Where Is the DCM in a 2016 Toyota Land Cruiser?

The DCM — the Data Communication Module, part of Safety Connect / Connected Services — is the module our bypass harness plugs into. Finding it is the only tricky part of the install. Pick your vehicle and we will show you where it lives and what has to come apart to reach it.

Not sure whether your vehicle even has one? Look for an SOS or Call Toyota button near the rear-view mirror or in the overhead console. No button means no DCM — and no need for the bypass harness.

Short answer

In the centre console, toward the rear.

We have not verified the disassembly for this truck yet - the module's position is confirmed, but ask us before you plan the job.

Where it is

Inside the centre console toward the REAR, near the console box - not in the dash behind the radio. The module behind the head unit on this truck is the multi-media receiver, which is easy to mistake for the DCM once the stack is apart.

How to get to it

We do not have the factory removal procedure for this truck, so we will not invent a teardown for you. What we can tell you is where it lives: the module is in the centre console toward the REAR, not up in the dash behind the radio - work in from the console rather than pulling the centre stack apart. If you get in there and photograph it, send the pictures our way and we will publish them here for the next owner.

No SOS button near the rear-view mirror or overhead console means the vehicle was built without Safety Connect - there is no DCM to bypass and this kit is not needed. Two things worth knowing on this truck: pulling a fuse is not a clean substitute - owners report losing the hands-free microphone along with the SOS function, and some of these trucks have no dedicated DCM fuse at all (the module shares a general ECU fuse). And if you ask Toyota's connected-services desk, you may be told your truck "has no Data Communication Module" - that is their newer naming. Safety Connect arrived on the Land Cruiser for 2010, and these trucks carry the telematics transceiver (Toyota part 86741) that this kit bypasses.

The bypass harness for this vehicle

Our bypass kit disconnects the DCM without losing your front right speaker or the hands-free Bluetooth microphone — the two things that stop working if you simply unplug the module.

See the AHH-DCM92 DCM bypass harness »

Still cannot find it, or your trim looks different? Email us with your year, model, and a photo of your dash and we will point you straight at it.

Vehicles we have mapped so far

We are adding vehicles as we confirm them. Do not see yours? Ask us — that is how this list grows.

Looking for the harness itself? AHH-DCM77 (2020 and newer) — AHH-DCM92 (2016-2020).