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That would be correct. Also, beware that the scroll wheel on the classic is not as sensitive as previous models and does not always pickup on finger movements. Possibly could be fixed through firmware update, but if it's hardware, we're screwed. It's not just mine either. There's a thread of pissed off people on the Apple forums with the same issue. I also noticed lagging on the models in the store. It's not horrible, but if you have used previous models, it can be a bit frustrating. Apple seems like they're dropping the ball with the classic. One step forward, two steps back. The Coverflow for the album art is nice though.

I might just buy a PSP slim for movies, etc. I can get a new PSP slim with an 8GB Memstick for about $300. That provides web browser, youtube, MP4 video playback, and video output... Oh and I hear it plays those game things too, lol. The iPhone browser is 10x better than anything on the PSP tho.

The Authentication chips are only available to Apple and are brand new, so there is zero chance that the D3 has it or will ever have it. Our only hope is that someone creates a hacked firmware for the D3 that makes it emulate an apple device or creates a hacked firmware for the iPod that enables video out. Apple can go shove it with their $50 composite cables. I still see no reason for these chips. All they did was piss off anyone that has bought their old AV cables for iPod or any other device that outputs video from an iPod.

No, I have 4 days off a week, I study then. I go to school Tues-Thurs and I have 3-5 hours in between classes. I was so looking forward to watching the new season of the Office in my car amongst other shows/movies. I'm so pissed right now, my iPod video 5G 30gb hard drive died a few weeks ago. So I wait on buying a replacement due to new ones coming out, and this is what I get.

On a positive note, browsing music on the D3 is now extremely fast. Instant really. I'm going to have to try and find someway to crack the firmware to allow video playback. I was thinking of trying the new iPod composite cables from apple and running them into the AV input on the D3. But these cables run into the dock connector so no place for the D3 dock connector. Apple just pissed me off so much. Freakin hand them $250 and they slap me in the face because they need to please all the copy protection-whore movie studios by implementing more useless DRM related crap. Seriously Apple, wtf. I wish there was some other device that had a decent level of control/integration from the D3. There's no real chance of Pioneer fixing this as only Apple has access to the chips to make the external output work.

/rant

SOOOO F'ING PISSED WTFFF??? I JUST got my freakin iPod classic and now this, i bought it like 90% for watching vids while in between classes at college.... FFFFUCCCCK!!!!!!

Service Provider: Verizon

Phone-SW Version: LG VX9900 (The EnV)-SW Ver: T99VZV01

Autoconnect: Yes

Basic Function: (Make & Recieve a call, Call History, Preset Memory) Yes

Phone Book Transfer: Yes, 1 at a time

Voice Calling: Yes still have to look at phone screen for confirmation

Signal & Battery Strength Indicator: Yes / Yes

BT Audio Capable?: Yes (Play/Pause/Next/Prev all work!)

I just received my CARPI221 harness from them too, but what did you do about the ISO connectors (one for power, one for speakers) that are suppose to fit perfectly for the europe car audio market?

 

I know I can cut the harness and splice them in, but I want to see how you did it.

I just cut the black and brown connectors off. The rest of the wires are all stardard ISO colors that match up to the AVIC harness. The only difference is that the ground wire is brown instead of black. Also, the purple wire is reverse and the Blue/Black striped wire is the VSS. Illumination is orange, yadda yadda.

Here's a link to a PDF of the VW standard wiring harness:

http://www.installdr.com/Harnesses/VW-Wiring.pdf

Also, an extra tip, make note of the purple reverse wire that is in the black connector and put a piece of tape or something on it. That way once you cut the connectors off, you won't get it confused with the purple wire for the right rear speaker's positive connection.

Get the Scosche dash kit, it fits perfect AND has the proper factory smooth texture, unlike the BestKits dash kit for the GTi which is rough.

The Scosche dash kit can be found here at Sonix: http://www.sonicelectronix.com/item_8186_Scosche+VW2317B+-+VW2317.html

Also the antenna adapter can be found here: http://www.sonicelectronix.com/item_4440_Scosche+VWA3+-+VWA3B.html

And most importantly, the wiring harness. As you may or may not know, our VWs do NOT have a switched 12v ACC line in the stock harness, nor does it have the orange Illumination wire that dims the head unit when the head lights are on. This means that those ordinary harnesses for VWs will not give us the 12v switched line or illumination. Also, to get the VSS wire for the GPS (And with the AVICs it is important to have this connected to get the most accurate positioning) you can not tap a VSS wire behind the gauge cluster in many 06s and all 07s. That means in order to get the most out of your AVIC, you gotta buy the Pioneer CA-R-PI.221 VW/Seat/Skoda Steering Wheel Remote Adaptor. I got mine in the mail yesterday from Incarexpress in the UK. This adaptor is not sold anywhere in the US right now so I had to import it. Check it out here: http://www.incarexpress.co.uk/view_product.php?partno=CARPI221

You can not use their online ordering to order internationally, so just email them at sales@incarexpress.co.uk . It costs about 54 pounds shipped. That's $109US. Totally worth it. This harness gives you speed pulse wire, 12V ACC, illumination, REVERSE, AND full steering wheel controls for Pioneer head units and VWs. NO SPLICING OF ANY FACTORY WIRING. Tell them what you want, give them your shipping info, you want it standard airmail, and make sure you open up a free Google checkout account in order to pay them. It took two weeks from emailing them to getting it to my door. The item was back ordered and did not ship out until last Wednesday. Their communication was EXCELLENT and it took four business days to get from england to New Jersey. Do yourself a favor and get this adapter. It will save you from having to cut and run wires to your headlight switch for illumination, your car's computer/tail lights for reverse signal, your cigarette lighter for 12v switched, and gives you the VSS signal which is quite important.

