Rcd 500

[craigus]

Am thinking about buying an rcd 500 and was wondering if this would be a straight swap for a rcd 300 it's in a 54 reg golf gt with the old canbus version??

[craigus]

Have been told by the seller that it will work on the old canbus version has anybody actually fitted one on the old canbus version?

[AlanD]

Yours is an early model so could very well suffer form the battery drain issues. Im not massively clued up it but do a Google search and also use the search function to look in this section as many a person has had the dreaded battery drain when upgrading their early model cars.

[craigus]

Yeah I'm not clued up on it at all but am now thinking of getting the parrot Bluetooth kit fitted instead and just using my iPhone instead

[AlanD]

Yeah, it all depends what you want out of a headunit. After market units will ALWAYS provide a better sound. The RDC500 do like nice and very OEM.

I just did a search and found this post which you may find useful:

There is a great guide here

http://uk-mkivs.net/forums/p/18010/170840.aspx#170840

its not all that difficult and should take less than 20 mins

beware the RCD510 as it will likely drain your battery as its not fully compatible with 06 models (more info here http://uk-mkivs.net/forums/p/265838/1827509.aspx).  Also the leads to connect it dont fit 100% correctly and you may need to buy adapters (or just bodge it in!). 

Ive installed the RCD500 multichanger/mp3 and had no probs.  its a simple plug and play.