pinch the cable ...

 

Thanks for posting that. It's certainly another way of doing it and gives me some ideas...

 

As I said ... you don't see/notice the aux cable while driving.

 

I just popped out the USB/aux port and ran a extension over to the glove box...I zipped tied the OEM connector to the ac control harness...clean and out of sight...

 

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Well I finally got around to doing this. This isn’t going to be a photo laden post with every step is illustrated, but fortunately it’s not that tough to do.

1. Pull out the Aux plug under the center console. There is not much extra wire so the Aux will not come that far past the lower dash.
2. At the back of the Aux plug is a removable white connector. Remove the connector from the plug and place the Aux plug in a safe place.
3. Next step is to cut the wires leading to the white connector. I cut the wires leading to the connector so there was enough that I could splice in extension wires at the other end.
4. Cut new wires the length of where the Aux plug used to be to the new location in the center console. Note that the wires are very small diameter so it’s probably a good idea to use wires of a similar diameter.
5. Splice the extension wires to the wires in the dash. Make note of the color of each wire for the reconnect in the center console.
6. Run the spliced wires from the dash, underneath the shifter console to the center console (you will have to remove the shifter/center console.
7. Where you place the Aux plug in the center console is up to you (I placed mine in the bottom as shown in the photo but if IU did it again I would place it on the side of the console (requires using a Dremel tool) or more over to the side of the bottom.
8. Splice the extension wires to the white connector that you cut off in the previous step.
9. Connect the Aux plug to the white connector.
10. Test to see if it works.
11. Place a dummy plug where

It’s pretty straight forward but if you have any questions please post them in this thread instead of giving me a PM. I’ve been driving about 4000kms with the new setup and no issues so far. Works great and no more cables all over the place below the dash.

Part Numbers include:

White Connector (officially called a Noise Filter): 90980-12551
Replacement Dummy Plug to fill the space of the Aux Plug: 555539-28160-c0