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Can i change my head unit without changing 6changer??
This is a discussion on Can i change my head unit without changing 6changer?? within the ICE, Security and Insurance forums, part of the General Motoring Discussions category; Now then boys and girls, need your expert advice! Can i put my Sony head unit in my Octy Vrs ...
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26-02-2004, 21:37
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|  Can i change my head unit without changing 6changer?? Now then boys and girls, need your expert advice! Can i put my Sony head unit in my Octy Vrs without changing 6changer if so how. Cheers Chaps!  |
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26-02-2004, 21:49
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| Yes you can, but don't expect the changer to work, because it won't  |
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26-02-2004, 21:51
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| Sorry, but the answer is no - different ICE maunfacturers use different connections which would make virtually impossible to connect the two together without some fancy electrical interface.
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26-02-2004, 22:05
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| I expect it would be no more than a weekend project for someone with a protocol analyzer and PIC burner. I haven't looked into it yet, but if the electrical interface on both ends isn't much more complicated than a low speed (clocked?) serial line then it would be possible to blow a chip, with driver components on veroboard for £15. The function calls should be fairly easy to map, surely? What will a Sony head unit expect that a Skoda changer can't do? Anyway, when I come to change my HU.......
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27-02-2004, 17:58
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You're right - nothing too fancy but is the sound quality of the stock changer worth the hassle - as Quinten says, are you likely to bother? Personally, I'm going to ditch my changer and go the MP3 route ... when I can decide what to buy - I don't want something too flash or with too many fiddly small buttons.
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Or that rather nice one that Monkey Boy (?) has.
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27-02-2004, 21:57
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| I'm going to buck a trend here, just for a change  Whilst browsing round Halfords the other day, I noticed they do an adaptor to get the standard VAG changer to work with Sony head units. About £12 IIRC. May be worth a look.
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Jon, was this just a harness / plug adaptor, or was there a box of tricks involved? If its just wiring differences, then i cant see why its not possible for other HU's, given the appropriate details... | |
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27-02-2004, 22:08
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|  It would be nice if you can do this with a Panasonic HU Steve
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| ...eerrrr.....may I enquire what happened to the Blaupunkt DAB53 you just recently installed?
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| Geoff, looked like a box of tricks which sat between the standard loom and plugged into the Sony HU BusAudio socket Adrioan, I'm fitting it tomorrow along with a few other sundry bits
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