Polo Stereo Advice

[tooch]

I went in there with the intention of buying a set of the keys, as they were on their website. Asked the guy about them and he just said "drive the car into the workshop and one of the boys will do it for ya!".

Didn't charge me anything despite me offering to pay for the effort. Only took the guy all of 2 mins, took him longer to remove one of the keys that was stuck in the deck

[AcoustiK]

Thanks mate,

I'll check em out, might have to call in to see if they open tomorrow or Saturday....

[vwthunder]

Massive thanks to No Limit Electronics in City Rd. Sth Melbourne for removing the stock deck for me as I had the wrong keys. Very helpful and friendly guys, I'd recommend going there for any professional car audio stuff.

Yes I agree, they put my unit in and finished the wiring, so I am guessing they have a bit of experence with Polos now

[tooch]

They've got some nice gear there too, Audison amps and all sorts of other goodies. Almost got the credit card out

Nice bunch of blokes, certainly beats the arrogant attitude that most of the chain/franchise places have now.

On another note, I'm really happy with how this unit sounds compared to the stock deck. Makes the stock speakers really shine, they actually sound GOOD! And they put out enough bass for me, I'm not going to bother with a sub.

[Servo]

Just having a look at some of the models you guys have mentioned and the prices are pretty exxie

Did you guys buy your head units local or from overseas?

[tooch]

Just having a look at some of the models you guys have mentioned and the prices are pretty exxie

Did you guys buy your head units local or from overseas?

I got mine through an associate for approximately half the retail price

With the AVIC series, you can use the US models here, takes a bit of tweaking to get the aus maps on them, but not too hard. The FM tuner should work ok here, don't think AM will, and the US models don't have SUNA traffic announcements.

www.avic411.com has heaps of info

[AcoustiK]

Got mine imported, was finding it hard to get the Clarion Ddin here, there's like a dying marketing for DDins here too.

[tooch]

Piczors:








I have to pull the unit out again at some stage to replace the dodgy CANBUS box, so when I do I'll modify the fascia so it sits more flush. Pretty happy with it as is though.
That custom GTI splash image I just found on the interwebs, on avic411.com forums.
I also made a custom mic bracket, as the plastic one that comes with the AVIC sucks, its ugly and faces the mic the wrong way.
You can also see where I fed the USB and ipod cable through, there is a little blanking plate in the glovebox which you can just push out with your fingers. Then use a stiff wire to feed the wires through to the stereo area. Took all of 1 minute.
One thing I hate though is the piano black finish of the unit. For someone OCD about fingerprints like me, it drives me insane! I carry a cloth in my glovebox just to dust/wipe it

[tooch]

Also FYI, if you get a VW to ISO convertor, here is the ISO pinout that you can wire your head unit's harness directly to: http://web.onetel.net.uk/~uncletony/in_car.htm

Wire number A5 (blue, power antenna) works as a switched +12v, behaves exactly like it should (stays on until key removed). So you don't technically need a canbus adapter to do that, or splice into any cigarette socket wiring.

As for the antenna booster that you need for these cars, I just ran that one off the head unit's power antenna output.

[morbo2000]

I wish I had of known about the antenna power wire! I'll tell you right now i'll be changing that on mine as soon as I get home after chrissy! That's my big annoyance with the after market head unit. Does the hu turn on when you put the key in but before you switch the car on? (so you can use the stereo without turning the car to on)