Retrofit of RVC to MK6 Golf

[heyimsu]

Agreed on this - the ECS kit looks great, will be ordering one of these close to christmas - Happy days!

Mate, if you can get someone in Brisbane who can do the VAG COM I'll get one too and we can sus out the install together

[Ryan_R]

One thing has just occurred to me, that the ECS kit is designed for the MK5 Golf (I think), which might mean I need extra parts to make it work with the MK6 Golf. If anyone knows more about this than I do, I'd love to hear from you.

[Idle]

One thing has just occurred to me, that the ECS kit is designed for the MK5 Golf (I think), which might mean I need extra parts to make it work with the MK6 Golf. If anyone knows more about this than I do, I'd love to hear from you.

No, you need less parts — it's not as complex on the Mk 6.

Speaking as one who dunnit, it's still something of a hassle, tho'.

[Ryan_R]

oh ok. reason I asked was because of this posted on my-gti.com

For Mark VI install until I develop a new guide for that the following changes need to be made to the list.

The only difference from my guide for the Mark V (Mark VI guide I’ll try and get up this week) is the followingChange the following two items

• 1J0 972 923 (1J0972923) – 2 pin connector (connects to reverse light fitting)
• 1J0 972 712 (1J0972712) – 2 pin connector (connects to reverse light connector on harness)

to

• 1J0 972 924 (1J0972924) – 3 pin connector (connects to reverse light fitting)
• 191 972 713 (191972713) – 3 pin connector (connects to reverse light connector on harness)

Change the quantity of the following

• 000 979 129 (000979129) – Connector Repair wire x 1 (2 connectors required)

to

• 000 979 129 (000979129) – Connector Repair wire x 2 (3 connectors required)

And delete the following item

• 3C8 827 861 A (3C8827861A) – Passat Drain Tube

The main difference is that the reverse connector that we are taking power from has 3 connectors instead of two on the Mark V and that handle mounts lower on the Mark VI so the extension is not required for the drain tube.

Rear View Camera (RVC) | my-gti.com

[warped_foobie]

Mate, if you can get someone in Brisbane who can do the VAG COM I'll get one too and we can sus out the install together

Awesome. Yeah I know someone with vag com - all good. Will probably be after christmas now but will def. PM you and we'll sort it! Cheers!

EDIT: Cable FOR vag com I mean

[Ryan_R]

Well, my friend and I went about installing the ECS Camera kit yesterday. started off by pulling off the side and front trim and running the cables, while he took apart the hatch and replaced the badge and did the wiring. Next thing I know he's saying we'll have to go find some loom's on some other parts cars (crashed Golf's in the warehouse) in order to build this loom, as per ozmale's instructions (good thing I printed them out). I thought it was supposed to be plug'n'play, but he seemed to know what he was talking about so I let him go.

I ran the cable down the right side of the car, since someone mentioned they did it along the left side and the power wire wasn't long enough (my fuse box is on the right side). The cable still wasn't long enough so we had to join it to another wire (yet more soldering + heatshrink). It also turned out that ECS had wrapped the power wire around the video cable the wrong way - one end is designed to plug into the back of the fuse box - however since it's designed for the Mk5 it wouldn't have fitted in my fuse box anyway - watch out for that in any case. Didn't like the ide of soldering behind the fuse box, but it works as expected now.

So I'm packing up and got hunting for the bag that the badge came in so I can put the old badge in there, and I come across the plug'n'play loom that could've saved us a few hours - no idea if that method would've had a few of it's own hassles but we laughed a bit.

The important thing is I now have a reversing camera (reason being I have to reverse up my sloping driveway, and a family has moved in next door where the kids like to play on the street, and ride bikes/scooters - an accident waiting to happen if you ask me. Let's just hope this helps prevent one.

[heyimsu]

Mate, that's good to hear someone successfully installed the ECS kit. It sold out real quick. Hopefully once they get more stock in, I can grab one of these.

[Ryan_R]

Quick question for anyone who knows - (how) can I get the guide lines to turn with the steering wheel when reversing? They just stay straight regardless. Part of me thinks this has something to do with not having OPS, but then why should that matter, as long as I have a steering wheel (and VCDS) I don't see why this shouldn't work in theory.

[Idle]

Quick question for anyone who knows - (how) can I get the guide lines to turn with the steering wheel when reversing? They just stay straight regardless. Part of me thinks this has something to do with not having OPS, but then why should that matter, as long as I have a steering wheel (and VCDS) I don't see why this shouldn't work in theory.

There's a (more expensive, of course) unit used in up-market VAG cars that does this by way of an extra black box — the device sold to we plebes is self-contained and the camera view is fixed.

It might be possible to fit it to a Golf, but I doubt anyone has chanced their arm as yet.

[Ryan_R]

Looks like the Golf is the only one not to have this feature:
VW Reversing Camera

Would be interesting to see if it's retro-fitable, not that's necessary for a small-ish Golf, but a nice novelty nonetheless.

[ozmale]

There's a (more expensive, of course) unit used in up-market VAG cars that does this by way of an extra black box — the device sold to we plebes is self-contained and the camera view is fixed.

It might be possible to fit it to a Golf, but I doubt anyone has chanced their arm as yet.

I wrote the original RVC DIY on the VWgolf.net.au forum.
This is a little bit hard to explain.

The yellow lines are straight in standard form. But if you bought the car with RVC installed there is an option to set them to "reverse parallel park". When in this mode the lines sort of cross, helping you reverse parallel park. I have never seen them move with the wheel, at least not in Australia.

When doing the DIY I have never found the coding to allow the reversing lines to be set to cross (reverse park). it must be there somewhere.

Chris

[Ryan_R]

I've seen the parallel parking guidelines on some videos but presume you need Park Assist for that. I saw the moving guidelines in an Audi Q7 on TopGear Australia once (needed an Oz reference, don't judge me), and plenty of times on YouTube.

[The_Hawk]

I'm currently waiting for the ECS kits to come back in stock, I have been talking with Andy from ECS who tells me that a MKVI kit should be available shortly too (rather than the current MKV kit). I'm pretty keen to get one of these into the Cabriolet because it has such a big sexy arse!

I there any alternatives (and reputable) sources for the badge camera other than ECS anyway?

[Ryan_R]

Just whatever you find on eBay, although installation won't be as easy (not P&P).

When reversing into my driveway I still rely mainly on my mirrors by habit instead of looking at the screen - but it is handy in other situations where the mirrors are of no use (fish-bowl lens is good for reversing out of public car parks where adjacent parked cars block your view of traffic and pedestrians.

Just as long as there's no screen-glare

[The_Hawk]

The current kit isn't plug and play (although a new kit is coming). Looking through the MK5 installation instructions and the wiring looks reasonably straight forward if you wanted to simply hard wire/splice in the half dozen wires that are needed. If you choose to follow the my-gti instructions to create your own loom it's a little more involved although should result in a neater (and removable) result.

At this point I have two thoughts in mind.

#1 The ECS plug and play kit for the MkVI is on it's way and since the old kits aren't even available at the moment I'm left with no option but to wait for something which will then hopefully be easier to install...

BUT.

#2 I want to put it into the Cabriolet so while the install *should* be the same, there is no guarantee that it's not going to be a custom job anyway

I'm just getting the urge to tinker more and this is high on the wants list