Playing DVDs on the move.
11-01-06, 05:17 PM
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Playing DVDs on the move.
The LX470 will play DVDs if it's parked and the parking brake is on, from the factory. With a little modification, it will do it all the time.
This information provided, of course, is for off road and car show use only
Remove head unit, unplug wire harnesses.
Depending on your harnesses, find two wires:
1) Find the red/white wire (parking break). This is a thin red wire with a white strip down the length of it. Strip this wire and ground it.
2) Find the violet (bluish-pink) with dashes on it. Simply cut this wire. THE BRIGHT PINK WIRE TWISTED WITH A BLUE WIRE IS THE WRONG "VIOLET".
Put the head unit back in.
This information provided, of course, is for off road and car show use only
Remove head unit, unplug wire harnesses.
Depending on your harnesses, find two wires:
1) Find the red/white wire (parking break). This is a thin red wire with a white strip down the length of it. Strip this wire and ground it.
2) Find the violet (bluish-pink) with dashes on it. Simply cut this wire. THE BRIGHT PINK WIRE TWISTED WITH A BLUE WIRE IS THE WRONG "VIOLET".
Put the head unit back in.
11-01-06, 07:27 PM
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WOW that is complicated
no I mean how do you get to the lines
you have to take theplastic cover off you know
no I mean how do you get to the lines
you have to take theplastic cover off you know
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11-02-06, 09:37 AM
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Sorry, 1LoudLX/Jim/aedington/etc, not everyone are that savvy mechanically like you guys.... I tend to give my truck to the stealership for any work I need done. But I suspect they won't do this mod for me, so thankfully, my truck came with the Lexus DVD roof-mount drop down screen. So the kids can watch movies/TV if they so choose, while I can concentrate on driving
11-02-06, 12:19 PM
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The center console is held in by tension fasteners. You slowly pry it out w/ a flat head screwdriver a little at a time, going around and around, bit by bit. If this is a mod you want to do, I'd also suggest wrapping electrical tape around your screw driver to keep it from damaging any of the wood or dash.
11-02-06, 12:27 PM
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oh ok. Yeah just be careful guys when you pry everything off. Ya dont want to break any of the clips off. Dont force anything just work it gently and it should come off.
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11-06-06, 02:57 PM
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The non-invasive method (no mods needed) on my 03 is, with the vehicle stopped and engine on:
1) Select Menu, then Dvd button to the right
2) Now press the upper left corner, lower left, upper left, lower left, lower right corner (no visible buttons) in that exact sequence. A diagnostic blue screen appears.
3) Press the "override" button and hold for a few seconds until it turns green.
4) Press the "back" button. Now you should be able to enter destinations and watch dvd's. It resets to the default when you turn off the engine.
You can also press the "GPS" button to read your position in lat/long and see what satellites you're receiving and their azimuth and elevation coordinates. Sorry, no altitude data. You'd have to work through the math and triangulate the satellites, and I'm not sure what kind of altitude this gives you, whether it's HAE [height above ellipsoid], MSL, etc. :-) Anyways, the lat/long is useful offroad if you have a national forest topo, as most of those rural roads are not on the navi dvd.
There is a slightly different method on the gen-4 nav. I think it was posted on this board some months back.
1) Select Menu, then Dvd button to the right
2) Now press the upper left corner, lower left, upper left, lower left, lower right corner (no visible buttons) in that exact sequence. A diagnostic blue screen appears.
3) Press the "override" button and hold for a few seconds until it turns green.
4) Press the "back" button. Now you should be able to enter destinations and watch dvd's. It resets to the default when you turn off the engine.
You can also press the "GPS" button to read your position in lat/long and see what satellites you're receiving and their azimuth and elevation coordinates. Sorry, no altitude data. You'd have to work through the math and triangulate the satellites, and I'm not sure what kind of altitude this gives you, whether it's HAE [height above ellipsoid], MSL, etc. :-) Anyways, the lat/long is useful offroad if you have a national forest topo, as most of those rural roads are not on the navi dvd.
There is a slightly different method on the gen-4 nav. I think it was posted on this board some months back.
11-06-06, 03:39 PM
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i feel like going and test driving a car right now just to make the salesman go, what the heck? When i override the nav system. LOL. Jim, how much was the FSM...you know too many random things, i gota read up.
11-08-06, 06:57 AM
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This trick is not in the factory manuals. The manuals don't cover the navi unit other than how to remove/install it from the dash. Someone who had lots of time on his hands figured it out and passed on the knowledge.
