Coastal Ultimate Lockpick 3 for 06/07 Prius Installed

Can you post the instruction that you received from Coasttech on the site? Also, any pictures of the kits?

Thanks,

E

 

Vincent. very glad to hear your mods are everything you expected them to be. as far as Coastal goes. i have dealt with them twice. got what i wanted when i wanted it. so no comment on that. im sure your location played a part in your great delivery time. as for me, i am on the opposite side of the country from Coastal but still got my parts within a week of the order both times.

 

As I stated in the other thread, I installed mine this morning. Works as decribed. Can even play my iPod music videos and movies on the screen! Works great.

Hopefully fixed a dash rattle I had too. We'll see.

 

Vincent,

Thank you very much for the update. I am planning to order my kit now.

Like you... I am not too interested in the video capability. However, if I do order the full kit... then I might install it. Where does it go?

If you had to do it over again, would you buy just the NAV kit, or the full kit?

/Jim

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Vincent @ Dec 17 2006, 04:45 AM) [snapback]363351[/snapback]</div>

In my car... I do use my phone a lot... but i dont think that I would be calling from the on-screen display too often. I only have a few numbers programmed into my favorites... and my phone book on my Treo would never fit into the Prius... and even if it did, it would be too cumbersome to keep syncronized since it does not automatically sync with my outlook/exchange server.

Instead... I have been doing nearly all of my dialing from the phone itself since it contains my entire address book. The phone works even when the car is moving

The biggest reason that I would care for the bluetooth function is to punch up dialpad for the occasional "please press 1 now" prompt. I do use that feature a fair amount to file a flight plan, and order up fuel on the way to the airport.

So... I think that I will get the full NAV kit for my car, and only get the basic kit for my daughter's Prius. She got hers a year ago (Christmas present '05) and she has yet to pair her phone to the BT unit.

/Jim

 

Vincent,

I got my kit installed today and it is quite amazing. I am pretty quick at taking the dash apart since I also missed a connection the first time around.

I have one question for you. When you are listening to an FM station that is broadcasting RDS with a message (MSG lights up) can you view the message while driving? It is unclear if it is supposed to support this according to the Coastal website (their chart shows that the blue lockpick supports this feature, but on the prius page they do not speak about it). I really don't care either way but I do want to make sure that my system is working properly. Does yours support this?

I hope that my question makes sense!

Thanks in advance. I love the picture of the cute dog!

CapeCod

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Vincent @ Dec 21 2006, 02:22 AM) [snapback]364989[/snapback]</div>

Well I get mine this afternoon , hopefully (don't let me down UPS) , but anyhow can you also check that we are able to see the MP3 file listing while the car is in motion too? that would be cool,

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(PriusGuy79 @ Dec 21 2006, 09:10 AM) [snapback]365024[/snapback]</div>

That feature is not supported. I asked Coastal and they confirmed it. I am not sure about the RDS stuff.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(CapeCod @ Dec 21 2006, 09:03 AM) [snapback]365059[/snapback]</div>

I ordered my full set of 3 kits on 12.17.06 and got them today. The basic kit is marked 3B4 on the envelope lip and has separate instruction sheet inside. The Audio/Video kit has obvious connectors. So that leaves little doubt what is in the third envelope. BT. Not that I know anything about blue tooth connectors.

The installation pages have very clear pictures in color. Now if my Sigma signal mirrors and EV would just get here so I can get all of this done at once.

I can hardly wait.