Hi there. My name is Nils with LRN2DIY and in this video,
I'll be showing you how to replace the stereo in your 2014 to 2021 Toyota
Tundra. Now,
the reason I decided to do this DIY video is because I called around to some car
stereo shops and the prices I was getting quoted were anywhere from $825 to
$1,000 dollars to have a similar setup to what I've got here.
I actually installed all of this for $313 out the door.
That's including everything, which is obviously a much better deal.
If you buy everything brand new and just kind of go with the stock options for
all of this, to get a nice set, you're looking at about $650 to do this.
So you're going to save anywhere from 200 to 400 or more dollars,
depending on what kinds of deals you get. Now, I have never done this before.
I have not installed a stereo, especially nothing quite like this.
And it's not something that you can do in an hour if you've never done it
before,
but it is something that you can work through and you can have a DIY version
that comes out crisp, professional and looks really good.
So I've got links in the description below for everything that I used as well as
some alternate options.
So you might want to check those out and I would recommend that you check out
eBay or check out your local classifieds.
The reason I paid $313 is because I got some of the stuff on Amazon,
some on eBay and some from a friend who got me a really good discount on the
stereo. To take it out, it's actually really simple. There's just a few steps.
I highly recommend that you disconnect the power from your battery first,
just to prevent any issues. Next,
we're going to take this shifter and just remove it like this.
Okay?
Once that's off, we're going to get back here.
If you have some pry bars like this, these are actually a really cheap kit.
I'll put a link in the description below if you need to get a kit like this,
but I'm going to take one of these pry bars and start to pry this part right
here, away.
There we go. Okay.
With that loose, we can pull this whole console out.
Now with the center piece out of the way, if you pop open your plugs here,
you can actually just carefully grab underneath here and just pull this whole
piece right out. It's going to be connected by some wires.
We'll just leave those in place.
And with that out of the way we can reach underneath here from the center.
and kind of just pull that whole piece right out too.
It's up to you if you want to remove this,
I'm just going to take this off for now and just set this aside for now.
And now we have access to the bottom of the stereo. So here, underneath,
there are four bolts that you're going to need to remove.
There's one here and one opposite here on the other side.
And then in the back behind it, you can kind of see back there.
There's another one and same on the other side. So to remove this,
I'm going to use a 10 millimeter driver and I've got a six inch extender on
there. Take these out.
That one doesn't come out.
So I'm just going to see if I can grab it with my fingers.
And if you can't get these all the way out these back ones,
then you can actually still remove the stereo and then they'll just kind of fall
out. I'd rather pull it out if I can.
There we go. I think I got it.
All right. I'll leave that one in for the moment.
Or this one.
You can see everything kind of got loose there. Now with those four removed,
you can just pull the whole thing straight back toward you.
There we go.
There goes that last one that I mentioned. So with the stereo pulled out,
we're going to remove anything that's connected to the vehicle itself,
basically. So that's that one, that one.
And they're all pretty easy. Just push the pins and pull them out. Okay.
And then lastly, this bottom one here.
Pushing the pin out and there goes the old stereo,
good riddance. With the old stereo out.
We're ready to go ahead and put the new one in place.
And unfortunately it's not a simple plug and play thing,
but there are some kits that will make your life a lot easier. Now,
be sure to check the links in the description below I went through and did the
research on everything that you're going to need to do this.
And I will put links to those things as well as some alternatives that you can
check out so you can get the best deal possible on this. And for this one,
we're going to use the iDataLink Maestro RR.
This is basically a universal adapter that allows you to put an aftermarket
stereo into your factory slot here.
And then to make that personalized basically or custom for the Toyota for 2014
and up for these Tundras, we've got the T0 or TO2 here,
and that's going to make it so that your steering wheel controls work.
It'll connect with your cameras. Um,
it'll give you a few extra options like speedometer info and things like that as
well that you don't actually get with the factory radio. In addition,
there are a couple more pieces that you're going to need some adapters and some
wiring to connect USB. Um,
and then we've got the actual face plate here and this one matches really well.
So it'll look really slick up there when it's all done.
And then last and perhaps most importantly is the actual stereo unit.
Once I unboxed all of the adapters and had everything ready to go,
I then had to flash the firmware onto this little Maestro here.
And it's pretty slick.
There's actually a little link right on the back here that you can go to and
then you can flash it for your specific vehicle.
It'll give you download instructions and everything.
You need to use that alongside the specific adapter kit that you purchase.
