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Audi A6 2005 ➤
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Contents

91 - Communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1 General Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.1 MMI Infotainment System through May 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.2 MMI Infotainment System from June 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.3 Telephone System through May 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.4 Telephone System from June 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.5 Navigation System through August 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.6 Navigation System from September 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.7 Rearview Camera System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.8 Multifunction Steering Wheel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.9 Speech Control System through August 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.10 Speech Control System, from September 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.11 External Audio Source Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2 Description and Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.1 MMI Overview through May 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.2 MMI Overview from June 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2.3 MMI Maximum Equipment Overview from June 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
2.4 Sound System Standard through May 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
2.5 Sound System Standard from June 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
2.6 BOSE Sound System
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2.7 BOSE 6000 permitted
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2.8 BOSE 6000 Sound System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
2.9 Microphone Unit in Front Roof Module through MY 06 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
2.10 Microphone Unit in Front Roof Module from MY 07 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
2.11 Microphone Unit in Front Roof Module from June 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
2.12 Installed Locations, MMI, through May 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
2.13 Installed Locations, MMI, from June 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
2.14 Installed Locations, MMI, through May 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
2.15 Installed Locations, MMI, from June 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
2.16 Antenna System, MMI, through May 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
2.17 Antennas, MMI, from June 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
2.18 Antennas, MMI, through May 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
2.19 Antennas, MMI, from June 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
2.20 Antennas, with Navigation system antenna, MMI, from September 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
2.21 Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
2.22 Cellular Telephone Preparation, through May 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
2.23 Cellular Telephone Preparation from June 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
2.24 Bluetooth Hands-Free Calling from June 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
2.25 Microphone Unit in Front Roof Module R164 Overview Through MY 06 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
2.26 Microphone Unit in Front Roof Module R164 Overview from MY 07 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
2.27 Microphone Unit in Front Roof Module R164 Overview from June 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
2.28 Telephone System Installed Locations through May 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
2.29 Telephone System Installed Locations from June 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
2.30 Navigation System, Minimum Equipment from September 2008 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
2.31 Navigation System, through August 2008, Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
2.32 Navigation System, Maximum Equipment from September 2008 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
2.33 Navigation System Installed Locations through August 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
2.34 Navigation System Installed Locations from September 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
2.35 Rearview Camera System, Overview through August 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
2.36 Rearview Camera System, Overview from September 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
2.37 Rearview Camera System Installed Locations through August 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
2.38 Rearview Camera System Installed Locations through August 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
2.39 Rearview Camera System Installed Locations from September 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

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2.40 Multifunction Steering Wheel Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

2.41 Speech Control System Overview through August 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
2.42 Speech Control System Overview from September 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
2.43 Endangered Alarm System Intercom Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
3 Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
3.1 Fastener Tightening Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
4 Diagnosis and Testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
4.1 Telephone Handset - Telephone Fixed Installation, Adapting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
4.2 Rearview Camera System, Calibrating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
5 Removal and Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
5.1 Antenna Amplifier and Antenna Amplifier 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
5.2 Auxiliary Heater Antenna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
5.3 Antenna Amplifier through August 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
5.4 Antenna Amplifier from September 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
5.5 Antenna Amplifier 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
5.6 Antenna Amplifier 3 and TV Antenna Amplifier 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
5.7 Antenna Amplifier 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
5.8 Digital unless
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5.9 Front Information Display Control Head Control Module through August 2008 . . . . . . . . . . 104
5.10 Information Electronics Control Module 1, MMI, from September 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
5.11 Display through August 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
5.12 Display from September 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
5.13 Digital Sound System Control Module through August 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
5.14 Digital Sound System Control Module, BOSE 6000 through August 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
5.15 Amplifier (MMI) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
5.16 Digital Sound System Control Module, BOSE 6000 from September 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
5.17 MMI Radio through August 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
5.18 MMI Radio, Maximum Vehicle Equipment, from September 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
5.19 CD Changer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
5.20 Speaker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
5.21 Satellite Radio through May 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
5.22 Roof Antenna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
5.23 Roof Antenna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
5.24 Telephone Transceiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
5.25 Microphone Unit in Front Roof Module through MY 06 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
5.26 Microphone Unit in Front Roof Module from MY 07 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
5.27 Telephone Baseplate R126 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
5.28 Navigation System with CD Drive Control Module through August 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
5.29 Navigation System Antenna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
5.30 Rearview Camera System Control Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
5.31 Rearview Camera System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
5.32 Rearview Camera System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
5.33 Multifunction Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
5.34 Tiptronic Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
5.35 Speech Input Control Module through August 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
5.36 Speech Input Control Module from September 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
5.37 Endangered Alarm System Intercom, Left Front Speaker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
5.38 Endangered Alarm System Intercom, Microphone in Left Exterior Rearview Mirror . . . . . . 133
5.39 External Audio Source Connection, MMI AMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
5.40 External Audio Source Connection, AUX IN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
6 Special Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

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