It will cost yu several thousand dollars and countles parts and harnesses and labor too. I looked into it,. I checked the schematics of the factory RSE and there are many components including a RSE ECU mounted under the Passenger front seat and many harnesses too. Just Not cost effective and the parts dept said it would be better to get it from a salvage yard, at least for most of the componenets.
FYI, the Factory unit display screen is 1/2 inch smaller screen(diagonally) and does not have MP3 playback for what it's worth .
My
Two real complaints of the Port installed RSE is that:
1) the DVD player unit is located in the center console and takes up the whole storage compartment. (the factory RSE has the dvd loader up with the overhead screen)
2)It does not play/integrate with the Navigation screen as described in the HL owners manual. The Dealer/ Toyota Sales documentation never disclosed
this to me and I Blasted Toyota USA, Torrence about this.
The factory RSE and Port installed RSE are sold for the same price yet have different option codes. It is not the dealers fault, but TOYOTAS bait and switch to make more money. Clearly the Factory unit is worth more$$ than the AudiovoxToyota Rebranded Port installed unit.
This Factory RSE eluded me for so many months and no HL's were coming from Japan with the factory RSE.I checked with all the Japan shipments all over the USA. It was prominently available from 2004-05. And this postponed my decision to buy for so long. The dealer finally gave me my HL for invoice. I just accepted the Port RSE version.
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