Hi There, 

 

I'm not sure if anybody else has bought one of those Inline harnesses that has a Bluetooth adaptor which all connects to the rear of the head unit and connects back to the original harness. 

 

I set up a temporary rig to see if it works a d it did. Follishly I continued installing including the mic. However when it came to the refitting the head unit I realised t

There wasn't enough depth. The harness and Bluetooth worked a treat and I was impressed. However gutted that the unit still sits 10mm or so proud. Has anybody out there got a workaround as they are really quite good

 

Ta

 

Maz

I had one of those in my 2007 VRS and had the same issue. It required tucking behind the glovebox IIRC.

Hi John thankyou. I had a feeling that may be the way to go as the connector block is in the bottom left corner of the stereo. As with most things these days everything runs of. Your mobile so by having an aux in and running everything via my mobile suits me. 

 

It was raining today so should have waited. I managed to snap the 2 flimsy wires that powered the Bluetooth element. Nevermind was only a tenner. - thankyou BTW. 

I'm interested in what this is Mazzer. Can you share any details please?

Yeah sure it's basically a wiring harness. I'm not sure if you are familiar with the connectors on a vag headunit but it basically has the same connection and simply plugs into the rear of the head unit and the other end plugs into plug originally in the back of the head unit.

 

Within along with the connecting cures there is a small Bluetooth dongle with a mic. connection. 

 

You then link your phone to the Bluetooth dongle and then place your hedunkt in aux. Mode effectively your phone becomes your hifi ie calls, dab radio, play lists. The only problem was that the additional cable and connectors prevented the unit sliding back in place as the vod was deep enough frustratingly by only 10mm or so. 

its an iso harness with a bt module then? 

 

link to where you got it would be handy for others

I found with mine that it didn't fit in the void with my radio. Hence my question and John suggesting  pulling the cable around the back of the glove box. 

 

Correct though there is a Bluetooth module on there. I'm going to try another one which doesnt have all the harness and looks like it might just plug into the original radio. I've added a photo of the harness I bought. It worked well but as I say there wasn't enough room in the well of the radio. 

 

 

Thanks for both replies Mazzer, it's helpful. I've for a bluetooth FM receiver which is OK but I'd like to control tracks from the head unit. Did this allow for that?

I had been looking are adding something like below and plug it into the 3.5 aux that I don't us, but I know this won't give track control etc.

 

No it doesn't. Basically it uses the head unit as an amplifier and the phone is the source of whatever ie music radio or phone calls. I like dab so for me it suits as get reliable signal via phone apps

I bought one of these, it doesn't allow you to change tracks using stereo but as the OP has stated his soliton didn't either.

This device has a built in mic and connect's through the aux input. 

I've had it a few weeks now and only charged it once which was when I bought it. 

Call volume playback is a little low but acceptable. 

 

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If you can get it to fit the harness doesn't require charging it sits behind the radio. As mentioned there is a facility to connect a mic so that you can be heard properly. As this didn't fit I have bought a unit as below

So this one looks to me like it plugs in to the rear of the unit a d you just earth onto the head unit case. Again using power from the radio and no recharging required. It's not here yet so when it arrives I will report back.