nuttinnew
A2OC Donor
With more A1s being broken these are becoming more available and cheaper, along with the mfsw from the same cars which suit the A2 well. It's one of the couple of areas where the A1 moves things on (I'd like a tsi and dsg as well please ) and I'm wondering about it's retrofittability compared to an RNS-E.
I'm not sure if the fascia would trim down to single din, maybe din and a half, if so I'm thinking could the heater controls be shuffled down so the top of the unit is fixed to the bottom mounting holes (I need to find a pic of an empty dash to see if I'm thinking of the right thing) or could the heater be moved up to the radio space, the MMI fascia below that going down into the space where the cubby would be with a simple blank made up to fill the small gap left.
For the screen, I'll ignore whether or not the centre vent duct could be modified to allow it to sit flush for now because I haven't had a chance to have a look at one yet. Instead I'm thinking the screen holder could be boxed off and fitted on top of the dash.
It could be put to the right of the clocks as well; I don't know about anyone else but that's where I tend to have a portable fitted, suckered on to the front quarter window, so I don't think it would cause any more of an obstruction while being at easy eye height.
Could the screen be connected to an RNS-E? I've not used one (not that I wouldn't like to ) but wonder if the screen is a bit low. I know it connects up to DIS, a full colour display from a newer car is probably a bit too far to contemplate though
I guess I started by thinking of it as RNS-E in a different box, so it's probably completely different and undoable on a basic level...
I'm not sure if the fascia would trim down to single din, maybe din and a half, if so I'm thinking could the heater controls be shuffled down so the top of the unit is fixed to the bottom mounting holes (I need to find a pic of an empty dash to see if I'm thinking of the right thing) or could the heater be moved up to the radio space, the MMI fascia below that going down into the space where the cubby would be with a simple blank made up to fill the small gap left.
For the screen, I'll ignore whether or not the centre vent duct could be modified to allow it to sit flush for now because I haven't had a chance to have a look at one yet. Instead I'm thinking the screen holder could be boxed off and fitted on top of the dash.
It could be put to the right of the clocks as well; I don't know about anyone else but that's where I tend to have a portable fitted, suckered on to the front quarter window, so I don't think it would cause any more of an obstruction while being at easy eye height.
Could the screen be connected to an RNS-E? I've not used one (not that I wouldn't like to ) but wonder if the screen is a bit low. I know it connects up to DIS, a full colour display from a newer car is probably a bit too far to contemplate though
I guess I started by thinking of it as RNS-E in a different box, so it's probably completely different and undoable on a basic level...