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My parking sensors are great. They can beep and I can still keep going. They are after all just an aid to parking. My gripe with the camera is that at night it becomes useless, because the light from the number plate lights affects it. Its even worse in the rain and as the original importer took one of the reversing lights to make a fog light, its limited anyway

This video is perfect. Now I just need to source a light stalk with the rear fog light switch

They are amazing vehicles. The engines are built like tanks. Its a Gen 2. You havent said the colour but I think the majority I've seen are white. Be careful of the paint. Some of them, including mine suffer from the paint peeling. Its due to the primer being too smooth and is a manufacturing fault. It was a warranty fix but some people did not get it done and it wont be covered now, even is Toyota UK was interested, which they are not. You are in the best place to get any help. The people on here are really knowlegable and helpful. They have helped me a lot

Ive just remembered. I had to replace the fuse for the radio when I changed head units. It was in the engine bay fuse box. I cant remember which one but Im 99% sure its in there

Hi fellow Alphard / Vellfire owners I just bought a lovely sew on steering wheel cover from AliExpress but as you would expect, it does not fit 100 %. I had a section that pushes under the steering wheel button grey panels but it keeps popping out. Are these panels easy to remove or do you have to take the airbag out. I thought I may be able to fix it down better

There are two different sizes for the usbs to fit toyotas, you need the short fat ones. Ebay and Amazon also do them. Best on I got was one to fit next to the 12v socket below the gear shift. You just unplug the cable from the 12v socket, then daisy chain it. No other connections needed. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DBXYZ3SX?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_3

I would go along with the blow fuse check. Maybe the jump start blew it. I think its in the passenger bay fuse box. Depending on your head unit, the rear camera will be powered from that. If its an aftermarket head unit, then they probably took the power from the same cable as the head unit

New high beams sorted. Out with the ballast and new LEDs wired direct. Work, fit perfect and gives me less connections to worry about. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0D7VCBCBK?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1

Hi all. My front washer pump has failed. The rear is working fine but no noise from front pump. Has anybody replaced it? I'm assuming that you need to remove the inner wing cover to get to it, if so do you need to remove the wheel to get this off? Is it a standard Toyota part or is it unique to the Alphard / Vellfire?

You can buy head units off AliExpress. They come with the correct wiring loom and surround. Warning though, I bought one from there and it lasted a month, plus the surround does not come with the little coin compartment section, so you have to change over that and the plastic trim surround is a different shade of grey and it stands out. The 20 series are all the same I think except if you have the premium speaker system, so you can just order the lead from AliExpress and it will be plug and play. Three leads from the car and then one in the back of the unit. If you have the oem fitted rear camera you can get the adaptor for that off ebay. I bought the 2din unit with the floating head. The reason for that is 1. I found the one that fits in the trim a bit too far away to use when driving. 2. The floating head unit you can angle to stop the sun shining on the screen. 3. You can set it up so you have the perfect view when driving, but it swivels for the passenger if they need to use it. You do need a double din surround

You can buy any double din unit, all will need a custom harness. Some head units are supplied with a harness to fit. There are other makes of Android head units, Eonon is on the cheaper end and lack a bit of functionality. I have one and not the best I have had. My first one packed in and took out the alternator. The second one has some funny way, like bluetooth dropping out quite a lot, sometimes for a long time. You can't easily switch between phones, you have to actually turn off bluetooth on one phone to disconnect it. Its annoying that it opens up on any app you have used on your last trip, so if you happen to go on play store or file manager, you end up with that open on the next trip. You have to manually close apps. It also needs to be reset often. Ive had better from AliExpress for half the price. If you go for Android, you can get a wiring harness off AliExpress

I found this. I had an auto Merc with the gear select on stalk and auto electric brake (my first auto), then got the Vellfire and wondered why I had a jolt when I moved house and parked on sloped drive. I thought the gearbox was on its way out, then worked out to put parking brake on then into park

Just found this post and saw Just for an update, this has been changed to this; Existing halogen headlamp units on vehicles first used on or after 1 April 1986 must not be converted to be used with high intensity discharge (HID) or light emitting diode (LED) bulbs. If such a conversion has been done, you must fail the headlamp for light source and lamp not compatible. Reference https://www.gov.uk/guidance/mot-inspection-manual-for-private-passenger-and-light-commercial-vehicles/4-lamps-reflectors-and-electrical-equipment#section-4-1-4 From my understanding from reading this, its ok to change to LED's now

Thank you to all. I have been looking on Amazon but not too sure of the quality

Hi all Sorry if this has been asked and answered before. My 2009 has very weak headlights, so I'm thinking of replacing them with LED lights. Does anybody know the type Also my high beams have ballast connected. One side packed in so I purchased a replacement set, exact same spec but the connections are loose and they keep playing up, wo I would like to change these for LED high beams that I can plug directly into. Thanks in advance

I have stick on attennas fitted to the windscreen but the cables have been cut. I will have a look next time i strip the console down Thanks anyway

I guess it was too much to ask to be able to use the original GPS antenna and DAB radio antenna lol Thanks

There are two ways of finding what it is. 1. Press it and look around at everything to see if anything changes. 2. Pull the switch out and try and follow the cable. On some cars people have put a switch into the brake signal wire so they can watch TV while driving

I have found two cables behind the head unit. Im assuming they are antenna connections. Can anybody confirm this and if so, which is which

Glad you got it sorted

Just in case anybody is interested. I was looking at parts and came across somebody selling the stalks for an Alphard / Vellfire. It looks like they have the rear fog light switch on the indicator stalk. I know you can plug it is. Im not looking to spend the money on this for the amount of time I use my fogs, but somebody might be interested. COLUMN SWITCHES TOYOTA VELLFIRE VELFIRE 2015-2018 Indicator Wiper Light Stalks | eBay

I hope it recovered in one piece. I guess now they are more popular and with parts being rare, the idiots are out to try and make some money.

I had one of them but it one of the sockets failed after a while. I changed it over for another, but had to steal that to run behind the glove box because my android unit has HDMI output, the rear screen has RCA and I needed 5v USB to run the convertor. Just waiting for my third socket to arrive

Thanks. I thought that, but I tested with 12volts and as long as white was negative, it didnt matter if you used brown or red on positive, the screen still sparked into life, so I just used two cables. It turns off when it is closed and on when you open it. It will probably never get used, it was just annoying me not working

You can bluetooth ODB reader and get the free carscanner app, that works but I think the techstream has more options