It goes between the head unit and the screen. That is the whole trick.
Your dashboard screen is not a computer. It is a display, and it takes a video signal from the head unit buried behind the dash. Our module sits on that link, passes the factory signal through untouched, and adds itself as one more source.
Why this is not a rip-out
An aftermarket double-DIN replaces the head unit. That means it also replaces everything the head unit was doing: your reverse camera feed, your parking sensor chimes, your steering wheel button decoding, your climate display on some cars. Installers bridge some of that with extra interface boxes. Some of it never comes back.
This approach inverts the problem. The factory head unit stays in charge. The module is a passenger on the video link that can take over the screen when you ask it to, and hand it straight back when you do not.
What fitting involves
- Trim around the screen or the head unit comes off, using plastic tools. No drilling and no cutting.
- The factory video connector is unplugged and the supplied harness goes in between. This is the only electrical change.
- The module is tucked into existing space behind the dash or under a seat, depending on your vehicle.
- Power comes off an existing switched feed. The external microphone is routed to the A-pillar or headliner.
- Trim goes back. Nothing visible has changed.
On most Toyota and Land Rover fits this is 40 to 60 minutes for someone who has done one before. A confident DIY owner with the guide takes longer the first time and gets the same result.
How you switch to it
Every fit gets a trigger that already exists in your car, usually a long press on a factory button or a double tap on the source control. Your phone connects on its own when you start the car, so in practice you stop switching after the first week.
Reversing it
Unplug the harness and plug the factory connector back together. Twenty minutes, and the car is exactly as it left the factory with no holes, no cut wires and no trace. That is what makes this warranty-safe in a way a replacement head unit is not.
If you would rather not do it yourself
We are an online retailer, not a fitment centre, so we do not fit. What we do is keep a list of auto-electricians in Gauteng, the Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal who have done these before, and we will send you the nearest one. Expect to pay roughly R500 to R900 for the labour.