Here's couple of pictures on the new wheel. Thanks.

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Any updates to this? I also recently picked up a Tacoma steering wheel, but it seems to have the extra buttons for lane departure and forward collision. I am trying to wire to a 04 4runner Sport. I tried rewiring to match the similar colors as the OEM wires, but when I plugged it up no controls worked.

Original wiring from 19 tacoma w/ LDW and FCW

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OEM wiring from 04 4runner sport

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I got my 3rd gen Taco steering wheel installed finally. The wiring really is not difficult, you just have to check resistance to find out which wires control what buttons and the buttons are grouped together like Seek, Volume and Mode have the same control wire. Horn wire is the same, cruise wires are the same (4runner had black, red, white and Tacoma had black and red), button controls are grey and brown in both cars, ground for the buttons is either black or white (my 4runner button ground was white, Tacoma was black), illumination wire may be different (4runner was white/red stripe, Tacoma was all red). I had the hardest time de-pinning the connectors, I ended up trashing the first one since I couldn't figure out how the pins came out. Had to go to the junkyard and pick up some more. Other than that, it definitely feels better than the stock wheel and looks 1,000 times better. Sucks the airbag is still expensive! I paid $300 for mine off ebay

Here is the chart I referenced to figure out what wires controlled what buttons. It shows you in the diagram which wires are what too, I had to make sure so I did the resistance check myself since Toyota doesn’t have a dedicated wiring diagram for steering wheel controls. Use the same reference to figure out which wires control what buttons on the Tacoma wheel. Then it’s just hooking up the other wires

is that showing the front of the connector in the pic?

This thread has been SO helpful in my recent upgrade, I also got the same leather wrap, stitching that thing on was a pain, but now that I know how, it would be much easier, but I think I would pay an upholster shop to install it in the future.

So I ended up getting a 2013 4runner wheel and the plug on that wheel is white and not compatible with my 2006 4runner limited (black plug). For the life of me I could not de pin the white plug that came on the 2013 wheel so I ended up just cutting the plug from my original 2006 wheel and soldering and shrink wrapping in the correct wires.

Luckily the cruise control is already on the original plug and compatible with the 2013's cruise control module.


The only wires I needed to connect were the

1.) Power (Red on my 2006 wheel) and red with white stripe on the 2013 wheel.
2.) EAU from the diagrams above (White on both wheels and directly adjacent to the Grey and Brown Wire)
3.) Grey Wire on both wheels
4.) Brown Wire on both wheels.

Nothing goes into the green, yellow or black ground to the black plug from the 2006 wheel from the 2013 wheel, so I just heat shrinked them up.

Hope this is helpful to anyone that gets a 5th gen 4runner wheel with the white plug instead the black plug.

Initial impression is that both wheels area about the same diameter, but the 5th gen one especially with the Leather wrap is thicker and feels much nicer in hand. Also the 5th gen wheel just looks so much nicer. Def worth the $400-500 IMO as this is the primary interface to the vehicle. Would 100% do it again.

Thanks to the OP for the initial work on doing this and all the contributors that helped me get mine done.