Road Top Wireless CarPlay for Lexus with Small Touchpad/Joystick

Works as intended. It is a half day installation for the average weekend mechanic.

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Installation was pretty much straight forward thanks to the kits included connectors. It was actually more tougher to put everything back together. Tried it out and it pretty much worked seamlessly. Even better when you start the car and if the phone is connected, it boots it over to carplay which is pretty nice. Reason why I got 4 stars is because I encountered a half screen apple carplay and half lexus screen flicker glitch. It only lasts till you just restart the engine, but that is strange. I think its livable.

At first I was skeptical about picking this up, as the popular choice for these decoders for my gs350 costed upwards of $700. I took the gamble, and I'm glad I spent less than half of what I would have. Now, installation can be easy or it can be a headache depending on your experience. For me, it wasn't hard it was just time consuming and at some points difficult to understand. This was my first time taking out a radio/screen, but I found some youtube videos on similar decoders and used that with the manual to figure it out. There are some cables that needed to be used on certain models, in my case I had to use the joystick one for my 2014 gs350. For whatever reason after installation I had a flickering line at the bottom, but I messaged the seller for update files and the update fixed it! I decided to not even mess with the audio cables and just used the cars OEM bluetooth, there is a setting in the decoder menu to use it. All in all it was worth the hours it took me to install it as a newbie, it connects and works the way it should. The joystick can be a bit finicky at times, but it was like that in the OEM system so I can't fault this product for it. Edit: There is now another new update that changes to a "mouse cursor" this unit is wayyyy better than before with this update, just reach out to roadtop for the files.

End up being more than it was worth. Did it work, yes. The sound was not as good due to tapping in though the aux port. Had mono sound and played passenger side no the driver side. I found it better to stick with the factory infotainment system.