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Model specific boards => Golf mk5 => Topic started by: csi_basel on 23 June 2006, 08:07
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Hi
I was wondering if there was anyone on the forum who could either post me a photocopy or email me, the instructions to the Satnav. I think its called the MFD2, its got a colour screen. I live in Switzerland and I bought the car from an Italian, so the handbook and everything else is in Italian :sad:
The dealer is hopefully going to source me an english language handbook but its going to take 2 weeks!!
Apart from that I'm enjoying the car, haven't noticed the steering rack issue but I'll look out for it now.
I was thinking about a TT with the DSG, but there still pretty expensive and I got a good deal on the golf as the seller was in a hurry. He was buying his friends's Lexus RX.
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Hi
I was wondering if there was anyone on the forum who could either post me a photocopy or email me, the instructions to the Satnav. I think its called the MFD2, its got a colour screen. I live in Switzerland and I bought the car from an Italian, so the handbook and everything else is in Italian :sad:
The dealer is hopefully going to source me an english language handbook but its going to take 2 weeks!!
Apart from that I'm enjoying the car, haven't noticed the steering rack issue but I'll look out for it now.
I was thinking about a TT with the DSG, but there still pretty expensive and I got a good deal on the golf as the seller was in a hurry. He was buying his friends's Lexus RX.
The handbook I have (3.4 MFD DVD) is 48 pages long, so I don't think many of us will have the time to photo copy the whole thing for you - hand on for the dealer to get you a copy... it's not exactly the best manual I've ever read either - to be honest, it's just as easy to play around and learn how to use the sat nav that way - it's very simple to use actually...
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With the Italian handbook, I got a double sided A4 size sheet that had a picture of the Sat nav screen and explanations down the side of what all the buttons did. This was what I was hoping someone could photocopy or scan for me.
Hopefully someone will have this :huh:
Cheers
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Well it been a very frustrating day :angry: Got a call from the dealer yesterday that my english language handbook had arrived, at last i thought :smiley:. Went there this morning and it was only the handbook and not also the sat nav instructions. Oh well, I thought 1 out of 2 is not bad. Drove back to work and then decided to have a quick look at the handbook. Pictures inside did not match my car. Its for a mark IV Golf :angry: :angry:
Totally fed up. How could they get it so wrong!! Phoned up the dealer. They said that they gave the chassis number to VW...
Now I have to wait at least another month :cry:
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hey mate
If you get any luck i would appreciate a few scans of the relevant pages. I bought an mfd2 dvd nav off ebay. Still tried to ask dealer - he tells me they dont do dvd navs, only cd based ones! will continue to search though - let u know if i come across one
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I dropped lucky, I got a DVD nav system off e-bay. I went into my local dealer to buy a manual... as I neither got the car or the Nav from them, and the service guy just handed me on for free. Couldn't believe it.
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thats not fare :cry:
will try my dealers. they didnt know dvd navs existed so i doubt i would have much luck! is it alot? one thing i havent been able to work out is the tmc stuff and how to know how many satellites i am picking up. I understand that tmc is essentially bollocks in uk - correct?
But a couple of times it showed "tmc classic" and once "tmc 92.7" where it usually shows "tmc seek".
good for you!
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The manual does not really go into too much detail... I've took pics of a couple of the pages, hope they help:
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-3/969979/TMC.jpg
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-3/969979/nav.jpg
Dave
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Cheers Dave
much appreciated - the dvd sat nav is not a bad system, sounds better too. hooked an mp3 changer and sub to mine. Looking at puuting steering controls - stupidly didnt get the highline multi function steering ..... :cry:
thanx, thom
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Tell me about it...
Mine came with the mid-line computer/no steering wheel control too. Gutted, I thought the GTi was nearing the top of the range? I wanted to change the remote to open all the doors with one press, instead of the daily wrestle I have with it trying to unlock the boot with my hands full. You can set this yourself in the menu in the highline...
I bet it sounds good with the sub.
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Those DVD players you buy from ebay...
eg - http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SAT-NAV-Navigation-VW-T5-MFD-2-RNS-multivan-MFD2-T5-DVD_W0QQitemZ330009155945QQihZ014QQcategoryZ75327QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Whats involved in getting them up and running?
When my MkV arrives, it'll have the basic cd player in it & Ipod connection. Does this nav system just slot in in its place?
Also - do I need some sort of navigation disk for it?
Thanks
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Hi Ranter
By dvd players, i assume you mean the dvd sat nav units. The linked you supplied is the nav for the vw touareg - wont fit the golf, not easily anyway :wink:
You need this:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VW-MFD2-Versione-DVD-RNS-2-SAT-Navigation-System_W0QQitemZ230010218593QQihZ013QQcategoryZ75327QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Its as close to plug and play as it gets! you need a flat head screw driver and a torque screwdriver to get the fascia and unit out - "how to install noki kit" by the Doc will help here
You need:
1.the unit, - with code
2.a gps aerial ( which you can place on the dash - or under it depending on how resource full you are!) 3.and a europe dvd map, preferably version 3
If it is coming with an ipod connection, this probably uses the h/u cd changer port - IMO it should just swap out. Downside is that while useing the nav, you wont be able to play cd's - cos only one cd/dvd bay. Or dont know if your ipod connection is a std aux input or specific to ipods only.
hope this helps!
Oh - GTI CV7, man was i pissed - reading the manual the night i bought the car - about only the menu stuff you could - dashed out at first light - only thing i could set was the speed warning :embarassed:
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thomGTI - Thanks very much for the comprehensive reply. :smiley:
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Midline computer... I feel like a poor relation with it! The manual gives you a real sense of 'look what you could have won...'
The guy I bought my nav from on ebay specialises in OEM nav. The unit looked as new, with chrome look buttons, VW code card and genuine vw version 3 nav disk. I watched him remove the instrument cluster and fit the GPS aerial behind it. He said the aerial can 'see' through plastic and glass but not metal. I really wanted the the fin antenna on the roof, but he said removing the roof lining was a real pain, not sure what they cost either.
The DVD version seems the bollox, it uses the ABS sensors on the rear wheels to help it maitain accuracy, and the disc holds all of Europe, unlike the CD which is just one country. It also has points of interest and split sceen too. The guy's based in Leicester.
My Golf has the changer in the armrest, it just plugs straight in... on the menu it has a 'AUX' button, not sure if you can connect an ipod as well?
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Hi there
Thanks to a couple of guys on the UK-MIVs forum, I now have the pdf for my sat nav :cool:
I can email this to anyone (2.2Mb) so send me a message if you need it.
Cheers :smiley:
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hi csi_basel
Totally forgot this thread originally was for sat nav instructions. Is this for a dvd based nav? Or is it a pdf file of a scanned cd nav manual? From a link in netherlands? that thomk5gti posted on ukmkIV forums? :wink:
If it is a dvd nav manual would mos def need a copy!
cheers
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Hi thomGTI
I'm afraid that its just the cd nav manual and not the DVD. I've not seen that anywhere.