Can anyone give me any hints or tips to fitting a Hands Free Kit to my Skud ?

Or anyone know of any good FAQs / guides?

I have thought about this aswell, but do not realy use my phone enough to warrant a Skoda or full price fititng. A DIY link or overview would be very helpfull.

FYI I have the erricson, I'm sure it makes not one jot of difference, but now you know

Will keep an eye on this, and welcome to Briskoda.

I have an Ericsson too - I have found lots of info on what Kit/holder to

use

but none on installing it.

mikeSkull

I have a siemens full car kit in mine, prior to that I had a full Nokia kit in.

I imagine* it would be really useful if you broke down in the middle of nowhere, at least with the powered antenna you have a fighting chance of getting a signal.

Had mine fitted, sound via the normal speakers, small mike near the rear view mirror and a powered ariel on the windscreen.

*Alledgedly, in theory, pure supposition

I've got a Nokia kit in mine, but the fitter didn't know where to connect to give me sound through the stereo. I've since found the connection diagram for the stereo, but I can't be faffed to rewire it. If anyone wants the pinouts, I'll happily pass them on. I've got a windscreen mounted arial that seems to work very well. With the upcoming changes to legislation relating to using mobiles on the move, I'm glad I've got this kit. Mind you, we've just updated to Nokia 6310i phones, which are Bluetooth compatible. This opens up all kinds of possibilities, as you could have the Bluetooth car kit, and just have the phone in your pocket, not in a holder. And some car manufacturers are making it hard to fit kits (Jaguar for example)

Phil

Phil, the only downside to that is that bluetooth is quite power hungry. Looked at a bluetooth phone but decided that it would probably be flat just when I needed it, so I'd stil want the in car charger

Hmmmm good point. I haven't tried a Bluetooth connection, so I can't comment! The 6310i battery lasts for ages -even longer than the 6210. (looks around wildly for something to connect to....)

One of my colleagues will probably get the kit soon -I'll report back! He's got an X-type Jag (or a Mondeo 4X4, as we call it), and the only "official" way to fit a car kit is to use the Jag kit -which needs a subscription to JagNet -which costs

Yep bluetooth was my backup plan.

I could justify a bluetooth headset / usb dongle for the laptop combo. I have tried the t39 with bluetooth, seems to last long enough ie easily over a day. However thats without anything to talk to.

But a headset is still obvous to mr plod and a pain in the ear to wear all the time. Yes i would love bluetooth as no more wires to trap around your neck when getting in and out.But would prefer via stero so you can appear to be singing...sha right that fools em..not!

I'm pretty sure that Bluetooth shouldn't be power hungry; it should have low power consumption.

May be it's a Nokia "thing"; as I'm sure Ericsson phones aren't (having worked at Ericsson and been in the mobile coms industry for the last 10 years I can be pretty sure about this. ).

A bluetooth headset is a good way to go but.....

...wasn't there someting about a new law fine people using mobiles in car which are not in a car kit i.e i.e it's got to go through the car speakers and be powered from the car battery?

So, if you have to use your mobile in a car kit (due to legislation :twisted: ) seeing as it would be powered/charged via the battery even if Bluetooth was juicy, using it wouldn't be a problem.

Better yet get a voice activated phone and use it within a car kit.

I vaguely remember someone mentioning that they know how to remove the planel around the radio/clmiate control etc to enable fitment of a car kit. Can't remember if it was here or Vortex.

Cheers.

Adrian.

I have the notes somewhere, it's a pain to interface to the standard stereo, need to get the pins for the plugs, rare as hens teeth!!

When you say pins do you mean the spade connectors (junior timer terminals) that sit within the connectors?

If so I had to get some when connecting up the left hand rear fog lamp.

Went to my local dealer and although they didn't have any new terminals in (I suppose they would only have complete terminal blocks) they gave me a complete terminal block that they had ripped out of another Skoda.

Didn't have to pay for it either (although I imagine they would only be pence). Job sorted. :thumb:

Cheers.

Adrian.

So far, the best I can find is a guide to fitting a kit to an Audi A4

I like the idea of Bluetooth, but I would still want to be able to charge the phone in the car and have an external aerial, so I guess a 'normal' is the way I will go, plus they are much cheaper.

Try the latest web link which has just added to see if there is useful info on connecting a mobile phone into the speakers.

