Everything posted by Chris.ac
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Rear wing "popped in" - is it fixable?
You sure it's popped in? This looks like the rear has been 'touched' which had caused the bumper retaining clips to break. The clips are designed to take some impact trauma and can be replaced.
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fitting side mirrors with camera
If you dont want to drill holes, you could try and buy the Toyota wingmirrors that had cameras in them, quite expensive though.
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Remote control
Need a cheap vci cable, and a laptop to install techstream on. Look on eBay for a vci adaptor with techstream. One you have that, let us know here, and we can talk through the process, it only takes less than 5 minutes to program an additional remote
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Tailgate lock
Did you disconnect the wiring with the door open? Was the battery disconnected? Disconnect battery, wait a few minutes, reconnect battery. Now open fully and close fully manually, from the handle of the boot only, do not touch the buttons for electrical open/close This will recalibrate the ecu. Then try the buttons.
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fuel tank
Warning light comes on when you still have plenty of fuel to prevent overheating of the pump. Brimming it is more of an issue, as you flood the evap canister.
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Inside headlight hid lens loose
Wait until it's dark, park with lights facing a wall, switch off car, make sure the light stalk is set to lights on. Start up engine, you should see both lights move up down and left right to auto adjust. If that loose over does not move, then maybe someone has used too much force during a bulb change.
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Removing the ETC System
Not difficult, remove a couple of screws from black cover under the drivers footwell. Remove the plastic kick panel on the right side, held on by one plastic thumbscrew. You'll reveal a few screws holding the lower dash panel, undo, and pull from the door side, you'll see the etc unit, disconnect the larger plug that powers it.
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Head unit
I'm not sure a simple map update would be of much use. I believe the hardware is not setup to receive the frequencies of the European gps, vs the qzss frequency of Japanese satellites
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Inside headlight hid lens loose
Its supposed to move. Its part of the AFS. The lights move sideways during cornering. Read up about the electrical systems here https://slideplayer.com/slide/10248235/
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Tein Height Control Advice Please
Its suggest emailing Tein. They have an email link on their page. https://www.tein.co.jp/e/products/hybrid_wagon.html
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Best Headlight bulb
Projector is an S type, reflector lens is an R type Attach a photo of the headlamp for clarification
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Connectors in glove box
Those are not Toyota fitted. Previous owner has modified or rerouted connectors
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Removing the ETC System
Oh, that's different to mine. Mine actually counts in Japanese and has a zero volume with two separate buttons for increase and decrease. Do you have original headunit? As that also has an etc mute setting.
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Swivel seats
That centre console contains the hybrid battery pack, and some of the electrics for the management and cooling are under the seats. You might not be able to do what you are trying to do without serious modification
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Removing the ETC System
It should work, as i think all the 20 series have the integrated etc with volume controls. If not i can share the disassembly instructions
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Removing the ETC System
turn off the notifications by using the volume controls on the etc itself. You can also just disconnect the wiring at the back - just undo the panel, starting with the panel under the dash - you could also then remove it, but what for? youll just end up with a gap in the small storage unit.
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Annoying cable bugging me
ODO.pdf Here is the wiring for the low spec headunit. Its like i said, there are a few connectors for different headunit specs, the fact it was not hidden away suggests a previous owner changed headunit, or was using it for some aftermarket purpose. A handy switched live wire?
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Annoying cable bugging me
Its for the low spec (4 speaker, no external amplifier) headunit. Red 12v is ignition on sense, black is actually speed signal (to adjust the volume when speed increases, u should see it change voltage if in motion) and you rightly state the other red and blue are reverse and parking brake The connector is referred to as F5 in the ODO wiring schematic. There would have been an additional 12v battery (for headunit memory/clock) and 12v supply from the radio fuse provided via a different connector
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Annoying cable bugging me
The are a few taped up connectors hidden in the dash, there were several headunit types, that's all.
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Replacing head unit
Antennas. The 2 port is am/fm. The 4 port will be for TV
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Replacing head unit
You can rewire so the speaker connections bypass the amp and connect directly to the new headunit with integrated amp. TC has a YouTube channel with lots of alphard maintenance and upgrades, as well as a video of him fitting headunit and bypassing amp https://youtu.be/Vk96sLaVA88?si=r6U7WFWHxVHWTBL_
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Auto unlock
It's also in the official Toyota others manual.
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Coolant overflowing
I agree with smurf. New cap is cheap. If it is not sealing, you are reducing the boiling point and losing coolant. Check by loosely wrapping a clean white cloth around the overflow and cap on the reservoir, then checking for pink/red after a drive. You could also have a hairline crack on the reservoir then expands when hot
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E10 fuel from September 2021
E10 is fine. You can check similar engines in other Toyota models. JDM Toyotas are manufactured to be compatible with even higher E values. The RON rating is more important to prevent preignition in the more powerful engines.
