Recent content by f13ldy

Good afternoon all, Signed up last week or so, looks a very informative website with some knowledgeable members I have to say! Currently driving an E46 BMW 328ci which is heavily modded. But am looking to swap in to the world of an S3. Ideally looking at a 2001 facelift model in blue with...

I got the Blaupunkt 13-pin din connector off Ebay. So now I have a CD changer cable with a 13 pin din socket on one end and a mini-iso connector on the other. I took out the Chorus headunit and plugged the mini-iso connector in, then I hooked up the phatnoise phatbox to the 13-pin din...

Two questions, the Blaupunkt website says it takes MMC cards. Does it also take SD cards and if so is there a size limit (e.g. 1 gig). Secondly do you know if I can use my installed Nokia car kit with this? But its looking sweet in your car Carlos

I had exactly the same problem and it sounds like yours is also related to the signal booster. The booster circuit board is built into the bee sting aerial base and in my case the central core wire had corroded and come away from the circuit board. The solution was to remove the aerial base...

Cool, thanks Andymac. This ****** Phatnoise better be worth it

Would this Blaupunkt harness work? Ebay My stereo is an Audi Chorus II (Matsushita) so the mini ISO connector should be the same.. no???? Carlos

Hi, That is also what I would have expected but the same cable goes all the way to the head unit. I took up quite a lot of trim to trace it back and its definitely one un-interrupted cable. I guess the alternative to a convertor is just to buy a complete Audi CD changer harness and rewire that...

I've just received my Audi Phatnoise Phatbox with the 13-pin din connector, and when I went to swap out the standard Panasonic DP9060 6-CD CD Changer I find out that the connector looks like this: So it looks like the dealership didn't use a standard Audi CD Changer cable, but a propriety...

Hi, Its a 2001 Audi A3 PD130 with the Jaeger/Magentti Marelli cluster. I will try and get a few pics... also if anyone knows of a cluster repairer anywhere in the UK, I would be very grateful. There are hundreds of them in the USA, but I can't find a single one here. Cheers Carlos

I've given up on my instrument cluster - (only works when its warm) so I've sourced a second hand one from a scrappy which has the same model number etc.. I called HR Owen Audi in Nth London and they've said that they will not even attempt to fit it. By fitting I mean recoding the immobiliser...

Hi Nathan, A number of us are going to be at a group fitting session in Thatcham Berks on Sunday. This is to fit the cruise control kits we all bought in a UKMKIV Group Buy. If you come along I or someone else can activate the cruise for you. Cheers Carlos details here...

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The problem is that there are no companies out there who fix clusters.. the only solution is a swap out, which wil cost the best part of a grand (inc. fitting and coding). But I might try the Audi UK route because it is ridiculous that this should happen to a 4 year old car. And it is not just...

I thought Alfa Romeos were bad (I had a GTV). But I'm sick and tired of all the dodgy electronic issues I've had in the last 6 months. - Instrument cluster doesn't work in the cold (maybe bad solder joint??) - Alarm goes off randomly - its now sitting in my company carpark unlocked/unarmed -...

A mechanic told me that our A3 chassis is derived from the old MkIII Golf, is this true? I would have thought it would be the MIV, but then again the A3 does predate the MkIV by a year or two. Cheers Carlos