This is so crazy! I made my Monsoon Cd player work with my NON-MONSOON NB!!! I bought the Monsoon Indash CD player by mistake without taking notice that it won't work on my NON-MONSOON factory stereo system. I was really bummed-out and was heading to ebay to sell the MONSOON Cd player and get some of my money back. Originally i heard i needed an AMP to get more power to the Cd player and thats why it would not work on my non-moonsoon system. I did not wanted to deal with amps and cables.
So, what i did after various failure attempts to get the cd player working (just to try) on my Non-Moonsoon car. I looked across the horizon and found my Handy VERY USEFULL VAG-COM.
What i did to make it work:
1. connected the car to VAG-COM
2. loged in to VAG-COM and went to the radio module
3. Cleared any fault codes
4. went to the re-code section of the radio
5. I entered the factory code with an additional "0" in front of it. My OEM code that came with the radio was: 0567 so i entered 00567
6. ran back to car and radio said: DIAGNOSTICS
7. Unplugged OBD II cable and....
8. Radio started working!! CD player too!!
I hope this helps to many of you that bought the MONSOON INDASH CD player and found out that it wont work with your NON-Moonsoon VW radio system. One sollution is ofcourse to buy the amplifier and all the hook-ups and get power from the battery and so forth. OR you can use VAG-COM and save money and get that CD player working ASAP!!
The sound quality is very good although this trick works for someone that likes med-reg volume as any further might have distortion because of the missing Amplifier(i think), but hey it's atleast something to not having a CD player at all. The quality is excellent and should not be a problem but for those sound connoisseur's out there get the AMP!
I like Rock Music and i played it kinda loud and sounded great! I love the "monsoon" message you get once you turn the stereo on. My factory CASSETTE was so old and out of date. Cd is the way to go.
Heres some pics:
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So, what i did after various failure attempts to get the cd player working (just to try) on my Non-Moonsoon car. I looked across the horizon and found my Handy VERY USEFULL VAG-COM.
What i did to make it work:
1. connected the car to VAG-COM
2. loged in to VAG-COM and went to the radio module
3. Cleared any fault codes
4. went to the re-code section of the radio
5. I entered the factory code with an additional "0" in front of it. My OEM code that came with the radio was: 0567 so i entered 00567
6. ran back to car and radio said: DIAGNOSTICS
7. Unplugged OBD II cable and....
8. Radio started working!! CD player too!!
I hope this helps to many of you that bought the MONSOON INDASH CD player and found out that it wont work with your NON-Moonsoon VW radio system. One sollution is ofcourse to buy the amplifier and all the hook-ups and get power from the battery and so forth. OR you can use VAG-COM and save money and get that CD player working ASAP!!
The sound quality is very good although this trick works for someone that likes med-reg volume as any further might have distortion because of the missing Amplifier(i think), but hey it's atleast something to not having a CD player at all. The quality is excellent and should not be a problem but for those sound connoisseur's out there get the AMP!
I like Rock Music and i played it kinda loud and sounded great! I love the "monsoon" message you get once you turn the stereo on. My factory CASSETTE
was so old and out of date. Cd is the way to go.Heres some pics:
