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I just got my unit from the same source and saw your review on their site. First, where did you mount your HDTV antenna? Also, what is the detect wire you mention (and what color is it?) I see a pink "REW" wire, is that it? The documentation does suck and the unit I got has completely different ports on the rear than the one on their site.Here's the issue. I bought an aftermarket replacement deck from VW Touareg GPS Navigation|Touareg DVD GPS System|Touareg DVD Player
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I ordered the TV Tuner (Mobile DTV) and installed that, works awesome although in the Minneapolis area there's only one channel (45) and its often garbled audio, while video is fine.
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I connected the detect to the black and blue wire (Thanks Nickm, picked that up from your DIY) and ran the ground to one of the mount posts for the rear taillight assembly. Then I just threw the RCA cable over the back seats up to the front with the head unit out and connected it (and its detect wire) to the reverse wire on the head unit). Threw her in reverse and viola, we have perfect reverse video. Again I'm very impressed.
Yes, thanks. I installed my camera this past weekend using the same source as you while utilizing a Phatbox cable hooked to the CD changer harness to get the signal to the back of the radio. I had to move the pins in the China harness to match up with the wires on the changer cable, but that was no big deal.The pink REW wire is in fact the detect wire on the deck. It was wired directly to the reverse light black and blue wire. Works flawlessly. When I back up it overrides anything the deck is doing and shows the reverse screen.
I was unable to get any on mine, so I didn't even hook it up. Disappointing to say the least.drhell2pay said:I went ghetto on the HDTV antenna. I just ran it through the glove box since I don't watch TV unless I'm on a long road trip. I pull it out and put it on the roof outside the passenger window since it has a super strong magnet on the bottom. It holds well. We used it on a 4 hour trip from MN to WI. However, most major markets only had 1 or 2 stations.
Good tip, thanks for that. I just went out and adjusted everything down to 1, but left GPS at 3.drhell2pay said:Sound quality is better than factory. However, I was able to temporarily disable the sound because the built in amp in this deck is WAY more powerful than factory. There is an amplifier adjustment screen that you need to adjust so that the loudest it gets is just enough for your ears..I had originally cranked all the dials up across this screen (it has slide adjustments for each input such as DVD, NAV, iPod etc.) You'll need to play with them to get it loud enough for you but not so loud you're blowing speaks.
I was pleasantly surprised with the GPS software. The cool thing is that you can change it to any number of other GPS softwares out there that run on Windows CE 5/6 (Navigon and maybe TomTom). All you need to do is load it to the SD card and point the GPS software location to the new .exe file.drhell2pay said:SD card option I bought the 16GB but I don't think it matters its just the maps for the iGO DVD Nav (which blows away the Nav on my Q5 and my S6). Downtown Minneapolis buildings are in perfect 3D, crazy. I bought a factory replacement deck for my Passat as well and just went with the 4GB card.
I think that'd be a stretch. The software is okay, but not great. Unfortunately, it's not re-skinnable, so it must be in ROM.drhell2pay said:From what I found out about this company is that many cars that are shipped to Japan have their factory units replaced at the dealerships directly by these units because the Japanese will not accept how ****ty the factory units are. Don't know if that's true or not.
All units shipped after September have the patch already applied (though the SD card application is still in Chinese.) The iPod interface leaves a lot to be desired, IMO. The listing is excruciatingly slow, and it defaults to Songs instead of the Artist, Album, Songs, etc menu. Thanks for the tip regarding the DVD playing, I haven't tried that function yet.drhell2pay said:Just a heads up, when I was using the iPod interface menu to browse through my songs the 1. position was in Chinese. Double tapping this brought me to another screen with numbers where each number was more chinese. Through trial and error I found this was a playlist/artist/song title organizer. I emailed the company and they sent me a firmware update that fixed the issue. However the new firmware also disabled my ability to play DVDs while driving. Emailed them again and found that the brown wire on the back was the drive detect wire to shut down the DVD while in motion. Just grounded that wire and DVD was back in business.
The Bluetooth is another sore spot for me. While paired with the phone, if you receive a phone call, GPS will freeze. It resumes when you're off the call, but it's annoying if you're using GPS to get somewhere and talking on the phone via BT at the same time.drhell2pay said:Oh and yes it came with all the necessary cables to connect my iPod/iPhone.
The iPhone was having issues when it was connected to bluetooth AND directly connected for music, it wouldn't play iPod songs correctly etc. So if you use an iPhone be aware of this issue. Shutting off bluetooth corrects this.
Thanks. Actually, they got the one you got back in stock. It's being installed today! I'm really looking forward to it. Thanks again for taking the time for this write up. I probably wouldn't have ordered from China without your review.Yes. The interface software is skinned different but its the same nav system etc. My Passat has that version
