MK5 Golf GTI

All Things Mk5 => Modifications & Technical Area => Sat Nav and Car Audio => Topic started by: ideaboy on October 04, 2014, 09:47:30 am

Title: Need help identifying these wires
Post by: ideaboy on October 04, 2014, 09:47:30 am
Does anyone know what these bunch of wires are next to the wiring loom for the system. It's the greys ones which have been cut up and Sellotaped to the loom and also glued, all done by the previous owner.

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Thanks
Title: Re: Need help identifying these wires
Post by: Viking on October 04, 2014, 10:15:58 am
Those wires look like they relate to the phone connections on the RNS510, maybe the microphone or suchlike? Do you have Bluetooth fitted?
Title: Re: Need help identifying these wires
Post by: dazza on October 04, 2014, 10:24:37 am
It looks like he was trying to connect with the first two pins which are for the rear speakers. I recently had to put a new pin in that block as the mute on the rns510 moved from the main block.
Title: Re: Need help identifying these wires
Post by: ideaboy on October 04, 2014, 10:35:58 am
It had an rns 510 installed which I removed and sold. No Bluetooth installed with the rns. Is it gona be safe to take the grey wires off the loom
Title: Re: Need help identifying these wires
Post by: Viking on October 04, 2014, 10:48:20 am
Well, that block is relevant to the phone / mic installation, so if you don't have them installed then it's safe to say they aren't doing anything. Certainly if they are doing something then I would have them better connected that they currently are.
Title: Re: Need help identifying these wires
Post by: ideaboy on October 04, 2014, 11:02:06 am
Will I lose my rear speakers if I take it off? Shall I follow the grey loom and take it off from the main connection
Title: Re: Need help identifying these wires
Post by: Viking on October 04, 2014, 11:04:31 am
If you check on this site you can see exactly which pins your wires are connected to and for what purpose. http://www.my-gti.com/529/volkswagen-rns-510-pin-assignments

You need to be looking at "Multi-pin connector 3, 12-pin, for telephone and microphone signals ".
Title: Re: Need help identifying these wires
Post by: ideaboy on October 04, 2014, 11:40:17 am
Can anyone confirm if this is the grey mdi loom that has been cut up and sellotaped
Title: Re: Need help identifying these wires
Post by: Viking on October 04, 2014, 11:53:12 am
Do you have an MDI installed?
Title: Re: Need help identifying these wires
Post by: ideaboy on October 04, 2014, 12:00:40 pm
Nope, ok just wana know where this loom came from does everyone have a grey loom like this already on there car?. I'm pretty sure it was already in the car when the guy decided to cut it up
Title: Re: Need help identifying these wires
Post by: Viking on October 04, 2014, 12:11:26 pm
If you don't have an MDI fitted, then it can't be the MDI loom that has been cut up and connected to the phone terminals.

Check and see exactly which terminals those wires would connect to when the quadlock is inserted to the rear of the RNS510 unit, and cross reference with the wiring diagram on the page I linked to earlier. From your picture it looks like they hit terminals 6, 11, and 10 on multi-pin connector number three. But if those pins are loose and can move about then they might've been inserted after the quadlock was connected, and could've been on different ones. Possibly the microphone connection? Take a look in the interior light in the headlining and see if there's a microphone in the slot there. That would be my guess, but it's a bodge job by someone so I'm not sure what you'll find connected to the other end.