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Hello, may I get a confirmation about the fact that all FSI's are canbus-equipped? My car radio specialist said that mine doesn't have a canbus connection and that's why he can't make a 2002 Concert cassette head unit work on my FSI...! How do I identify the canbus connection once I've pulled the head unit off?

Thanks

Stefano
Canbus wiring to the radio is thin brown twisted pair, one with green tracer and one purple tracer(maybe orange, no blue, aahhhh). ? Should be fairly obvious from the thin twisted brown pair bit, if you have issues let me know and I'll confirm exact colours(it not as if they used the French system).
 
Canbus wiring to the radio is thin brown twisted pair, one with green tracer and one purple tracer(maybe orange, no blue, aahhhh). ? Should be fairly obvious from the thin twisted brown pair bit, if you have issues let me know and I'll confirm exact colours(it not as if they used the French system).
Hello damadgeruk, thanks for your kind reply, I attach a pic of the damaged wiring found in the dash of my 2002 FSI, would you be so kind to identify the canbus wire here? and where would it have to be plugged in to make it work? Sorry to ask, but I'm no technician and my car radio guys seem to know even less than me and the Audi officil dealer washed his hands off this. Thanks!
Stefano
 
Hello damadgeruk, thanks for your kind reply, I attach a pic of the damaged wiring found in the dash of my 2002 FSI, would you be so kind to identify the canbus wire here? and where would it have to be plugged in to make it work? Sorry to ask, but I'm no technician and my car radio guys seem to know even less than me and the Audi officil dealer washed his hands off this. Thanks!
Stefano
The only photos I have seen of your radio wiring do not show the can wiring, got any more? There are pretty much only two wire thicknesses going to the radio, speaker and power wires are thick, can l and h are a thin twisted pair. They go to CAN-L and CAN-H as shown on the wiring diagram on the radio. I'll confirm which is which in the morning.
 
The only photos I have seen of your radio wiring do not show the can wiring, got any more? There are pretty much only two wire thicknesses going to the radio, speaker and power wires are thick, can l and h are a thin twisted pair. They go to CAN-L and CAN-H as shown on the wiring diagram on the radio. I'll confirm which is which in the morning.

Hello, thanks again for your help, and if I may add a (probably stupid) question, where do I have to look for those cables, as they are not present in the radio empty cavity? The previous owner may have cut them or removed them so we can't find them at all, I can get a spare but what is the unit where they have to be routed? Thanks,

Stefano
 
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