981 apple carplay ?

[JeffC]

just wondering if anyone has had apple carplay fitted to a 981and if so is it worth doing?

[JeffC]

CantDecide said:

I am interested in this too. I have been looking at the NM Automotive CarPlay/Android Auto upgrade but I would need to get professionally fitted as I don’t fancy doing it myself.

Anyone done this or have a better alternative?

just looked at that doesn't look bad at all, any idea what is involved in fitting ?

[JeffC]

jamie w said:

boxanet is the place for info on this

cheers i had a look, the only one i could see mentioned was this one.


https://www.isudar.com/collections/wireless-carpla...

[JeffC]

TDT said:

JeffC said:

jamie w said:

boxanet is the place for info on this

cheers i had a look, the only one i could see mentioned was this one.


https://www.isudar.com/collections/wireless-carpla...

Is that what you have fitted ? be interested in thoughts on it if so and is fitting straight forward, have watched a couple of tutorials and it looks like its a bit faffy but doable.

[JeffC]

Jeronh said:

The Joy Auto Carplay module is a better route than the NM automotive one in my experience. It has more control for EQ and so on so you can really improve the sound quite a bit over standard.

Thanks and Is it pretty much the same script to fit as the others ?

[JeffC]

julian987R said:

JeffC said:

just wondering if anyone has had apple carplay fitted to a 981and if so is it worth doing?

https://www.smart-tuning.co.uk/product-page/porsch...

they come and fit at your home. If you look at their Instagram they seem to be trusted by owners of some serious cars.

thanks for that, I half like the idea of someone coming to fit it but at £700 they are charging £460 for fitting plus additional charges to come to you, I am tempted to order the isudar kit up at £240 shipped and fit it myself more I watch the video the more straightforward it's looking, seems to be plug and play.

https://www.isudar.com/collections/wireless-carpla...

[JeffC]

Gad said:

I fitted the same head unit albeit in a gen 1 987 but works seamlessly with the Apple car play function and with the correct adaptors it’s all plug and play ??

andygo said:

I fitted a Sony XAV 550 system to my 981. Pretty straightforward. I have DAB and Carplay.Also drags the cabin into the 2020's.

Just works without dismembering the standard Porsche unit. Fitted two examples now into my previous 987.2 and now my 981


https://www.sony.co.uk/electronics/in-car-receiver...

I looked at that and I prefer the oem look .

[JeffC]

981Boxess said:

JeffC said:

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I think you should take one for the team, buy it, fit it and report back

Well I have ordered one, 5-10 days shipping so will see how it plays out. £251 shipped was the end cost with a discount code .

[JeffC]

mattknight1984 said:

Looking forward to seeing how you get on with this - I'm tempted to get one for my 981 cayman. The PCM is the only weak point of the car IMO (Ive only had the car a month).

yeh It feels really dated compared to our Macan, first thing I noticed when I picked the car up but strangely after a week I am sort of getting used to it but if the carplay is as good as it looks it will fetch it up to date.

[JeffC]

F1025DPP said:

Watching this thread with interest too as I'm looking to add Carplay to my Cayman which has the CDR-31 (or CDR3.1, the basic unit whatever it's called!).
I've looked at the JoyeAuto, NMAutomotive, Isudar and various other similar units and it's hard to choose, but the big difference in price is making me lean towards ordering the JoyeAuto off AilExpress or Alibaba.
There also seem to be various knock-offs of (I think) the Unichip unit which also seems to be good and they are by a long way the cheapest at around the £170 mark plus shipping. Units by Mekede, TomoStrong and Fellostar:

https://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?catId=0&i...

Anyone have any experience of these units?

Also JeffC do you have a link to the unit you ordered and perhaps the discount code?

Many thanks!

I suspect they will all be a copy of each other and do the same job.

this is the one I have ordered they message you a code but it only saves a few quid.

https://www.isudar.com/collections/wireless-carpla...

[JeffC]

Well its landed.

[JeffC]

981Boxess said:

You could have least taken the bits out and showed them to the room

ask and you will get.

[JeffC]

Tackled the job tonight got my pal to assist he is good with stuff like this but tbh with the video to watch you can’t go wrong we watched the video and did it at the same speed so really start to finish it’s prob an hour to do.

We did however have an issue where we had no screen so had to pull back out and immediately found we had popped a ribbon off so was an easy fix , video said we didn’t need to use the mic as my car has The factory one already but it didn’t seem to work so I’ve fitted the supplied mic , I’ve come in now so just need to finish it in the morn but a quick play seems to be all working as it should . Will report back tmrw when I’ve had time to test it all properly but from what I can see so far so far so good 🤷‍♂️

[JeffC]

981Boxess said:

Blimey you don't hang about

Out of interest, not sure if it is relevant or not but do you have the internal Jukebox or BOSE options on your car?

Also is the mic used for phonecalls, voice commands or both? In other words, if you didn't bother with it what would you lose?

Looking forward to the road test

mine has bose and jukebox, not sure on the mic thing,my car has phone , I did not go into the settings to see if there is a way on enabling the oem mic, I will maybe have a look this morn, I only briefly tried it last night before I heard a bottle of wine opening so I downed tools and left it.
I tried to reply to a text but it wasn't hearing my voice so I quickly plugged in the mic that came with the kit and straight away it picked it up and worked so worst case will mean routing the mic cable .

[JeffC]

Well In true bloke fashion not reading the instruction manual there is a setting to enable the original mic so that’s all good been out a good 4 hours today and it’s not missed a beat , connected every time pretty much instantly and disconnected , would almost go as far as saying it’s pretty impressive ,Only thing I would maybe say is and again it might be in a settings menu but when it reads a text out the volume is lower than the music so with roof down I couldn’t hear it so I found myself having to turn it up and then Back down when the music started, I will have a fiddle with that later see if I can find it , I did go in the volume menu and turn everything up but didn’t appear to help with that. My car doesn’t have a rear camera but has the option now of fitting one into this which I thing would be really easy, also noticed now when I turn my wheel it comes up on the display , I’ve disabled that though til I sort a camera .

In short for £250 it’s worth every penny even just to fetch the dash display up to date and doing one again I think you could have one in and out finished in around 30mins.

Edited by JeffC on Sunday 8th May 17:25

Edited by JeffC on Monday 9th May 12:26

[JeffC]

mattknight1984 said:

This is really helpful, thanks a lot for posting. Really tempted to get one now!
How do you switch between the CarPlay and standard Porsche interface?

it's just a push of the button and you back to the Porsche display.

[JeffC]

I have had this a few months now and it is a little hit and miss TBH, sometimes I have to manually search for the connection, this is more so If I start the car, turn it off and go back to it within a few minutes and 9/10 once I drive away it disconnects after about 30 secs of driving and them comes back on, it's always fine once connected though. Also noticed when I turn the car off and in reach it still seems to be connected even though the car is turned off.

I would be interested to hear if anyone else had similar issues or is it just me.

[JeffC]

julian987R said:

I can't fathom why people just don't stick with the MM Automotive solution as that has local UK support.

Is this one without issues? just looked there its double the price of the one I fitted and wonder now if it would have been worth the extra.

For most of the time the isudar I have fitted is fine just the odd niggle but every journey it does work and all the carplay functions work well.