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Just got my CarPlay kit in and figured since it’s only an 8mm bolt that holds in the 5F I’d hook it up real quick. I initially had the dip switches set incorrectly because there are 2 C7 A6 settings (ended up being the one all the way at the bottom of the chart). Once everything was hooked up it worked great. You have to set media to AUX for the sound to work. The sound quality is not the greatest but it’s fine in my opinion. Once you plug in the phone, you hold the nav button or the Info Nav button on the steering wheel and it takes you to a menu screen to choose CarPlay, android auto, iOS screen mirroring, or android mirroring. Once you choose CarPlay it works just like any other CarPlay. Navigate through the menu with the scroll wheel, touchpad is inop and you can exit by hitting any of the function keys (Nav, Tel, Radio, Media) and hold either Nav button again but this time it’ll take you straight to CarPlay. I played around with the screen mirroring and it worked great. Pretty excited to get this thing installed but I’ll need to get a usb extension because the cable is a little short and I would like to route it where all the other connections are under the armrest is. Worth every bit of the $235 in my opinion. For those without AUX, the seller said you can use the AMI setting but he said you may need something else and he wasn’t very clear.
I had Enfig Car Audio in NJ do the install. It went well. Works nicely. I'm just waiting on warmer weather to pull the center console to run the USB to my armrest storage. Right now, the USB is in my glove box. Not ideal.
I had Enfig Car Audio in NJ do the install. It went well. Works nicely. I'm just waiting on warmer weather to pull the center console to run the USB to my armrest storage. Right now, the USB is in my glove box. Not ideal.
Great, I'm thinking of getting this done also. Can you listen to the radio or a cd while hearing directions from Google maps?
Great, I'm thinking of getting this done also. Can you listen to the radio or a cd while hearing directions from Google maps?
No. You have to change the audio to AUX. But, you can get an app that works with Carplay and listen to radio while using Google Maps. But, the audio for Google Maps will not lower the volume on the music app when it gives directions. They come in at the same volume. I think that's a Carplay issue though.
10-29-2018, 06:17 AM
