AVC9000-1, trap for thick players!

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Just in case anyone is as thick as I can be sometimes, I was starting to get frustrated with my AVC9000-1 as it started muting out every so often. At first I thought it was the SD card, but then I checked it with CD, radio, iPod and USB (I tried them all). It would be playing fine, then for no reason I would loose sound. I was about to phone Auspack when I releaised that it seemed to be doing it at the same places on the road. You've probably all worked it out by now, but it took me a day or two to realise what was happening.

I had set the Satnav to start up automatically when the unit was switched on (I normally don't do this, and I can't remember why I changed it ). Anyway, as the system doesn't default to the Satnav screen (you have to select it) what was happening is that the Satnav was running in the background, but the Satnav sound was muted. So when it got near a redlight camera or speed camera, it would mute the radio sound (as it should so you can hear the satnav message), but because the Satnav sound was also muted, there would be nothing! I'm not sure why I'd muted the Satnav either, but at some point I must have done this too!

[ploz58]

yep been there brave man for owning up
phil

[team_v]

Lol, that would have been an annoying problem to find the solution for.

Did you have to do anything with a vagcom to get the AVC9000-1 activated?

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Did you have to do anything with a vagcom to get the AVC9000-1 activated?

nope, a 10 minute plug and play instalation team_v. It talked straight off to MFD and both sets of steering controls.

Only thing you need to do at service times is let your service guy know so that when it throws up the fault code about not being able to find the stock headunit, they leave it alone. If they set it to not report in the future -which makes sense to do so it doesn't keep reporting it- but you will then loose the MFD and steering controls.

[team_v]

nope, a 10 minute plug and play instalation team_v. It talked straight off to MFD and both sets of steering controls.

Only thing you need to do at service times is let your service guy know so that when it throws up the fault code about not being able to find the stock headunit, they leave it alone. If they set it to not report in the future -which makes sense to do so it doesn't keep reporting it- but you will then loose the MFD and steering controls.

Ahh okay,
Thanks for that.