What Have You Done To Your 2nd Gen Tacoma Today?

How long it take you to change them?

need to follow this build!!!!

 

If you want clean, it doesn’t get much cleaner IMO for under $500 than the Sony XAV5000. Got mine for around $300

 

Which wiring harness did you guys go with to update your older trucks to modern HU? I've soldered up an Amazon special wiring harness and an XAV5000 for my wife's 2006 Taco following what I thought the directions stated, but it's not right. I'd just like a high-quality harness (don't even really care about steering wheel controls at this point), solder up the HU connections and be done with it. Thanks!

 

Dropped my truck off at the body shop over the weekend. Over thanksgiving I was minorly rear-ended in a snow storm on my way back from CO through UT. Finally getting around to getting it fixed.

On a sort of plus note, they gave me a Limited Jeep Grand Cherokee as a rental, not bad not bad!

 

I'm currently using these with no issues.

Scosche toyota harness:

$13 Scosche TA02B Stereo Wiring Harness Compatible with Select 1986-20 Toyota, Lexus, Scion and Subaru Vehicles - Aftermarket Radio Wire Harness for Car Stereo . Check Vehicle List Below for Your Model

https://www.amazon.com/Scosche-TA02...293&sprefix=toyota+tacoma+ster,aps,226&sr=8-1

Steering wheel controls:

$64 Metra Axxess ASWC-1 Steering Wheel Control Interface

https://www.amazon.com/Axxess-ASWC-...+steering+wheel+control&qid=1580143358&sr=8-1

 

Looking at those harnesses, it looks like you don't have JBL factory audio, right? Somehow her factory JBL audio (and wanting to retain the factory speakers and amp...for now) are making things more complicated for me.

 

I like those tires. Tell me about them please.

 

Why do you want the oil level at the fill line immediately after an oil change?

 

Both Scosche and Metra make great harnesses. Harnesses are also available for popular brands of vehicle makes and popular brands of stereos that are already assembled together as a unit versus two separate harnesses that require to be connected together. Here is an example.


I'm positive the Amazon harness you already have will work just fine, what problems are you experiencing with it currently and which brand is your stereo? Maybe I can tell you what is incorrect with it.
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I can not stand Sony head units, I don't like how they operate, I don't like how they portray their specs unfairly (use different parameters in their specs) when compared to other brands, and they break more often than any other major brand of aftermarket stereo and it's not even close. Major brands I'm comparing Sonys to: Alpine, Kenwood, and Pioneer. The other major brands (JVC, Clarion, Blaupunkt) are just made by other brands for these brands for the most part and Sony makes most of them for them. No offense meant to you fans of Sony car stereos.

 

Put in a $300 android auto head unit (Sony XAV-AX5000). Steering wheel controls are the only thing not working, tried programming them through the head unit with no luck. Not sure what the issue is yet.


Also decided to paint the toyota letters on my grill with some spray paint I found at home depot last night. Still need to touch it up and put on a clear coat. Planning on doing the same to all my red hooks/accents. Ignore the crookedness in the last two pics, put it on in a rush before work this morning, still need to align

 

I ordered through Crutchfield and they recommended a harness and adapter to keep steering wheel controls. You can just plug in the vehicle info in there and it’ll give you exactly what you need

 

We’ll see how it goes, this is my first Sony stereo. It hasn’t blown my mind but not bad for the price.

 

tnx...did you order direct from the shop? what kinda lead time was there,

kinda curious as the shop number listed comes up as not a working number??

 

I just finished my Kenwood, used the Metra harness, pretty ez to tie everything together, including the steering wheel stuff.....

 

Got a bath today

 

I've owned several Sony in-dash units, and never had a failure. Frankly I've never had a failure of any aftermarket unit. Enjoy your purchase!

 

i do not want it over the full line anytime. easier for me to top off in morning after (or when cooled) oil change if needed.

i realized i said fill and not full (2nd dot).

 

What brand did you replace them with?

 

Correct, i don't have the jbl package. If you have the jbl package and want to retain steering wheel controls, this would be the harness:

$66 AXXESS Metra TYTO-01 JBL Amplifier Interface Harness, BLACK

https://www.amazon.com/Metra-TYTO-0...le=1&s=car&vehicleId=1&vehicleType=automotive

jbl package + no steering wheel controls:

$38 Metra 70-8117 Factory Amplifier Harness for 2004-Up Toyota Vehicles with JBL Sound System

https://www.amazon.com/Metra-70-811...WC66FEFXEVH&psc=1&refRID=9Q59SY9HVWC66FEFXEVH

 

Thanks always for the help, DG and everyone else!

I only chose the XAV5000 because I have a Sony credit card with reward points so it was a freebie. The pic you posted of the Toyota to Pioneer harness doesn't have the correct Toyota connectors for the JBL factory harness. I know that the hard way as the first harness I bought claimed to be a universal Toyota connector but didn't match up to the factory JBL harness. Now I know the JBL stuff is unique, and maybe even unique to the 05-06 Tacomas as the later years look slightly different too.

So...I purchased another harness that was specific to the JBL Toyota. But it came with a whole bunch of different plugs that had me lost again. I started pulling shrink wrap and resoldering wires and then it dawned on me that it was a massive universal harness with ALL the plugs for ALL the years and I could and should have just plugged it in to the plugs on the factory dash harness and left all of the others unplugged...if it came with actual directions that told me that! At that point, though, it was too late, so I ended up frankensteining and cutting and re-soldering just the wires and connectors I thought I needed.

Here is what the harness I frankensteined from the two harnesses looks like:



It was straight-forward enough for me to just rematch and solder the wires and cut out everything else until I go to the RCA cables. Both of the aftermarket harnesses I purchased came with red and white RCA cables that I guessed and added to the harness at the last minute (hence the electric tape and not heat shrink for those) trying to follow how they were wired in to both of the aftermarket harnesses I cut up. I figured these would magically make the factory amp and woofer work if plugged in to the RCA out ports, but they don't appear to do that and just cause interference.

With it all wired this way, the HU powers up, plays, but only on the left front speaker. The right side is wired as I feel it should be but doesn't work/play and that's a head scratcher. I read on an install thread here that the little box takes care of the rear speakers somehow (in addition to the steering wheel controls), but at this point, not able to find a pinout of the factory JBL harness anywhere online, I feel pretty lost and just re-installed the stock HU and am making the wifey wait I'm ready to just buy a Metra/Scosche harness if I can find one that will work without anymore guesswork and if anyone can post a link to a 2006 Tacoma JBL to Sony specific one that retains the factory amp/woofer and steering wheel controls, I would be very, very relieved!