Morning all,
Well not much has happened with my trusty steed recently, been far too busy inundating your all with various and probably far too many lists throughout the Bespoke A2 Footrest venture, which is pretty much at the end now. I'm hope you're all very happy with what you have purchased. Only a couple yet to be delivered by hermes.
Below is my (1 of 3) footrest fitted to Project OEM, I really am happy the way this turned out.
Footrest 2 is for the next project and footrest 3 is my spare should I ever need it, might frame it and hang it in the garage as it does look good!
Fitted next to Audi rubber floor mats:
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Fitted along side Twist floor mats:
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The complimentary infills from Paul
@depronman really do finish it off. Ill be filling the 'A2' with black windscreen adhesive soon enough to stop any debris clogging up the cut out. Honestly Im not sure about the Twist footrest background now and would be happy to change it to a black footrest. This will do for the winter months when I have the rubber floor mats fitted, but in the summer I have a beautiful set of Twist carpet floor mats, which I think a black footrest will not sit next to so nicely. Decisions decisions! Thoughts anyone?
Continuing on... Earlier in the thread I mentioned considering adding an Audi Bluetooth Control Module to do away with the Xcarlink as a Handsfree option. The Xcarlink is a great addition for streaming from my iPhone (mainly Virgin radio on the way to work) but not the best at facilitating a crisp clear call over the audio system. Suffice to say I have now removed the microphone connected to said Xcarlink and fitted an Audi Bluetooth Control Module (8P0862335H). Here is what was purchased:
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After some teething problems it is now fully working, it allows for a perfectly clear call and I no longer have to continuously repeat the dialogue, this is, to me worth every penny of he £100 I paid for the full installation kit. The kit consists the BT Control Module (8P0862335H), Foam holder for safe and OEM look fitting, PnP harness and the microphone (although already had microphone fully fitted to the overhead light switch panel for SDS utility on the RNS-E only)
Getting it working correctly didn't come without its problems as I just didn't know the correct coding so have played around for a few evenings which was very frustrating. I honestly do not know if the coding is correct but it functions exactly how I think it should and I am very happy with the results.
The coding looked fairly simple initially as when you're coding, the help menu pops up to give you the possible options. I also knew I had to change the RNS-E coding to add the telephone option. Where I had real problems was maintaining connectivity between the iPhone and the module. I now know where I went wrong for a few evenings, I was coding the BT Module with one of the CAN options as I know the A2 runs CAN. There was only 1 option for CAN without MFSW (I use the CAR button for SDS using the PCBBC firmware) so chose that. Initially it would connect and work perfectly but wouldn't reconnect when I went back to the car a while later. The only way I could get the iPhone to reconnect was to remove the harness connector from the module and reconnect it, soon as it was reconnected the phone would also connect in seconds and work perfectly but the same problem would be evident when I next went out to the car. I thought I had purchased a faulty unit and started contacting the seller who was willing to send me another module.
Whilst considering removal and repackaging it up I thought I'd jump on Google to see if I could find any answers to similar problems, true enough I found a thread on another Audi website, it talked about quite a lot of stuff that meant nothing to me (different model but similar age) but did pick up the fact that some similar aged Audi's use Kline for some communications, armed with this new information I thought I'd give it one last try before I gave up as I remembered seeing Kline Diagnostics as an option in the coding of the control module.
After firing up VCDS for the umpteenth time, played around with the coding to add the Kline Diagnostics option and it worked straight away. This took me 4 evenings to work out (perhaps I should have asked the question on here in the first place) but I a really am happy now. My iPhone connects within seconds every time I jump into the A2 and switch the ignition.
As for locating the Module in the A2, I found this picture of a retrofit that
@motosport had completed a while ago by Tom
@timmus:
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This is my passenger footwell using the same foam holder, it keeps it safe and still maintains an OEM look:
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While I’m in the passenger footwell I thought I’d show my 4 keys that are fully working with the AF CCU. Do I need 4 keys, not really:
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Here is the DIS and RNS-E Telephone option showing it has complete control (nothing greyed out) of my iPhone XR which is brilliant for an old BT module interrogating a newish mobile phone.
Im sure this next image will look so much better once Tom
@timmus receives stock for CDIS:
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Not sure why it states Telephone 3, I have tried to rectify this but not succeeded yet, thoughts?:
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Complete integration with my XR:
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Some may think that £100 for a handsfree option is expensive but I wanted to have crisp clear calls (which I now have) as I do a lot of calls whilst commuting. Said commute is some 13-15 hours in the A2 a week so it had to be the best it could be. Additionally I wanted total integration into the RNS-E PU along with SDS. Now I have completed this retrofit I believe I could replicate it in such a short time now and may well fit one in the next project...
Next job to do in this well equipped A2 is get the RNS-E PU working as perfect as possible to enable the over speed warnings along with picking up the speed pulse. Some of you will know that the 193G Revision has hardware missing inside so it will not pick up the speed pulse regardless of it being connected to the instrument cluster. This also goes for the 193B Revision (which does have the necessary hardware) where I understand it doesn't pick up the speed pulse once its running the PCBBC Firmware (to enable the Road Speed Limit Icons etcetera). Well there is indeed a way and I'm about to see what is possible, give me a week and I'll report with my findings
Kind regards,
Tom