nickid

sounds fantastic

nickid

I just finished fitting mine.
when can I find the walnut surround to cover the black round my head unit?

johndc

Did you had to do anything special related to the antenna / FM signal? (see my previous posts, I'm having problems with the FM signal). Thanks

johndc

We call it 'motorkap' but both hood or bonnet are familiar :-)
It is now dark here so these pics will follow later. The engine looks pretty much the same as the 40v V8. But underneath there are 'changes'. The Audi dealer confirmed that the motor management is changed as well and that this is done in such a way that the dealer is not able to do this (so pretty hard coded by professionals).
On the back there now is shown 1.9 TDi :-) (pic will follow). On a straight line my S8 is a 'bit' faster (although it does not yet feel very fast because of the weight and the automatic transmission, which is a bit slow. My 2 Porsches feel faster (and probably are in acceleration and definitely are in curves).
Some pics when I bought it (rims are now replaced with 18'alloys with winter tyres).

ceroberts75

I had to become a reseller and then create the template for the custom part and then have it made.

took them 3.5 weeks to get me the piece for my radio bezel

ceroberts75

I cannot find this part. Pioneer interface CA-R-PI.011

do you mind linking to it?

I went round and round trying to get the steering wheel controls to work and no victory

johndc

Do you mean the facia (plate around the double din radio)? That I covered with the one from an Audi A6. But did the FM signal immediately work, or did you e.g. mount another antenna / antenna amplifier?>
thanks

ceroberts75

Yes, my matching woodgrain that goes where yours is black. I had it customs made.



the color, if you have anything made, is Acura burlwood.


as for the radio, antenna works great. Just picked up an antenna conversion kit. But you need to get the one with the remote amp wire. If you do t have this, the antenna will not know to power on.


I tried connecting my metra wire to every stinking wire in the harness and could not get steering wheel to work. Would really like to know more of how you did that if you wouldn't mind sharing

johndc

I'm not sure I understand what you mean, but I am really interested. Do you have some more details what you did, make, type etc?

johndc

Here some pictures of how my Pioneer AVIC-F950 double din unit is integrated with the Audi electronics including the working steering wheel interface.

The integration with the steering wheel is done via the Pioneer interface, available under numer CA-R-PI.011 (version without canbus; version with Canbus did not work in mine and the alarm and remote control for the doors and alarm did not work with the Canbus version either). This one is especially made for this type of Pioneer double din navi.
From the F950 I connected the two 8 pins connectors as can be seen in the pictures. From the Audi connectors I connected the brown and black 8 pins female connectors to the CA-R-PI.011. I did not click any connector in the black Metra (20 pins) connector. However I connected the wire of connector 11 from the Metra connector CA-R-PI.011 with that of the red Metra connector.
This red Metra connector I used for integration with the Bose amplifier. This connector is from an Audi A6 (2002 model). Between this Metra connector and the Pioneer F950 I applied two filters for decoupling (Calibur). These are the two black boxes with RCA connectors.
So everything works except for the FM signal  I hope to solve this issue via this forum, so that I can apply the standard Audi FM amplifiers (I believe far better than an aftermarket window antenna)