1997 es300 LCD display replacement...
04-27-20 | 11:00 AM
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BMeek, I'm in the process of getting ready to replace my stock unit with a double din as well. I was trying to remember and explain the issue with the amp in a thread I started here.
I don't have the experience to have explained it the way you did, but you confirm that even with a perfect install the factory amp won't "work" right and cause all the issues you listed. Can you describe the method you used to correct for the amp? Lexus2000 suggested that I could maybe include it with a line-out, and he also linked me an excellent detailed pinout he did of the amp. I'm interested in either method, but I'd like to avoid installing and re-installing to correct for known issues that I can tackle up front.
I don't have the experience to have explained it the way you did, but you confirm that even with a perfect install the factory amp won't "work" right and cause all the issues you listed. Can you describe the method you used to correct for the amp? Lexus2000 suggested that I could maybe include it with a line-out, and he also linked me an excellent detailed pinout he did of the amp. I'm interested in either method, but I'd like to avoid installing and re-installing to correct for known issues that I can tackle up front.
I noted that you said you're looking at an Android head unit... I'm a bit of an Android geek as well, and have been splitting my extra pandemic-enabled online time between here and the XDA developer's Android Head Units forum.
05-01-20 | 01:05 PM
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Well I bought the used eBay replacement stereo that someone here pointed me at and I have removed the old unit and installed the other but it has one different plug; different shape and different prongs in the plug. I guess I will take the units apart and get a look at the LCD screens, see if they are interchangeable.
Any advice from here?
Any advice from here?
05-01-20 | 02:11 PM
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Well I bought the used eBay replacement stereo that someone here pointed me at and I have removed the old unit and installed the other but it has one different plug; different shape and different prongs in the plug. I guess I will take the units apart and get a look at the LCD screens, see if they are interchangeable.
Any advice from here?
Any advice from here?
In staying (mostly) stock, here's your other option with that newer unit you're getting for parts... This person installed a 2001 radio in a '97. Clearly more work than the panel swap plan : - ).
If that won't work out, your radio came with the connector from a newer car, so follow the guide that BMeek posted for the pinout, and this guide on how to take connectors apart, so that you won't have to cut your old wiring. If that is also not it, just return the radio.
Hope this helps and best of luck!
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