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Head Unit looks like this but instead of sound its App and instead of mute its phone. I think its pre facelift because its 2017/2 and the facelift came a few months later.

Hey Guys! I got a small bit of a situation here with my head unit in my Skoda Rapid Spaceback (2017). I got a bigger OEM head unit for my car a few months back. The dealer is a good friend of mine so they deactivated the Component Protection for free tried to activate Smartlink as well, but unfortunately it ran into a problem: the "newer" head unit's VIN number is different than my car's VIN and Smartlink activation crashes every time due to that. Do you guys have any advice I can do? Many thanks in advance!

Update: active component protection got disabled by dealer cheap. They said they have to look into mirrorlink, because they are not sure if the head unit is able to do it (which make no sense, because when i press the app button it says, contact the dealer, so it means it can be activated). Anyways, they will look into it but i dont know the Vin of the original car, so some time later i will pay a visit to them to activate it. Im still struggling with the inner frame and i cant find anything thats a pop in, not a screw in frame.

I got the same frame like you in the picture, and it has some other screws on the inside, so i was thinking it can be taken out so the new one can be put in

I was hoping if i take out the screw frame the other one can go easily in. I will get back to you on the smartlink thing next week after i went there.

Update: I’ve installed the unit in, i know about component protection, have a friend at the vw dealer whos willing to deactivate it and still have smartlink working. If you do it yourself with “green menu” in your car, thats how smartlink wont work. If you do it at the dealer or by yourself with a VCDS then it will work perfectly. My bigger problem is the size. In the picture you think its the same size. Well guess what? The older unit has screws to fix it in, the newer got staples for fixation. Thats why there is an additional frame in there so you can fix the screws for the older one. And by that the newer one wont go in there.

Hi guys, I wanted to swap out the media in my 2017 Skoda Rapid for a better one with SmartLink to have Carplay in it. I found one from a scrapyard Rapid, but I have some concerns about it: Firstly, as you can see in the pictures almost everything looks the same on the back except my original (Swing - Pic 1 and 2) mediaplayer has a black output but the other one (Bolero - Pic 3 and 4) doesn't. Why is that and what does the black output do? Second, has anyone done this kind of swap and will it work? I know I have to activate Smartlink to have Carplay, but at first I want the head unit to do the exact same things as the original one (rear sensor, read my phone through usb) then I will go to a guy who can activate SmartLink. Third, the new head unit's cords are cut, will the cords from the original work with those? Are there anything else I should be concered about? Thank you for the help in advance!