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Originally Posted by czechm8

Good idea. I'll wait to see what Toyota says and how much they want for it.

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Originally Posted by czechm8

Good point. I just assumed the extension box had NAV and BT. Looks like that HU is pretty cheap second hand. I'll go that route rather than pay Toyota to tell me it will cost $1K to replace.

Originally Posted by czechm8

For anyone interested. I was able to resolve my BT issue. The NAV AHA extension box does have BT. Turns out my box was bad. I found a second hand HU with the NAV box for really cheap.
The stock HU works fine without the extension box plugged in. BT works fine. Once you plug in the ext. box, it must default to the BT on the box (probably due to the AHA integration).
Only bummer is the replacement box has never had the NAV maps upgraded. I had the maps on my old unit updated for free shortly after I bought the car. Toyota wants north of $300 to update the maps and software! It never ends.

Originally Posted by darksnyder

I have the mid-option 2013 Toyota 86 having the base HU. I also had the same issue a few months back. Living with my friend a few months back, we would often switch between whose phone is connected and during those days, sometimes I noticed the Bluetooth option would disappear completely from the list. We would then park the car, and sometimes turn it off and on like you mentioned. I never really figured out why, but I assumed it had something to do with trying to pair a phone whilst driving! I think I read something in the owners manual as well, but I will have to reconfirm once I reach home.


Currently, I don't have any problems as my phone is the only one that stays connected and not had a single problem with BT since then.

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

Yea, that's just a stupid dumb price these days. It should be free, or very minimal cost.

Of course, try updating a small plane NAV unit sometime. It will make $300 seem cheap, and in that case it is mandatory if you want to use it to legally fly.

In Toyota defense, there method of updating the head units is a proprietary USB stick which updates the maps and the headunit firmware at the same time. I ran into this when I installed the extension module into my 15 FR-S last year (it's the same you'd find in that years prius or other models). I updated entune as far as I could using a download I found on a forum somewhere, but the maps were still from 2014. Went to the dealer and paid $275 for them to update it to the 17 maps and firmware.

IMHO, this is why swapping to an android auto/apple carplay unit is probably going to be my next course of action if I start using the car for longer journeys, the user support from those companies like pioneer is so much better, firmware updates are free and of course with google maps your maps are always up to date. Mazda has it best with their head units, free NAV updates for 3 years after purchase and free firmware updates, and you can do them yourself because the head unit is basically running off linux. They even give you the update tool and you just put your usb stick in and then put that stick into the car, for the maps you simply bring the sd card inside to a computer and update it that way.