Custard Tractor

Further to my last, and thanks to Bigjohn, found a suitable 1m cable (could have been shorter). My lack of familiarity with usb c was compounding the problem. All is well now and looking forward to a long drive when the opportunity presents…

Just took possession of the SE L Superb Estate yesterday and discovered that the rear view mirror does indeed sport a micro usb socket but am struggling now to source a short micro usb lead to power the Nextbase 312 Dashcam. Has anyone seen any of late, please? I have tried the Nextbase site with no success…

Next week will see us trading in our 63 plate L&K Superb Estate for a Superb III SE L Estate. We will look to transfer over our Nextbase dash cam and believe it can be powered from a USB socket in the rear view mirror. Accepting the presence of said feature we hope to avoid the wiring task so carefully outlined above. Has anyone done it this way? We don’t mind unplugging the USB of an evening - presuming a short and suitable USB cable is readily available.

Quite understand the concern when the SSA causes the vehicle to stall. It happened to us some years ago when an upper level Range Rover decided to get intimately involved with ‘Harriet’s’ rear end when I had her stall after automatically re-starting at some traffic lights. Otherwise with a less than optimum charge in the battery she will decline to activate SSA.

Anyone had a totally flat battery (3 yrs old) that they suspect was caused by the Columbus not turning off after vehicle vacated and locked and left for 18 hrs? Have been unable so far to spare time to remove and photograph the unit’s details but may have find the fuse to isolate the unit for the time being to avoid being stuck. A job for in the morning when it gets light and the battery has hopefully recharged.

Thank you, will give it a go this weekend.

We have been experiencing problems with the Colombus for around 6 months now on our 2014 Superb L&K and have tried to keep up with appropriate threads on Briskoda. First it started by TV programmes not functioning/detected then it started to switch off - be it in Nav or Radio mode and switching on again a few seconds or even minutes later. Now it wont pair or match with a mobile telephone. After a number of attempts I managed to do a factory Reset and although this restored most functionality (but not phone) for a while, the problems continue. Irritatingly, a few months ago I updated the nav database but I don't think that this is anything other than a coincidence, the problems pre-dated this. To pre-empt the next suggestion, how do I remove the unit without damaging the fascia so I can photograph the unit. I have had no messages about software or firmware. In advance, thank you to the 'Brains Trust'

In some ways am experiencing some similar issues although my Superb L+K Estate 4x4 has but 66K on the clock. Recently i had the local garage replace the front coil springs after I suspected one had been damaged driving, fairly sedately on N Yorkshire roads that were not high on the priority list for repairs. Now, however, I am uncertain whether the level of road noise experienced when driving on all but the smoothest roads (excepting cat eyes), is indicative of a further problem - though I cannot see any obvious cause (say shocks etc). I have quite a lot of life left in the Michelin cross climate tyres that are fitted but the DSG, Haldex etc are due attention when the car goes in for its service in 3 weeks time. The only other issue noted on my last run out was the ESC fault light and the tyre pressure illuminating after a 2 hr trip last week. I had checked the tyres before we started and they are still okay now. The warning lights disappeared after resetting the tyre pressure and the ESC light did not reappear after the stop of around an hour. Any thoughts - are the latter observations even connected to the road noise issue? Thank you for any and all suggestions.

Thank you for the suggestions - I suspect that my timing stinks in view of the PM’s statement just now and the lockdown.....Mayhaps I won’t need the car too much for a little while......

Yesterday, while parked with engine and ignition off but the Colombus providing a hands-free medium for the telephone conversation that I was having, I heard 3 'thumps' in around a second which immediately preceded the loss of the phone and the shutting off of the Colombus. This has never happened before and occurred a few days after the Colombus, flickered (rapidly switched itself on and off?) whilst in motion and travelling down a local road that was not unduly bumpy. In both instances the temperature was just below freezing. It might be pertinent to add that the battery was replaced 5 weeks ago with another AGM by Halfords who determined 'no need to make any settings changes'. Our local Stealer could not source and replace the battery without a delay of over a week - hence defaulting to Halfords. Any thoughts from the Brains Trust?