So now that that's done,
I was actually able to print out the wiring diagram and you look at this and you
think my goodness, this is a bit overwhelming,
but it walks you through step-by-step each of the pieces and parts, uh,
what goes together and then it gives you the actual step-by-step instructions
here as well. So I've got all those ready to go.
And now it's just a matter of getting everything connected and connecting A to B
and B to C. So the first step,
and maybe the most intimidating one is really just getting all of your wires
connected and finding out which wires from your factory set go to which
wires on your adapter kit. So basically I've got two sets here. This,
the one that came with the new stereo and then this other big bundle here in my
other hand is the one that came with the Maestro. This is the RR kit.
And so there's this whole mess of wires here and everything.
And I'm just using this diagram to go through wire by wire and say which one is
which, and then what I do is I just snip the end of one of the wires.
So let's say, for example, if I had one of these wires here,
I would just use my wire snips to snip off and expose a little bit of the wire,
maybe about a half inch or three quarters of an inch,
and then match it up on the harness here.
The one with the Maestro and those ones are already pre cut.
And then I just take a bit of electrical tape, maybe an inch and a half,
cut it with some scissors,
wrap it up nice and tight and make sure it's secure and not going anywhere.
And then move on to the next wire. So I've gone through,
and I've already done this whole section here, step one.
And now I'm about to hook up the reverse cam now to connect the backup camera on
the Tundra. There's a few pieces that need to go together. Uh,
this set here comes with the Maestro RR,
or actually I believe this comes with the TO2 kit.
So you've got a big white plug here, a little black one,
and a yellow RCA down there and it's labeled backup camera.
And so coming out of the universal adapter for the Maestro,
there's this little black one, which is closest to the three big harnesses.
So one plugs in there like so,
and then this one plugs into the reverse camera and there's only one that it
fits, which is nice.
And so it looks like it'll go this way and that'll plug right in here from the
truck itself. So now that we've got steps one and two done,
step three is to go ahead and connect the three harnesses to the factory stuff.
And again, they all kind of have their matching parts. So they'll click in.
There we go. That one's in. And then this one looks to go this way,
clicks in. And then lastly, this one goes this way.
Okay. So I've got one, two, three hooked up, got the reverse camera hooked up.
OK, next up on mine at least is for step four.
We're going to unplug the black 2 Pin connector.
This is already connected here in the TO2 so I'm going to remove that.
Then I'm going to take this little OBD II connector,
which has a little black 2 Pin connection and plug that where I had just
unplugged the other one. So right in here, like so.
Okay.
Then we're going to plug the white 2 Pin connector into the OBD II harness.
So that one is right down here. So white to white,
just like that. And then lastly,
we connect the OBD II to the vehicle itself,
and that's actually down here underneath.
Now for the other end of the ODB II cable,
we're going to need to connect that into the ODB II port here on the Tundra.
It's down here by your pedals. And it's got a pretty unique shape here,
as you can see. So I'm just going to, oops,
just going to plug that right into the port here
and it snaps in, and then I'm going to try to run this wire,
tuck it up underneath.
So it's out of the way and run it all the way along,
up towards the stereo.
So now we're ready to connect everything to the back of the new stereo unit.
And this part actually goes pretty quickly.
So we've got the main harness that we've already done all the wiring for.
So we're going to plug that in here. Make sure that's in secure,
not insecure, but in securely. You know what I'm saying. Okay,
next we're going to hookup our backup camera and we have one here that's called
a rear view camera. So I'm going to plug that in here. Then after that,
we've got, let's see, several more here. So we've got, uh,
the speakers themselves. So we should have a white and a gray.
And on this one, I'm really curious about this one,
because it only has a connection for front. This is an amplified system.
So hopefully that will still work out,
but I want to make sure we still have rear and front fade.
And according to this, the RCA input for the left is the white one.
So I'm going to put that over here, white to white there,
and then the gray goes in the red and it's marked right on the back of the unit
here left and right. Okay. Um, with those in, let's see next,
we've got our audio video in and I've got a whole set
of audio and video. I'm not going to be putting any video inputs into here.
So I've purchased this aftermarket, um, RCA to headphone jack,
the eighth inch jack.
So I'm just going to wire these in here and we'll skip the yellow,
which is the video, just the silver to white, red to red.
And then that goes in AV In here. All right.
We've also got to connect the USB extenders here where we can do some,
uh, plugging in of the iPhones or Androids. All right.
So here's the Maestro and we've got a few connectors down here
that all need to go into it. All right. So we've got the, on the one side,
we've got the green connector
And then next to it, uh, let's see right there.
We've got the three pin black.
Okay. And then on the opposite side,
we've got our larger data data pin harness here.
