Question for Polo owners - Bluetooth

[RoknRob]

Rob, your car was built after mine so you should be able to easily. The 9W7 unit is basically a superceed unit for the older 9W2 and 9W3 units, the 9W7 gets the text-to-speach features for the RNS-510. It's primarily a coding issue through VCDS more than anything else....

That's what I thought, too, gavs, but with the seller being so adamant about it, I would have no recourse should it not, so I am looking for another seller who will confirm it will work with VCDS encoding...

Also, does anyone know what changes have been made with the firmware upgrades? They seem to have made a few, if I understand correctly...

[iigx]

well i just got a quote from Tintacar for the tint @ $400.

They advised me the warranty was $2k for 3 years, and the "Xpack" was $2k aswell, so they've basically valued the tint at $800 (they advised $3800 price was a $1000 discount)

I asked them to do all 3 for $3k. I'm happy with paying full price for the warranty but not the other stuff!

[readerr0r]

That's what I thought, too, gavs, but with the seller being so adamant about it, I would have no recourse should it not, so I am looking for another seller who will confirm it will work with VCDS encoding...

Also, does anyone know what changes have been made with the firmware upgrades? They seem to have made a few, if I understand correctly...

He's probably concerned because the 9W7 MUST have the MFD+ display which is standard on the GTI, but not the Polo. I bought the 9W7 from the spanish seller and threw in into our early 2011 Transporter. All I had to do was tick the telephone box in the CANBus unit in VCDS and it came alive (and now I have a paid for VCDS cable ). Working fine with the Factory RNS510 ever since.

I wouldn't get too hot under the collar about A2DP btw, especially with iPhone. The audio quality doesn't compare to Aux or MDI, and you cant control the phone via the wheel.

[sVWatt]

He's probably concerned because the 9W7 MUST have the MFD+ display which is standard on the GTI, but not the Polo. I bought the 9W7 from the spanish seller and threw in into our early 2011 Transporter. All I had to do was tick the telephone box in the CANBus unit in VCDS and it came alive (and now I have a paid for VCDS cable ). Working fine with the Factory RNS510 ever since.

I wouldn't get too hot under the collar about A2DP btw, especially with iPhone. The audio quality doesn't compare to Aux or MDI, and you cant control the phone via the wheel.

My Polo works fine with mr Spaniards 9w7 - plug n play to my RNS 510, and I do like the A2DP audio streaming. There is no sound quality issue. The iPhone streams beautifully with the RNS in the Polo and the Sony in our people mover. It's a great feature.

[readerr0r]

My Polo works fine with mr Spaniards 9w7 - plug n play to my RNS 510, and I do like the A2DP audio streaming. There is no sound quality issue. The iPhone streams beautifully with the RNS in the Polo and the Sony in our people mover. It's a great feature.

Edit: Scratch that, mislead by VW broch

How did you sync your phone without going through the MFD+ display? I thought you could only do it with the MFD+ menu?

[sVWatt]

Edit: Scratch that, mislead by VW broch

How did you sync your phone without going through the MFD+ display? I thought you could only do it with the MFD+ menu?

Sync for my contacts / numbers etc was a non issue .... Worked from the get go.
Voice control and ViM required a bit of a tweak via a home burned CD with the right code on it.
I think all/ most RNS functions can be coded without the MFD+ display.

[RoknRob]

Sync for my contacts / numbers etc was a non issue .... Worked from the get go.
Voice control and ViM required a bit of a tweak via a home burned CD with the right code on it.
I think all/ most RNS functions can be coded without the MFD+ display.

So, can you confirm that with Mr Spaniard's unit, the steering wheel can be used to control the phone? Pick up, hang up, volume?

Mind you, I only have the RCD 510... I wonder if that makes a difference.

[gavs]

You won't get full functionality of the A2DP function I don't think, or is it text to speach..... Can't 100% remember but I do know that the RNS 510 + 9W7 combo does allow text to speach if enabled, not 100% on the A2DP functionality though...

[sVWatt]

So, can you confirm that with Mr Spaniard's unit, the steering wheel can be used to control the phone? Pick up, hang up, volume?

Mind you, I only have the RCD 510... I wonder if that makes a difference.

Hi RoknRob
I can confirm that S's unit is an OEM item, and that the steering wheel controls worked without coding. Volume up and down, and answer/ hang up.

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You won't get full functionality of the A2DP function I don't think, or is it text to speach..... Can't 100% remember but I do know that the RNS 510 + 9W7 combo does allow text to speach if enabled, not 100% on the A2DP functionality though...

Hi Gavs
The advanced audio distribution profile is fully supported. Text to speech I don't know about.

[pologti18t]

Is the warranty the factory version? Or some lame dealer option? And do you think you will need 6 yrs of warranty (do you keep your cars that long).

All "packs" (paint, rustproofing, dent protection, nuclear fallout protection etc etc) supplied by the dealer are a waste of money. Get your tint elsewhere for $400 max.