Chief_Wiggum

After a few hours of messing around, I finally got EcuFlash and RomRaider working with my Windows 7 64 bit laptop. It was kind of a pain, but thanks to the info here and on the RomRaider site I was able to get everything going. - I'm using the cable with the blue connector and silver wire. Purchased from seller gameadvance. Item description: "VAG-COM USB KKL 409.1 cable for AUDI VW OBD2 OBD 2". - Used EcuFlash 1.42.2595. Used the drivers packaged with the installation \program files (x86)\OpenECU\EcuFlash\drivers\x86\openport2.inf. Didn't try the Windows 7 drivers. - probably known by everyone (except me), but if you have a recent Cobb AP (mine is a V2), you will not be able to read the ROM using EcuFlash with the AP still married. I had to uninstall the AP before I could even read the ROM. - Learning View works no problem out of the box - RomRaider is kind of a pain. I had to use 0.5.3BetaRC6 and the 32-bit java JRE. The windows installer would not work. After you choose the options to install, it just freezes. I downloaded the windows .zip instead. Unzip that baby in the x86 program files directory and edit the run.bat file in the install directory. Change the java.exe path to c:\"program files (x86)"\Java\jre6\bin\java.exe. If you try and run it using the default 64-bit java, it starts up, but you can't select COM ports nor can you connect to the ECU. All the above information is around on various forums, FAQs and whatnot, but I thought I'd summarize it here.

If you're buying 2.5i and NOT a 2.5 GT, you're all set and have no need of this mod. You can just buy a dash kit and install the aftermarket deck of your choice. Your model does not have automatic climate controls, instead it has manual controls.

Thanks for the update. Please keep us informed.

Did mine last weekend. No problem since I was doing stage 2 at the same time. Having the pipes out makes it a breeze. Filter was spotless at 36k. Mobil 1 synthetic with either a Mobil 1 filter or a Suby filter every 5k.

I don't care if the climate controls read out in Donuts and Cupcakes (mmm...Donuts). Just give me a double DIN in the stock radio location!

I meant the JDM bezel. Instead of having to modify the stock bezel, you could have used the JDM setup.

If you guys can make this work, I'm in. I was really hoping the bezel itself would fit better. It would have allowed a swap with no radio core. Oh well. Thanks for the update, Rich.

You just made about 200 people cry...including me.

Installed my board a few weeks ago, and have been using it with my Audiovox XR9 XM receiver. So far everything sounds great, except that I had been noticing quite a lot of ground noise. Whirring, clicking, and humming increasing and decreasing with engine rpm. I hardwired the power adapter to the clock power harness. Reading over the service manual this morning I discovered the problem. Neither the clock harness, the cigarette lighter harness, nor the accessory plug harness share the same ground as the radio. The radio has it's own unique ground. I removed the radio and spliced the power for the XM receiver into the radio's power and ground wires (I used the single ground wire, rather than the ground in the harness). The ground noise is almost completely gone. It's still there, but only audible at volume levels above 20 or so. If you're going to install the board and hardware an accessory at the same time, wire into the radio's power and ground wires to avoid the ground loop noise and save yourself a GLI and the headache.