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Old 16th November 2011, 09:24 PM
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Sounds good Ranj, the RNS E takes a speed signal or something from the car, I think it's the same one people snip when they want to activate TV in motion. With this feed the sat nav should work. I'm not sure how your going to do that though.
Yes, the GALA feed is quite necessary. It is a signal generated by the instrument cluster, and is the same pre/post facelift. If you actually get a fix anything like near where you are, your GPS aerial is working. If not, and/or no satelites are showing received, you need a better aerial. I dont know what the PF glass would be like for having a GPS aerial on the inside as its notorious - The proper Audi receiver on the boot lid could fix this nicely.

Alternitively, if you get the fix, but no movement, maybe you're just missing GALA, and that would have been on the loom for the original stereo anyway, so easy fix....

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Thats the one, the gala feed. Check your receiving satellites. I think you need to click on info or something and it will tell you how many it is receiving. If you are you just need to hook the gala up, then go for a short drive for it to collaborate
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Old 17th November 2011, 06:26 AM
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I've never had a reception issue using a standard Navman GPS attached to my windscreen so I can only assume my glass is not affecting the signal too greatly. From my experience I would have said any external GPS aerial on the dash board should work Heated windscreens are the real killer.
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Old 17th November 2011, 08:22 AM
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Default rnse satellite pick up

The rns e wasnt locking into my position yesterday. But I will try again today. I was wondering how does one check for the satellite pick up???

Well....today I m going to attempt to put the facelift instrument cluster in....I have feeling things are gona get worse before they get better for now....

I ve been pondering over how to emulate the oil level feed...normally one could just place a resistor in series between the live and earth feed from the oil level sensor...how as this is canbus....the instrument cluster module will be looking for a signal from the oil sensor maintaining a voltage difference between the canbus feeds....I presume when the oil is too low the difference between the voltage will go to 0 and hence trigger the warning light....so I must somehow maintain that voltage difference....the simplest way may be to just tap into the high canbus voltage wire for say the coolant level sensor and feed it in there.....????? NOT SURE IF THAT WILL WORK BUT I WILL TRY IT AND SEE.....

If someone could advise me on my above thought process, I would appreciate it.
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Old 17th November 2011, 09:06 AM
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I would be surprised if it uses CANbus for sending signal from oil level sensor to instrument panel. I would expect it to be either simple switch-on/off or a resistor
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You push one of the buttons on the side of the big dial thing on the right of the unit it should say 'nav info' or something. Bring it around if you can't do it.
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Old 17th November 2011, 03:59 PM
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Default Instrument Cluster Upgrade from PF to FL

Well I ve almost changed the connections over to the new plugs. However I was unsure on a few of the connections...if anyone knows where they should go that would be great...otherwise I ll leave them until I know better.

The wires I was unsure about are:


Yellow Connector

26 Air Conditioner Compressor Off

Green Connector

8 Door Lock (Output)
21 Charge Indicator
25 Airbag (Active)
26 ABS (Sila)

Red Connector
9 Gear Indicator
13 Service Life Signal of ABS system
18 Rev Counter Signal
22 Speed Signal (Output 2)

....If the oil level sensor doesnt run off canbus...then simple resistor will make it so much easier...spose I could try that first.

My GPS antenna works but not inside the car....but it does work in the boot....so I ll have to place in the boot and feed it through from there...which shouldnt be too difficult....
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My GPS antenna works but not inside the car....but it does work in the boot....so I ll have to place in the boot and feed it through from there...which shouldnt be too difficult....
As I think I've mentioned before I've fixed my replacement GPS aerial at the very bottom of the rear screen on the outside - suitably unobtrusive but effective.
Easy enough from there to run the lead (if it's thin) along/under the boot lid rubber seal to the inside (though I actually didn't do it that way).
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Old 17th November 2011, 06:48 PM
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I managed to get a signal while the reciever was in the boot...So I plan to place it where the cd changer is....But I do like the idea of having the gps box on the boot just for show...kinda classy I tink...
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gps box on the boot just for show
Funnily enough there's one for sale....
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/130579915869?
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