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I've just ordered Osram Xenarc D1s from Amazon for £72

Excellent thanks chimaera, that's what I was hoping to hear and hopefully something I can manage to do myself

My 2010 Elegance estate with bi xenons is pretty poor in the lighting department. The xenons do their little dance on start up, up, down, left and right. The cornering fogs work OK but throw of the dipped beam is poor. I can't see a bend in the unlit road some 20 yards ahead, unless of course main beams are on, luckily I know its there. The bulbs are about 11 years old, could that be the problem or is it the levelling sensor I've been reading about despite the startup dance working ok, or do they just need adjustment as per another thread. If the levelling sensor does need replacing is it easy to do, where is it, and is it a dealer only part and does it need coding with vcds.

As promised here are some photos for you. There is an option in settings to turn on "Reverse Power Supply". On or off seems to make no difference to my setup. As you can see in the photo the parking sensor image comes on with the reverse camera. This can be turned on or off. I normally have it off but I turned it on just to let you know that the sensors work fine. At the moment I am using FCC Launcher from the Google Play store, there is a whole thread about it on xda developers. I have tried a few and I prefer this one at the moment. If there is anything else you need to know let me know and I will try to help.

Happy to help. The unit I bought was a straight swap for the Columbus so it fitted straight into the existing surround. It came with a canbus already connected from Joying so all the steering wheel buttons, front and back sensors, heating controls, everything just worked. Apart from one thing that is which I'm sure you are aware of, that is the maxidot display between the dials doesn't display satnav. I only had to buy two things for everything to work. Firstly, my Columbus was a DAB version so I had to buy a fakra adaptor cable to connect my roof aerial to the unit. I already had a reverse camera fitted which needed an adaptor to work with the Joying. I bought both of these items from a UK company called Audiotechdirect. I'll take some pictures for you tomorrow in daylight

I've had my Joying for about 18 months in my 2010 Superb and I've not had an issue with parking sensors, they work perfectly. I don't know where they get their power from. I am mostly happy with the unit but there are a couple of things that Joying can't or won't sort out. The first is that Google voice calling (or voice anything) doesn't work. It used to at least respond with a reply to my request to "call xxx" with "I'm sorry I can't do that yet" but now it doesn't do anything, just ignores me. Luckily though my phone picks up my request and it is transferred to the Joying so handsfree calling is possible. The other more worrying issue is that if I allow the Joying to sync my contacts with Google it wipes all of my contacts from Google and I have to restore them from a backup. Another issue I've just remembered. I can only control the volume from the thumb wheel on the steering controls. The problem is if I spin the wheel too quickly the volume goes to its maximum and the only way to fix it is to mute it or pull over turn off the engine, pull the key and restart the car. Also I can't adjust the volume up or down using the touch screen, (there are no buttons or knobs). It just seems to re-adjust the volume to a start up setting made in the units settings, if that makes sense. Despite all that I am happy with it, it's just like having a 10 inch (250mm) tablet in the dash. There are newer models and other makes so the problems I'm having may have been fixed. There is a lot of information on xda developers. This is a link to the unit with similar specifications to the one I have. https://forum.xda-developers.com/android-auto/android-head-units/joying-android-8-1-intel-airmont-eight-t3897206

OK, I give in. What is VC. Its OK found it, virtual cockpit