how do I install a different headunit in 2006 yaris?

[wouterw]

I could buy one of those eonon yaris dash integrated headunits for 250 euro. But I don't trust the brand. All I can find on eonon are negative reviews. The units seem to fail all the time and the sound quality is supposed to be terrible. So no eonon for me.

I'd rather have something more expensive with less features that works and sounds great, than something that looks a bit more fancy and flashy and annoys the hell out of me on a daily basis.


@CTScott; I called a few Toyota dealers today... and I'm very confused...

What exactly is part number 55405-52580-B0 and PZ489-B0330-00 ?

Is this the entire grey center panel? Indicated as 55405B on the following picture: http://i372.photobucket.com/albums/o.../YarisDash.jpg ?


The price for PZ489-B0330-00 is around 35 euro,
the price for 55405-52580-B0 is around 100 euro.

The Toyota dealers can't tell me what the PZ489-B0330-00 part is, and the price difference seems very suspicious.
Is the PZ489-B0330-00 the 180mm wide one? Then how come it's only a third of the price of the other one ?

[CTScott]

Originally Posted by wouterw

I could buy one of those eonon yaris dash integrated headunits for 250 euro. But I don't trust the brand. All I can find on eonon are negative reviews. The units seem to fail all the time and the sound quality is supposed to be terrible. So no eonon for me.

I'd rather have something more expensive with less features that works and sounds great, than something that looks a bit more fancy and flashy and annoys the hell out of me on a daily basis.


@CTScott; I called a few Toyota dealers today... and I'm very confused...

What exactly is part number 55405-52580-B0 and PZ489-B0330-00 ?

Is this the entire grey center panel? Indicated as 55405B on the following picture: http://i372.photobucket.com/albums/o.../YarisDash.jpg ?


The price for PZ489-B0330-00 is around 35 euro,
the price for 55405-52580-B0 is around 100 euro.

The Toyota dealers can't tell me what the PZ489-B0330-00 part is, and the price difference seems very suspicious.
Is the PZ489-B0330-00 the 180mm wide one? Then how come it's only a third of the price of the other one ?

The 55405-52580-B0 part is the "stock" gray radio trim, pictured as the 55405B part in the diagram. It has a 200mm wide opening for the wider-than-DIN OEM head unit that comes on our liftbacks here in the US.

PZ489-B0330-00 is the part that looks the same, but has a 180mm wide opening (standard DIN width). It is part of the Toyota TNS400 Navigation System.

The price difference is interesting. When I arranged the group buy for the PZ part, I was amazed that the cost ended up being about $20 less (including shipping from Europe to the US, and then shipping from me to the people who participated in the group buy) than it would have cost us to buy the 55405 part from a dealer here in the US.