2024 Lunar Rock SR5 TRD Sport Build

First thing I wanted to do was delete the last bit of chrome on this premium SR5 package. Main reason I went with this package is because all badges were blacked out already and most other trim color match painted!

I had to do a lot of plastidip on my Taco to delete some chrome. Didn’t want to do that this time.

Here’s the first one I did which was adding an overlay to the chrome steering wheel T symbol.

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The final piece of chrome delete was the T emblem in front grill. I don’t know why this one wasn’t done at factory but I still wanted to delete it.

This one was more difficult to do because there wasn’t much out there that was reasonably priced when I was looking.

For example, I was only finding the one that is in the complete black out emblems kit for over $100! I wasn’t about to pay that when I just needed the one piece out of the kit. There were separate ones on eBay and such that we around $50 - still too expensive.

Finally, I found a link to Mercari for $36.12 out the door! I grabbed it. Never ordered from there but heard of the place and it was shipped from California. Here’s the link:  https://www.mercari.com/us/item/m74043233248/?sv=0

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Next up was changing out the BASIC rear view mirror. I just laughed to myself when I realized my $50k+ truck in 2024 came with a BASIC rear view mirror even with the premium package and all. I had to change that. I didn’t want to dish out the $$$ for any of the digital rear view mirrors that were factory to the Tundra and Bobs Automotive Mirrors didn’t have what I liked for the looks so I decided to follow what I learned from a couple other members on another thread.

mirror kit was $147.15 and had everything needed to do the mod. You will need a way to connect a couple bare wires but I already had these things. So some solder, solder iron, and some electrical tape/shrink wrap at the very least (but if you’re this far in, you’ve been there and already have these tools from other mods most likely, right?? ;)).

Here’s my how-to in that thread:

I know this thread has been quiet a while, but wanted to post on my most recent mod update and it's using info from this thread. Hopefully this may help someone else out. I sympathize with the OP as my new '24 Tundra SR5 with premium options also only had an old school manual rear view mirror and I knew this was going to be one of the first things I changed. It's crazy that we're in 2024 and vehicles are still being sold with manual rear views... 

Anyway, I found this thread and loved the frameless option that I've seen on here. I would normally go with something from Bob's mirrors (did that for my Tacoma when I had it) but wanted something a bit more sleek looking.

I followed along and ordered the PT374-18220 mirror like @Spdfreak91 talked about in his post here

Just search that part number on Google and get one at a good price. I got mine from a wholesale site that looked like it wasn't necessarily just for Toyota parts, but it was the cheapest place at the time. I was confused at first, because everywhere I looked this part number up for mirror assembly it always said in the description that it was battery powered, but I can confirm this is the wired version. Some others have used the battery version of a mirror that looks just like this on this thread and I'm sure that works well too. I just wanted something installed that I didn't have to worry about changing out a battery eventually.

This mirror itself is going to come with a 5 pin type A, female connector end on it, but unfortunately our trucks come with 5 pin type A female connector as well.

Mirror connector:

Here's the white, 5 pin type A female plug in the roof console box. It's going to be tucked up on the left side there with a clip holding it in place. You can just pull the whole connector up to unclip it and get it loose like I have it here:

So, I gotta figure out how to get a male connector end on the mirror. I wished I could have found a male to male 5 pin type A connector so it was just plug and play, but after searching all over, I couldn't find something that was out there. I could have made something myself but that was extra cost and I wanted to go ahead and get the job done with what I had, so I did like the others and made my connector end from what was in the mirror kit.

Luckily, we get a male to male pigtail end that comes in the PT374-18220 mirror kit. You'll get a male 5 pin type A connector (which is the end we're going to use) that goes to a 3 pin connector, which I'm sure would plug into the GR86 vehicle this mirror is made for.

I just cut the end of the mirror about an inch from the connector and cut the end of the pigtail about an inch from the 3 pin male connector so I could make my special harness.

I like to be somewhat consistent with wire colors. I moved around the connector ends on the male plug end to get them in the correct spot for what was measured on the truck. To do this, you have to pick off the white piece straight up on the connector end - it should just slide up once you get a small flat head underneath it.

White connector piece I'm talking about:

Then use a very small pick, like one of those that comes with phones to help remove a sim card, to de-pin the connectors so you can move them around to different spots. There are official tools for this, but the sim card removal tool was the smallest pick I had.

So, really you just need to de-pin the black and the white wires from this male connector. The black will then move to where the white is and the white will move to the open spot next to the green. You can leave the other ones alone.

The plug in my truck was S15 from the Locations and Routing diagram which is called "Optional Connector (1)". I think there is an official rear view mirror plug up there somewhere, but this 5 pin plug is easier to get to and common to the parts we got in the mirror kit.

Here is the diagram of that plug S15. I found pin #4 was ground, #2 was 12V when truck turned on and #1 was constant 12V. There were no wires to #3 or #5. I am only going to use pins #4 and #2. I decided to leave pin #1 open on the male connector plug end so nothing is connected to constant 12V.

I soldered the connection points where the dots are (from the diagram below) and left the other wires open/un connected. I taped each solder point so they wouldn't touch then tightly wrapped it all with electrical tape. You could hardly tell anything was modified! There is a small cutout on the left side of the headliner where the wiring for a factory digital mirror would go, so I used that to fish the connector end up to the plug location.

It was tough to get the mirror moved to a location where I could get a torx up there to tighten down the mount point but finally got that done. Then I powered the truck on, made sure the mirror had power and worked okay (which it did), then buttoned everything back up and programmed Homelink from the instructions that were given! VERY happy with the outcome.

Thanks to @colekbod for the post on how to connect everything here

So here's a final quick wiring diagram for how I connected everything. (Keep in mind, this is how the 5 pin male plug end would look if you moved around the connectors like I showed earlier in this post):

I hope this helps anyone else out that wants to connect this mirror! I love how it's frameless, has Homelink and auto dims. Exactly what I needed. Enjoy!

From <https://www.tundras.com/threads/60centenergys-2024-lunar-rock-sr5-trd-sport.146394/#post-3676107>

Thanks! here's a couple pics showing the mirror in action with Homelink. Also have a night shot in there showing the buttons lit up. The light is not too bright to be distracting.