iDoing 10.2" CarPlay Head Unit: Toyota Highlander 2013–2018 Beginner-Friendly Install

0:00All right.

0:01All.

0:03All right, we have the iDoing right here.

0:19Awesome car.

0:21We also have today, it's the Toyota.

0:23What car is this again?

0:27Highlander, what year?

0:3014.

0:3114.

0:32Looking all good.

0:33Check this out.

0:34We got the

0:35the new head unit coming in from, we already did the unboxing, making sure everything looks good.

0:40Woo!

0:41Wait, look how the difference in the screen.

0:44You can definitely tell this one looks like a Nintendo DS.

0:48It looks like it's not like an iPhone kind of touch screen, it's just like one of those old

0:52school, you know what I'm talking about, it feels plasticky.

0:58This one's actually glass, but it has a little screen protector on it right now, but man the

1:03difference is staggering.

1:04So today we're going to be doing an install on the 2014 Highlander.

1:09I really like this car, it's still modern, so nice.

1:12The owner right there wants wants to get Apple CarPlay going and wants to make sure everything looks

1:19good.

1:20So we're going to do that today.

1:21Check it out.

1:22All right, so I already had it pre-loosened, but what I used is I got used this to this tool

1:27right here guys, and I started right here and I pride it at the very corner.

1:39I pulled it here, pulled it here, and sometimes you need a little bit more leverage, so I have

1:43this plastic pry tool, and I hit this angle right here.

1:47It's all held by clips, so I'll show you these clips that gave me the most trouble.

1:51This very corner, it's just a straight clip, so when you're pulling it, try's try

1:54to pull it towards you.

1:56Don't try to pull it it an an angle or anything, but pulling towards you is the way to go.

2:02After that you're going to have unplug these harnesses right here, this is for the

2:07climate control.

2:08The reason why we're doing this is just so we have more leverage, and when we're moving

2:13this out and just more space, so

2:15you should be able to just push this clip right here and pull it out.

2:19Same with this, push this clip out and pull it out.

2:26All right for this one

2:30at the very bottom, and push it towards

2:34the car, so push it down and then the whole thing will come off.

2:38So now your climate control, your hazard switch, everything, is good to go

2:42rounds. This is actually not a plug apparently, it's just a holder,

2:46like a just to the cords and let's get that out of the way.

2:50Now after that you're going to reveal

2:53these 10mm and we're going to have to unscrew these 10mm.

2:56so let me get the 10 mil. Alright so we're going to the 10 I'm just using this here but you can

3:04just use a regular ratchet now put this in the cup holder that way you don't lose it so we've got

3:11the bottom part now we're going to hit the top part after you get these two down so you're not

3:17shouldn't be able to pull it up and I will show you how to remove the top. Alright so for this

3:24trim piece right here you can just pop it up by just pulling it now. The reason why

3:28we're doing that is we're trying to get access to we're trying to pop this this

3:32vent out and you you don't have to really take this whole thing out if you want

3:36it just pulls out it's just being held' held by clips and that just gives access to

3:41these vents out boom vent is out how awesome is that very modular and then

3:48you want to pop this vent out too now it's being held by hooks

3:53All right so to remove this it also just pulls out I use this little clip tool and

4:02I hit it from here I use this to kind of like pry it and you can see it that's

4:07gonna help you. Now what that does is it reveals the 10mm right here and then it

4:16removes 10mm on the other side and that should be enough to remove the

4:20and we can put the new one in and that's gonna be the hardest part

4:23Now my tool does fit in of here. Boom! A-10 and then this. Make sure you don't drop

4:40it into the abyss. Happens all the time. And now I should be able to just pull the

4:45head unit. Boom! It's usually always held by four. Now there's gonna be a bunch

4:51of wires in the back. And we're gonna unplug all of them. One, two. Two. Now this thing's

4:56is heavy. I don't know why it's so heavy, but it is.

5:01The Android one isn't as heavy

5:04There is going to be some weight reduction, you know your car is going to be a little

5:09faster.

5:10Shave a few pounds, wow this thing has so many plugs, a lot of plugs which is interesting.

5:23I know you guys can't see but I'm just, I'm plugging it you just try to pry it.

5:30Each plug is a- little bit different.

5:33AC control unit you just want

6:25already plugged in to each other

6:58iDoing is the only company that does this where it has the ports the main ports already built in

7:05which is super nice we're going to be able to plug it in here.

7:11So I'm at you like Legos, there's the 2018 this one is going to be a radio

7:20which there's an adapter for so let's not worry about that.

7:30There's the main wires right here.

7:31This is the 10 pins, so if you count them,

7:35, you're going to count 10 pins

7:38If you want to plug that in to this bad boy too, which is at the very bottom, this is the 8 pin, which

7:55goes right below it, or right next to it side by side, so we've plugged in 3 plugs so far in.

