Replacing Official VW Head Unit?

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Replacing Official VW Head Unit?

Post by Doddman »

Hello!

When I bought my caddy, it already had a 3rd party android head unit installed. This was fine...until it broke!

So I'd like to just pop in a normal VW standard one. I've seen them for 90 quid on eBay.

Will there be any issues with codes and serial numbers whilst doing this? Is it possible?

If not, could anyone recommend a nice 3rd party head unit?

My Caddy is a 64 plate.

Many thanks!
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Re: Replacing Official VW Head Unit?

Post by sttr »

Not a direct answer to your question.

But when I bought mine it had a standard vw unit in it.
RCD-300 or something similar.
But this was not the original unit to the car and the entry code was lost.
From my understanding I need to take it to a dealer and they can unlock it / get the pin for you.
Probably for an extortionate fee.

I opted to replace it with a pioneer single din unit I had lying around.
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Re: Replacing Official VW Head Unit?

Post by Ripley55 »

Have a look on here at the RCD 330, nice unit and fits like factory
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Re: Replacing Official VW Head Unit?

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Thanks, seems like the rcd 330 is the way to go

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Re: Replacing Official VW Head Unit?

Post by Dugpal »

I have an xtrons unit in. Theyre pretty good. The window screen dab aerial is useless and the microphone that came with the unit isnt great either but the unit itself it pretty good.
I connect it to my house wifi and use spotify to download to it and thats pretty good!
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