Lexus IS 350 / IS 250 2006–2012: iDoing Wireless CarPlay & Android Auto Head Unit Install

0:01One is your boy John today. We're gonna do a Lexus. This is my first Lexus. Lexus is 350

0:32believes, believes a 2006. Now, this is how the interior looks right there. Boom. You can

0:39see the head unit. Now, this head unit actually, it doesn't work anymore from the factory.

0:44screen to stop displaying so we're gonna upgrade it to the iDoing head unit

0:48and stick around I'll show you how to remove and install that is

0:51and install

0:52Nice

0:54So you can try this up a little bit with your finger and

1:29uh-huh

1:35Oh, yeah, you can kind of see it

1:37Go so you have to pull those down wheels down

1:39I think it gets stuck it stuck down, but this one the dealer broke mine. So it don't stay down

1:45But they replaced my dash you know, uh, then now I gotta hold it and uh somehow

1:50Yank it out because you know

1:53Get locked up. Oh nice

1:56I just use this hook

2:04Very cool. Oh yeah, there's two 10s right there.

2:14Two 10s on top, two 10s on the bottom. So it's a little more towards the inside.

2:30I broke it loose it gives you more room to work the side to use my key

2:44just push it down man

2:54just push it down man

3:06Rain pull and hopefully nothing

3:11Do that's a big boy

3:22All right, so this is the iDoing head unit obviously

3:27We just removed the OEM one right there now you're gonna have to take out a lot of those screws

3:34So you can mount this one onto the new bracket

3:38Now before we do that I think we should test fit it make sure everything works

3:42before we do all that work. So it's gonna probably sit something like this right

3:48here you can kind of see the basic shape. It's gonna have good fit mint.

3:54All right so we didn't record us taking the bracket off because that was a

4:00little bit confusing at first. So you just pretty much unscrew this one this

4:07one this one and these two and maybe there's a basically you remove all the

4:12ones that are hanging up to the bracket and you pop that off right there do it

4:16to both sides and then after that you to remove the original head unit from the...

4:24CD player you just push it you push it towards the car so you see we're at

4:28where we were doing that you just push it straight out and you can see

4:31tabs and it actually requires some force so you gotta push it and you gotta pray

4:36those clips don't break because you know the older the car gets plastic is a

4:40little brittle but you can see how the clips are so you want to push it

4:44ideally lift it up a little bit and then push it that way you can clear these

4:48little notches right there but after that we can take the we're gonna need

4:54this so we need some audio on the new one now I'll show you how everything

4:59those hooked up right now.

5:00We have some plugs in right now, but we want to just go through everything before we show

5:05it off.

5:06Alright guys, so we actually got it to work, AC works, reverse camera, the audio, everything

5:14works and let me tell you how, because this Lexus unit is not easy to read, it looks

5:21like a rat's nest and let the let me try to break it down for you.

5:25Now we have one wire right here. this basically nothing these are plugged in

5:30and

5:31this of,

5:32this is called this cable called the back video and this one called cam so that gives you the

5:38reverse camera all right now this wire right here controls all the audio functions so

5:55why it's so crazy is because it has to use the bottom half of the Lexus and

6:00therefore it's gonna need a lot of Y splitting kind of things to get audio

6:06off of the aux channel so you plug that in and let's just see what's plugging

6:12from the back because it probably make more sense from the this side right

6:15here so you have this big harness this one is for your tire pressure which

6:20we're going to plug in this one now this is a lot of wire and that's it then you see

6:45these big wires right here from the bottom you want to plug basically we have three wires

6:55coming out of these plugs right here. I know it's kind of hard to read, but trust me, it

6:59is really difficult for me to explain it because there's so much stuff going on. But you have

7:25clearance to show you and plug it in. So that one plugs into the bottom of the CD port.

7:30of the head unit and after you plug all that in there is one more thing you need

7:35to look for there's this CAN bus now this will give you stereo controls this

7:40will give you display when it comes to your climate control and so when you hit

7:44the climate control it shows up on the Android head unit so there's that so

7:45plug in each end right there boom and boom and then yeah you plug it you

7:54plug those last two Y-splittings right there as far as what's coming out of

7:59this one this one is your Wi-Fi antenna so we have it right there and then we

8:03have this plugged in but nothing is actually

8:06plugged into here it's just like this lastly the only thing that we really

8:14need to do talk about left is there is if you don't get reverse signal so when

8:19you throw your car in reverse and it does not work we have an OBD2 plug

8:23that is included so you'll see this black wire here we have it plugged in

8:30with two pins. Then you plug that into the bottom of your car and these two pins will

8:39give you reverse trigger which will turnp your car into reverse mode when you throw this

