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NM Automotive CarPlay fitted to PCM 3.0

Chumbaside

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My wife treated me to an NM Automotive CarPlay setup for Christmas and yesterday I swallowed the brave pills and fitted it :thumbs:

It's a very involved installation; if you're at all nervous about prying open your PCM unit and messing around with ribbon cables then have a professional do the job. Me, I like this stuff so thought I'd get involved!

The NM Automotive kit is very thorough and comes with replacement ribbon cables x4, the PCB itself and a bunch of other cables. If attempting the installation yourself I'd encourage you to watch the various Youtube videos available for installing the similar Joy Auto kit - they helped me a lot, particularly in removing and opening the PCM without damaging anything. Nick at NM Automotive was very open to supporting too although I managed to avoid disturbing him!

The expansion box that does the work is reasonably large and space is tight behind the PCM so I found a spot under the steering wheel to hide the box, cables and site the mic (for SIRI). I fitted the USB port down in the footwell as I'll only need this for software updates in the future.

Overall I'm very impressed with the kit and the quality of the CarPlay implementation on the PCM. The wifi connection works flawlessly and the touchscreen is both responsive enough and high enough resolution to work well.

It's an expensive kit but if like me you crave CarPlay and want to retain the stock PCM setup I cannot fault it. You can add back- and front-facing cameras too if that's your thing.

Link to kit:
https://www.nmautomotive.co.uk/carplay-androidauto
 

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Great thanks very much for sharing. This is on my future TODO list. Glad it's working well, although I'm much less hands-on with this stuff, so I have a local installer that's done a few :)
 
Hi

Hi, I just installed it yesterday, although I'm not too handy, it took me about 3 hours, and I found it very easy thanks to the tuto

The box I put behind the air conditioning box, as indicated in the instructions

My only complaint is that Siri does not work, it hears me, tells me a moment, then tells me an error has occurred, but probably that I have not set well, or because I tested in my garage.

It is the easiest to connect a back up camera and the installation, joy auto requires in addition a connection on the fuse box, as well as on the reverse light, not the NM Auto
 
Re: Hi

Davcbr said:
My only complaint is that Siri does not work, it hears me, tells me a moment, then tells me an error has occurred, but probably that I have not set well, or because I tested in my garage.

No issue with Siri for me, works perfectly! Hopefully you get that fixed easily enough.
 
Problems with Siri probably related to phone reception; it tries to access the internet and if don't have good signal nothing happens.

Ditto radio via phone, in warning. Round by me I am lucky to get 3G so Apple radio a bit hit & miss.

But everything else day and night compared to my old 2.1!

Richard
 
rickprice said:
Problems with Siri probably related to phone reception; it tries to access the internet and if don't have good signal nothing happens.

Ditto radio via phone, in warning. Round by me I am lucky to get 3G so Apple radio a bit hit & miss.

But everything else day and night compared to my old 2.1!

Richard

:thumb: Thanks
 
I've been using this for over a year now without any issues with Siri or otherwise, great bit of kit. I also have a reversing camera fitted.

I used Sextons in London to fit mine.
 

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