New England B.S. Thread

I had 250K on my 2nd gen and only replaced them because I was doing the parking brake cables and had it all apart...Still had mm's of pad left.

 

Head's up...Aurora should be visible tonight IF the clouds part...

 

Looks like temps are heading in the right direction.

 

I cannot like this enough

 

Got mine today, who reported me?

 

I've gotten a few of then from different numbers

 

Just got 2 from 2 different numbers

 

Yeah I checked my fluid and it's right under the max line. I know it was all flushed 4 years/30K ago at the frame replacement. Hoping it's nothing major.

 

Any audiophile assistance? I looked in the audio forum section and didn't see any general discussion threads.
My mom has a 150,000 mile, 2014 rav4 with a dead headunit. It needs to be simple setup and layout and she still uses FM radio primarily. I told her to work with Crutchfield because they have really good support and will even video chat if you need install help. Well they tried to upsell her to some $600 setup with some necessity BS with over $300 in install parts.

It doesn't need to be fancy, just functional and able to integrate her phone.
Needs to have the following:
carplay/android auto
physical volume knob
retain steering wheel controls and bluetooth function. (difficult to find)

I was looking at this unit

$177 Dual Electronics Dual DCPA723W 2-DIN 7"" Apple CarPlay Android Auto Digital Multimedia Receiver

https://www.amazon.com/Dual-Electro...=&hvlocphy=1022672&hvtargid=pla-2281435177898

 

The head unit had issues in my aunts RAV4, she ultimately decided to trade it in but there's a place in new York you could ship it to for a rebuild. I unfortunately don't recall the name.

 

i found a rebuilder for the and use this as a core. I figure i would update to have phone projection. She isn't very tech saavy and doesn't like using their TomTom or phone to direction so projection would be nice.

 

This place is about a tennis ball's throw from my office, but there's a ton of options around.

https://www.soundfxonline.com/pages/Car-Audio.cfm

Are you looking for advice on what to get, or help on the install?

I've had fine enough luck with a wireless carplay adapter, but the wireless carplay absolutely saps phone battery life. I ran into the issue where any longer than 20 minutes, and I would have to plug it in, so why bother with wireless at that point anyway? My day to day commute is so short, it takes a minute to connect and would fail maybe 5% of the time. So I use it still, but mostly now just use bluetooth. I have my phone set to automate when connected to bluetooth, trigger play music from X playlist. BUT That's using a third party wireless adapter, integrated might be a lot faster/smoother.

@Brownmatthall has a Joying right?

$519 JOYING Car Stereo Carplay for Toyota RAV4 Radio 2013-2018 Android 12 Head Unit 9" Touch Screen 8GB+128GB with Android Auto GPS Navigation Bluetooth Mirror Link DSP(JY-TZ186N8)

https://www.amazon.com/JOYING-2013-...2&sprefix=2014+rav4+head+unit,aps,213&sr=8-13

^^ That might do the trick. There's a bunch of chinesium options on Amazon otherwise, all of which I would probably say are about the same reliability/risk.

 

I do, I like it well enough and it performs leagues better than the factory junk it replaced. Especially at the price I got it for

 

My parents are a 1000 miles away but one of my groomsman is a tech and will install it for me.

Headunits are more complicated than they were in high school. I can buy a headunit, but i don't understand all the harness needed to integrate factory options of a 2014 base model Rav4
I need all the adaptors to make the following still work.
NEEDED/RETAIN INTEGRATION:
-factory bluetooth
-factory steering wheel controls
-factory backup camera
-carplay/android auto (wired is fine)
-physical volume knob

NOT NEEDED/RETAIN INTEGRATION:
-wireless carplay/android auto
-factory XM/Sirius Radio
-Zero audio upgrade needs.

 

My joying retained everything except the Sirius antenna which I don't use anyway. Steering controls, back up cam, wireless carplay and audio all work surprisingly flawlessly with no extra harnesses or adapters beyond what joying gives you. I don't know if they still make it but mine has a volume knob as well

 

@Brownmatthall @GarlicFarts
Based off that, this seems like a good value.

 

Just went through this with Cupcake's 2014 Rav4, been a while coming.

I got a Pioneer unit for about $250, doesn't have a physical knob but otherwise seems to check your boxes. Install with the adapters/interface/etc was about $300, I just had the shop do it. If you're interested I'll get the model#

 

Can you get a replacement OEM headunit from a wreck?

 

OH yeah...Well it's apparently my paypalaversary...

 

Forest fires are following me. Yesterday I left work with a few little fires within 10 ft of my car and now there is one 2 miles away(that two miles is through some very combustible woods.

I put too much work into the matrix to let it burn down