Basically, it's like this, if your not installing a subwoofer and you are getting this adapter, you will not have to splice into a single factory wire or rip apart the whole dash. You just take out the 7 torx20 screws, plug in the nav system, mount the gps ant and your done.

I am using the factory speakers powered by the AVIC and they sound incredible. As for the wiring, all you need is the CARP, when you get it, chop the smaller brown and black ends off and just match them up to the colors on the AVIC's wiring harness.

Yup all of it myself. So far the bluetooth works great with my LG EnV from Verizon. It gives battery life, signal strength, and you can control the bluetooth audio since the EnV supports both protocols for audio. (AVCVR and A2DP) Although, the phonebook cards had to be sent one by one, but other than that it's been flawless. The XM rules so far as does the iPod interface. Also, the speed pulse given by the CARP adapter harness is dead on. The speedometer under vehicle diagnostics is neck and neck with the actual speed of the car. I have only driven it a little more than a mile so far and the thing is already out of learning mode.

As for the GPS and XM antenna placement, I installed them on the metal bar inside the dash and I get 6-7 out of 8 satellites and strong XM reception.

Not bad considering it was my first install since I got my license a year ago. The most difficult parts were taking off the door sills, trying not to break any clips, and running the subwoofer interconnects/turnon lead into the dash. I'm proud of myself since I did not break any clips/trim, no lost or extra screws, and no scuffed or scraped dash panels.

Here it is:

Avic-D3

XM Radio

Bluetooth

iPod

12" Pioneer Subwoofer

360w Pioneer Monoblock Amp

CARPI.221 V3

Any questions, sorry for the crappy pics.

Ok, today is my install date for my 07 Jetta. Same interior and dash as your GTI. Do NOT get the metra dash kit. The kit will not fit properly. Look at this thread from VW Vortex: http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=3145877

Get the Scosche dash kit, it fits perfect AND has the proper factory smooth texture, unlike the BestKits dash kit for the GTi which is rough.

The Scosche dash kit can be found here at Sonix: http://www.sonicelectronix.com/item_8186_Scosche+VW2317B+-+VW2317.html

Also the antenna adapter can be found here: http://www.sonicelectronix.com/item_4440_Scosche+VWA3+-+VWA3B.html

And most importantly, the wiring harness. As you may or may not know, our VWs do NOT have a switched 12v ACC line in the stock harness, nor does it have the orange Illumination wire that dims the head unit when the head lights are on. This means that those ordinary harnesses for VWs will not give us the 12v switched line or illumination. Also, to get the VSS wire for the GPS (And with the AVICs it is important to have this connected to get the most accurate positioning) you can not tap a VSS wire behind the gauge cluster in many 06s and all 07s. That means in order to get the most out of your AVIC, you gotta buy the Pioneer CA-R-PI.221 VW/Seat/Skoda Steering Wheel Remote Adaptor. I got mine in the mail yesterday from Incarexpress in the UK. This adaptor is not sold anywhere in the US right now so I had to import it. Check it out here: http://www.incarexpress.co.uk/view_product.php?partno=CARPI221

You can not use their online ordering to order internationally, so just email them at sales@incarexpress.co.uk . It costs about 54 pounds shipped. That's $109US. Totally worth it. This harness gives you speed pulse wire, 12V ACC, illumination, REVERSE, AND full steering wheel controls for Pioneer head units and VWs. Tell them what you want, give them your shipping info, you want it standard airmail, and make sure you open up a free Google checkout account in order to pay them. It took two weeks from emailing them to getting it to my door. The item was back ordered and did not ship out until last Wednesday. Their communication was EXCELLENT and it took four business days to get from england to New Jersey. Do yourself a favor and get this adapter. It will save you from having to cut and run wires to your headlight switch for illumination, your car's computer/tail lights for reverse signal, your cigarette lighter for 12v switched, and gives you the VSS signal which is quite important.

Basically, it's like this, if your not installing a subwoofer and you are getting this adapter, you will not have to splice into a single factory wire or rip apart the whole dash. You just take out the 7 torx20 screws, plug in the nav system, mount the gps and your done. 20 minute install tops. Well, the VW dealership just called and my car is ready to get picked up from oil change.

Hope this all helps, I'm going to be installing my D3, iPod, XM, and Bluetooth in about an hour and will have pics.

The midrange and tweet are wired to a crossover network in series. So the tweeter and woofer may each be 2ohm, but they are wired in series so it presents a 4ohm load to the head unit, which is what you want. You should be fine.

When wiring speakers, putting two in parallel halves the ohms. When run in serial config (ala. a crossover), you double the ohms.

http://www.the12volt.com/ohm/ohmslaw.asp

Do you have factory component speakers (a woofer and tweeter) where each one is 2ohm? In that case, there is probably a crossover box where there is a 4ohm input from the amp. However, if you have coaxial speakers, where the tweeter and woofer are built in to each other, then you may need to replace them. Most, if not all, after market decks are designed to carry 4-8ohm loads.