Hi guys new to this forum - quick question, is there any way I can avoid paying Audi £500 for the sat nav activation, ideally I would like the MMI sat nav in my pop up screen.

Thanks in advance!

Welcome to the forum Ryan, you'll find the members on here are a friendly and helpful bunch :) 

Unfortunately there isn't and the only way around it is by paying Audi to activate it.

Cheers

Steve

Gutted,

Do you know anything about the Audi Connect system & whether that would be my best option?

Cheers! :)

Hi Ryan,  I have a 2017 A3 sline with Audi connect. It came from new with a 3 month subscription which has been renewed by Audi uk for free for 12 months. If it does not appear in your MMI menu then I don't think you can add it later. It does not activate Sat Nav but allows you to add Google earth overlay to the Nav which looks great. It also gives online content such as news, weather, twitter etc.

I tried to add the Nav to my sons A1 Sline and came across the same problem you are finding. You can get the maps on the SD card easily enough but there is no way around paying Audi to activate the Nav. I understand they plug it in and connect to Germany who then activate it.

I bought him a tomtom.

 

Sorry

Hi Ryan

Mark is right , found this all out while trying to source a A1 for my sister in law , so made sure the one we had had sat nav installed . 

do agree it is  expensive !

 

I have same problem perhaps audi should read this forum and realise the price is ridiculous to simply activate sat nav

 I totally agree. I have had 3 Audi's now and have found a way around many of these things but this is locked down. I had an A4 3.0 TDI Quattro which did not have the Driver Information System, so after some research discovered that all I needed to do was to buy a replacement wiper stalk with the rocker switch on the end and gave to coding to an local Audi specialist. For £35 all functions enabled and the same applies to cruise control.

It seems that many functions are simply disabled unless you are happy to pay crazy prices or specify from new.

Guess I gotta get a nice case for my phone to sit along next to my nice mmi screen and watch Google maps until audi come to their senses

What happened to the original sat nav card/disc? 

Hi Jason, I never bought the card. I saw them on eBay and was tempted but before I bought it I checked with a local Audi specialist and found out about the need to pay an Audi main Stealer to activate the system first.

I made sure when I bought my current A3 that it had Nav to avoid the problem.

I know you can buy better sat nav systems or even phone apps but it is nice to have the Audi system and to be fair have no complaints so far. 

 

Hi just purchased a 2016 A3 2,0 dti sline, according to my Audi, the purchase specs shows it has sat nav installed, my car came with no sd nav card, so i thought it would simply a case of a purchase of a 2016 sd card off ebay, pop it in and off we go, it is`nt,  will not work any ideas???

Carl

3 hours ago, Carlos900 said:

Hi just purchased a 2016 A3 2,0 dti sline, according to my Audi, the purchase specs shows it has sat nav installed, my car came with no sd nav card, so i thought it would simply a case of a purchase of a 2016 sd card off ebay, pop it in and off we go, it is`nt,  will not work any ideas???

Carl

If it's not activated then it'll have to be plugged in at Audi to have it activated. Audi UK have to plug the car direct into a computer linked to Audi Germany. Be prepared it's not cheap! 

Hi guys I have an Audi A1sportback 2015 how do I get Google maps to play on the MMI ?

19 hours ago, Tom neal said:

Hi guys I have an Audi A1sportback 2015 how do I get Google maps to play on the MMI ?

I don't think you can unless certain options were selected when new. These links support my theory: 

I appreciate this first link is for the a3 but the principal is the same. 

https://www.audi-sport.net/xf/threads/google-maps-on-mmi.383932/ 

https://www.a1-forum.co.uk/threads/google-maps.156385/?u=9874