Me too! Was so happy when I found it was missing.
What have you done to your car today?
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I can imagine. It's gutting when you've wanted something for so damn long, get it and it's not right. Anyways, hope you enjoy it over the weekend!
Well. I'm currently under the car changing all suspension to bilstien b12 with new arb bushes too.
Fun day ahead.
Sold the old rusted wing for £50, guy from London came down to pick it up. he may buy my old brake callipers too soon. Seemed a cool guy.
Also got the replacement key from BMkeys today. £30...
Swapped over the pcb and seems to work fine once paired to the car.
Also got the replacement key from BMkeys today. £30...
Swapped over the pcb and seems to work fine once paired to the car.
Fitted a new CAN Gateway to the Edition 30 so I could finally rip out that horrible Parrot MKi thing and put in a decent satnav / BT solution. Went with the RNS 510 in the end with a Fiscon unit for BT. Hopefully it works out ok. Problem so far is that I want to keep the Parrot mic so I don't have to run the cable again. But the Parrot mic uses a 2.5mm jack, and the Fiscon takes a 3.5mm. Off to Maplin tomorrow to see if I can get it sorted, then put it all back together.
I don't have a VW mic. The car didn't come with BT as standard unfortunately. However, the Fiscon module should take care of that, and as far as I know, isn't fussy on what mic it takes, and levels can be trimmed once in operation anyway. The Parrot mic is already run anyway, so it's just a case of buying a £3 cross-over adaptor and it'll all be rigged up. No BT / Wifi antenna required? And the GPS antenna was already installed from the MFD2 that was in there previously.
Yeah I was thinking the gsm stick on that usually gets run into the pillar, if they're all there it should just be a case of connecting up like you say.
I had to trim quite a bit off the OEM Bluetooth box to get it to fit easily in below the head unit/ behind the climate if you're not running it all under the seats, but the fiscon units are a bit smaller anyway from memory
I had to trim quite a bit off the OEM Bluetooth box to get it to fit easily in below the head unit/ behind the climate if you're not running it all under the seats, but the fiscon units are a bit smaller anyway from memory
Yeah, there is LOADS of room for it round the back there. There has to be, that stupid Parrot thing wasn't exactly small either. The amount of cabling I had to pull out was unreal. Anyway, I guess that will get popped on ebay soon enough, along with the MFD2. I still have the original stereo for the ED30 too, so when it comes to selling it (if I ever do, I do like it loads, and have always wanted one), at least the stereo will be a point of negotiation.
Next on the list of things to get is a highline cluster (I did already buy one, but it's not from a GTI, so will open it up and see if I can change the dials), then a MFSW, or at least the buttons / module for them. Might see if I can get one from a normal mk5, swap the module / buttons over, and put the normal one in the Passat, since it's steering wheel was destroyed by some horrible wheel cover that was on it before. After that (well, once I have sold on the MFD2 and Parrot), I'll look at a rear brake upgrade, then look at more power (it already has cat-back exhaust, induction and S3 intercooler, so I'm thinking decat then map. Then inevitably clutch).
Next on the list of things to get is a highline cluster (I did already buy one, but it's not from a GTI, so will open it up and see if I can change the dials), then a MFSW, or at least the buttons / module for them. Might see if I can get one from a normal mk5, swap the module / buttons over, and put the normal one in the Passat, since it's steering wheel was destroyed by some horrible wheel cover that was on it before. After that (well, once I have sold on the MFD2 and Parrot), I'll look at a rear brake upgrade, then look at more power (it already has cat-back exhaust, induction and S3 intercooler, so I'm thinking decat then map. Then inevitably clutch).
Replaced the headlight bulbs on my Volvo. Suprisingly easy on the V50 taking less than 30 seconds to take out the whole headlight unit.
Halfords do make me laugh with their pricing. £12.95 for a single standard headlight bulb. Amazon Prime 2 pack of night breakers £13.99. Ordered Thursday evening and delivered Friday morning.
Halfords do make me laugh with their pricing. £12.95 for a single standard headlight bulb. Amazon Prime 2 pack of night breakers £13.99. Ordered Thursday evening and delivered Friday morning.
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Today, after three years of ownership, I finally realised that my 2003 e46 has bluetooth, and how to use it! The CD changer wouldn't eject, so I pulled the trim in the boot away to see what's what and discovered the grey bluetooth module. A quick google later I discovered how to set it up. It's pretty useless, but whatever!
Not sure what to do about this, the exhaust kit I had fitted was supposed to be rated at 93db@5k RPM, had a noise test on circuit after warnings for noise and their reading came back at [email protected]. Only thing I can point my finger at is a re-used donut gasket before the silencers but that's a lot of noise for what would be a small leak. Manufacturer trying to claim that as I bought it in stages it's not under warranty, even though all my paperwork says it is. Part of it I've owned for quite a while (3 years out of 4 year warranty, they are claiming only 1) so getting a refund and a different system probably won't be possible.
Surely that's got to be different measurements (ie one driveby and one static or similar?) as 93 to 109 is a huge difference in db
No, both of those are static at roughly 5k rpm. Before replacing the manifold and midpipe with a single sports cat I had a reading of 88db and the jump to 93db was expected, but not to 109db. This kit with a supercharger bolted on is only supposed to read 97db.