Park Distance Control / Optical Parking Sensors (PDC / OPS)

[walbjj]

ive since lost his phone number, but he is a electrical engineering consultant to vw australia. he designs and does a lot of electrical work/ systems for the cars.
i put derek in contact with him to get to the bottom of the OPS issue as derek couldnt get it to work with the ****ty carsystems instructions, which btw are incorrect. wires and colours are completely wrong in their instructions.
your best bet is to email EA and ask him what the procedure is and tell him ur interstate.

[jameshero]

just got home and had a look in my Current Flow Diagram Book from Erwin, here are all the connections to the OPS module, besides those that connect to sensors, the button and the buzzers.

For the OPS control unit...
16 pin connector, pin 6 is Powertrain CAN bus, high
16 pin connector, pin 15 is Powertrain CAN bus, low
16 pin connector, pin 1 is Positive power (according to Current Flow Diagram should be connected to Fuse 4)
16 pin connector, pin 8 is Earth

For the Data bus diagnostic interface i.e. CAN bus gateway
20 pin connector, pin 16 is Powertrain CAN bus, high
20 pin connector, pin 6 is Powertrain CAN bus, low

if you pm your email address I could send you the relevant pages which you could give to your auto-electrician.

[mhh]

Thank you! PM sent

Edit: Oops, now sent properly.

[jameshero]

email sent

[mhh]

This is proving tougher than I'd hoped. My installer can get neither the OPS nor the camera working. I've been back and forth to the dealer as well. I'm close to giving up - it's starting to feel like throwing good money after bad - but I'll try one more time with the dealer who has a tech who is trying really hard to get it working. How far away is the Mk 7 again?

[jameshero]

did they manage to connect it? if so, can you provide a print out of the VCDS scan?

[mhh]

did they manage to connect it? if so, can you provide a print out of the VCDS scan?

I'm sorry I don't know what a VCDS scan is. The dealer and installer have both consulted the info you provided (thanks!) and some suggestions from carsystems.pl about which wire goes where but nothing works. I did see a printout at the dealer showing a whole lot of stuff that made no sense to me. All I know is that I was foolish to buy the equipment despite plenty of warnings here. I'm just about over it. Fortunately, the car is for my daughter's use and she doesn't really mind.

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your best bet is to email EA and ask him what the procedure is and tell him ur interstate.

Thanks for this suggestion. My installer claims he rang EA (at my suggestion) but found them unable or unwilling to help because I wasn't their customer. I've no way of knowing exactly what happened here of course.

[jameshero]

I'm sorry I don't know what a VCDS scan is. The dealer and installer have both consulted the info you provided (thanks!) and some suggestions from carsystems.pl about which wire goes where but nothing works. I did see a printout at the dealer showing a whole lot of stuff that made no sense to me.

VCDS is a cable/software package that can be used to program a cars electronics, and search for errors. The printout would show the errors that the unit is giving, provided they managed to wire it up correctly. Was unsure whether your auto electrician would have one, but dealers have a commercial product similar to it anyway. Sorry to hear it didn't work out, have you spoken to them about returning it on account of their crappy instructions?

My installer claims he rang EA (at my suggestion) but found them unable or unwilling to help because I wasn't their customer. I've no way of knowing exactly what happened here of course.

Had a similar experience, wouldn't speak to me as I wasn't happy to make the trip to Sydney. I suppose I didn't really expect anything from him, though it would have been nice to lend a hand considering we are interstate.

[mhh]

, have you spoken to them about returning it on account of their crappy instructions?

No, the parts are installed now and it would cost more to remove them and repair bumper holes then ship the goods than I would get for the stuff in credit - in the unlikely event that carsystems.pl would agree to it. Live and learn. I was going cheap when I bought the car new when I didn't need to.

I've bought a couple of other new cars since and I made damn sure I ordered them with all options of interest from the outset.

[javab0y]

Sorry to hear... if this helps:
I got the Golf instructions (finally!) from carsystems.pl just now http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7953074/Golf%20PDC.pdf (2.2MB)
Good luck. I must admit your experience has put me off installing this thing now too. Might have to make the interstate trip to SYD and shell out the money at EA.
Let me know how you go with the instructions linked

[markwid]

Sorry to hear... if this helps:
I got the Golf instructions (finally!) from carsystems.pl just now http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7953074/Golf%20PDC.pdf (2.2MB)
Good luck. I must admit your experience has put me off installing this thing now too. Might have to make the interstate trip to SYD and shell out the money at EA.
Let me know how you go with the instructions linked

Alternative place in Sydney is VWvillage (speak to George). He did mine sometime back.

[javab0y]

Alternative place in Sydney is VWvillage (speak to George). He did mine sometime back.

Thanks, that was the CarSystems.pl unit right? Whereabouts in SYD are they?

[mhh]

Solitaire just called. They got the rear camera working.

Still working on the parking sensors.

[jameshero]

well, good to here something is working , and in my opinion the camera is the better one of the two options

[MrGTIandRfan]

Parking Sensors - Retrofit VW OPS kit or go aftermarket?

What are your thoughts people?

I like the fact that the VW kit can show a display on the RCD/RNS display.