jgrush

Sorry for bringing resurrecting this thread, but I got it in my head that I want to take a crack at this with my car.

 

Looks like I have the wiring needed in the middle harness as I have wires 6-9 on the R24 connector in my trunk. I have the camera-less trunk lid harness, so I’ll have to replace that. I pulled my radio out the other day and discovered I don’t have the wires at pins 8 and 11-14 at the connector on the back of the radio.

 

I saw something about there being a connector (R60?) in the passenger footwell, I’m guessing bridges the middle harness that runs from the trunk ceiling to the footwell to the harness that runs up to the radio. Anybody got a picture of that and could tell me where it is? I wonder if I’ve got camera wiring up to that point and could just add pins to the footwell side of the radio harness and run the four wires up to the back of the radio from there rather than from all the way in the back.

 

Also, can anybody point me toward a place where I can get pins for these connectors so I can add them to the i192 on the radio?

 

 

EDIT: Looking at more wiring diagrams, looks like there's the harness from the radio with i192 on the radio end, i154 on the other; there's some harness with R332 connecting to i154 and R24 on the other end connecting to the R60 at the front end of the harness that runs back to the trunk, with two of the wires tied to another harness that runs to ground.

 

So, if I can carry pins 8-9 on R60 up to 11-14 i192 (matched properly, of course), I should be good. So, where the heck is R60...?

 

 

- -> I no longer have the car or photos. But I recall that I found the forward-most end of the harness from the camera by removing the passenger side trim panel - the panel down in the foot well just in front of the door. I removed that and also the doorway thresh hold trim and found the connector right there just below the front lower corner of the passenger door. The harness runs back along the thresh hold.

 

 

 

Hope this helps.

Some photos. I am having trouble figuring out where I got the plugs and jacks. Here is the harness I made both by itself and attached to the PE627 radio. There is a pair of connectors in the adapter (several unused wires are visible on each connector) that break out the speaker wires. This would allow adding an amplifier without cutting any wires in the car's harness.

 

The 'diversity' antenna connection requires two pairs of adapters. These replace a 15 inch long 'pigtail' used in the original radio installation that goes down to a connector inside the console below where the radio mounts. Follow the antenna leads down to where you see them enter a connector and take that pigtail off. The two pairs of adapters get you each of the two weird ends (I think they are what Toyota uses to go to the harness end) one pair plugs into that connector below the radio and terminates in the big American style antenna connector.s The second pair of connectors plug to the American style connectors and end in the style that is used on the Panasonic PE227.

 

Photo 1) shows the six and ten pin connectors for the 627 radio

Photo 2) shows the whole harness with the 6 & 10 pin connectors away from you. Note that I could not find the 16?) pin socket to fit the car's harness so I modified a higher pin count socket to fit (note the red tape covering part of the socket)

Photo 3) shows the harness plugged into the PE627 radio The RJ45 is the connector for the camera leads

Photo 4) shows the American to PE 627 half of the antenna adapter pigtail. I believe I had to make this up of two separate adapter cables - each having come with only one cable but the double plug. I believe I had to move one connector to the other's plug to get this configuration.

Photo 5) shows another view of the whole adapter.

 

You can tell that one of the plugs came with pre-crimped black leads.

I am still trying to dig out where I got the individual plugs and sockets. I know some were on eBay, some were from Digikey.

My 13 Legacy Sport came with the same radio as yours and the connections ARE completely different from the PE627 and other radios with the screen. I made a little adapter harness so I did not have to cut and splice anything. I will see if I can gather together information about where I got plugs and sockets, etc., and take a few pictures of the harness.

 

In addition to the adapter harness, I cut a hole for, and installed the OEM camera, and swapped in the trunk harness that included the camera connection, plus extended the camera wiring from the passenger footwell to the adapter harness on the back of the radio.

 

Despite someone's concerns that the four feet of cat5e wiring may not be up to it, the camera has been working flawlessly for over 2yrs.

 

In addition to the harness, the antenna connections are different. An adapter is available so again, no cutting and splicing. I have gotten the steering wheel controls only partly working. The volume, track, mode controls work but the lower controls do not - at least so far - seems to be just one wire mis-connected. Unfortunately you need those controls to pair anything with bluetooth.

Oh, the camera works perfectly with the Cat5e wire - using one twisted pair for the camera signal and signal ground. (like blue/white & white/blue pair)

In my 2013 Legacy Sport with the base radio. I found that the camera wiring existed at the connection to the trunk harness (located just in front of the trunk's right hinge) and it ran forward to the footwell of the front passenger side but no further. I found the harness connector by removing the kick panel just in front of the door opening and the door threshold cover trim and finding the correct color coded wires. I bought and swapped in the correct camera ready harness on the trunk. Then I ran wires from the footwell to the radio for the power, signal, and signal ground. I used Cat5e wire as that is what I had handy. I used automotive crimp-on wire taps to attach to the existing harness instead of cutting and splicing or adding pins to the existing plugs. At the radio I used an RJ45 plug mated to an RJ45 jack in my adapter harness so I could disconnect the camera wiring to go back to the original radio if needed. I had to make an adapter harness to mate up to the different radio (PE627U1).