How to upgrade your RCD-310 to a Sat-Nav RNS-310
Posted: Fri May 10, 2013 9:30 pm
So that we don't get lost round town, got us an RNS-310.
From this:
to this:
Here are a few quick steps:
Using a trim removal tool, carefully popped off the trim around around the radio.
THere are 3 clips on each side, start at the bottom:
Then the sides:
You will end up with the four torx screws exposed:
Once the screws were removed, pull out the radio:
Press the release clip and move the lever outwards. The wiring behind it will be tight but a gentle tug will bring out:
The RNS-310 will have a blue GPS ariel socket to which you will need a GPS receiver (£10).
Mine came with it. Here's just a test plug-in:
I thought about mounting the GPS receiver above the centre vents (under the dash) but too many bolts to take out (you have remove centre console to remove the vents ) :
So gave that idea up and removed the A-Pillar trim on the passenger side:
The GPS receiver was magnetic and I pushed it up inside the edge of the roof lining:
and pulled the cable end down above the glove box.
careful here as there's an airbag there
Pulled the cable across over the glove box and into the radio cavity:
Job done:
Not quite.
Had to get the VCDS out and add the RNS-310 to canbus gateway list...otherwise there would errors logged.
It was not straight forward as I kept getting error saying that gateway was not coded correctly but I managed it in the end.
Using the VCDS, I adapted the sat-nav into developer mode. This allows you keep the SETUP button pressed for about 20 seconds to get to hidden menus:
There are few more menus within dev mode.
Sat-nav works very well: responsive and quite accurate. No more faffing around with iPhone and tomtom and cradless and charging cables and so on.
From this:
to this:
Here are a few quick steps:
Using a trim removal tool, carefully popped off the trim around around the radio.
THere are 3 clips on each side, start at the bottom:
Then the sides:
You will end up with the four torx screws exposed:
Once the screws were removed, pull out the radio:
Press the release clip and move the lever outwards. The wiring behind it will be tight but a gentle tug will bring out:
The RNS-310 will have a blue GPS ariel socket to which you will need a GPS receiver (£10).
Mine came with it. Here's just a test plug-in:
I thought about mounting the GPS receiver above the centre vents (under the dash) but too many bolts to take out (you have remove centre console to remove the vents ) :
So gave that idea up and removed the A-Pillar trim on the passenger side:
The GPS receiver was magnetic and I pushed it up inside the edge of the roof lining:
and pulled the cable end down above the glove box.
careful here as there's an airbag there
Pulled the cable across over the glove box and into the radio cavity:
Job done:
Not quite.
Had to get the VCDS out and add the RNS-310 to canbus gateway list...otherwise there would errors logged.
It was not straight forward as I kept getting error saying that gateway was not coded correctly but I managed it in the end.
Using the VCDS, I adapted the sat-nav into developer mode. This allows you keep the SETUP button pressed for about 20 seconds to get to hidden menus:
There are few more menus within dev mode.
Sat-nav works very well: responsive and quite accurate. No more faffing around with iPhone and tomtom and cradless and charging cables and so on.