olivermooro

Hi Steve. Think you’re well on the way now, great stuff! I didn’t bother with trying empty fuse bays as I was reusing a hardwire kit from my previous lease car, so had the piggyback connectors already in place. Hope you find some empty slots that have power, otherwise it’s plan B and ordering piggyback connectors. Yes - turning the system off is a pain compared to the good old fashioned turning a key in the ignition. As you suggest, open the passenger door on a non rainy day, move the keys away and leave it for a while until it powers down.

Steve - if you haven’t got a kit with piggyback connectors, don’t start removing fuse 21 or 58 as those functions won’t work in your Enyaq and you’ll have all sorts of bings and warnings come up on your dashboard when you turn on. With the kit you have, you’ve got to find empty fuse slots on your board as you suggest and ideally use a voltmeter / multimeter to test the contacts to see if you’re getting 12V. As you say, empty slots 16 and 53 could be ones to try. Good luck - if the spare fuse slots are not live, then ordering piggyback connectors and a couple of fuses should only be about £5 including postage.

Hey Steve, Happy to help where I can. First concern is the hardwire kit - are those piggyback connectors? I don’t see anywhere on those fuse prongs where you would insert 2 fuses - thus converting a single socket into a dual socket? If you do have the piggyback connectors, what size are they? They look pretty small to me, so that’s your issue with using Fuse 66 - that’s a larger regular fuse size, but what you have look like the ‘mini’ size to me. If so, then I’ve scribbled on the below photos - in the colours of your kit. Fuse 58 in red for your red switched live, Fuse 21 should do the trick for your Yellow permanent live. Neither of those slots are fundamental safety issues to piggyback from. If you don’t have piggyback connectors, then it’s a case of finding spare unused slots on the fuse board. From my experience with a multimeter in hand, the bank of mini fuses from Fuse 15 to 24 and then 38 to 49 are permanent live. (for your yellow wire). Then it’s the right column for switched live, fuses 53 to 64. Hoping something in that helps you out. Not sure what kind of a hardwire kit you have, but that might be something to consider changing if you need the piggyback connectors.

Thought I’d update my post as I didn’t have any replies, but managed to find the solution myself. Using a multimeter was certainly a challenge, as I couldn’t find a way to turn the Enyaq off completely… it involves unlocking it and then keeping the keys far away from the car for 30+ mins while the car eventually times out. For a ‘switched live’, I had to scrap the ‘standard’ size fuses and go for one of the bank of 4 ‘mini’ blade fuses on the right of the fuse box. See the circled one that I’ve used - it’s for the rear USB port, so nothing fundamental and slot 58 as labelled in the manual. see photos for reference and hope this helps someone in future.

I’m after some help with installing my Dashcam. I’ve noted the FitcamX which looks like a great bit of kit for a properly integrated setup, but for my situation, I’m attempting to reuse the Garmin Dashcam Mini that i had from my 2019 Octavia vRS and make it work in my new Enyaq Coupe. I have mounted the camera, routed the cable, fixed the earth under a suitable nut and just have the final task of using the piggyback fuse tap. This is where I’m struggling - I have been able to get the camera working, but seemingly only with a permanent live. I could stick with that, but if I go on holiday, don’t want to drain the 12v battery and my particular Dashcam isn’t designed to fire up when it detects a bump from another car. Can anyone advise how to properly turn the car off (but obviously all the doors to be open), so I can use a voltmeter to check the contacts? I’ve attached a photo from the manual and also my fuse setup. Plenty of unused slots for me, but my existing piggyback fuse size is the larger fuse type -slots numbered 2-11 and 24-34 on the fuse diagram. I’ve tried the vertical Fuse 52, which I have read is for the boot 12v socket (perfect!) and that you can mount that in one of two positions to either have permanent live or switched live, but for me, neither position gives power to the camera. I’m pretty confident that my cable/wiring is fine, as I can get the camera working, but only so far with fuse slots that appear to be permanent live. Any solutions or suggestions are warmly appreciated.

Hi there - I did the Freedom membership as you kindly advised and have now managed to sell my Winter wheels/tyres… via Gumtree in fact. I have updated the title of my add to ‘Sold’ and removed the photos, but I can’t find a simple way of just deleting the posting. Is that possible to avoid wasting time for others browsing / searching for the same thing? thanks in advance, Olly

Selling my winter set as my Octavia vRS Estate is up on its lease. Bought to visit family in the Swiss Alps, but COVID stopped many of our planned trips. Condition is good but not perfect. Specific size is 7.5Jx18H2. They’re the 18” Gemini wheels that were standard spec on most of the Mk3. There’s a couple of scuffs, but light ones that could be simply repaired. One wheel has a little pebble dash marks - my own stupid fault… it toppled forward on its face while I was doing a season change. Tyres are Avon WV7 Winter. 225/45 R18 92V. There’s not a mark on them, no curbing or damage to the sidewalls. The grip has been amazing, so difficult to make them slip and very reassuring when it’s anything below 5 degrees. I’ve rotated them for about 3-4 months for each of 3 seasons… something like 6-7,000 miles only in total and I’ve been disciplined to spread use between front and rear. I’ve measured with a manual tread depth gauge, all are somewhere between 5.5 and 6mm, so given that the would have started with about 8mm, they’re perhaps only ⅓ through their life. Price = £650 I’m based in Camberley, GU15, and work in Egham, TW20. Happy to meet within a reasonable range, but would prefer buyer collection. Note that the image of my car is with the summer wheels, which are the anthracite / grey versions of these silver/chrome finish that I have with the winter tyres.

Hi everyone and apologies for any rookie errors - first post on Briskoda! 🙂 I'm running a MY19 Octavia Estate vRS 2.0 TSi 245, but have just agreed to replace the lease with an 80x Sportline Plus Coupe Enyaq. Due to my brother living in Switzerland, I bought some wheels identical to the standard fit ones - Gemini 18", except the winter wheels are chrome/silver finish vs the originals being graphite/anthracite finish. I've barely run them in, using over 3 seasons of tentative UK driving (COVID scuppered most plans to drive to Switzerland!) so they've done about 6,000-7,000 miles only. I'll need to get them photographed etc, but wondering if this is the correct / appropriate place to advertise them for sale, or if not, any hints or tips given that it's the perfect time of year when thoughts might be heading to keeping your Octavia firmly glued to the road?! Thanks all, Olly