8:45into reverse, activating your camera and it works. We're glad that's there. The only

8:53thing we're going to add is we're going to screw on a GPS antenna just in case we

8:59want to use the built-in for whatever reason, but we have that and you just, you

9:06just pretty much screwed up this on right here and we're set. So that's it when it

9:16comes to wiring I know it is very confusing but let me tell you that how

9:21we did it and how we pretty much went through it. We pretty much just kind

9:25of plug in as much things as possible and that

9:29That the head unit works, but those are the key wires you need to plug in. Reverse camera, audio,

9:36and then you have to marry it to the bottom of the head unit to get it to work. And we

9:41have every functionality working. Alright everyone, this is the full install of the

9:47head unit. You want to put these trim pieces back on and make it look a little pretty.

9:52Alright everyone, we are done with the Android head unit for the Lexus IS 350 2006. Now,

9:57Now, when it comes to the color finish...

10:00right here, it looks like it matches close enough.,

10:03you can see there is not a perfect match,

10:05maybe because this the great overtime

10:06or just the color match isn't,

10:08but honestly it's not an eyesore,

10:10it's not like a black matte trim or anything

10:12like you would see normally.

10:13Now, when it comes to the top fit mitt right here,

10:17we did have a little issue right here.

10:19You can see how there's a, it's not terrible,

10:21but it's not like super mount flush right here.

10:25It's flush on every other corner

10:26besides that trim piece.

10:27I think maybe we could the,

10:29trim piece out a little bit more, but that's how it looks like right there let's

10:34see when you open the door it says the door open on both sides which is great

10:39it has, it has that CAN bus information, hazards, you don't know if you guys can see that or hear it

10:44it's clicking, it's turning on, we have the climate control too, you can move

10:52this up and down, right now it's on Celsius, I think in the settings you

10:55can change it, there's so so many things when it comes to the Android

10:57where you can change and I don't know if you can hear that or feel it, of course, of course you can't feel, but it's

11:04blowing cold, AC is working great. Did you want to demonstrate that? Reverse camera, boom! Reverse

11:11camera is working straight out of the box so you can put it in park and volume up and down on

11:17the steering wheel controls, boom! So that all the CAN bus, all the data stuff

11:22stuff is working. In terms of wireless and connectivity it does have Apple Car Play Wireless

11:28and Android Auto Wireless. Right now we're using a OnePlus 8 Pro or 9 Pro, the OnePlus 9 Pro

11:37and it's working wirelessly. Android Auto it's beautiful. If you guys haven't seen how

11:43this is how Android Auto looks like on that. You have your Maps, if you install Waze.

11:49So any application you install on your phone will show up here.

11:51So if you had ways on his phone or teams or other applications, it'll show up here.

11:57So Pandora, Spotify will all be displayed here.

12:02And here's just the iDoing interface.

12:04You can't swipe or left the app drawers right here.

12:06You can go through apps.

12:08So we had car link.

12:09That's where Android Auto lives and Apple CarPlay.

12:12You have other settings right here.

12:15And let me just go over some of the unique features about this head unit.

12:18it still retains the CD player you can actually still use the CD player if you

12:25go into this settings and it will work through this interface so it's

12:30You can actually see the tracks moving, and see the tuning knob works right here, so, which

12:40is interesting.

12:41So right now in this car, you have two tuning knobs.

12:44You have this one right here, and then you also have this one right here.

12:47So depends on what you address, because now it's kind of like separated, but it's

12:50built in, so it's a little bit of confusing.

12:53But yeah, you have two tuning knobs now, or volume knobs.

12:58As far as other settings go, let me just go over the system settings if you guys are interested

13:02in seeing the device info.

13:04That's some barcode stuff about the device.

13:0910. This one is using CPU and 8 core CPU which is it's fast snappy and yeah Bluetooth the

13:16latest Bluetooth and pretty much there's a lot of there's a lot of information on

13:22this in terms of all these things you can do can you actually turn on your

13:28headlights to see if it changes dims so when you turn on your headlights did you

13:32notice how the screen dims a little bit you might the camera but it does show

13:35here and then these lights right here light a up and you can adjust that

13:40set these settings right here and right here so if you want to be it to be red

13:43white-green I don't know the Lexus colors but generally you can

13:48it to fit anything you want when it comes to mute so when

13:54he threw it in reverse it actually mutes the audio in the general

13:57settings you can turn that off because some people want to throw it

13:59in reverse and not have their music lowered that's up to you but

14:03It's there if you need it. There's a lot

14:26the most time consuming part of this adventure we're still gonna leave the

14:30screen protector just so we can mess with the alignment a little bit more and

14:35a other than that that's it thank you guys for watching if you guys were

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