07 camry, remote start, wire access

Very easy car to get access to. Remove the bolster(one screw and a 10mm), then unbolt the airbag(4 10mm). Leave it plugged in and set on the floor(watch the right side, it will scratch the console if you dont set it down far enough). The steering shroud is straight forward(2 screws), and you can also remove the panel with the pocket by just yanking on it.

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Mike M2
Tech Manager
CS Dealer Services

thanks very much for the reply Mike K2. I appreciate the info and tips.

watch out for ones with telocopic steering you need to make sure the wires will deal with its travel

Thought I just might add a few things to all that.

You need to first remove the panel along the driver's doorsill, then the kick panel, and then the main underdash panel last.......you'll see that the car's assembled in layers like that, and there's a single 10mm bolt that's covered by the kick panel.

The kick panel can be a little bit of a struggle to get off. There are two plastic clips there, but they're kind of angled........basically you'll probably end up getting the kick panel off, but the clips will stay on the car's body. Pry them out and put them back onto the kick panel.

In the harness coming down the steering column, it's all one big harness there, and you can get your ignition wires, door trigger, negative parking lights, and horn all right there.

When doing your bench prep, run your tach wire with all of your main ignition wires, but leave it long. After you're done hooking up all the wires in the steering column, it's easy to continue the tach wire over and down the harness going to the airbag (where the OBDII diagnostic connector is too), and hook up the tach wire.

Brake wire is blue, in the fuse box. There are quite a few blue wires there, but it's easier to just test them all that it is to struggle trying to get to the brake pedal switch.

Next, apply the parking brake as firmly as you can, for better access.

You can pretty clearly see which wires are coming in from the driver's door, and then they go to two plugs. Unplug the upper plug, cut off the tape, and stretch it out a little.....your lock/unlock wires are in there.

A little bit lower, you'll find a plug with four wires, and two of those are black. The smaller black wire is trunk.

If the car has autolamps, you'll want to pulse the driver's door pin after remote start shutdown, so the lights will turn off and the battery won't get drained. The driver's doorpin wire is blue, in the lowermost connector in the kick panel, and it's the only blue wire in that plug.

I strongly agree with MikeM2 about being careful how you place the airbag, to avoid scratching the center console. (Toyta, I think, uses butter instead of plastic for its interiors. At least it would seem that way, since they gouge so easily.)

The best way (in my experience) is to have the "front" side of that airbag thing facing against the console(tucked in to the right side of the gas pedal), the "back" side of it facing toward you (toward the pedals), and the wire-connector part facing the back of the car. It'll sit there really nice, won't move around, and it's easy to connect your tach wire.

The panels are much more flexible when they're warm. If the car isn't already warm inside, run the heater for a short while before you start.

Just to add a few words to what Chris and the others sensibly said, the tach wire should be on that OBD ll socket, black with silver dots, look down on the cable side and it should be separate and over to one side. I can't agree more with the others about  Toyota panels, breathe too hard on them and they scratch, they never break, they should be removed from vehicle wrapped in tissue paper and put in a safe! Yes I know we haven't had the Camry here for about 5 years (murdered by BMW Mercedes etc) but they were so  easy and logical to work with.

Guy's,  Thank-you so much again for all the great info. I have worked on Toyota's before and could not agree more about the panels. The one thing I did not know about the camry is that you could grab the tach connection at the obd2 connector. Once again thank you for all the advice, it is appreciated.