LS 460 DVD hack---almost
07-26-07, 12:58 PM
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Hopefully the tech is being very careful given how delicate everything is back there...
btw your grandfather wants to watch DVDs while driving, hopefully he can still drive safely during that. Actually I've been in taxis where they had a portable DVD player on the center console, so it's similar.
btw your grandfather wants to watch DVDs while driving, hopefully he can still drive safely during that. Actually I've been in taxis where they had a portable DVD player on the center console, so it's similar.
07-27-07, 08:18 PM
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the tech is the Senior Master Tech and has Tons of expierience in the vehicles,
UPDATE: On another note he ordered the part and it did not work it looks like the 2nd speed sensor is the GPS antenna and there is no way around that at all because it has to know that your moving and communicates with the car which says hey buddy you cant watch DVDs. they have had the car for a full week and put in many hours and he said him and the other Top tech have tried and No luck so looks like no internal Hack without software or thru Nav. only option is going to be the black box/NavTV etc... But sorry fellas I tried but Im not giving up.
UPDATE: On another note he ordered the part and it did not work it looks like the 2nd speed sensor is the GPS antenna and there is no way around that at all because it has to know that your moving and communicates with the car which says hey buddy you cant watch DVDs. they have had the car for a full week and put in many hours and he said him and the other Top tech have tried and No luck so looks like no internal Hack without software or thru Nav. only option is going to be the black box/NavTV etc... But sorry fellas I tried but Im not giving up.
08-10-07, 09:33 PM
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I have successfully made this work on a customers ls 460 today. Your tech is correct by saying the second vss is the gps antenna. As long as it is plugged in the navigation will figure out you are moving and interrupt your video in motion. I was able to defeat this by putting the gps antenna on a switch (as well as vss of course). I made a coaxial switcher out of an fm modulator and lexus antenna adaptors. I had to disassemble the antenna ends and reconfigure them to make it all work, but i did NOT cut the gps antenna. I drove this car on the highway over 80mph for 5-6 miles and the video never shut off.
08-11-07, 04:40 PM
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You don't really need a diagram. Its fairly simple you must wire a switch to some relays break the vss wire and the gps antenna. The hardest part is finding the right antenna ends and disassembling them to make it all fit. I will try to take a picture of the antenna ends and how to take them apart on monday.
08-12-07, 11:56 AM
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08-17-07, 09:24 AM
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You don't really need a diagram. Its fairly simple you must wire a switch to some relays break the vss wire and the gps antenna. The hardest part is finding the right antenna ends and disassembling them to make it all fit. I will try to take a picture of the antenna ends and how to take them apart on monday.
If anyone can post a detailed step-by-step, and perhaps summarize what you gain (and lose) by enabling this hack, it would be appreciated. There a more than a few posts that circle around this hack, but I'm not sure how to proceed.
Thanks
08-28-07, 12:59 PM
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