Happy Saturday (to most)!

Now that we've just acquired our Cayenne ('08 GTS), it's time to start thinking about how to outfit it.

One of our highest priority items is to get it bluetooth+iPod enabled. The car did come with an "uninstalled" older Tooki unit, which the original owner had removed when he had to bring the car to the dealership to fix something, as he feared they might reject his warranty claim due to "aftermarket installs". The Tooki unit is a little old (probably 2-3 years) so I'm not sure we want to reinstall it at this time. Perhaps we can resell it to cushion the cost of our new install?

Anyway, I've done some Googling and searching on the forum, and it appears there are 2 general options that might fit what we need --

1) PCM-integrated units such as Tooki, Dension, and Mobridge, which are hidden in the console and allow you to retain the stock PCM interface; and

2) After-market products such as Alpine, Pioneer, and Kenwood (to name a few), which would replace some or most of the PCM

Our main priority is probably phone/voice quality. Retaining control through the buttons on the steering wheel would be nice too. We used to keep our iPod hooked up in the glove compartment in our previous car, so the same set up would be great. Ease of use of the interface to scroll through iPod playlists/songs would be nice to have, but is not that important.

My wife and I both use iPhones, but are open to switching to different phones when our contract is up at the end of the year, so systems geared primarily to, or specializing in iPhone connectivity would probably not be a good idea for the sake of flexibility.

I'm kind of on the fence when it comes to NAV, as we do have a handy Garmin Streetpilot whose interface we love and which we mount on the windshield. Just seems easier+safer to look at when it's closer to eye-level, than looking down at the PCM area. Also, our Cayenne is Bose-equipped, if that makes any difference.

The conservative in me would prefer to retain the stock PCM in the car, but then again some of these aftermarket consoles/interfaces do look pretty slick compared to the duller PCM black+orange screen, and most seem to come with touch-screen capabilities too.

Price/cost is definitely a strong consideration too, but from what I've seen so far there might not be much difference whether it's option #1 or #2.

Any thoughts and experiences would be much appreciated, thanks guys+gals!

 

If you go to the NAV-TV website you will see that there are updates that can be performed via bluetooth using a PC or Mac -www.navtv.com . I think you may already posses everything you everything you need. The Tooki supports A2DP which will allow you to stream music from am iPhone or iPod with bluetooth adaptor to your stereo system. The results seem to differ with all speakers working like a stereo with others only playing through 1 or 2 speakers. If that doesn't work you could consider the OPI-P which is also sold by NAV-TV. The aforementioned is from my recent research - I will be installing both the Tooki and OPI-P in my Cayenne S this week. Good luck -

Jeremy

 

Thanks Jeremy! Be sure to keep us posted on the result of your Tooki and OPI-P install.

I took another look at the NAV-TV units that came with our car, here is a picture --



The black box is the Tooki unit, but I'm not sure what the silver one ("USBMOST1") is, as I don't see it listed on the NAV-TV website. I suspect it's some sort of iPhone/iPod adapter, because there was also an accompanying Apple-to-ethernet cable.

I'm not very keen on the bluetooth streaming option for music. Now I'm just curious how effective these units will be assuming I'm able to update the software and reinstall them.

Also just realized I don't remember seeing a mic, I assume I'll have to purchase one too huh?