Aerial Information for Volkswagen Golf

Vehicles with radio “RCD 300” or “RCD 500” have a rear window aerial with two blocking circuits. The diversity function is carried out directly in the radio unit.
t   If the vehicle is equipped with a radio unit and telephone equipment or auxiliary heater remote control have also been ordered, the rear window aerial with 2 [...]

Addition of extra circuits to the Volkswagen Golf / Jetta / Passat / EOS / Scirocco / Rabbit fuse box

Adding new circuits to your Volkswagen Golf / Jetta / Passat / EOS / Scirocco /Passat fuse box is reasonably straight forward, allow 2 hours for the first time and 1 hour for each time after that.

(Golf 1K1 /1K5, Golf Plus 5M1, Passat 3C2/3C5, Passat CC 357, EOS 1F7, Scirocco 137)

There are two sizes used in the interior fuse [...]

Upgrading 2nd generation radios (RCD 300, RCD 500) to 3rd generation (RCD 210, RCD 310, RNS 310, RCD 510) power drain issue

VAG 1K0907530S CAN bus gateway

Early build Volkswagen cars can experience a power drain issue after upgrading their 2nd generation headunit from a RCD 300 or RCD 500 to a 3rd generation headunit like the RCD 210, RCD 310, RNS 310 and RCD 510.

The problem is the CAN bus Gateway is too old and an updated [...]

Performing repairs on CAN bus wiring

An unshielded two-wire line (1) and (2) with a cross section of 0.35 mm² or 0.5 mm² is used for CAN bus wiring.

The colour codes of the CAN bus wiring are:

Powertrain CAN high wire Orange/black
Convenience CAN high wire Orange/green
Infotainment CAN high Orange/violet
CAN low wire, (all) Orange/brown

Repairs to CAN bus wiring can be carried out either with sections of [...]