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Title: vcds coding for new radio
Post by: karl210 on July 26, 2013, 09:02:15 am
My car came with a rcd500 radio which i swapped out for an aftermarket one. Last week this broke but i sold the rcd500 but i had my old rcd300 from my previous car in the loft so ive put that in for a while but im getting a fault code saying its incorrectly coded and that all the speakers have an open circuit. I didnt have this problem before even with the aftermarket stereo. It all works fine except its really bassy and its doing my head in. Where will i find the correct coding? thanks
Title: Re: vcds coding for new radio
Post by: bacillus on July 26, 2013, 10:37:42 am
Did your car originally come with the VW sound pack option i.e. ten speakers with separate amp under the front passenger's seat?
Title: Re: vcds coding for new radio
Post by: karl210 on July 26, 2013, 01:03:16 pm
Yeah it did and my old basic 1.4 just had 6 speakers I think
Title: Re: vcds coding for new radio
Post by: bacillus on July 26, 2013, 01:26:21 pm
Sounds, sorry for the pun  :laugh: , like you need to let the gateway know in the installation list that the sound pack amp is there. You will need use of a vcds cable or vas software to check.
Title: Re: vcds coding for new radio
Post by: karl210 on July 26, 2013, 03:07:25 pm
Haha shocking pun! Yeah ive got me a cable what do I do? Lol. Do I go into the easy coding thing and tick the boxesor will iI need to enter a full new long code, cheers
Title: Re: vcds coding for new radio
Post by: Tfsi_Mike on July 26, 2013, 03:15:25 pm

I have a similar issue.  I have fitted an after market single din stereo.

No issues with it not working. Just that I get a fault code because the original radio controller cannot be reached.

Not sure how to change the code as the controller cannot be accessed to tell the car it no longer has the oem stereo
Title: Re: vcds coding for new radio
Post by: bacillus on July 26, 2013, 03:37:20 pm
Haha shocking pun! Yeah ive got me a cable what do I do? Lol. Do I go into the easy coding thing and tick the boxesor will iI need to enter a full new long code, cheers

Try running vcds> select>19-Can Gateway>installation list. address 47 should be checked if you have the sound pack.

Mike in your install list have you unchecked address 56 for Radio?
Title: Re: vcds coding for new radio
Post by: Tfsi_Mike on July 26, 2013, 05:19:13 pm
Haha shocking pun! Yeah ive got me a cable what do I do? Lol. Do I go into the easy coding thing and tick the boxesor will iI need to enter a full new long code, cheers

Try running vcds> select>19-Can Gateway>installation list. address 47 should be checked if you have the sound pack.

Mike in your install list have you unchecked address 56 for Radio?

I'll give that a bash when I get in 
Title: Re: vcds coding for new radio
Post by: karl210 on July 27, 2013, 01:58:07 pm
Haha shocking pun! Yeah ive got me a cable what do I do? Lol. Do I go into the easy coding thing and tick the boxesor will iI need to enter a full new long code, cheers

Try running vcds> select>19-Can Gateway>installation list. address 47 should be checked if you have the sound pack.

Mike in your install list have you unchecked address 56 for Radio?

Address 47 was ticked. I changed the speaker coding to 0 passive speakers instead of 4 passive speakers and its got rid of all the speaker open circuit fault codes, and i ticked a radio antenna box and its got rid of the incorrectly coded radio fault code but it doesnt sound any different, oh well looks like il have to get saving