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Can anyone who has dealt with a radio upgrade and can module swap help me out?

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ZoliWorks:
Nice, glad to hear. You can connect the orange wires from the plugs and leave the black wires separate. This will turn on the backlight on the unit when you turn on your car's parking lights. If both wires are separate, the backlight only turns on when your key is in the ignition and your car's lights are on.

Lot's of people go for the RCD 330 cause it comes with Carplay and it's OEM. If you have a factory amp, I'd suggest you stick to an OEM player or it'll sound like ass. If you have no amp, go for whatever unit you want.

I hear Pioneers are quite good when it comes to sound quality and they have all the features you'd want from them. After the Chinese unit, I went for a Pioneer DMH A3300 DAB and cant say I regretted it. You will need a "Connect 2" or "2 Connects" module, whatever it's called, to basically let the unit take commands from your steering wheel, but those are very cheap.

I went with the RNS 510 and an OEM Bluetooth unit off a 2014 CC cause it fits perfectly with the design of the Mk5 dash and has all the features I need: reversing camera and Bluetooth music.

Marticus:

--- Quote from: ZoliWorks on June 26, 2024, 07:06:43 pm ---Nice, glad to hear. You can connect the orange wires from the plugs and leave the black wires separate. This will turn on the backlight on the unit when you turn on your car's parking lights. If both wires are separate, the backlight only turns on when your key is in the ignition and your car's lights are on.

Lot's of people go for the RCD 330 cause it comes with Carplay and it's OEM. If you have a factory amp, I'd suggest you stick to an OEM player or it'll sound like ass. If you have no amp, go for whatever unit you want.

I hear Pioneers are quite good when it comes to sound quality and they have all the features you'd want from them. After the Chinese unit, I went for a Pioneer DMH A3300 DAB and cant say I regretted it. You will need a "Connect 2" or "2 Connects" module, whatever it's called, to basically let the unit take commands from your steering wheel, but those are very cheap.

I went with the RNS 510 and an OEM Bluetooth unit off a 2014 CC cause it fits perfectly with the design of the Mk5 dash and has all the features I need: reversing camera and Bluetooth music.

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I was looking at the rcd330 as my second gar has Android auto and carplay, and honestly I think I use it more that any of the onboard features.

I was also seeing some of the newer pioneer, and other big brand headunits also now have phone mirroring or app support, but like you I enjoy the OEM look.

The only thing putting me off the rcd330, is that there are so many variants and 'fakes' about. It's exhausting trying to figure out what you need.

I need to think in it some more, but not too long because this one I'm using for testing now is terrible :wink:

lazy:
I just googled RCD 330 to find out what it was and found www.rcd330.co.uk
Has anyone heard of this company and are they reputable, what they're saying on their website sounds good. They also sell a CANBUS gateway simulator, I'm wondering if this means you don't have to do any programming, which should make installation easy.
I to want to upgrade my head unit and want the OEM look, do you think it will look too modern in a Mk5, and what would you need to be able to use it for hands free calling

pudding:
I seriously wouldn't update the CAN gateway as it often causes more issues than it fixes. Especially given the royal pain in the backside location of it  :grin:

The battery drain issue in relation to OE radios only affected the earlier RNS510 retrofits (revision A, B, C etc up to E iirc), but you found the cause with your aftermarket one, nice one  :happy2: The later LED screen RNS510s had an inbuilt battery drain fix via a firmware updated, revision P onwards iirc if anyone is considering one, although personally I woudn't bother as they are all sh*t  :grin:


--- Quote from: lazy on June 29, 2024, 02:10:54 pm ---I just googled RCD 330 to find out what it was and found www.rcd330.co.uk
Has anyone heard of this company and are they reputable, what they're saying on their website sounds good. They also sell a CANBUS gateway simulator, I'm wondering if this means you don't have to do any programming, which should make installation easy.
I to want to upgrade my head unit and want the OEM look, do you think it will look too modern in a Mk5, and what would you need to be able to use it for hands free calling

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I don't know about that company specifically, but as they correctly point out, the RCD330 was a legit OE head unit from VW, but sadly region specific.  Why VW felt the rest of the world didn't deserve it is a mystery to me, but hey ho.

Not sure what you mean by CANBUS gateway simulator as the MK5 has an actual CAN gateway as standard.  It's above the pedal box in a god awful location to access.  Best to attack it through the plastic panel under the wiper linkage if you need to change it out for a newer one, just make sure you back up there long codings with VCDS or OBD11 first!  They probably mean certain CAN signals the RCD330 needs can be simulated. Best to speak to them to get the ins and outs of it.

No I don't think the RCD330 looks too modern at all in a MK5 tbh. It's a decent OE solution if you want Carplay/Android Auto.  Although if you want hands free calling, try and get a VW RCD330 compatible microphone as aftermarket ones can sound crap, muted and echoey.

lazy:
https://www.rcd330.co.uk/collections/all-products/products/canbus-gateway-simulator-prevent-battery-drain-pre-2010-cars
Looking at the picture of it, it looks like it plugs between the radio and the car wiring, but I could be completely wrong. Really I need to get in touch with them and get some info off them.
I don't really want to cause myself a headache and how you describe  getting access certainly does sound like a right pain.
Also another thing I don't want is poor music sound quality but if they are genuine VW items I can't see that being too much of a problem, the sound out of the basic system seems good enough for me although I haven't had much chance to really have a good listen

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