AbbieAlphard

I've just found this. Believe me its worth its weight in gold and may have already answered how to get the plastic inlays out of my wheel arches. Did anyone ever find an English translation?

Hi Clutha, I have had some experience with a small solar panel maintainer which I used to keep a Peugeot Django 50 2T battery alive with over a winter a few years ago. The maintainer was a Ring unit purchased from Halfords. It was 12 Volt with an output of 1.5 watts and had a built in diode to prevent reverse charging. What I found was that the maintainer could actually charge the battery (6.3 Ah 12 Volt) very slowly depending on the amount of sunlight available; however it took months to do it. From this I would conclude that this type of maintainer would be virtually useless for your Alphard battery. Maybe something like a Noco Genius 1 would be a better option.

Wow, thanks Geralt. As you say this video is much more in depth, the sort of thing that I would have made. Armed with this I'm going to try and source some trim tools and give it a go. My Gps/DvD header is the same type that's shown in the original video. I want to keep it if possible because its original and, when it works, it overrides the smaller speaker that used for the ETC announcements which again reinforce アビー Japanese origins.

Hi Geralt, this is a link to the video:

Thanks Geralt, I'll try the fuses first and then try to work out how to get the centre consul out. I've been watching a video about this that involves undoing the gear shift and then pressing something inside the lower key/ashtray. The problem with the video is that it doesn't show exactly where to press or push inside the tray. Looking inside the tray, there are no obvious buttons, screw heads etc. I had considered the loose cable theory, especially after the system woke up after the heavy winds rocked アビー on the campsite. In one way I'm hoping this is the problem. At the end of the day I'm not worried about getting the DvD player to work, its more about the Reversing camera which I've come to rely on.

After replacing the battery in アビー our (2005) Alphard AH10 Facelift we are experiencing an intermittent issue with her Radio /GPS unit. Initially the header unit worked fine, then after a few months it stopped working, black screen, no response from any of the buttons including the eject button. アビー has been converted into a camper which means the battery often go's low between trips out. We took her abroad recently during stormy weather where she was rocked during the night by heavy winds; the next morning when starting up to venture off site the Header unit went through what I think is a reboot cycle. The system, which is connected to the OEM Toyota reversing camera worked fine on the return trip. About a month later I needed to move アビー . She just about started because of battery discharge and yet again nothing to be seen on the Header unit. Does anyone have any ideas? Is there a procedure for waking the Radio/GPS system?