Bob1954

I am sorry enc, you are quite welcome to ask the question and I hope my last rant included an answer to you question. Please accept my apology.

I wasn't going to comment at this point as I see nothing good to comment on but as you have specifically pushed for a reply I will give you one. I am a fully qualified radio electronic maintainer, now retired, with many years experience maintaining, repairing and altering equipment both mechanical and electronic. I virtually built my first vehicle from scrap and in the early days spent many hours under the bonnet or the whole vehicle servicing, repairing and altering to keep it on the road. No-one asked me for my credentials and I saw no reason in supplying them. I have a garage with an electric door that opens from a fob just throwing about in the drink wells of the car, it would be so much neater to have a dedicated button on the dashboard to do this. I have already dismantled the fob and added two wires into the switch that could be plugged into a hidden socket under the dashboard connected to one of the switches and have absolutely no qualms about adding a pair of wires on a socket to do this. You and your co-commenters didn't ask about my ability before criticising my efforts. I looked at the question again and couldn't find the part that says "don't help me just criticise my efforts". I do feel that had you been around in the early days of man we would still be hunter gatherers without even the use of the wheel and that is a world I don't wish to return to so If you don't mind I will not get involved in criticisms of people who are trying to improve the world and there own part in it. Please don't bother commenting unless it is to offer assistance with my original question as I am sure this answer will be criticised just as much, remember you called for a reply.

Hi, Sorry, I have put this in the wrong place and I don't know how to correct it now. I have an Audi A3 convertible. I would like to add or repurpose one of the switches in the small row of switches in the centre of the dashboard (nine push button switches only a few of which are used). The whole set are surrounded by a silver metal strip. Is this strip just clipped into place or are there screws/nuts on the inside that need removing? I have tried pushing a flat screwdriver under the surround and trying to lever it off but without using too much force. Does it come off without removing the whole of the dashboard? Removing the cover plate around the display screen just reveals a metal housing that I can't get past and I assume removing the air ducts just above the switch plate will mean disconnecting the air pipes so I am hoping someone can help before I damage something on the dashboard. Thanks, Bob.

I have reached the 'store a favourites' page as shown below. I have altered the name I want to display. What do I do now? The manual says 'select the right control button' if I do that I get a page that gives me three options Close speller Clear entry field Switch to Cyrillic characters. Nothing about 'save favourite' Whatever I do from here it either repeats itself or just crashes me back to the entry field. Is there an error in the manual or is the program broken?

Would someone please run me through a simple instruction on the totally incomprehensible satnav system? All I want to do is enter a post code and save it with a name of the building I want to go to. So that I can go there tomorrow and in future. Thanks.

Is it just the year? Go to the Audi A3 club page, the years are printed under each heading.

Hi, I posted this in the wrong section, if someone can, would they please remove the one in the 8L section? Can't understand how I missed the car dates😐. I would like to add a security camera to the car. The camera replaces the rear view mirror, or at least it fastens to the present mirror. It has a camera on one side of it that looks forward through the screen. Ideally it is supplied from the internal light cluster. I have managed to remove the cluster but can't find a pair of wires, live and neutral, that are just on when the ignition is on. Are there any and if so which ones? Thanks, Bob.