Gen 2 MFD Removal and Replacement - 12V Battery and Parking Connector

Nope I removed the two center vents the two 10 mm screws withdraw the MFD squeeze all the plugs leave them hanging and hopefully have the correct MFD not a base if it's not a base car going into the car and working on so there's always that the basic plugs that come in a basic Prius should be able to operate most of the MFDs realizing that a GPS MFD and all of that those functions are not going to work and the buttons will be weird so you don't want to do that if you're not well versed in some of that or you'll be having serious problems you'll never get straightened out basically without changing the MFD to the exact one you have.

 

I have taken MFDs from other cars which have more plugs on the back and can take other options but the main plug that runs all the MFDs I believe is the same from 04 to '09 The extra plugs that go on back of certain models like for the backup camera If you don't have a backup camera and you're putting a backup camera MFD into a base car it will plug right in and work when you go into reverse it doesn't do anything except back up there's no picture no screen is lit up none of that You can see your heat and stuff while you're backing up in a base model car on the MFD but the plug that you need to have inserted on the back of the MFD is the same across the lineup even for the seven button MFD with GPS and all that I believe you can take a four button MFD from above a base shove it in a car that had seven button GPS and still have your basic four button MFD functions work The blue plug for the GPS antenna the backup camera stuff and whatever else off the seven button will be left hanging obviously.