hello everyone!
New here and forgive me, not an Audi owner, but a VW Golf! But bear with me!
First of all a
big THANKS to all posters in this thread,
especially to @George Kost, for his help (we talked in Messenger as well!).
Well... this thread was the inspiration for my retrofit!
My car is a late-2008 Golf Mk5 TSI (140HP, DSG6) model, but with some very good factory installations. For excample, the ABS unit is a MK60EC1 (AP with long coding!). Also the Can Gateway was a Q, later exchanged for an AA unit.
I was researching the PLA retrofit for maybe three years now.
I finally did it and IT WORKS!
What did I do?
I started looking at ebay used parts and also got a few new ones.
Used and new parts: rear bumper harness, complete with 4 sensors!
4 used (FIAT, no less!) sensors for the front bumper. (They are Valeo, exact same Valeo part number. Still working!)
Used front bumper harness
Used PLA 1.5 module (1T0 919 475P)
Two buttons for the ashtray
two new PLA sensors for front bumper
various brackets, connectors and holders were bought new from local VW/Audi dealers
After consulting with George, I bought a lot of cables from conrad.de so I built my own harnesses:
One from the front bumper to the PLA unit.
One from the rear bumper to the PLA.
One from the PLA to the Can gateway and the fusebox.
All the time I was messing with this, I was coming back to this thread to get ideas!
It took me the best part of four months to complete!
Here is my detailed story:
I know it's in Greek, my native language, but you can right-click and "translate" to your own language. I think it will make some sense!
Also... a video:
A couple of months later, I upgraded my instrument cluster with a white one from an EOS, and it shows in there also, of course!
Once again, thanks everyone in this thread for their specific and interesting comments!