Hi all,

Bought a new stereo (Columbus copy) off nikkonite. Any advice for fitting this to my mk2 octavia which has a stream MP3 currently. Any specialist tools before I go rip my car apart!

You will need a new cover thing in either silver or black depending on what you have

You also need a trox screw driver to get your old one out

Got a full set or torx stuff so should be good.

It's the same size/shape as my old one so should

Hopefully retrofit straight in without any plastics changed!

Good luck with the fitting

 

I've got 2 spare silver surrounds for climatronic cars (if you break yours) and I'm in Sheffield too

Takes 10 minutes and fitting a GPS antenna (you do have one I guess?), then possibly an aerial splitter (you got one of them as well?) and then coding via VCDS.

 

Remove the trim, 4 Torx screws and remove the unit, unclip the Quadlock connector and aerial. Fit GPS antenna in a suitable place, clip that, the aerial (and adapter), and the quadlock to the new unit. Replace the unit and fix with the Torx screws. Turn it on and input the security code. Then code the unit to the car and finally refit the trim.

 

Edit: Ignore some of that, just seen it's a Columbus Copy, so coding won't be necessary perhaps..

I'm officially stuck!

How?

I do need new plastics. Anyone?

I have the main radio now wired in and working (that was difficult enough!)

I haven't even started with the rear view, front facing, auxiliary etc!

Right I've got the stereo working for radio and CD currently. I was given two cameras (assume one front and a reverse plate camera)

I have a microphone but can't see anywhere for that to go into the unit either. Could do with finding a proper instruction booklet online.

It also needs a new GPS software card and another SD card?

Bluetooth I don't know the link code for so can't sync phone to it

Edited 7 June, 201510 yr by JeremyAndrews

There is a jack plug on the rear Jeremy, with the rear of the  unit facing you its roughly half way up on the left hand side. The link code is likely the one in your phone, try 0000 as that's what I used. If the unit doesn't find your phone search using your phone  and you will find car kit, it works flawlessly.The reversing camera is labelled camera, I never fitted the numberplate one as you will see so no help with regards to wiring I'm afraid. The smaller camera came with the unit and I never used it so I included it. As I said in the advert the GPS firmware is messed up and you will need to rectify that to use the GPS as its the wrong resolution. Then you will need IGO which can be downloaded from multiple sources or purchased legitimately. The front facing camera I used the ebay one that was talked about recently into one of the video inputs, again worked flawlessly. Plastics you will need to buy as did I, I only had a climate one as I needed the same one you did. Cost me £12 from ebay. SD card is a standard SD card, put your movies , music etc on them from a pc and stick it in to play using the menus

Cheers. I'll get it out when I sort new trim out and try adding some

More bits. Roof lining is coming out Thursday so GPS antenna is getting mounted external on the roof and will run te reverse camera cabling through their too.

I've just bought the correct trim for this off Skodaparts to fit my DNX525DAB.

 

http://www.skodaparts.com/product/octavia-radio-trim-for-sat-nav-2004-2008-50284

 

Wasn't the speediest of delivery though.