Retrofit Car Play

[Coilover]

This is a new thread to bring together the latest news, DIY discoveries etc regarding the retrofit of the new carplay unit to existing models.

If you have any updates on this please add them here so that we can find them easily (rather than being buried 200 pages deep on the old thread).

I know 'someone' was going to do a DIY job on this. Any updates?

Edited by Coilover on Wednesday 22 December 16:02

[Hoofty]

Not an FB user so have not reviewed content, but this sounded positive (taken from p202 of the mega-thread):

AlexNJ89 said:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/273624691322645/?m...

This guy has confirmed that the hardware is very similar between Apple CarPlay and the current units, so a retrofit should be quite easy.

Good idea for the stand alone post, I know infotainment-in-a-sports-car isn't everybody's thing but I'll be glued to this.

[chuck_ster]

The thread on that Facebook group isn't looking too positive, has not proved a simple swap yet. Seems to be exploring replacing the screen with an ipad or similar.

[gkronberg]

also very interested .... hope we come up with a solution

[Albionmuz]

Has anyone managed to do this yet? Am about to purchase a Premier Edition and would love to be able to retrofit Car Play to the car through the OEM infotainment system.

This looks promising but no way am I doing it myself!

https://youtu.be/CRxMPAA2Lmw?si=KbjYDKTd9Neq4nbs

Edited by Albionmuz on Tuesday 23 January 09:36

[fossett]

From

https://forum.alpinerenault.com

There is a user who has integrated an android tablet, here is the GitHub page

https://github.com/MyAlpDroid/AlpDroid/wiki/Home-E...

[Meonstoke]

Albionmuz said:

Has anyone managed to do this yet? Am about to purchase a Premier Edition and would love to be able to retrofit Car Play to the car through the OEM infotainment system.

This looks promising but no way am I doing it myself!

https://youtu.be/CRxMPAA2Lmw?si=KbjYDKTd9Neq4nbs

Edited by Albionmuz on Tuesday 23 January 09:36

I wouldn't be overly concerned. It's only a matter of time before reputable car hifi specialists configure a neat way of upgrading the A110 pre-facelift cars with CarPlay / Auto Android functionality. By 'neat' I mean without replacing the OEM screen. Although some folks have already replaced the screen with an 'Alpine' (car hifi) display unit.

I'll place these links into the All Things Infotainment thread, otherwise we'll end up with multiple (sub) threads on the same subject...

M.

[7en]

Meonstoke said:

I wouldn't be overly concerned. It's only a matter of time before reputable car hifi specialists configure a neat way of upgrading the A110 pre-facelift cars with CarPlay / Auto Android functionality. By 'neat' I mean without replacing the OEM screen. Although some folks have already replaced the screen with an 'Alpine' (car hifi) display unit.

I'll place these links into the All Things Infotainment thread, otherwise we'll end up with multiple (sub) threads on the same subject...

M.

I hope so for the sake of people with pre-facelift infotainment, I think one would have to keep an eye on the French as in the UK there's not enough demand.

I know the British chap who installed an Alpine (audio) screen was planning to make up some plug & play harnesses but he has since moved on to German pastures.