Volkswagen Golf/Jetta SAT NAV

[jeevster]

Hi,
I just sent Rob (Auspack) an email, and he states that he is still in business and has units available ? has anyone placed a order recently ?
Cheers

[allypally]

I too found the bluetooth disapointing, but suspect some of the problem is because the microphone was designed for LeftHand drive, and is voice activated. Seems to miss the first word spoken due to the delay in activating it. Would have been better if they had supplied a Mic jack in the rear, so that you could have installed an external one, and placed it wherever.
Has anyone worked out how to crack the Windows Operating System?
If you could get into there, you could probably install other functions.

[Moonan]

Hi,
I just sent Rob (Auspack) an email, and he states that he is still in business and has units available ? has anyone placed a order recently ?
Cheers

Mine arrived yesterday, and Rob said it was his "last" in stock at the time. Ordered last week and it was sent overnight after payment.
I asked Rob in an e-mail about him going "out of business" and about warranty. He says he is trying to sell the business as a going concern and will support units already sold for warranty until or unless he sells the whole show when the new owner will have that liability.

[Moonan]

Now for a couple of questions...
1. My unit came with the manual declaring it for VW "MAGOTAN". This is a Chinese Passat! Is this the same for others that have received these?
2. Detail of rear camera set-up...
The camera has two plugs. One for video (RCA plug) and the other presumably for power. I get the little "adaptor wire" with the bit of heat shrink covering the diode and capacitor, but can anyone confirm the wiring as follows:
(i) You run the video lead provided from the head unit to the back of car for camera.
(ii) You get some wire (not provided) and run it from head unit to back for power, You connect this wire at the head unit end to the PINK wire from the loom provided that is labelled "REVERSE CAR". The other end connects to the camera power wire.
(iii) The short plug lead which plugs into the camera cable and has red and black wires at the other end is the camera power lead. Guessing that the RED is the one to connect to the wire from the front of the car. BLACK one to EARTH locally??
(iv) The bit with the 3 coloured wires and heat-shrunk diode/capacitor is connected with RED to reversing light, BLUE to local EARTH, YELLOW to camera power (ie lead from front of car connected to RED camera power wire at (iii) above).
Bob's your auntie!

How is that? Anyone who has done it care to comment??

cheers

[irish_Tim]

OK, almost right, the wire from the head unit (power) goes to one side of that little 3 wire filter, then the other (power) wire off the filter goes to your reverse light in the rear of the vehicle, the last wire of the filter goes to ground. You also need to connect the power lead from the camera to the power lead from tthe filter...

Without the 3 wire 'filter' your going to get lots of inteferance froom the motor soon as you start the car.. Looks fine whit motor off but not so nice with motor running..

Where are you located ? You should have got a piece of paper with the camera showing you how to hook up power to the camera... If your in Perth can get together to show you whats needed, done a couple already

Tim

EDIT: Newcastle is a little too far from this neck of the woods heheh

[Moonan]

Thanks Tim, and yeah, Newcastle is a bit far from you for a Sunday drive...
Yes there is a little bit of paper, and it describes the connection of the filter - as I (badly) described and you confirmed. The bit with no instruction of any sort is the short lead that plugs into the camera's second (power?) lead and has a red and black wire... I am assuming that the RED wire goes to the filtered power (ie same wire that runs forward to head unit from filter) and the black WIRE goes to earth. Can you confirm?

[jeevster]

Neil, thanks - I have just sent Rob a email asking him to confirm availability.
Did you carry out the install ? or did you use someone ?
thanks
Jeevs

[Moonan]

I'm going to have a go this weekend...
Ordered the diversity antenna adaptor from AdvancedICE today, $40 incl shipping. Should have it tomorrow. It is reported to solve the issue of poor AM radio coverage when only connecting one of the VW antennas to the AVC9000.

[Moonan]

OK, well that wasn't so bad...
AVC9000 installed and working!
One false start - it had a blown main fuse when first powered up. This worried me a bit, but I examined the fuse and decided it was "broken" not blown - ie the inside was snapped in two rather than overheated. Replaced it with a 5A (original was 10) just to make sure, then powered back up and all OK.
AM radio is hopeless, and that is WITH the active antenna adaptor thinggy, I think someone had success swapping the two fakra connectors on it. Will try that in the morning.

Bluetooth is clunky but works - on a Motorola phone - and GPS is IGO8. Maps sensis 2007 I think reading the data.
Haven't tried the ipod yet or video or CD. Will run the reversing camera stuff tomorrow as well!

[Moonan]

A couple of post-installation questions for those who've been there and done that.....
1. What is the definitive way to get best AM + FM reception? I currently have the supplied adaptor plugged into the WHITE aerial lead (only way for AM).
2. Has anyone got repeatable bluetooth?
I have got to delete the non-functioning pairing and re-pair every time we use the car. I should be able to expect an automatic connection with the paired phone every time I get in the car, right? Certainly that is what happens with the "other" phone and the "other car"...

cheers,

..Neil