Vellfire/Alphard digital dashboard cluster

[Kash]

Hi all, 

 

Had anyone looked at these or thought about buying one for their beloved Alphard/Vellfire? These look quite interesting and I'm thinking of getting one for mine. Not immediately as u still need to sort the head unit out first (on its way) but this looked good considering it offers a lift of options for display which you don't get with the built in one. Plus i hope the conversation of all units should be a breeze since it's a purely screen based interface. 

 

If anyone has already experienced these then it would be great if they can share it with the community. 

 

Regards,

 

 

I just found this on AliExpress: 
￡535.37 | 12.3" LCD Car Digital Dashboard Cluster For Toyota Alphard 2008-2014 Virtual Instrument Panel Speedometer Cockpit Meter Upgrade
https://a.aliexpress.com/_ExTd4jo

[Rojie]

11 minutes ago, Kash said:

Hi all, 

 

Had anyone looked at these or thought about buying one for their beloved Alphard/Vellfire? These look quite interesting and I'm thinking of getting one for mine. Not immediately as u still need to sort the head unit out first (on its way) but this looked good considering it offers a lift of options for display which you don't get with the built in one. Plus i hope the conversation of all units should be a breeze since it's a purely screen based interface. 

 

If anyone has already experienced these then it would be great if they can share it with the community. 

 

Regards,

 

 

I just found this on AliExpress: 
￡535.37 | 12.3" LCD Car Digital Dashboard Cluster For Toyota Alphard 2008-2014 Virtual Instrument Panel Speedometer Cockpit Meter Upgrade
https://a.aliexpress.com/_ExTd4jo

 

What benefits will it give you above what you already have ?

[Kash]

33 minutes ago, Rojie said:

 

What benefits will it give you above what you already have ?

Language options. Since it's a configurable screen so you can set the display to whatever you want. Like you can configure a combination if speedometer and other data etc. existing one has 2/3 fixed dials plus a smaller lcd showing some information in Japanese that you will have to translate which cannot be an option while driving of course. Just getting the options to configure the display in a choice of languages along with a combination of different data seems good to me. But i have to agree that the price is on the steeper side as compared to overall benefits so def not that good of a value for money.

Edited July 5 by Kash

[Rojie]

11 hours ago, Kash said:

Language options. Since it's a configurable screen so you can set the display to whatever you want. Like you can configure a combination if speedometer and other data etc. existing one has 2/3 fixed dials plus a smaller lcd showing some information in Japanese that you will have to translate which cannot be an option while driving of course. Just getting the options to configure the display in a choice of languages along with a combination of different data seems good to me. But i have to agree that the price is on the steeper side as compared to overall benefits so def not that good of a value for money.

 

Sorry, I didn't read the advert properly; I thought it was just a digital version of the analogue dials. Silly me.

[Voodoo101]

They are base on the android head units. Considering the quality of android head units around, i don't think i would trust it, but i'm on about my 4th head unit. Others may have had better luck and might say different

 

[Kash]

1 hour ago, Voodoo101 said:

They are base on the android head units. Considering the quality of android head units around, i don't think i would trust it, but i'm on about my 4th head unit. Others may have had better luck and might say different

 

@Voodoo101 can i ask what kind of issues you have experienced with the head units? If you have posted already about them just link me to the post and I'll take a look. But these seem to be plug n play apparently and are vehicle specific (hopefully 😅) Price is the only thing putting me off for now.

[Kash]

Just to update, I asked one of the sellers if it is compatible with a Hybrid and was told these are not compatible with Hybrids apparently so I am probably not going to think about it again for now unless I get a confirmation on Hybrid 😅

[Voodoo101]

21 hours ago, Kash said:

@Voodoo101 can i ask what kind of issues you have experienced with the head units? If you have posted already about them just link me to the post and I'll take a look. But these seem to be plug n play apparently and are vehicle specific (hopefully 😅) Price is the only thing putting me off for now.

 

My car came with a 7 inch Sony touchscreen unit. It had DAB radio, MP3 player and Android Auto / Car Play but the connection was a bit flacky. I chanced it for a 10 inch Android Unit with a replacement trim. This was when these units was mainly AliExpress. It lasted a month until the touch screen failed and ended going back.

 

I used the Sony unit till last year when I decided to give an Android unit another go, this time going for a more reputal dealer, not AliExpress. I bought an Eonon 10 inch double din floating unit. A few months later it went really slow and would take about 10 minutes to connect to the GPS.

 

They replaced it with another unit which would show the randomly show the Google Map full screen but really zoomed in and then the keys and touchscreen would not work. I spent more time on these two units resetting them. I actually kept a sim card remover in the car.

 

They then replaced it with the newer model that the reversing camera did not work and the screen would flicker on and off