Factory Rear Seat Entertainment With After Market Navagation???

[Johnnny Rock]

I have a 2005 Sequoia with the factory Rear Seat Entertainment System. I decided against the factory Nav for many reasons and went with the pioneer Avic 1 Navagation system. My problem is that my Rear Seat Entertainment System no longer works. I new it would not work with the speakers in my doors but I thought for sure it would work with the headphones. But I cant even get a picture on the screen or the screen to even power up. The factory DVD player powers up as soon as I feed a DVD into it, but no picture. Does anyone know how i can get my factory screen to power up without installing the factory head unit somewhere in the truck? I would love to have it work with the factory headphones. I happen to have a (2005 TOYOYTA SEQUOIA ELECTRICAL WIREING DIAGRAM BOOK) but i still can't figure it out and I don't want to put the factory head unit somewhere in the truck.
PLEASE HELP, there has to be someone out there that figured it out by now...LOL..... Thanks, John

[jpt808]

i am having the same problem with my tundra did you ever find a way to get your rear flip down monitor to work with the aftermarket head unit.

[Jedirun]

I had an AVIC-Z1 installed in my 2006 Tundra today and experienced the same problem. Power to the DVD player, but no picture or anything on the rear screen. The stereo place is looking into it. I will post if they figure it out. If anyone has found a solution, I would love to hear it. I had better get this fixed soon, so my wife does not go crazy listening to my son asking for Little Einsteins.

[Johnnny Rock]

It can be done but you have to mount the stock head unit in a hide away location. There has to be a better way because the stock head unit only needs to be connected to get the rear monitor to turn on and once it's turned on you can disconnect the stock head unit and the screen will stay powered up until you shut the truck off the next time. Someone with alot of time on their hands needs to figure out what needs to be jumped out or powered up on the stock head unit plugs. If someone figures it out PLEASE post their findings. But until then I will be happy with my two headrest screens, Just click on my pictures to check them out. Johnnny

[Jedirun]

The installer thinks he can do it. He spent all morning on the phone with tech support. He is going to try tomorrow. If it works I will try to tell you guys how.

[Jedirun]

No luck so far. We have the wiring diagrams, and will try again this weekend.

[Jedirun]

Got it to work.

They dismantled the factory JBL and installed parts of it between the aftermarket navigation and the dvd

All that was left of the factory head unit was the outer shell.

It took six hours of work to do this.

I guess you have to get an installer who is sophisticated enough to do this.

This was done by Progressive Audio in San Diego. The guy that knows how to do it is Chuck.

[Venom760]

Originally Posted by Jedirun

Got it to work.

They dismantled the factory JBL and installed parts of it between the aftermarket navigation and the dvd

All that was left of the factory head unit was the outer shell.

It took six hours of work to do this.

I guess you have to get an installer who is sophisticated enough to do this.

This was done by Progressive Audio in San Diego. The guy that knows how to do it is Chuck.

So your telling me there is NO other way of getting the factory rear screen to work with an aftermarket dvd/navi unit? I'm guessing it was expensive to have someone do all the work you mentioned. So even if you hook up the rear factory screen to the aftermarkets dvd/navi aux imput, it still won't work?

[Jedirun]

No it still won't work because the rear screen will not even get power. It gets a signal from the factory head unit to turn on. Everything in the car is connected digitally. I think that a cheaper, easier way to do it would be to relpace the rear screen with a normal one and run it off the DVD drive in the aftermarket Nav.

[Venom760]

Originally Posted by Jedirun

No it still won't work because the rear screen will not even get power. It gets a signal from the factory head unit to turn on. Everything in the car is connected digitally. I think that a cheaper, easier way to do it would be to relpace the rear screen with a normal one and run it off the DVD drive in the aftermarket Nav.

Yeah, true...that would be a lot easier. I might get an 06' Tundra DC soon. But the problem is that I want the Limited with all the options, like sunroof, leather etc. etc. and most of the limited DC's with these options also come with the rear entertainment option, so it sucks that you would have to take out that screen and put in another one just so you could make it work with an aftermarket DVD/Navi unit up front. If you don't mind me asking, how much did it cost you to have it done at that stereo shop you mentioned, because SD is near by and if it ain't too much out of my budget, then I won't mind the 2 hour drive to SD. I really don't trust the stereo shops around here, there kinda shady and don't do a lot of custom work, just general installations.

[Jedirun]

Originally Posted by Venom760

Yeah, true...that would be a lot easier. I might get an 06' Tundra DC soon. But the problem is that I want the Limited with all the options, like sunroof, leather etc. etc. and most of the limited DC's with these options also come with the rear entertainment option, so it sucks that you would have to take out that screen and put in another one just so you could make it work with an aftermarket DVD/Navi unit up front. If you don't mind me asking, how much did it cost you to have it done at that stereo shop you mentioned, because SD is near by and if it ain't too much out of my budget, then I won't mind the 2 hour drive to SD. I really don't trust the stereo shops around here, there kinda shady and don't do a lot of custom work, just general installations.

It was about 6 hours of labor at $75 an hour to install everything including the Nav, getting the steering wheel remote to work and getting the rear DVD to work.

[kingchris626]

Will someone please tell me where I can go to get this done on mine. I have a Pioneer Avic D1 in my car and the RSE has been useless for over a year.