Enabling Mute functionality via steering wheel phone button - Mk6 Golf

**AdamD** · 04-04-2012, 10:02 PM

Hi guys,

So, I've searched high and low for a specific answer to the following question; apologies if it's been answered somewhere prominent and I've just not found it!

My Mk6 GTI was factory-fitted with the RNS-510 and Dynaudio. I do not have any form of bluetooth installed. All of my steering wheel buttons work, with the exception of the phone button (centre of the left-hand-side group of buttons), which has no effect, and never has, since delivery. The "Phone" button on the RNS does mute/pause audio. My question is - what can I do to enable the phone button to perform the same function as the "Phone" button on the head unit?

Here is the coding for my steering wheel module (I have VCDS):

Code:

Address 16: Steering wheel        Labels: 1K0-953-549-MY9.lbl
   Part No SW: 1K0 953 549 CD    HW: 1K0 953 549 CD
   Component: J0527           056 0111  
   Coding: 0001832
   Shop #: WSC 01357 011 00200
   VCID: 76CD31AB01DC1C9

   Subsystem 1 - Part No: 5K0 959 542   Labels: 3C8-959-537.CLB
   Component: E221__MFL-TAS   H05 0010  
   Coding: 00000131
   Shop #: WSC 00000  

No fault code found.

Any help would be much appreciated!

**Ryan_R** · 04-04-2012, 11:34 PM

If coded correctly it's the Microphone button that acts as a pause/mute button, not the Telephone button (which will do nothing). Note the digit for Push to Talk below:

Originally Posted by Ryan_R

Microphone Button on Steering Wheel
Navigate to 16 - Steering Wheel - Coding | Note that the following also shows the code to change to retrofit a Tiptronic Steering Wheel
Use the yellow Help tool-tip to work out the right code for you:

Change your 0001832 to 0001632 and you should be golden (assuming your control module and yellow tooltip are the same as mine).

**AdamD** · 05-04-2012, 08:58 AM

Thanks very much Ryan!

My microphone button currently activates voice control... which is what I would have expected it'd do by default? I've read references to the phone button on the wheel acting as the mute button in other cars (although to be fair a lot of that comes from VWVortex etc and describes cars from other markets) - are you sure it's supposed to be non-functional without Bluetooth installed? Seems strange given the behaviour of the "Phone" button on the RNS itself.

**Ryan_R** · 05-04-2012, 09:01 AM

Yep, changing that code in VCDS controls what the microphone button does, not the phone button. Speech recognition still has ways to go plus I never wired mine up properly so I much prefer (and use more often) the mute function - so that's what I've got it set as.

**AdamD** · 05-04-2012, 09:19 AM

Originally Posted by Ryan_R

Yep, changing that code in VCDS controls what the microphone button does, not the phone button. Speech recognition still has ways to go plus I never wired mine up properly so I much prefer (and use more often) the mute function - so that's what I've got it set as.

Gotcha. I never use the voice control either, but mute would be very handy (am sick and tired of reaching over to the head unit when I need to pause something!), so I'll give the recode a go and report back. I'm 99% sure my tooltip bubble is the same as yours in the steering module (J527).

**zei20t** · 05-04-2012, 09:35 AM

same with me, id rather it be mute/pause

thanks for the instructions!

**AdamD** · 08-04-2012, 03:33 PM

Just an update on this; I coded my steering wheel controller to 0001632 as suggested (tiptronic without push-to-talk), and it worked a treat. Thanks again Ryan_R!

**unrealshots** · 11-11-2013, 07:04 PM

Originally Posted by AdamD

Just an update on this; I coded my steering wheel controller to 0001632 as suggested (tiptronic without push-to-talk), and it worked a treat. Thanks again Ryan_R!

is that muting of the audio, or muting an in-progress phone call?