Ah, But! Nokia do a Bluetooth-based car kit, so you don't need to wear one of those Star Trek type headsets. See here....

http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,4879,4916,00.html

Phil

Hello Mikeskull,

I have full Nokia kit fitted in RS working through radio and car speakers. The phone 6310i, has voice dialing so this works as well via the microphone fitted in sunroof control panel for complete handsfree operation. Once you set up functions in the phone and radio, auto answer, mute radio and auto end call and return to radio work.

The kit was fitted by a mobile phone / sat nav guy based in the Crawley Surrey area. He came to me, it took about an hour. He knew all about fitting to Audi VW group cars and the cable required to work the phone through the radio. Before he came he got a lead from a third party company to connect the Nokia kit directly to the radio without any cutting into wires. He said the cable from VW cost around

Philc,

Could you send me on the connection points to connect the car kit to the radio. My e:mail address is [email protected]

I also have a 6310 but the auto answer won't work on it, do you know what version of software is on your phone (*#0000#) mine is 4.20 date 04/03/02

Regards,

Gaff

The connection details you require are here.

http://www.g7pkf.homeip.net/cars/octavia/radio.htm

Personally i just pushed bare wires in with matcsticks to secure, it has worked for 12 months now so no need to order correct connectors yet.

the microphone is best located in the interior light (thats what the small grill is for) any probs email me and i will send you my phone number so you can ring for more specific help. if you have a fax i can send you over the diagrams i got from skoda for the radio connections. that is how i did the revised pin-outs.

Regards Dean AKA G7PKF

[email protected]

An electronics engineer using matchsticks to secure connections!!! Words fail me!!!! :shock:

There again I had to do something similar when the driver's wing mirror was knocked off my Senator. The wires for the electric motors had pins on the ends which wouldn't lock into the cable terminal just out of easy reach but not sight inside the door. Cocktail sticks solved that one. (Dean - feel free to consider using those as a stronger alternative to matchsticks).

Ah but matchsticks are square and the holes were square so they fitted just right.

anyways you go round a computer engineers house and his pc is in pieces, a plumbers tap always leaks, a mechanics car would never pass an mot, a policemans house is full of bent gear, a farmers house is full of chickens (rubber) and an acountant is always in the red with his own bank account and an rs driver does everything quick and messes it up (ask his wife)

get my point?

Dean

Touche! :oops:

Dean, I hope for your sake that ****** doesn't notice he's just got 3 mentions in your latest post, and none of them complimentary... I'd stick to the speed limit for a while if I was you, and sleep with your car keys under your pillow. [img:4451468162]http://www.egri.co.uk/smileys/turkey.gif[/img:4451468162]

Dean,

Was it the cable for the Nokia speaker that you cut and connected to the car spearkers instead ?

What pins on the back of the radio did you connect to.

Regards,

Gaff

yes cut the wire that should go to the handsfree car set speaker and connect it to pin's 7 and 12

pin 7 is the +ve feed from th h/free kit's audio out (centre wire that should go to speaker) and 12 is the -ve feed (shield wire that should go to speaker)

from the h/free audio

NOTE THIS -VE IS A FLOATING -VE DO NOT CONNECT TO GROUND!! ONLY TO H/FREEKIT -VE AUDIO PHONE INPUT PIN 12

you also have to set up the radio

see the picture at

http://www.g7pkf.homeip.net/cars/octavia/radio.htm

for where pins 7 and 12 are (they are central in connector I)

PiN 2 Socket III is the mute wire, connect the handsfree mute wire here (via a 1amp or less fuse 300ma is ideal value)

Dean

Philc,

Could you send me on the connection points to connect the car kit to the radio. My e:mail address is [email protected]

I also have a 6310 but the auto answer won't work on it, do you know what version of software is on your phone (*#0000#) mine is 4.20 date 04/03/02

Regards,

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Gaff,

You set auto answer on the phone, via settings , accessories, handsfree. You can only do this when it is connected to the car kit or hands free device.

Richard

Richard,

I did set it up on the phone, there are a couple of other problems with the phone thats why I think its software related (calendar reminders not going off when they should & then go off at midnight, phone not beeping and powering off when left in car kit & car keys taken out, keypad not locking after taking phone out of car kit & not manually being able to lock them unless you power it off and back on again). I just wanted to see if anyone else with a 6310 with a different rev of software has the same problems.

Regards,

Gaff

Hi, Gaff,

I haven't noticed any of those problems on my 6310i -though the keypad lock sometimes does the wrong thing when you insert or remove it from th ecar kit. Having said that, those problems are all old 6210 faults, and the 6310 is developed from that model, so I shouldn't be surprised if some of them are still around!

Phil