How can I upgrade car radio?

[David Lee]

Hi! I want to know more about DIY car stereo and buy a new seicane android car radio to install in my 2010 T5. How to install it? Is it difficult? Hope get some help from here!

 

[MattBW]

Any stereo you buy you will need to check there is a surround kit available (the plastic trim around the edge).

Sorry, I've not changed mine but there are quite a lot of threads about some changing radios that may be useful and worth a search around. Some of these include the RCD330, Pioneer and other alternatives

https://vwcaliforniaclub.com/threads/new-rcd330-carplay.20375/page-2#post-260971
https://vwcaliforniaclub.com/threads/radio-upgrade-advice-needed.23496/
https://vwcaliforniaclub.com/thread...or-pioneer-sph-da120.10184/page-2#post-110989

 

[reserves]

Hi! I want to know more about DIY car stereo and buy a new seicane android car radio to install in my 2010 T5. How to install it? Is it difficult? Hope get some help from here!

I imagine they expect that unit to be plug and play, however it doesn't seem to mention the T5?

 

[Ting Tong]

Hi David It’s easy. Just prise up the dashboard tray above the radio, then undo the 2 front torx screws and pull the upper edge of the radio surround towards you. Then undo the 4 torx screws behind and pull the unit out. The trouble is that the loom connector plugs into a socket on the rear of the VW units, whereas aftermarket units (such as the fab Kenwood DNX521DAB) have the socket on the end of a massive loom that has various little black boxes eg for canbus. It’s a pig getting all that back in as the space is tight anyway. I stuck the gps antenna under that tray. The dab antenna sticks on the window and it’s also a pig getting the glovebox out to route the cable but there’s a nack which I’ve forgotten. I don’t know anything about that make but cheap Chinese ones like Erisin usually have a very clunky os and gui. Hope that helps. ps you’re not a draughtsman are you?