Well I've had my xB for a few weeks now and finally got my first modification done today - the installation of the Neo Car Jukebox that I pulled from my old 96 Civic when I traded it in on the xB. Daryll's Car Audio in Depew, NY did the install and did a good job. We only ran into one problem when the USA Spec DF-TOY aux adapter I got from Crutchfield didn't have the adapter for newer Toyota head units with the 12 pin mini connector. So I'm sending that back to Crutchfield (I called and they said they didn't have the adapters), and picked up one from Circuit City that did have the adapter.

I had Daryll's just run the wired remote into the storage box so I could keep it concealed. I was going to mount the whole din adapter and remove the door, but decided that keeping it hidden was more important. But it wasn't very convenient to change tracks and see what was going on without the LCD facing outwards, so I modded the din adapter to fit inside the compartment (aka ez bake oven), allowing the door to close and leaving room for the wireless remote or whatever else I want to toss in there.

Enough with the talking, here's the pics. Enjoy:


Just an outside drivers side view of my xB


Passenger side


Center console with the oven door closed


Check out what's cookin!


A closer look at the wired remote


The Neo Car Jukebox installed under the passenger side seat. Rear seat passengers can see what song is playing too.


With the flash off, the LCD under the passenger seat glows.


A flash-off view of the wired remote.

 

BAD AYASE

 

dude, that is sweet!

 

nice.....

 

In the oven? I see.

 

Don't miss the oven use thread ;)

https://www.scionlife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=69214

 

I updated the firmware on my MP3 player the other day. SSI released the source to the firmware and started the Open Neo project so users could produce their own software for the player. One of the new features is the ability to customise your startup screen so I whipped up some ASCII art for it:



Other recent mods:

JDM No Smoker's Box:



BTW, does anyone know how you're supposed to put on that little "No Smoking" sign that comes with it? I figured out the rest of the install despite the Japanese instructions, but the No Smoking sign looks like it's supposed to pop up or something?

Also put on a bug deflector:



I'd like to take off the white AVS logo on that - anyone know an easy way to do that?

 

Yeah Darylls Rock's.
I know this isn't the 1st Camo xB they have seen.

Ah yeas the CashTray

 

how much was the mp3 setup?

 

Nice...but the stock SCION player, well, it plays mp3's...so what is the deal with wanting the other thing...Explain for the old farts around here, like me, please...

 

It's got a hard drive in in it that holds my ENTIRE music collection, not just a few CD's worth as you'd be able to get on an MP3 CD. Plus when you get new music you don't have to burn discs, just load it onto the hard drive via USB and load it back into the car.

You just can't beat having 4000+ songs on shuffle

I've had my Neo for about 3 years, back when I bought it it was probably around $400. Nowadays you can find them on eBay for about half that depending on the condition.

 

Moved to ICE...