Updates from this weekend then
Well After hangin about with my friends recently and being back in a hatch back an not a saloon, I'd really missed my audio so got on the case, Luckily I a friend of mine owed me a favour so we did a deal and parted a few pound coins his way and then a rns510 my way tbh I've had the unit sitting on the table from before even getting a mk5, but as we got closer to fitting it I just wasnt filled with enough confidence to fit it, but aas luck had it another friend had fairly upto date RNS 510 with all current maps etc so managed to buy that too, so for some weird reason I now have 2 RNS510 so might stick the other one in the wifes mk5.
So thats the Ive always used a company in the midlands called BladeIce for my wiring and other bespoke bits, and as I think this Car might be a keeper I thought Id opt for some premium 4awg flexi wire, excellnant gear very flexible and strong.
SO after spending a few long hours of trying to get information about Can Gateways etc I bought one on friday too just in time for our saturday that we'd dedicated at getting some punch back in the old girl.
As Saturday started made a trip down to my mates garage and the worked starte, by 10am Id striped the glove box and etc but was absolutly struggling to get this phono's any where But after being very commited managed to get the power wire through, as embarrasing as this is for me it took me almost 50 mins to find the hole lol .
Very patiently removed all the trim along the passenger side sills so that the wires could be run properly in the channels.
Then we hit a problem, in the time that I was hard wiring the car, my mate that was going to code in my stero scanned the car so that we could read all the codes for the gateway, great, but once we fitted the new one the car wouldn accept it, at this point the hole front dash was completly stripped, So I started panicing, I had a moment of madness n thought il just carry my jump leads and get a gateway another day, what a waste of thought.Luckily a local breaker managed to have a L can gateway in stock and luckily he zipped it over on his ped.result
So there was light at the end of the tunnel, but by now its 3pm so after 5 long stressful hours of getting somewhere then no where then to a happy boy again we started boxing the car back up, unfortunatly Id didnt get to get my sub wired to the head unit as I needed to convert the sound to add a sub but thats now been left for another day :)
Other than that not much still to report, Im trying to get some bodywork carried out by VW under warrenty once thats done then we'l get it in to the bodyshop
Heres some pics not alot but im sure we've seen similar a million times but hey ho its mine
And here's a few more of my little brothers
Massive thank you so far to everyone that got involved in my 100 questions about RNS &Can Gateways etc lol, BladeIce for the audio cables, Nirro VW for the last minute gateway & Tuningwerkes for the advice in whats in store on the next half decent update :)
