What did you and your MK2 do today?
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Nice, thinking of getting rid of my rns510 for one of these! Was it a straight swap and do steering wheel buttons work and mfd etc?
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Cheers Mate
To give a full picture, its best to say what I had to start with, with what I’ve lost and gained.
My car is a MK2 Facelift model, which came with the large MFD, Bluetooth and reverse parking sensors.
What I had with my old headunit:
Buttons on the left hand side of steering wheel controlled scrolling through MFD, volume up/down, also the Mic button engaged Bluetooth with the nice ladies voice for voice control
Buttons on the right hand side controlled - Skip tracks (and a couple of other things I can’t quite remember now)
Also, the Large MFD displayed what track I was listening to/radio station was on etc as well as everything else
What I’ve lost/what’s changed since fitting the Kenwood;
• Lost the factory Bluetooth (no great shakes as Bluetooth is in the Kenwood) and I’ve lost the ladies voice/voice control
• MFD doesn’t show track/station anymore
• Scrolling through MFD and Setting is now all done solely via all the buttons on the right hand side of the steering wheel
• Buttons on the left control volume up/down for the Kenwood & skip tracks
•P arking sensors retained (select reverse – volume is muted slightly to make beeps audible)
Fitting was a relative doddle - especially as I had a fellow SCN member (Bigbadjay) helping me, so 2 pairs of hands were better than one.
The Sat Nav aerial was fitted in the passenger side A-pilar
The Bluetooth Mic was clipped into the top of the driver’s side A-pillar trim, with the wire fed inside the headlining along the windscreen and down behind the passenger side A-pillar trim along with the sat-nav aerial to the head unit.
The biggest headache came right at the end as I was trying to get the Kenwood unit itself into place in the dash.
All the extra wiring that has to be fitted I.E - The Kenwood power/Speaker loom that plugs into the Kenwood unit & the Kenwood CAW-VW2150 adaptor wiring that retains the steering wheel buttons & plugs into the original car stereo wiring loom all has to be squeezed into the space at the back of the unit
The old unit looks like a double DIN unit, when in fact it’s a single DIN with a big facia
Just had to keep pulling the Kenwood out and jiggling for ages, before we got all the wiring into the available gaps.. Some of the wiring ended up tucked into the climate control unit.
Ideally, if I had more time, last night, I’d have taken a dremmel and cut some of the plastic trim out at the rear of the space the stereo is housed in the dash to give more space for the wiring to go.
I’m off next Monday – Wednesday, so I think I’m going to take it out & cut some of the plastic out of the back to create more space for the wiring harnesses, so there is nothing under excessive stress.
All in all, very happy with it, sound quality is 1,000,000% better, navigation is crisp, Bluetooth is just as good as the factory BT + there’s loads of options for further upgrades.
Cheers Mate
The biggest headache came right at the end as I was trying to get the Kenwood unit itself into place in the dash.
All the extra wiring that has to be fitted I.E - The Kenwood power/Speaker loom that plugs into the Kenwood unit & the Kenwood CAW-VW2150 adaptor wiring that retains the steering wheel buttons & plugs into the original car stereo wiring loom all has to be squeezed into the space at the back of the unit
Just had to keep pulling the Kenwood out and jiggling for ages, before we got all the wiring into the available gaps.. Some of the wiring ended up tucked into the climate control unit.
I found a similar problem when fitting mine (not kenwood). I removed the glove box and that gave plenty of access to the rear of the cage that the unit fits into so it was easy to feed the wires through and make sure none of them got trapped.
A-ha,
Never thought of doing that, how do you remove the glovebox - any tips?
We only started at 8pm last night and it took us 2 hours, it was dark by the time we finished off and using the torch app on the phones to see down nooks & crannies
Fitted my magma wrap and forge DV to intake hose. Looking good
http://www.seatcupra.net/forums/showthread.php?t=386583&page=2
http://www.seatcupra.net/forums/showthread.php?t=386583&page=2
Got my key cover today, also fitted some smoked indicators from eBay. Pleased with both, still waiting on the l.e.d's from partsulike
Going to drop her off tomorrow morning to Seat at 8:30 for a service, told them not to wash. They'd only make a mess of it!
I agree. Mine was washed by the dealer last time I had a warranty fix done. Came back clean, but stripped of any wax and swirled to sh**
Yeah I trust them to service it, I want that Seat stamp for my Service book. What I dont need is that stupid machine to wash my car and leave marks all over it, plus I doubt they'd even dry it, if they did it would be with a pair of old jeans lol
Picture as I said bye for a while:
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Spoke to SEAT UK who said my car can be switched to long life servicing and that's what they recommend
Spoke to SEAT UK who said my car can be switched to long life servicing and that's what they recommend
Why and how??
Spoke to SEAT UK who said my car can be switched to long life servicing and that's what they recommend
Do explain, cheaper servicing?
Long life servicing is for cars that do higher mileage (over 10k). You get it serviced every 20k miles or a year, whichever is first.
Some people say its no good for the car etc etc.
Some cars are set to long life from factory, some aren't. Apparently cars that can go on long life have different codes or something. If you ring SEAT UK they'll be able to tell you. Mine was long life from factory and the previous owner switched it in July last year to standard servicing, but the lady said I can have it put back to long life.
Better not be, going to collect it in a min.
Ahhhh right, yeah I'm only doing like 5 to 7k miles a year
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