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True... you should use the aux input, but the interference generated by plugging in a device to the 12volt power port destroys any benefit of using the auxillary input. Unless you've got a SAT tuner that runs on batteries, your best bet is to just buy the factory xm tuner.
*Need all the imformation I can get if I plan on negotiating for the lowest price!
I am sure that this would also solve any noise problems with an mp3 player running off of the car's power supply.
The advantage of this over the dealer installed unit (that is not yet available in Canada) is that it is much cheaper. The Delphi roady unit that I bought here in Canada has been on sale for 69 dollars and for the same amount of money you can also buy a home antenna and adaptor. Thus I transfer the unit from the car to my home. I average triple the hours usage in my home as compared to my car. Thus I am making good use of my subscription fee.
However, because high-frequency drivers are very directional, I am afraid you wont be satisfied by some tweeters sending waves to your legs instead of your ears.
Good luck with your mods, and keep us posted.
As someone suggested earlier, they should goto jbltoyota.com b/c it has info on what is on all Toyota vehicles. It shocks me to see some of the much cheaper cars (eg Prius) w/ much better layouts. Like almost every mid to upper end car sold today, the Prius has a tweeter, mid and woofer in the front why doesn't the Camry?
All of the front sound is coming out of that 2.5" driver (not tweeter) on the dash. Put your ear up to the woofer in the door, like the website says it is only very low frequencies. It is not a full range speaker in the door. I'm not sure how they expected all of the highs and mids to be done in this manner, but apparently most people don't mind.
I am not mad about this b/c I realized/knew this before I bought the car since I listened to it prior to purchase. I have had numerous people listen to it and most everyone thinks I am exaggerating how bad it is until they get into it. This goes from the General Sales manager at the dealership to friends.
I am just surprised that no one has changed their speakers and/or amps before so we would have some real world experience on what is under there.
I went ahead and bought the equipment b/c a store in town was running a 4th Sale and I could not pass up the 'bargains'. I have a JL Audio 300/4 Amp, some Morel 6.5 components for the front, and I am going to leave the back alone at this point.
Thanks for your update.
Basically you are still running on your factory amp for your front and rear speakers, but do you think you could have have replaced the amp w/o any issues?
The dealership is still telling me that the head unit won't work w/o the factory amp. I would like to replace the front speakers and the factory amp.
Also were there any depth issues on the front speakers. My new Morel speakers that I want to install only require about 2" depth so it should not be a big problem, but curious how much depth was there.
What signal drove the amp for the sub? Did you just come off the head unit in parallel with the factory amp? If so it would seem I can replace amp w/ no issue.
Thank you.
Next Thursday I am going to have my amp I got installed so I hope Toyota has not put any roadblocks in our way.
I would think that your power is coming from the head unit so you will not have alot of power to drive your sound. Also my opinion is that the front sound stage is more important than the rear so I would first spend your money on the fronts first.
Do you know what you have in terms of size and type of speakers in the front/back? The JBL cars have a 6x9 woofer only in the front door, 2.5" mid range in the dash, and 2 way 6x9 in the rear. So no tweeter in the front so in our case the backs are better than the front already (my opinion due to no tweeter in the front).
In addition, the XLE has the multi-information display that shows avg mpg since the last refuel that automaticaly resets and a driving distance since the last time the engine is started.
Maybe someone knows a "cheat" for it, similar to resetting and oil change light or ??
Jose1962 - Now that I am thinking about it, did you adjust the crossover on the amp to adjust for you now having a full range speaker in the door? B/c currently it seems like the door speakers only play stuff at about 1000 Hz and less so I am wondering if the amp was adjustable to send a full range of sound to your new Pioneers.
I don't know if the the fronts were playing this low frequency b/c that's all they could - in which case when you installed your full range Pioneers the new speakers could take advantage of a full signal and all is good. OR Is the signal sent to the fronts limitied to low frequency from the amp in which case there is more for you to gain ny playing w/ the amp settings if possible?
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Thanks, and sorry for all the questions.
I'm leaving on a long trip this week (will actually be in Manhattan Friday) in the Camry and am going to put in premium to see if it makes a difference. Some claim that is does.
*Pick up one of those brochures if you don't already have one the next time you visit your dealership - advertising blather aside, there's some useful information to be had in the specifications section.
Just a point of clarification, ABS does a self check, I believe, after all starts, not just "cold" ones. Can anyone confirm/disprove? If ABS does not perform a self check on all starts, I'd then kindly ask for a definition of "cold".
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