VW Golf 5 Aux Adaptor - Help!

holybob · 07-14-2006, 01:38 AM

Hi all,

This is a double post because I've been asked to, so please don't flame me!

I don't think the answer to this is already here. I used to have a Seat Ibiza with a stock Grundig head unit. I bought a cheap Aux adaptor to give me a 3.5mm jack input, and everything just worked - when I pressed the CD button (I think it was labelled that - it was about 6 years ago!) the stereo showed AUX and everything was hunkydorey.

I've bought a similar adaptor for my Golf Mk 5 with a standard single CD head unit. The cable just has the basic 3 wires: L, R and earth. The connector was wrong so I've wired it to the back of the stereo myself.

I've simply connected the L to CD-L, the R to CD-R and the earth to CD-earth (simple eh?) - I would expect by some miracle that this would just work.

However, everytime I press the 'CD' button, my stereo trys to play the CD in the slot and never goes to an 'AUX' mode. Is there something else I need to connect? I've searched and searched and searched but can't find anything useful.

I urgently need help - this is my first step in the carputer I've been planning for (literally) 8 years.

Cheers,

Bob

ODYSSEY · 07-14-2006, 02:08 AM

Does it use Ai-NET?

http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/show...1&postcount=30

holybob · 07-14-2006, 02:31 AM

Nope, its going straight into the back of the normal socket.

Bob

ODYSSEY · 07-14-2006, 02:46 AM

http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=2591947

http://mein.no-ip.com/webserver/vwvo...n%20System.pdf

http://drivergear.vw.com/store/acces...duct%5Fid=3249

What happens when you press "CD" more than once. Do you have a "SAT" button?

Yevmeister · 07-14-2006, 09:10 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by holybob

Hi all,

This is a double post because I've been asked to, so please don't flame me!

I don't think the answer to this is already here. I used to have a Seat Ibiza with a stock Grundig head unit. I bought a cheap Aux adaptor to give me a 3.5mm jack input, and everything just worked - when I pressed the CD button (I think it was labelled that - it was about 6 years ago!) the stereo showed AUX and everything was hunkydorey.

I've bought a similar adaptor for my Golf Mk 5 with a standard single CD head unit. The cable just has the basic 3 wires: L, R and earth. The connector was wrong so I've wired it to the back of the stereo myself.

I've simply connected the L to CD-L, the R to CD-R and the earth to CD-earth (simple eh?) - I would expect by some miracle that this would just work.

However, everytime I press the 'CD' button, my stereo trys to play the CD in the slot and never goes to an 'AUX' mode. Is there something else I need to connect? I've searched and searched and searched but can't find anything useful.

I urgently need help - this is my first step in the carputer I've been planning for (literally) 8 years.

Cheers,

Bob

I have jetta V, i used Blitzsafe V.05 from www.enfig.com
worked fine, until i have remodelend my system, make sure it's properly grounded, i my ground slipped first time, and i had same sympthoms, so check your wiring, i am currently selling the darn thing on vortex classifieds, tell me if that is what you have

http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=2709921

Yev

holybob · 07-14-2006, 10:46 AM

Hmm..... here's an image of what I bought: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...ayphotohosting

Looks like the RCD300 isn't intelligent enough to just 'work' like my old Grundig was. And it looks like I'll have to buy a new cable like the one YevMeister has.

Yevmeister - there is probably no point me buying yours because it would be prohibitively expensive to ship to the UK! Cheers anyway.....

Odyssey - cheers for your message - I wish I'd seen your images before i dismantled my dash! The only problem is that the port where you've inserted your AUX cable, doesn't exist on my RCD300 standard stereo. Boo!

Well, it looks like I'm buying a new cable....

Cheers all,

Bob

Yevmeister · 07-14-2006, 11:37 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by holybob

Hmm..... here's an image of what I bought: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...ayphotohosting

Looks like the RCD300 isn't intelligent enough to just 'work' like my old Grundig was. And it looks like I'll have to buy a new cable like the one YevMeister has.

Yevmeister - there is probably no point me buying yours because it would be prohibitively expensive to ship to the UK! Cheers anyway.....

Odyssey - cheers for your message - I wish I'd seen your images before i dismantled my dash! The only problem is that the port where you've inserted your AUX cable, doesn't exist on my RCD300 standard stereo. Boo!

Well, it looks like I'm buying a new cable....

Cheers all,

Bob

$40.00 shipped the chepaest deal on the net if you are interested pm
registered for extra $7.50

Yev