Installing Kenwood DNX520VBT
Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2015 5:43 pm
I need a little bit of help, hopefully someone on here has experience of the Kenwood DNX520VBT, the unit specially designed for VAG cars.
So I bought a used one on Ebay this week, and came 'as it was'. The install itself went fine, and the unit works very well, but I have some questions about what would have come with it if I had bought a brand new boxed unit.
Specifically, the one I bought has a steering wheel interface module (STK-283), there are cables on one side of it, but I didn't get any 'loom' on the other side of it - should there be a single wire out of the other side of it to connect to the 'steering wheel remote' wire coming out of the back of the unit? IE should it look a bit like this (NOT MY PICTURE)
The other question about what should have come out of the box was aerial connections. My car has 2 Fakra connectors, but the aerial connector supplied with the Kenwood unit only had one. Would there also have been a double Fakra connector in the box when new?
Lastly, has anyone rewired the connector loom to have a permanent positive or ignition positive, or just left the unit to work as per the 'out of the box' loom? The installation instructions - despite being a VAG-specific unit - are vague. The boot-up time of 30 seconds-or-so is a major negative so far.
Thanks guys
So I bought a used one on Ebay this week, and came 'as it was'. The install itself went fine, and the unit works very well, but I have some questions about what would have come with it if I had bought a brand new boxed unit.
Specifically, the one I bought has a steering wheel interface module (STK-283), there are cables on one side of it, but I didn't get any 'loom' on the other side of it - should there be a single wire out of the other side of it to connect to the 'steering wheel remote' wire coming out of the back of the unit? IE should it look a bit like this (NOT MY PICTURE)
The other question about what should have come out of the box was aerial connections. My car has 2 Fakra connectors, but the aerial connector supplied with the Kenwood unit only had one. Would there also have been a double Fakra connector in the box when new?
Lastly, has anyone rewired the connector loom to have a permanent positive or ignition positive, or just left the unit to work as per the 'out of the box' loom? The installation instructions - despite being a VAG-specific unit - are vague. The boot-up time of 30 seconds-or-so is a major negative so far.
Thanks guys