Georgeoctaviamk2lancs

Hi, I am also new to the Octavia ownership world, my mk2 has the stream unit fitted so I purchased an oem swing unit thinking it should just plug in and away you go. Unfortunately it turns out it isn’t so easy. Immediately the battery went flat overnight and continued to until I attempted a little research and saw a suggestion that because the previous unit matched to the car and other electronic components once removed there is an issue because the car does some kind of scan that once removed it does the scan again and again causing the drain. I reinstalled the original unit and the car was back as it had been with no power drain

I currently own a 2007 Octavia with the stream system installed. I was wanting to upgrade and have bought the swing model with the code supplied but wasn’t sure if a swap was possible or if there would be some issues? Any advice would be really appreciated. George