concert radio

[Graham]

And the 5-6 meter cable:

[Graham]

whoops forgot to attach the photo:wacked:

[Graham]

and the cable which goes into the stereo although i dont know if i need this for a later upgrade cos i have never seen a car stereo adapter cable with so many wires, what are they all for?

[s2avant]

Are there any other connectors on the changer? It looks very similar to the setup on my sony changer. The cable pictured is for the control of the unit and I would have thought there would be an RCA cable for the sound.

Ben

[s2avant]

I took the liberty of labelling your photo (hope you don't mind )
[list=1][*]Is where the cable (pictured above) from the changer plugs in. BUS control.[*]Looks like a connector for the speaker wires.[*]Is where I would expect an RCA cable from the changer to plug in. Audio output from changer.[*]Not sure what this is for. Probably to power something like aerial booster. Would need to see which pin it goes to.[/list=1]

Hope this helps,

Ben

[Graham]

The cable from the head unit (control cable) is the one pictured here (the cable is 5-6m long and the plugs you see are at either end of the cable) and that plugs into the harness you pictured

[Graham]

and then to the boot into the multiplug socket picture.........

[s2avant]

Exactly the same as the sony setup. You'll an RCA cable to go in the red and white sockets on the changer and connect to the two on the head unit wiring (item 3)

Ben

[Graham]

but also you cant see from the previous pics what does the third socket do on this plug

[Graham]

I think 1 is power supply
2 is speakers
Graham

[s2avant]

No 3 looks like the connector thats used for diagnostics, clock data, telephone mute etc. Probably accepts the CD signals as well. These radios have loads of stuff that isn't used on them.

Would need to look on ELSA (Workshop information system) to find all the pinouts for it.

Ben

[Greg_S]

that 3rd one is used on blaupunkt head units for stalk controls etc and other dash displays when it is fitted as an OE item

[Vagsport]

The 'wide' Concert will fit the type 89 slot. As Martyn said, the type 89 has 2 small filler pieces either side of the slot, remove these and it fits a treat. I have a Concert + CD changer for my car, tried the Concert with my original dash and it fit ok. The German spec type 89 cars had the 'wide' Gamma headunits as standard.
HTH

Siena

[DaveS]

On the Concert Radio of our 2000 A3 there is a nice wiring diagram on the top of the unit showing the pin definition of the 3 plug connector.

However we failed to make the Telephone I/P (4 pins marked as Nav+/- on the diagram) work. We had to use a changeover relay on the speaker instead.

I'm wondering if you have to code the radio to let it know that the telephone kit is installed ? I had to also get it recoded by teh delaers VAG com to convince it it had BOSE.

When you start the unit up with the TP button in you get the GALA and NAV display (1..5) but no TEL.

I'm about to update the changers on both our A3 and A2 to Sony MP3 so I should have two 6 disc changers + cables to offload soon.

[GlynRS2]

Vagsport - could you post a pic of the concert fitting in your dash. I measured the Concert unit at 22cm wide and the slot only 21cm wide without the spacers