8:08this is for your USB so we'll check out that adapters later. And this one doesn't fit into

8:15anything here. Now looking at this, this looks like it's the aux cord or the reverse camera. I,

8:21I'm going to have to look into more detail with that. But the bag also has more wires. Wires.

8:25This is not all the plugs. Alright, so the next thing we want to do is we,

8:37You're going to have a little bit more harnesses here and we're just going to plug this bad boy in to the right spot

8:45I'm plugging in

8:47It will show you a diagram on where to plug it in and this one's not to tell you to plug this on

8:54The torch not on the back of the of the head unit. So it's really

9:07are covered besides these antennas. So this is for XM radios. Now we're not

9:14going to use XM radios anymore so unfortunately we're not going to retain

9:17that. And then this one's for FM which we can retain. I will show you the

9:24adapter. So here's the adapter for the FM. It's orange and black. We're

9:30going to plug that bad boy right in, in here. So it looks like that, and now

9:37which is right here so we're almost plugging everything's almost plugged in

9:44that was originally plugged into the old unit this was the AC control so we

9:50don't need that and these are the the wires now there's one thing that we

9:54haven't pluggeded in yet either spew it's going to be this gray one right here this one is your

10:00USB, which iDoing actually provide a, adapter. So you'll be able to use your USB, either under

10:09here or under here. You're going to be able to use the stock location USB, which is great.

10:15Plug that in. And then this end, we're going to have to put an adapter in. I'll show you

10:22how to do that. And now this is like the brains to communicate with the Toyota. And that

10:28is going to go right here.

10:29right next to this iDoing sticker boom so we got that plugged in now we do

10:38have an extra one now that's why I have the back of camera and stuff

10:41like that or not it's just redundancy because other does change it over the years

10:47which is great that they have that area covered now I want to plug in the

10:53USBs and I'll show you how to do that. So a huge bag with stuff right now. I need to

11:00plug that in so let's get a reverse camera which I'm gonna plug in as well and it

11:06also has little sticker which I'm gonna plug it in and it also

11:09also has your Wi-Fi antenna too. So this is gonna be very bottom left by

11:15FM AM radio. And then you see this orange wire right here?

11:27You want to

11:28to use that orange wire to hook up with that FM radio so then you

11:32have a boost signal. If you don't plug this in it will still work but

11:37your radio signal will be weaker so you want to have this orange wire plugged in

11:41right there. Let me see if I can move it down so you can see a little bit more of the

11:46So we have that plugged in and we have keys and stuff like that, which we don't have to worry about right now.

11:52Reverse signal, amp controls, there's some additional stuff.

11:56We don't need to worry about, I just need to get the FM, not the FM, at USB, so we can test the USB.

12:03So that USB one that comes to the adapter with the green tip, with the gray one right there,

12:09plug it into the Type A plug.

12:13Yeah, make the right way, make sure it's the right way because, you know, the USB, the old school one, it

12:19only goes in one way.

12:21I'm going to use this purple wire right here to plug in, this is a four pin and there's

12:28a four pin right here.

12:31So I'm gonna pan over real quick, and I'll show you guys the wiring that I have initially so everything's plugged in

12:40Let's go over real quick because it is a little little confusing 10-pin 6-pin 28-pin

12:47I have this. This black wire hanging from

12:49This back and it's going into this other harness. I don't know how many pins that one is and that pretty much covers everything

12:57thing. This one's the USB. This gray to green. This wire that I'm holding right

13:03here and I'm shaking around. That is for your radio. This is your CAN bus. So it

13:08talks about, it gives you basically car information. You want to have that.

13:13Antenna. And stuff like that is plugged into this corner. USBs and FM/AM radio.

13:20These are GPS antennas and the 4Gs. I'm not gonna have this installed

13:25right now. I just want to make sure the head unit works before I add everything.

13:29So let's kind of get this oriented in a nice fashion. It's probably going to sit right here.

13:39Whoa, the screen is so much bigger. Just kind of fish it back there. Make sure things fit.

13:48We don't even know if it fits properly yet because it looks like it does.

13:52And then we're going to have it like some, which is going to have it loosely placed in

13:59just to give you an idea on the fitment goes up top looks like it's going to be flush.

14:27The clock, everything works right now, and the head unit is on.

14:32Okay, so the reverse camera is working,, we don don't do anything extra.

14:38We just turned the car on and we put it in reverse.

14:41I just want to show you guys that you can put it in park again.

14:45It will go back to your car play.

