Question for Polo owners - Bluetooth

[iigx]

Not sure about this one just yet - and neither is my dealer!

With my current car - MY07 Aurion, it has Bluetooth.. but only for making calls. My Mrs now has a Hyundai IX35, and with my iphone i can play songs directly to the car stereo.

Does anyone here have a Polo with the RCD510 deck, and bluetooth - who can tell me what the bluetooth can and cant do??

Cheers!

[bizarre]

Have a look here

Kufatec Fiscon Plus car kit- VW / Audi

This is what I had put in

I used a dealer at Atarmon Sydney called MetroSound

[gavs]

It depends, that is the short answer.

If you get the factory-fitted kit, I believe (I could be wrong though) that there is only the newer, premium bluetooth option being fitted, which gives you answering calls, dialling, phone book, text messages (in some instances) and bluetooth streaming through teh RCD 510. If you get the RNS 510 and put that in, there is also the option for text-to-speach.

The older, standard bluetooth could answer and dial, along with streaming but I'm not sure about the phone book etc.

The dealer fitted option(s) have some integration, but you really don't want the little touch-scrren system that gets stuck to your dash, it's hideous and not really any cheaper than the others.

[iigx]

Thanks guys.

My order form doesnt have Bluetooth at all on there and my dealer/salesperson told me its fitted at the dealership.

I've asked for a quote on the Premium Bluetooth kit. I think i am also going for the Xpack (tinting/paint protection) and 3yr additional warranty to take it to 6yrs total. Trying to squeeze both in for around $2.5k.. maybe $3k incl bluetooth?

[RoknRob]

Have a look here

Kufatec Fiscon Plus car kit- VW / Audi

This is what I had put in

I used a dealer at Atarmon Sydney called MetroSound

Looks like Audio streaming is MONO only with that kit - which is what I had been told when I was looking into it, too. Does A2DP support stereo at all? Does anyone know if the VW OEM Premium kit does stereo?

[sVWatt]

I had an old non OEM BT unit and it was mono audio streaming. I bought a 9w7 OEM kit and fitted it myself. It is A2DP which means it does Bluetooth audio streaming in stereo.

The dealer will charge 600-700 for the premium kit easily....maybe more...buy it from eBay Europe and save 50% fitting it yourself...

[RoknRob]

Thanks for the info. That's good news that the 9w7 does stereo streaming.

I almost bought one from Spain, but the sellers were adamant that I wouldn't be able to use the steering wheel controls... the one's in Poland couldn't tell me what firmware their unit had...

[gavs]

Rob, your car was built after mine so you should be able to easily. The 9W7 unit is basically a superceed unit for the older 9W2 and 9W3 units, the 9W7 gets the text-to-speach features for the RNS-510. It's primarily a coding issue through VCDS more than anything else....

[iigx]

Guys, off topic a bit, but the dealer is offering $3800 for Tint + Xpack + Extra 3 years warranty. Given I will likely have to pay an extra $700 or so for the Bluetooth module....

Room to bargain?

[frozze]

$3800 for all those extras sounds expensive to me.. an extra 3 year warranty (apparently, there are 2 different types of extended warranty) is about $1400-1500 (shop around) and tinting is only about $300-400 at most.

Guys, off topic a bit, but the dealer is offering $3800 for Tint + Xpack + Extra 3 years warranty. Given I will likely have to pay an extra $700 or so for the Bluetooth module....

Room to bargain?

[RoknRob]

Rob, your car was built after mine so you should be able to easily. The 9W7 unit is basically a superceed unit for the older 9W2 and 9W3 units, the 9W7 gets the text-to-speach features for the RNS-510. It's primarily a coding issue through VCDS more than anything else....

That's what I thought, too, gavs, but with the seller being so adamant about it, I would have no recourse should it not, so I am looking for another seller who will confirm it will work with VCDS encoding...

Also, does anyone know what changes have been made with the firmware upgrades? They seem to have made a few, if I understand correctly...

[iigx]

well i just got a quote from Tintacar for the tint @ $400.

They advised me the warranty was $2k for 3 years, and the "Xpack" was $2k aswell, so they've basically valued the tint at $800 (they advised $3800 price was a $1000 discount)

I asked them to do all 3 for $3k. I'm happy with paying full price for the warranty but not the other stuff!

[readerr0r]

That's what I thought, too, gavs, but with the seller being so adamant about it, I would have no recourse should it not, so I am looking for another seller who will confirm it will work with VCDS encoding...

Also, does anyone know what changes have been made with the firmware upgrades? They seem to have made a few, if I understand correctly...

He's probably concerned because the 9W7 MUST have the MFD+ display which is standard on the GTI, but not the Polo. I bought the 9W7 from the spanish seller and threw in into our early 2011 Transporter. All I had to do was tick the telephone box in the CANBus unit in VCDS and it came alive (and now I have a paid for VCDS cable ). Working fine with the Factory RNS510 ever since.

I wouldn't get too hot under the collar about A2DP btw, especially with iPhone. The audio quality doesn't compare to Aux or MDI, and you cant control the phone via the wheel.

[sVWatt]

He's probably concerned because the 9W7 MUST have the MFD+ display which is standard on the GTI, but not the Polo. I bought the 9W7 from the spanish seller and threw in into our early 2011 Transporter. All I had to do was tick the telephone box in the CANBus unit in VCDS and it came alive (and now I have a paid for VCDS cable ). Working fine with the Factory RNS510 ever since.

I wouldn't get too hot under the collar about A2DP btw, especially with iPhone. The audio quality doesn't compare to Aux or MDI, and you cant control the phone via the wheel.

My Polo works fine with mr Spaniards 9w7 - plug n play to my RNS 510, and I do like the A2DP audio streaming. There is no sound quality issue. The iPhone streams beautifully with the RNS in the Polo and the Sony in our people mover. It's a great feature.

[readerr0r]

My Polo works fine with mr Spaniards 9w7 - plug n play to my RNS 510, and I do like the A2DP audio streaming. There is no sound quality issue. The iPhone streams beautifully with the RNS in the Polo and the Sony in our people mover. It's a great feature.

Edit: Scratch that, mislead by VW broch

How did you sync your phone without going through the MFD+ display? I thought you could only do it with the MFD+ menu?