Aux Input Harness & Cable Part Number?

[BitBoy]

Hi All,

I've been researching all night with little success. I'm looking for the PN# for the aux in harness and aux in mini jack for 2005+ new beetle OEM head units. I managed to find the part number of the jack housing itself, but would prefer not to mess with having to find the pins, solder, etc if the OEM part is available. Can anyone help? Here is a picture of the green harness without the wiring and female mini jack input.



It would probably look similar to the picture below, but with the proper green housing and pin configuration.



Thanks in advance

-B

[trainspotted2]

What you have pictured in the lower image is what I ordered to make my AUX input. Since I have a CD changer, my stereo already has the blue/yellow/green connector at the back of the head unit. All three of the sections are together as a unit but there are no pins in the green section where the appropriate AUX +/- and GND pins are. I'm hoping to break the pins out of the blue connector that is part of the cable I ordered and slip them into the appropriate slots in the green connector already attached to the CD harness. I'll have a male plug coming out of the bottom of the dash but I can live with that and it works perfectly with the male to female extension cable that came with my iPod.

Just need a free evening to take everything apart and do it.

[BitBoy]

Originally Posted by trainspotted2

I'll have a male plug coming out of the bottom of the dash but I can live with that and it works perfectly with the male to female extension cable that came with my iPod. Just need a free evening to take everything apart and do it.

Yes, I could live with the male plug too. In fact, I think I'd also add this:

http://www.monstercable.com/computer...r.asp?pin=2132

Which includes a line output on the dock connector for a cleaner signal than the headphone jack.

If you don't mind, I'd love you to post any tips for extracting the pins from the blue connector. It seems like they'd be a real pain to remove.

Thanks!

[KevinR]

Originally Posted by BitBoy

If you don't mind, I'd love you to post any tips for extracting the pins from the blue connector. It seems like they'd be a real pain to remove.

Use a Dremel like tool to cut the blue connector apart. If you are careful, you will get all of the pins out undamaged. If for some reason you need to revert back to the blue plug, it is available separately.

Does anyone know if the aux inputs through the green plug work on the earlier cassette radios? Or is this just applicable to the new CD radios?

[BitBoy]

Originally Posted by KevinR

Does anyone know if the aux inputs through the green plug work on the earlier cassette radios? Or is this just applicable to the new CD radios?

Thanks! I'll give it a try. I had the older 2002 Monsoon cassette stereo before upgrading to the OEM CD player and it did not have any aux input capability.

-B

[KevinR]

Originally Posted by BitBoy

Thanks! I'll give it a try. I had the older 2002 Monsoon cassette stereo before upgrading to the OEM CD player and it did not have any aux input capability.

-B

That's pretty much what I figured. So, I guess I'll have to upgrade to the CD radio before I can enable this aux in. Thanks for the confirmation!

[trainspotted2]

Originally Posted by BitBoy

Yes, I could live with the male plug too. In fact, I think I'd also add this:
http://www.monstercable.com/computer...r.asp?pin=2132
Which includes a line output on the dock connector for a cleaner signal than the headphone jack.

That's cool but I have an old-school original generation iPod from the days of Firewire and no dock connector, so the headphone jack is my only option.

[trainspotted2]

Originally Posted by BitBoy

If you don't mind, I'd love you to post any tips for extracting the pins from the blue connector. It seems like they'd be a real pain to remove.

I had a chance to finally complete this project last night between basketball games. I'll post pics when I get a chance.

A small hobby/x-acto knife made short work of the blue connector on the setero plug cable I purchased. Basically I trimmed away one side of the connector such that the three pins could slide out sideways without damaging the tiny tabs that lock them into the connector. It wasn't something to be done quickly but something that was slowly worked at to avoid damaging the pins or inadvertantly cutting the wires.

I pulled the head unit from the NB and removed the portion of the bottom of the dash with the hazard, ASR and defroster switches. I fished the stereo plug end of the connector down and out the bottom of the dash where the switches are. There's a natural groove there between dash panels for the stereo cable to fit in. I reassembled the lower dash piece and snapped it back into place with the switches.

Using the pinout printed on top of the head unit, I inserted the three wires and pins on the stereo plug cable into the appropriate slots in the existing green connector that is part of the stereo head unit wiring harness. The red wire/pin goes to AUX-R, the white wire/pin to AUX-L and the black wire/pin to GND. A pair of needlenose pliers made it easy to slide te pins into the slots until they snapped snugly into place.

I plugged all of the connectors into the head unit, took it out of safe mode and connected my iPod to the stereo cable plug hanging out the bottom of the dash above the 12V outlet. I pressed the CD button until it went into AUX mode and started my iPod playing. Thankfully the mp3 connection worked perfectly. Sound quality is better than the tape adapter in my opinion, just as if I was listening to my iPod with headphones.

I do, however, need to turn the volume on both the iPod and head unit up considerably from where they are normally set to get a decent volume through the speakers. So much so that switching from the AUX to FM causes the radio to explode through the speakers until you can turn the volume back down. Maybe some sort of pre-amp for the AUX input would solve this? My girlfriend's MINI with a factory AUX in has a pre-amp for the AUX input that can be adjusted through menus in the head unit settings. Do the New Beetle in-dash CD head units have this feature? (I don't have a manual for one of these head units so I don't know how it might be adjusted)

Pics coming soon!

[Rocky]

I use the Belkin 12v adaptor that has the aux-in that connects to the IPOD through the dock connector. It has an amp in it that allows some adjustment.

[BitBoy]

Originally Posted by trainspotted2

Pics coming soon!

Any word on those pics, I'd love to check out your work before I attempt to do mine :P

[RICO415]

The stock input on my 2005 has the same volume issues( I believe it is normal). If anything is incoming via the aux jack the volume is extremly low. When I want VOLUME I switch to the FM transmitter in my Sirius........

[trainspotted2]

Originally Posted by BitBoy

Any word on those pics, I'd love to check out your work before I attempt to do mine :P

Yeah, sorry, I've got a backlog of pictures to post. Hopefully this week.