14:48When you throw it in reverse it triggers

15:00like move the steering wheel and stuff does it show okay so it doesn't it doesn't move with the

15:07the lines but the lines are at least you have the camera right there with like extra lines

15:11some cars will have the trajectory show depending on the steering wheel input but

15:16yeah that's just what we wanted to show right there great things are good it is blown up so

15:22it diss a bigger picture I

15:23The quality is okay, I don't know how the quality is normally is, but from my experience

15:29the quality just looks okay, but it is on the bigger screen so it's a

16:23It's not going to

17:15So it's called like offline, but it's connected to the satellites

17:19Now the car actually has a built in gps

17:23Like maps, but it's not as good as Apple Maps ways or carplay or Google Maps

17:30So you generally don't want to need to use it

17:33But I the reason why install is maybe your phones dead or you lost your phone in your loss

17:37So you want to use this as like a last resort use the GPS on your car navigation system makes sense

17:45So it's just held by a magnet and I just put it right there. Some people put it on the very top, but honestly, it looks pretty ugly and it's harder to install.

17:53So if you want to do that, you can do that, but I usually, just put it here. And I generally, generally get signal below right there too.

18:01I like things to be reversible and very easy to install later on. So here, here's the USB's, I'm going to plug

18:09the USB here and all this stuff is

18:16labeled on the bottom too if you want

18:17you're like so which one is the USBs you

18:19can check the bottom of the head unit

18:21it will show a a wiring diagram which is

18:24nice so check this out worry during

18:28your answer but for me I I know

18:39Plugged it in, now we have extra USBs.

18:45So we already have a USB coming through here,

18:47but is it cool if I open this door?

18:50Yeah, go ahead.

18:51Not the nesco, but.

19:15I'll be able to wire it. So we're gonna fish it, and have

19:24at the very bottom, but I can't really show that because it's actually really tight right now, but yeah, we'll have as an option if you don't want the USBs right there, we'll find a different solution.

19:33Okay, and then let's go through the other wires here.

19:36So we went through all the wires for that.

19:41The rest of the wires are these ones right here.

19:43a Wi-Fi one, the other one had amp controls and reverse so you want to plug this blue one in

19:54that way you have a better Wi- I signal you about better Wi-Fi signal that means

20:03this microphone again the last wire that week we are talking

20:08about is this one right here. This one is if you want to have a subwoofer- or you

20:11want to use RCA jacks out so you have subwoofer, right there- check that out.

20:15You got some other stuff and we're not going to use that aux to.

20:19right there we're not going to use it. You can plug it in but again I

20:24try to keep the setup as clean as possible. You look at it right now and

20:29it looks like a rat's nest so you don't want to like add to that. But yeah that's

20:33It's pretty much it, we have everything plugged in.

20:36Now we have we have to do everything in reverse

20:39and I I'll show you the finished product.

20:44Put the USB's right here, circles it around.

20:51Now, now the

21:03So, you see this yellow clip right here, the new one

21:09one doesn't have that, it just has the black part so you want to transfer it over.

21:16So slowly peel like this and then it comes out and you want to put it right here.

21:24It just goes in the same spot.

21:25That way it will actually latch on pretty tight.

21:29with this right here now some people ask do we reuse these mounting holes generally you

21:30right here

21:32Now some people ask

21:34Do we reuse these mounting holes??

21:38Generally you can't use the mounting so the 10 mils and stuff like that. We're not gonna reuse

21:44Now I'm taking this part out

21:46But if you want to have it really secure you can you could find a way, this is just like a

21:51a double DIN setup and

21:55Yeah, we just don't use tha

21:58All right, so old head unit

22:09just going to slide it back in, kind of tuck

22:12it's actually a pretty clean install because I don't have to use any electric

22:16tape or nothing like like that which is just great it's just great and spot those

22:27clips it's gonna be like public that some pressure so let's see if we

22:30Some pressure

22:39Let's pop it out a little bit. Now we're gonna put these vents in

23:15Now

23:18Looks really good. The fitment is I

23:22Would say like 99 percent there

23:25it's I don't remember how the OEM one looks and I'm not sure if the OEM was a hundred percent either but

23:32for the aftermarket head unit, I don't think you can complain like that looks pretty good and

23:39I'm gonna plug this in right here

23:41That's the last piece. This is just a like a zip tie

23:46So let's just put that in and then you have the actual wire itself that controls the AC unit

23:51Now we're gonna this basically looks like a

23:592022 Highlander it's a massive screen and it still has a little thing and if the if mama

24:08Wants to take it out then you can but you know my parents we put we put a plastic wrapper on our remote controls

24:14I didn't even notice that

24:16So we'll leave it there just in case

24:20But yeah, but let's start it up make sure everything works

24:23We've got the AC working great

24:29This is going so it basically goes the last menu. We're working on and we're working on and sterile

24:48I'm not sure the range. I'll put it in the description

24:52Really happy, happy with this install. It was very easy and yeah, I actually enjoyed it, it was kind of it was a lot of fun

24:57And this is more out of all the insults I've done

25:00This was probably on the easier side of it. So if you guys don't it's not very intimidating. It's what I'm trying to say

25:06waukee as we're watching. I'll catch you guys the next one. See ya