Wisconsin Tacomas and bad financial advice

I'm very happy with it. You could design a system with more flexibility yourself...if you wanted to, but this does everything I've needed so far.

 

I played with my iPhone a bit last night and got this shot. We sure don’t see stars like this in the big city!
For some reason, TW downscales the photo, the original is much more stunning.

 

Dignity: Of Earth & Sky statue, Chamberlain SD:



Crossing the Missouri River:



I don’t know what it’s like back home but I’m enjoying sub $3 fuel prices (and I desperately need it with strong headwinds gobbling up my MPGs).



80 foot Brontosaurus in Wall, SD.



Stopped for food and got to watch part of the Packers victory. Also saw the big carved jackelope. The other two people in the bar were from Colorado but born & raised in Milwaukee and our bartender was a Ukrainian refugee. Crazy world man, Go Pack Go!



Pioneer: synonym for failure. Here’s their special feature “everything disappears and disconnects while you are driving at a crucial point where you need to turn.” Three units in three years, hot garbage. I’m trying Sony next.

 

Very nice, that’s a lot of stars!

I was upset I couldn’t get better photos last night but I found out the low atmosphere haze near me is wildfire smoke. So I guess I should be somewhat thankful I haven’t had to really deal with that problem yet other than it blocking my stars.

 

A couple vacation pics.

 

kenwood or alpine are the only way to go

I put a OEM one (2020 w/ CarPlay) in a my 2019 tundra and when I was on my trip around the south east, randomly my phone would disconnect and CarPlay would disappear - usually at a super convenient time like when you were supposed to take an exit soon. I stopped at a harbor freight and pulled out my headunit in the parking lot. The stupid USB plug adapter was jiggling just enough over bumps to cause it to disconnect. I wrapped it in some electrical tape so it couldn't move and its been fine ever since.

 

I'm surprised after the two failures you went back for a third try, a techy like you should know better.

 

Some people are slow learners...

 

sounds like an android problem

 

im guessing they were warranty replacements so you either take the free replacement or fork out the cash for something different

 

IIRC Adam paid for at least one replacement.





I could be wrong.

 

Have you checked entune is up to date? I had to do this on my 17

https://www.toyota.com/firmware-updates#

 

The fun didn't stop at the Barrons.




There are timing marks on the inside of the actuator to know what position to start 2 of the gears at.

This video shows what I'm dealing with.
https://youtu.be/Cq2D5N_9viA?si=G7i_oufPXsErqrhM
The fun part will be holding it all steady, upside down, trying to line up the teeth while reassmbling.

 

Adding to the other post. It actually went back together almost tooo easily. Will report back after a test run.

spring washer

rod in 2H position

 

Whelp you know what that means, time to upgrade!

 

The symptoms you describe happen to me even on wireless CarPlay. Unfortunately my efforts to wrap the wireless signals in tape have failed thus far.

Sony’s newer ES series are supposed to be the hotness right now. That’s likely going to be my spring 2025 project.

Well…

I paid for the last one. Was on the road last year and BestBuy had one of the same model in stock. Store was closing in an hour so it was either a) waste a day and stay there until the car audio bay opened for re-wiring a harness, or b) buy the same damn shitty unit and plug & play in the parking lot so I could continue onwards. I’m a slow learner but had no downtime.