Retrofit RNS510 what are the garage likely to do with warranty issues in a MK6?

[Snoopy]

What your forgetting is the MDI is connected to the headunit. If you fiddle with that part of the system ie headunit your warrenty goes out the window for that part of the car. I know alot of dealers who would say this.
They will probably check your car has had all the relivent updates for the audio system and oh look it did not come with that. caching..
The last thing i will say is do what you want, but i would be asking myself is it really worth the risk?

[am1w]

Asker I got some suggestions off of Steve but at the time I was at yours I couldn't get on the net to see it, 
If you see Steve he will sort your DRL's for you 
Darren

No probs. Happy with way things are for the present. I'll start fiddling after my hols. RNS sounds very good now!
You are a star for having looked after me so well. Very, very grateful and pleased. An extremely happy bunny old goat I am!

[p3asa]

Thanks Steve for the kind offer I may very well take you up in that depending on what I do.

Aidy, when I was writing my post it was you I was thinking of and having no luck getting it fixed. Did VW actually admit to there being a problem?  I know they won't sort it for me and to be honest I mostly use the SD card (now that i've found one that boots instantly) or the hard drive so its not so much of a hard ship but I'd rather VW were made aware of the problem.  Plus I think the ipod is so easy to navigate to the song / album / artist or whatever you want.

I suppose if someone else had asked the same question I would probably have told them not to give the garage any excuses to refuse to look at it. Its hardly a big claim though so doubt they would even look at my cars spec on their system although I'd imagine the more switched on "tech" would question why there was no sharks fin!!

Its not till Wednesday so got a couple of days to think it through.

Cheers.

[Aidy06]

Hiya mate, I told them I'd retro'd the RNS. I told them I had the problem with the RCD and now the RNS, they didn't say anything about it and they updated the software. Of course they told me they had my stereo on all day and it didn't do it once, on my way home it did it again. That was the first visit, on my second they replaced the Media In unit in my armrest. All seemed fine for a day or 2 but then back to the problem, went in again and they said it was something todo with Apple and I should update my iPod and iPhone. I explained that all my software is up to date to which they replied that my idevices must be broken, they told me to keep an eye on it and take it back if it persisted.  I've give up with it now, does seem like it's only Apple devices that make the problem but I could be wrong. The MDI updates seem to have fixed it a little bit, it's not as often now

[p3asa]

Just to update this thread. I decided to just leave the RNS510 in and go for it. I took the RCD with me in the boot and was prepared to install it if they started to moan it was a head unit fault. However I didn't need it as they never even mentioned it. The mechanic called me to show him the problems and he was a bit surprised as these were the "top of the range head units"    He said he would update the software, don't know if this was the RNS510 software or the MDI software. 

Anyway it didn't work. Problems were still there. They did tell me that VW have acknowledged the problem and were currently working on it. So that was something at least.

Aidy, I edited a dozen songs to about 15 seconds long each so they didn't have to wait for each song to play in full. That way they could see the problems within a minute or so.

The iTouch still mutes / stutters between tracks, (especially noticeable if the next track starts loudly).  Seems to be related to the display changing as this is when the volume mutes / stutters.
The Nano doesn't change display when the song changes especially if you fast forward a couple of songs.

[am1w]

p3asa: Told you not to worry.
But sorry to hear your problems are still unresolved. Hope they find a fix soon.