I see Road Radio (www.audio66.co.uk) have got the AVIC-D3BTI for £788 inc VAT and free fitting if you are anywhere near Crawley. No affiliation, just a satisfied customer.
Retrofitting PCM
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Guest
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Hi Richard/ Gizmo
To be honest, my problem is that I am out in the sticks! (down in Devon). I have a local company who can supply me the unit complete with the iPod adapter and the Bluetooth kit for £790 fitted! I believe that there is an adaptor plug that is also required which is about £30quid.
A couple of queries though.
1. How many speakers are used in my car? It is the 996TT with the CDR22/Bose - this seems to matter for the adaptor.
2. I have located the heater control surround for the lower position which as previously stated seems only to cost a couple of quid. BUT - is there anything else that needs to be done/ prepared for the upper hole to take this double din unit?
Thanks both of you for your help with this!
JJ
To be honest, my problem is that I am out in the sticks! (down in Devon). I have a local company who can supply me the unit complete with the iPod adapter and the Bluetooth kit for £790 fitted! I believe that there is an adaptor plug that is also required which is about £30quid.
A couple of queries though.
1. How many speakers are used in my car? It is the 996TT with the CDR22/Bose - this seems to matter for the adaptor.
2. I have located the heater control surround for the lower position which as previously stated seems only to cost a couple of quid. BUT - is there anything else that needs to be done/ prepared for the upper hole to take this double din unit?
Thanks both of you for your help with this!
JJ
I think you'll find you have two dash speakers, two in the doors, two in the rear side panels, and a sub-woofer behind the rear seats. I have the wiring diagrams, so send me an email or PM your email address to me and I'll let you have the details.
I didn't fit my own, as it was free fitting. I suggest you search www.renntech.org for "AVIC", and you'll find some instructions from a guy called "mivey". You will have to cut the cross-bar that separates the radio and aircon slots to make a double-DIN opening. There is a metal frame behind, which can be modified to fit the AVIC. Once fitted, you will end up with a 12mm gap at the top (bearing in mind that mine is the HD1BT). I cut and glued the original aircon trim to fill the gap, and it looks fine.
I didn't fit my own, as it was free fitting. I suggest you search www.renntech.org for "AVIC", and you'll find some instructions from a guy called "mivey". You will have to cut the cross-bar that separates the radio and aircon slots to make a double-DIN opening. There is a metal frame behind, which can be modified to fit the AVIC. Once fitted, you will end up with a 12mm gap at the top (bearing in mind that mine is the HD1BT). I cut and glued the original aircon trim to fill the gap, and it looks fine.
scaramanga
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Hi Richard.... just out of interest, (and i'm sure this is wishful thinking) but does the AVIC allow display of the Porsche on-board computer info ?
gizmo750
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@ scaramanga - Sadly I can confirm that it doesn't. Sorry (I'm assuming that you mean av. speed and consumption figures etc here)
@ James J - I am in Dorset and I went to Road Radio for the day after finding out that Richard was happy with their services. Just make sure that they know what they are doing first if using a local company (none of mine gave me a good feeling that they did!)
@ James J - I am in Dorset and I went to Road Radio for the day after finding out that Richard was happy with their services. Just make sure that they know what they are doing first if using a local company (none of mine gave me a good feeling that they did!)
gizmo750
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James, as mine is a slightly different model to Richard's I didn't use a cover strip but they did do everything else.
I bought the double DIN surround and the aircon relocation plate from Porsche (£65 ish for the two) and then took that down to Crawley. They supplied the head unit, the ipod adapter, the bluetooth unit. They then did the full install for me whilst I went and had breakfast, shopped and generally wandered around. Came back, all working and set up and looking great. If you are in my neck of the woods in the near future (just north of Ringwood) then let me know and you can have a look / play by all means.
Guy
I bought the double DIN surround and the aircon relocation plate from Porsche (£65 ish for the two) and then took that down to Crawley. They supplied the head unit, the ipod adapter, the bluetooth unit. They then did the full install for me whilst I went and had breakfast, shopped and generally wandered around. Came back, all working and set up and looking great. If you are in my neck of the woods in the near future (just north of Ringwood) then let me know and you can have a look / play by all means.
Guy
scaramanga
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Shame! i have pcm2 in my car and getting increasingly frustrated that Porsche will not allow Navtech to sell updated discs.. most recent version is 2005, and apparently
a) porsche decided to stop supporting the system (which is bad, but not as bad as.....)
b) porsche actually refuse to allow Navtech to sell discs for the system themselves...
wouldn't mind swapping the pcm for another unit but don't want to lose the computer functionality....
caiseya
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hi, I now own "the wafers" car .... anyone wants to look at how good the fit is, is welcome.. Im based in Hertfordshire, near m25 ....
good fit and finish, set-up has bluetooth for the phone, dvd and sat nav..... sat nav is good but not as good / quick as TomTom.
I believe it was all fitted by PrestigeAudio .....
Andy
good fit and finish, set-up has bluetooth for the phone, dvd and sat nav..... sat nav is good but not as good / quick as TomTom.
I believe it was all fitted by PrestigeAudio .....
Andy
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