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It's here!
The box is surprisingly small:
But nicely packed:
A collection of wires:
Note that there is two sets of wiring, one for other cars and the quad lock set. You only need the quad lock wires.
Everything just plugs into the hole it fits into:
The instructions leave a little to be desired, but the guys from Maxca have been very very awesome and responsive in answering questions. In fact they proactively followed up with me asking if I needed any help. It really is 100% plug and play for the headunit itself including the steering wheel controls.
I'd say installation is 30 - 60 minutes, possibly much less if you've ever done a head unit before. It really is an awesome piece of kit and a very easy install. Did I mention you need to splice zero wires for the head unit?! The RVC adaptor requires three splices, but these are into the new wiring harness so are very easy to do on the bench before you approach the car. *** I'll have to post photos of this part later ***
The installation itself is very very simple. Carefully pop the frame around the old headunit, unscrew the four T20 screws being careful not to drop them down inside the dash.
Slide the old unit out:
Plug everything in and screw it back in place.
No coding is required to make anything work with a small but. The RNS510 and Bluetooth modules can be coded out to avoid them logging errors, but even if you don't you will never see them unless you have a scan tool.
***I'll add some more photos and video soon***
This is it in place and showing what happens when you use the AC controls. A really nifty screen (and much faster than the RNS510 was at showing this info. It looks like you should be able to touch these to do stuff (because we are all conditioned that way now), but a reminder it's just a courtesy display so don't be disappointed when it doesn't turn the heated seats on when you try to touch the screen
Performance wise, once setup it boots pretty quickly and re-connects to wireless carplay in about 30 - 40 seconds. Recording that is somewhat hard since I'm trying to use the phone to do that and it stops recording when it connects
The Bluetooth phone calling (through CarPlay) works pretty well in my one quick and dirty test. More testing to confirm, but it looks good.
Audio playback seems fine, the lag for wireless is minimal and normal in my experience.
I'll reserve judgement on the screen until I can get it out in the sunlight and drive around.
As I said above, it connects to the CANBUS and shows AC controls on things on screen too! It's actually very cool.
There have been a couple of issues that may still be resolved:
The Reverse camera module just isn't working properly. It's somewhere between dodgy wiring or a faulty module. I've already organised a replacement with the support people. The picture I have seen so far is degraded from the original, but that's just the way RGB converters work. Unfortunate, but perfectly acceptable when all you're really trying to do is not back into stuff.
The touch screen calibration seems to be slightly off, enough that I notice it but not enough that I would outright reject it. I need to find out if there is a calibration setting in there somewhere as this could be a very quick and easy fix.
EDIT: Support already told me how to address this between last night and now.
You go into settings--factory--123456--settings--touch calibration
It's a bit fiddly and took a few attempts before it was happy with my fat fingers poking at the spots, but it appears to be much better now.
While you're in the factory section you also want to switch the "CAN-Door Left and Right interchange switch" so the graphic shows the left and right open door warnings correctly.
There is another section in here called Logo where you can change the stock logo from this:
To a whole range of things including Skoda (two versions), Audi and VW:
Which ends up like this:
Further on coding. For me I've coded out my RNS510 although I needed to keep the bluetooth/telephone coded in because of my Polar FIS which piggy backs on that screen in the MFD and doesn't seem to work if I disable the telephone? It retains that permanent error because it's not plugged into the head unit, but as I said before, without a scan tool you would never know. I've also deleted all phones from the menu on the MFD so there is no confusion.
CarPlay seems very responsive and appears to work just as well as the Pioneer and factory units I've used in other cards. I'm not actually sure how to switch phones if you have two users in the car at the same time with the wireless CarPlay... but then it's not something I have ever had to deal with before!! I'll see if I can work that out.
I need to take it for a drive now as it's only been playing in the garage so far, but assuming the RVC issues can be fixed with a replacement part and it performs as well as it seems to, we might very well be onto a winner here. Let's call it a tentative yay! for now.
Watch this space for some videos in the near future.
Originally Posted by FJ Steve
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