Good news is I've found at least some of the notes and all the pics I took during the install (seems I was comprehensive, there looks like hundreds of the buggers - no wonder it took so long).
I'll see what I can knock together in terms of a guide.
Haha, $50 hey? Hmmm...
I can't seem to find all the notes I took while doing my R, but I've got it somewhere... I'll find it in the next week or so hopefully.
A VW dealer most likely won't be able to help, as although it uses all off the shelf VW parts, it's not plug and play by any means. It involves splicing cables, etc. It really isn't difficult to do, but you do need to be careful so you don't destroy anything. There is an off the shelf harness you can buy, if you can figure out which one of the 8 variants you need; even then, you'll be doing a fair bit of work. If you want a shop to do it, I doubt you'll get a quote less than 4hrs labour (usually $150/hr). I got a quote here in Syd from everyone's favourite APR tuner and it was $1800 inc all the parts. When I got my Stage 1, I was talking to them about it and it turns out they hadn't done the install in an R yet anyway (this was back in Dec.)
Good news is I've found at least some of the notes and all the pics I took during the install (seems I was comprehensive, there looks like hundreds of the buggers - no wonder it took so long).
I'll see what I can knock together in terms of a guide.
I looked into it around October last year I think - dealers wouldn't do it, and a few independant garages that service VW's wouldn't touch it either. When it came to easier installs (GPS, satnav), they said they wouldn't install anything that wasn't purchased through them (since they charge a fair bit more for the product than the Ebay shops).
I'm living without it for now - but if I were to come across a good installation guide with photos, and a plug'n'play kit available (no cutting wires), then I'd be interested again.
A plug&play kit would be possible, but I can't see a market that would justify it.
Cutting wires would be $$$ cheaper, would use less wire and probably be more reliable.
Actually, once you work out where everything goes, that part of the job is one of the easier tasks.
The kit I used was 95% plug and play. There was 3 wires that needed splicing. Positive, negative and the reverse trigger. The +/-, you can take straight from the rear of the existing 510 harness. The RVC harness plugged straight-in. I think the most difficult part is ripping the trim to run the cable and that was the most time consuming.
Hello
i have GOLF V
I would install the front and rear OPS and the camera with module of Tiguan.
are they compatible ?
Tks
Giuseppe
I think I've been through this and other related posts carefully. It may be part of the title that is the obvious answer but from what I have read, I am still unsure
I am confused as to just what is possible. I do note Pepe, Ryan_R and rs73 have RNS's, so that explains their situation. It did seem that I was not going to have any joy (no RNS, not aftermarket RCD with RVC capability) but then jumpman's post inspired me again. But he has OPS, which I don't. But Maverick indicates OPS info is transmitted by the CAN bus, not the video input.
Idle, you have an R (I think) but does it have an RCD510 or an RNS?
What about me? I have a GTI off the coast of West Africa (so I cannot remove the unit and look at it) and I am VERY keen to install a RVC (wasn't on the car which I bought already on the boat). The xchange rate at present is excellent and I'd like the 'bits and bobs' here when the car arrives. Is the situation, as far as anyone knows, still that the currently installed RCD510's on non RVC equipped cars (and those without specifically ordered RVC capable aftermarket RCD's) DO NOT have video input, or has it changed (jumpman's case)?
Last edited by sdhog2002; 25-03-2011 at 01:02 PM.
OPS standards for Optical Parking Sensors. It's a bit of a misnomer since they're still sonar or whatever. But there is no "video" as part of that. It's just that it puts a car graphic on the RCD/RNS and then shows you visually what distance objects are being detected by each individual Park Distance Control sensor.
Therefore, what Maverick has written is correct as far as OPS/PDC using the canbus.
As for whether the RCD510 has a video input or not. I would say that as time goes by, you eventually get to the point where component prices lower to the extent where it becomes cheaper to have the video input circuitry on RCD510's even if they're not shipped with the RVC than it does to manufacturer and stock two separate products. Whether jumpman was just lucky to have a video input on his unit, or whether the time has come where only a single version is being manufactured, is anyone's guess
Although it may depend on market to market, I can only comment on whats available from HK. In HK, all Mk6 TSI and GTI have OPS and RVC along with RCD510 as standard equipment. We do not have satnav for any Golf variants so there are no RNS510. All Golf R come with OPS and RCD510 as standard but no RVC. Same goes for all Sciroccos. I've seen several RCD510 pulled from the several Sciroccos now and they all have video input even though RVC was never an option (they dont have the flip rear badge)
So this is in contradiction to Maverick's comment. The RCD510 in all the Mk6 variants in HK have video input but no harness.
I actually had RCD510 which I manually swapped with RNS510.
But my RCD510 had the extra socket to plug the Rvc interface cable which i've confirmed fit - so they're not for some other socket I assumed.
I haven't tested if the rcd will work with rvc, might test that when I got around to installing the rvc. my gti doesn't have OPC, it's late 09 build, maybe newer version of RCD510 are indeed RVC compatible
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