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I noticed Crutchfield lists several options for 2021s, but when I submitted 2024 and 2025, it says nothing fits.
What changed?
Are there really no aftermarket Pioneer, Alpine, or Sony units that work in 2024-2025s?

 

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In '23, Toyota changed the radio to a completely different one, different face, different size, and different wiring.

So, all the aftermarket head unit manufacturers decided to not create any updated head units?
Was this new head unit size and wiring created uniquely just for the 23-25 RAV4 and no other Toyota models?

 

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Usually take a few years after a change before something is available

That may be fine if they come out in the next 3 years or so.
I’m mostly thinking about how the factory head units are unlikely to last the life of the vehicle. In 10-15 years, any replacement OEM units you find in a junkyard are also going to be super old and prone to fail and factory new may not be available. If available at all, factory new replacements may be listed at a crazy price of several thousand dollars that will rival or exceed the vehicle’s value.

 

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I'm mostly thinking how long a new 'standard' is both around before after market options become available AND how long that 'new standard' lasts before yet another 'new standard' is used.

Frankly in +60yrs I've NEVER 'had to' change a car radio/entertainment system because of a FAILURE of it.

Not once.

Obviously YMMV.

The newer entertainment systems are much more failure prone and fragile than the basic car radio systems from 20 or more years ago. In the distant past, if they did fail, you could easily just buy an aftermarket system that plugged in to the same space.
It’s highly unlikely that most of the current big screen, touchscreen, radios full of buggy software and computers are going to still be working in 15 years. The vehicle as a whole should last at least 20 years if not 30+ years before most are in junkyards, but most of the entertainment systems will fail long before then.