Okay. That goes in.
Then we have the data cable that runs from in between the Maestro and the
stereo. That one plugs in there, the four pin.
And then there's a spot for that right here on the back of the stereo.
The one last piece that we could do, I'm going to see if this works without it,
but there is a microphone. Now,
there's already a microphone in the truck. Um,
I can take hands-free calls already.
So I'd prefer not to have to do this and run a new wire and everything,
but I do have the option here to plug in this microphone
and then connect this onto my visor, for example. So,
and then my next step is to put the battery, connect the battery,
back up to the truck.
I'm going to power everything on and then just test it out.
So before we put anything back,
we want to test it and make sure everything's working as expected.
And then if it looks good, we'll put it all back together.
Okay. We've got power to the unit.
Maestro's blinking... JVC.
All right, here we go.
Okay.
We've got some good news.
I have turned it on and everything is connected and it's working awesome.
So we've got great audio and it actually has the full fade and it
has all the, this particular stereo has all kinds of really cool features.
So this is really nice. Um, I've got my music playing here.
(Music Playing).
Okay. So that works really well.
And then right now this is another feature I love about this.
This is completely wireless. So it's doing a wireless, uh,
Apple CarPlay from here, which is super cool.
It's basically connecting to the wifi that the stereo is outputting.
So that is really nice just to not have to connect to any wires,
get in and then have it mirror everything. So very nice there. Okay.
I want to take just a moment and talk about wiring solutions.
There were quite a few that I was able to come up with, um,
in this particular scenario here. So number one,
I needed a way to get the OBD II port
to come from underneath here,
where it connects under the steering wheel by the pedals and come through here.
So I've got kind of a makeshift way, and this is the one I'm least happy with,
but most of these came out pretty good.
So I got a forstner bit here and I drilled a three quarter inch hole through
the underside,
basically the top of where the USB ports and the cigarette cigarette lighters
are. And so that way you can't really see it.
It's nothing you'll ever be able to see unless you get down and look under like
this. So it's really out of the way, which is nice.
And then I also use that same one to feed through my USB extensions.
So these are coming up through here, along with the ODB II port. Um,
they're going all the way down through here.
They come through this section right here and then they go, um,
down... Yeah, here's the other one, so all three of these.
And then they go down through, out this way and then out to this, uh,
out this little hole right here.
So that's where a lot of this stuff got taken care of.
Another one that I ended up doing was I drilled a half inch hole right through
here. And I found that half inch drill bit is perfect for fitting this little
microphone in here that comes with the stereo.
So you want to double check that with your stereo.
But all I had to do is snap off the little ring that holds the clip on.
So there's a little ball joint that connects into this clip.
And I just snap that off because I'm not going to use it, uh,
push that through here. And it looks really slick.
There's really nothing to see, which is good. So it's in a great direction. Uh,
it works for both the passenger and the driver to speak into it.
And that's good. That's it. So all the wiring is completely done.
Now it's just a matter of reassembling. And then also using my new, uh,
face plate here, the new holder so that I can get this all in place.
So I'm going to do that now and see how this goes.
So I've got everything kind of crammed back in here now,
and I'm just going to see if we can get it all fit.
It's a lot of stuff pushed back in here.
Okay.
The nice thing is once you get the first one in it holds,
so the rest should be easier. So
that's back in,
we have our climate control unit plug that
back in here.
And there we go.
And this is just a bunch of clips.
And with that, finally, this thing is complete. That is super cool.
So I've got a nice stereo here. Now,
there are a lot of cool features that you can get with the stereos these days.
This one's obviously got Apple CarPlay, Android auto, um,
there's steering wheel buttons that are programmed into this,
to where I can see my tachometer, my speedometer, fuel gauges.
I can click over here. I can see my zero to 60 times, braking info,
quarter mile, all this kind of cool stuff that you get with this.
I can even switch over and see if I go over this way.
I can see my tire pressure, um, all kinds of great information about battery,
all that sort of thing.
And you get all of that as part of the ODB II connection that comes with this.
Just want to reiterate. I've never done this install before, uh,
or installs in general and with the instructions that you can get and the
resources online,
you can work your way through this and do a DIY install to save yourself
hundreds of dollars. If you're not comfortable with that,
you've always got the option to take it to a professional. Now,
if you want to see another upgrade I did to this Tundra,
you can check out how I basically de-chromed the whole front and all of the
chrome on this vehicle and did that in one afternoon.
And it looks so much better. And personally, I'm a big fan of it.
You can check that video out right here and thanks for watching and we'll see
you on the next one.