Re: Any one installed Euro OEM DELTA 6 CD player in the 32.....plug n play (SilverBulletR32)
Hi all... bumping this back up to add some info here.
I have one of the OEM European double din Delta 6 radio's in my possesion (exactly as pictured in above posts).
OK... I have two Vdubs...
- 2003 Passat Wagon with the standard double DIN headunit (non moonson set-up no external amp) with 6 disc OEM changer in the back.
- 2003 GTI with the standard double din monsoon set-up (i.e. external amp in the back) along with the OEM 6 disc CD changer.
I got the Delta 6 this winter (via German Ebayer willing to ship to USA). I did a bunch of digging and from what I found all this unit needed was vagcom coding to work in the GTI (see quotes pasted in at the bottom of my post).
I have NOT yet tried putting the Delta6 into the GTI (will be doing this soon in the next week I hope). I have tried it out in my Passat this winter. It worked without a hitch. It plugged directly in to the exsisting stock harness and antenna hook ups, turned it on, entered the security code, and I was up and running. Didn't need to vagcom anything in the Passat, it controlled the CD changer and definetly sounded better than ther stock double din unit (in this set-up the Delta 6 directly drives the speakers in the Passat).
- I do not recall the radio displaying CD text info, I do not think it does this.
- It does have RDS. You can be driving down the road listening to a CD or another radio station, and when a traffic broadcast comes on, it switches over for the traffic broadcast (on whatever station that is) and when over it swtiched you back.
- It also displays radio station data if that particular station is broadcasting that info... The info varies from just the name of the radio station to the station, prorgam, and track being played... depending on the statsion and what text data the decide to broadcast.
To get the radio to work in MY GTI with its monsoon set-up, I will need to VAG-Com it to tell it is talking to an external amp and not speakers.
Here is some info I have dug up about this from previous posting sabout the Dleta 6 radio in other forums:
| Quote, originally posted by Egorka » |
Ok... this night at SoCal GTG Dan helped me again to change radio codes by using VAG-COM. At the first it was set to (I'm listing only last 5 digits from the radio code) 00401 and we changed it to 00033. Basically we left first to digits as it is meaning - 00 - All models with Premium VI w/o Multifucntioning Steering Wheel. The third digits which controls radio/speakers system coding was changed from 4 - non-Monsoon to 0 - Monsoon because I have a Monsoon amplifier still installed in the trunk. The fourth digit which controls sound correction coding was changed from 0 - non-Monsoon to 3 -Monsoon. And the last fifth digit was changed from 1 - no CD Player/Changer to 3 - CD Player/Changer.
My first impression was that the bugging "click-click-click" noise at the moment of turning on the radio system dissapeared. Secondly, the speakers doesn't rattle that much anymore and the system remained all that full range of frequencies coming from the speakers like it was before the coding. The sound sounds more correctly processed through the system and amplifier. However, there is a noticeble difference in the sound between CD player and CD changer now. Before coding the radio system it wasn't that obvious. When CD player plays there is not enough rich base (it was enough of it from CD player before coding). Although this is not the case when CD changer plays. |
| Quote, originally posted by Helicon Twist » |
After much trial and error, several dead ends, and finally valuable input from UK Mk-IV's, I've figured out the 5-digit soft-coding needed for OEM sound systems (e.g. Gamma radio, MFD Nav system). It's not complete, but it's close
Euro-Market VW radio coding
X#### (1st digit): Country code
0 = default; nothing else "works"
#X### (2nd digit): Vehicle sound-tuning
1 = "works," vehicle unknown
2 = Bora (Jetta)
4 = Golf
6 = "works," vehicle unknown
8 = New Beetle
##X## (3rd digit): Amplification
0 = 4 active (amplified) speakers (e.g. Monsoon)
4 = 4 passive speakers
5 = 2 passive speakers (front, no rear, as on some Euro cars)
###X# (4th digit): DSP option (Euro-market accessory)
0 = not installed
2 = active ("GALA" disappears from radio)
####X (5th digit): CD, instrument display (radio system info in MFA) options
1 = no CD, no instrument display
3 = CD only, no instrument display
5 = instrument display enabled, no CD
7 = CD installed + instrument display enabled
Edit to correct options for the 3rd digit
Modified by Helicon Twist at 10:47 AM 11-19-2003 |
Hope this helps!
