Morgan79

On 2/4/2024 at 11:10 PM, Hammie1982 said:

Ive just updated my own, from the thenavman.com.

I updated MMI Software, Vehicle software and Maps.  Whole update took about 3 hours and was very simple.

I think the whole update cost me about £69.99. I contacted Ben thru Facebook and gave him the details. he gave me the link to order the right updates and they sent out the SD cards to me.  

+1 for this, takes some time had the android update too 👍🏻

On 5/31/2023 at 8:59 AM, K3v said:

looks like there has been development into the activation now and it's a lot easier and now diy. Obviously still slightly risky that you could brick the mmi 

 

I purchased a map/system update which also unlocked the android auto and car play... Installed a little under week ago and works great, takes a bit of time but worth it as only £160, search "the nav man" on Google for a look. 

16 hours ago, Chrisssyg said:

Thanks for the replies. 

Absolutely, I think the leak was there when I bought the car so a dealer has an obligation to rectify that fault via warranty or otherwise. I've got plenty of texts to/from him covering that so should all be fine - good point though! 

Agree - but like with all things, the warranty is pretty incomprehensive.. It includes £50 diagnosis (cost to diagnose is circa £70-80), then they'll cover £50 an hour labour, but labour here is £80-85.. So if I can do a bit of diagnosis here, I'll end up saving myself some money as I'll have to shell out for the diagnosis cost over £50, along with any labour costs over £50 too..

That's interesting.. I'll keep that in mind. I'd be a little surprised to see coolant weeping from the area in the picture if it was just settling to a nominal level though, I'd assume it'd come out of the expansion tank overflow rather than from somewhere that looks suspiciously like where water pump is located. Is the water pump in that area? I can't seem to find any diagrams that I'm sure match my engine..

Any views on how best to get VCDS at home? Is an ebay copy safe?

I only had my allroad a litte over a week ago, bit the bullet and purchased a genuine unit from https://www.gendan.co.uk uk supplier Ross-tech and only a hour or so away from me.

I already had a carista dongle I picked up years ago for my other vehicles which I used to check the car before purchasing...

It has error checking functionality and some modification options but not nearly as much as the VAGCOM has, but only around £35 on Amazon, if your interested in this see https://caristaapp.com/en/supported-cars for what it can do on the A6.

I was after something that could complete towbar coding and know the value of having additional access to the systems after using a IID tool for years with my departed Discovery. 

A good friend of mine had a RS6 with the same issue, he would top up the level and it would leak a little 'from somwhere' so he took it back to audi after becoming obsessed with it... Apparently it was releaseing additional coolant to bring back to nominal level, so he stopped topping up and remained steady around the min level. 

1 hour ago, Steve Q said:

Welcome to the forum you'll find the members on here are a friendly and helpful bunch 🙂 looks a lovely car. 👍

Thanks, found the forums a great source of info with the disco, number of the sites post flagged up when I was researching the allroad 👍🏻

VAGCOM arrived today... installed/coded new towbar, started ceramic polish/wax... Cracking day 😎

After scouring the country and covering almost 800 miles I finally brought a new toy home yesterday ... 

Have to say I'm very impressed with it, saw a few shockers in indpentant garages and picked this up privately and very happy. Very different to the Discovery I parted with on Sunday.