Power to bluetooth upgrade for 2007 Taco (dbl cab)

Just got a Tranzit BLU HF for my rig. Hoped to easily find a red & black to connect the unit to acc power, but all I see are harnessed plugs, and all the YT vids don't show the actual process of splicing into those. Not an electrical engineer, so as little use of a multimeter (if any!) would be appreciated; I WILL put on my big boy undies if needed, but.... Really just looking for a quick, "clip here, attach there, etc...". And major bonus if there's pics! Thanks y'all!

 

Easy place to get accy power and a good ground is in the cig lighter down below the radio.
Use a phone charger or something to ensure it turns off with the truck, but I'm pretty sure it does.

The white/black wire is always ground in toyota.

Edit* I like the cig lighter better than the accy wire in the radio harness because that wire is very thin, and has a very low amperage available. Hooking up the transit to that wire for power could blow a fuse.
The cig lighter is fused for something like 15-20 amps so no concern of drawing too much power there.

 

Awesome! Thx! What has to come out to get at lighter socket? Trying to minimize removal of panels...

 

I feel like after you pop off the A/C panel and take the radio out, it’s pretty easy to reach down there and unplug the connector from the socket.

 

Is there a socket at each receptacle? Or one main one? If that's the case, I can't get my fat fingers back there. Think I'm in over my head.

 

Is all gray wire accy?

 

yes. the super thin grey wire

 

Thx so much! Totally in the dark on this, can I just splice into any available dash hanger, the one that goes into the AC/heat has a gray?

 

NO!! Just because it’s grey doesn’t mean anything. In the main radio harness, the thin grey wire is accy. This is the only wire I would even attempt getting power from. I definitely wouldn’t mess with wiring going to ac controls.

 

Gotchoo! Think I'm going that route(main radio harness); may adjust if it blows fuses. What should I use to splice? Any particular connectors/technique you recommend?

 

Nothing better than a good ol' fashion military splice

 

YA BUDDY!!!!! Done and done! It works, sounds awesome, no extra parts....so so so so so STOKED! Can't thank you enough for nudging me away from potential mistakes, and worse yet, quitting. Mahalo