Hi there, just looking for some help.

My original Columbus unit started playing up (constantly rebooting) so I purchased a new unit from an ebay outlet.

The unit was sold as 100% tested and I have to say other than the lack of audio output it appears to be working as expected.

Do I need to somehow code this new head unit into vcds?

 

Any help and assistance you can offer would be greatly appreciated. I'm due to go on holiday at the end of the week so would love to get this sorted for then.

 

Thanks in advance, carl.

 

BTW sorry if this has already been asked.

Edited 10 September, 20187 yr by carlsingleton73

Sounds like one is coded for an external amp and the other isn't...

 

Should be easy enough to sort using VCDS.

Hi langers2k,

 

appreciate your reply. do you know what to look for in vcds or know anyone who would be able to help?

I have pm'd rustynuts to see if he can assist me but not sure if there are others that can help?

Do you have genuine VCDS? In which case a full autoscan is a good start.

 

If you haven't got VCDS, then adding your location and checking the VCDS owners list/map might help find someone local.

1 hour ago, carlsingleton73 said:

do you know what to look for in vcds or know anyone who would be able to help?

 

My guess would be at Byte 01 ...

 

http://wiki.ross-tech.com/wiki/index.php/VW_Radio_Navigation_System_(RNS510)

vborovic thanks for your reply too.

that info may prove very useful thanks a lot for that :-) I guess i'll need to just tinker with the various options.

cheers, Carl.

hi folks, just to let you know I got it working thanks to your help and Rustynuts in particular.

it was a coding issue as expected.

appreciate all those who had input :-)

It might help others in the future to know what exactly was changed to get it to work in your car ...

hi vborovic,

 

It was the sound system settings in the navigation section (37 controller I think) the new unit was set skoda sound system but to get it working I had to set it to no sound system.

I followed advice from Rustynuts and popped my old unit back in, checked the coding and copied it. I replaced the new unit and copied the code across to the new unit. you have to remember to do a reset on the head unit by simultaneously pressing the two arrow buttons and the micrphone button. I missed that process to start with and was wondering why the coding didn't work. it always helps to read what vcds tells you in red wording..... ;-)

 

hope that helps.

6 minutes ago, carlsingleton73 said:

but to get it working I had to set it to no sound system

 

On 10/09/2018 at 22:01, vborovic said:

http://wiki.ross-tech.com/wiki/index.php/VW_Radio_Navigation_System_(RNS510)

 

On 10/09/2018 at 22:01, vborovic said:

My guess would be at Byte 01

 

As I was saying ...

I also had to change byte 2 as well to the front/rear active.

 

I tried all the settings in rosstech info but the one step which proved to be my undoing was resetting the head unit. DOH!

44 minutes ago, carlsingleton73 said:

I also had to change byte 2 as well to the front/rear active.

 

Now we have the complete info, that's what I was asking for ... in case someone will face the same situation in the future