Adding Rear Speakers to OEM Headunit and enabling Fade
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rick agresta
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Hi Guys, im a bit late jumping in to this thread.
Im in Australia and wanting to know what the part number is for the repair wire to add the rear speaker to the quad lock connector. Even the size of the pins so i can grab them from alibaba etc would be cool.
I've searched hi and low on the web but just haven't been able to get anywhere so far.
Im in Australia and wanting to know what the part number is for the repair wire to add the rear speaker to the quad lock connector. Even the size of the pins so i can grab them from alibaba etc would be cool.
I've searched hi and low on the web but just haven't been able to get anywhere so far.
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I have just pressured my van converter into connecting my rear speakers, which they previously installed, to the 4 ‘spare’ speaker outputs on the head unit rather than piggybacking off the front speakers. They were very reluctant to do this because they said it was against the advice of their their audio sub-contractor and two VW dealerships.
Lo and behold the speaker balance ‘fader’ came up without further intervention. This may be because @Pauly tried unsuccessfully to enable it when the speakers were incorrectly connected, although I thought it was then reset to default. Or does the 2018 T6 automatically enable the fader when rear speakers are connected?
Anyway, many thanks indeed to the Forum for enabling me to challenge ‘experts’ so as to obtain the available functionality
Lo and behold the speaker balance ‘fader’ came up without further intervention. This may be because @Pauly tried unsuccessfully to enable it when the speakers were incorrectly connected, although I thought it was then reset to default. Or does the 2018 T6 automatically enable the fader when rear speakers are connected?
Anyway, many thanks indeed to the Forum for enabling me to challenge ‘experts’ so as to obtain the available functionality
Did you get the opportunity to demonstrate it to them with much smugness?
I’ve had the same issue with mine, front and rear connected to an amp and unable to activate the fader. I gave up thinking it won’t activate because the head unit is seeing the speaker outputs as open circuit.
@Deaky . I take it the factory head unit doesn't have pre outs so your sending speaker level feed to the amp. The reason I ask is I'm looking to install a small Alpine amp to help drive rear mounted 6 x 9s
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However I really want to keep the fader option on my standard head unit. Didn't realise this would be a problem until I saw this thread.
@Dieseldonkey correct mate.
Hi All,
I know this is an old post but I am struggling to enable the fader on my T6 with composition audio. I have the rear speakers installed and they are working but I cannot control the front/rear volume independently. I am following the instructions in this post because I do not have VCDS. I'm using ODB11 which gives me access to the bytes in a very similar format to the jpg posted above.
Can anyone confirm that the setting for Byte 4 is 0xFF after selecting 4 channel, 6 speakers in VCDS because when I enable channels 1 and 4 as described above I still do not see the fader enabled? I have tried going to sleep (overnight) and also long press on power to restart head unit with no success.
I do have an amp installed on the front speakers and so there are 4 fault code for front L & R Tweeter and Woofer speakers not detected, could that be causing the problem?
Thanks, Dave.
I know this is an old post but I am struggling to enable the fader on my T6 with composition audio. I have the rear speakers installed and they are working but I cannot control the front/rear volume independently. I am following the instructions in this post because I do not have VCDS. I'm using ODB11 which gives me access to the bytes in a very similar format to the jpg posted above.
Can anyone confirm that the setting for Byte 4 is 0xFF after selecting 4 channel, 6 speakers in VCDS because when I enable channels 1 and 4 as described above I still do not see the fader enabled? I have tried going to sleep (overnight) and also long press on power to restart head unit with no success.
I do have an amp installed on the front speakers and so there are 4 fault code for front L & R Tweeter and Woofer speakers not detected, could that be causing the problem?
Thanks, Dave.
Hi Absolute5. It's your amp/sub/speaker kit I have for the front! I'm adding a couple of basic rear speakers so the children can listen without me going deaf in the front. What have you got to fix this - I thought about a few resistors but they would generate a fair bit of heat even just from he standard head unit?
Hiya
We use a brand new product from one of our suppliers
Did we install it for you or was it one of the kits we supplied to you
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