Replacing RNS 510 with RCD 330+

[sn809]

I bit the bullet and ended up with this one:
RCD330 Plus RCD330G Carplay R340G Android Auto Car Radio RCD 330G 6RF 035 187E For VW Golf 5 6 Jetta MK6 CC Tiguan Passat Polo
It's the Lemon Shark stickered one.
I have got a bit of an issue if I want to bluetooth music stream, so I just wanted to see if anyone else has had it and what the fix for it is or,
If I start up the car and go to stream, the song, artist and album all display, but if I press the play button on the screen nothing happens, the play icon changes to pause, so the system looks like it is playing but obviously no sound, and the minute and second counter isn't moving either. I have to start it from my phone.

Cheers

How much was yours and could you please post a shipping time thanks, did you get the one with the red led on the buttons and no aux in?

I think you need to connect via USB cable for it to work from what I have read up.

From memory- which is a bit muddled after reading so much lol, another thing you could try was what some one did earlier in the thread. Delete the bluetooth device from headunit and phone, then restart the Headunit, then switch off and restart the car. Then open blue tooth first on headunit, then the device then send command from headunit to sync.

[Mofo]

How much was yours and could you please post a shipping time thanks, did you get the one with the red led on the buttons and no aux in?

I got this one:

All up it was a touch over AUD400 thanks to our ordinary exchange rate at the moment but that did include a couple of stacked discounts through ozbargain
Postage only took about 5 days, very quick all things considered.
In that I also bought a steering wheel control adapter (about USD7) but I ended up not needing it as the quadlock adapter works perfectly.
Mine still has the aux in and I think the led's are red (been riding my bike more than driving my car these last few days!)
I ended up sorting out the bluetooth issue, I just changed one of the settings within android auto on my phone and now it's all good.

All up I'm really happy with it. I've got a few bonus's that I wasn't expecting.
1) The phone button on my steering wheel (I have the 8 button cluster) now actually operates the phone.
2) On the right side of the steering wheel, the up/down arrows skips the songs forwards/backwards (as well as moving through the km travelled/DTE/time in car and current fuel consumption, which is all I could ever use them for before)
3) I still use an SD card and it plays almost immediately. My old RCD510 took forever to read the card and start playing.

The install was quite simple also, I just had my tablet sitting on the dash and followed a couple of youtube clips.

Let me know if you need any more info.

It's quite ironic though, got an ace headunit with maps/waze, more music than I can listen to and now I can't really drive anywhere due to the covid-19 restrictions

[sn809]

I got this one:

Let me know if you need any more info.

It's quite ironic though, got an ace headunit with maps/waze, more music than I can listen to and now I can't really drive anywhere due to the covid-19 restrictions

Thanks a lot and glad you got it all sorted. You should have the same steering wheel as mine, good to know the Quad connector working fine so I can keep current steering wheel as an option if I am not able to source a B7/Mk6 steering wheel with airbag.

Did you also get the Kufak (?sp) antenna connector and if you did, did you get the one with a resistor or just the two wires crimped together. Resistor is supposed to get better reception so I guess the real question is how is your radio reception.

[Mofo]

Did you also get the Kufak (?sp) antenna connector and if you did, did you get the one with a resistor or just the two wires crimped together. Resistor is supposed to get better reception so I guess the real question is how is your radio reception.

I used my existing antenna connector which I purchased with my original RCD510.
This image isn't mine but it's the same visually:


I couldn't tell you if it has a resistor but I had to remove the plug, in the red, to make it fit properly to the unit.
The new unit has a different plastic connector which wasn't compatible with my existing one.
This was the only part I had a little trouble with.
Once done, the connection is tight so I'm not concerned about the socket coming loose.
Because it's my original, my radio reception is fine, at least on FM.

Not sure if this is of any help!

[sn809]

Yeah so a few of the units come with a 2 is to 1 converter, which combines AM and FM reception (?) but does lead to bad reception. Unfortunately AM is still of value out in the sticks and in between.