jimbof

I just installed one of these that I just picked up for £90 from Partshaus in my Golf SV. Good for the money. A couple of notes as this was the best thread I found on these and they might be useful to other bargain hunters: 1) Don't bother wiring up the traffic antenna, or contacting Kenwood or Garmin for traffic unlock code. There is no traffic service anymore, Trafficmaster have shut down their FM broadcasts. 2) Given the above, you can remove the Traffic button from the main map interface in the settings, and replace it with a reroute button instead, which will be more useful. 3) You don't need an SD card extender if instead you get a USB cable, as you can install the SD card in the unit and the SD card is then mounted as a directory on the PC over USB. I got a right angle USB cable, which looked temptingly like it would allow the door over the USB / SD card to close (even looks designed for it with a little cable exit) but no chance. So I just popped the door off. 4) The units in stock seem to have 2017 maps installed. 5) I tried to do the good thing and buy a map upgrade via the Garmin Express app (£50), which detected it and took my money, but seemed to fail to download anything, constantly claiming there was no content for my device.. After wasting a bunch of time with Garmin support I just got them to refund me, and "found" some map images online for something claiming to be "City Navigator Europe NTU 2025.10". Half an our later I had the unit updated.

All gone now, thanks for the interest all.

I'm pretty sure the airbag light will never clear by itself, all airbag faults I believe are "sticky" and once set will not go away until you clear them with diagnostics. This is to prevent what could be deadly intermittent faults being overlooked. RE: the rest of it, no idea.

There are many motors in these that fail in varied ways, and varying levels of difficulty. Some of them involve removing the dash and heater matrix, some the glovebox, some can be removed without taking anything else out, but involve the dexterity of houdini and a complete lack of self-preservation of knuckles... You need to identify which failure you have first. VCDS can often tell you which.

Don't take off the carrier panels themselves (as that obviously breaks the seals) until you are sure, but you can remove the trim panel. There are some videos on repair technique. I've used Shell Tixophalte in the past on my old Skoda, which worked well. Certainly if anyone has at any time been inside the door for repair of lock module, window motor, etc, you can likely expect the carrier panel seal is broken and leaking.

Sure sounds like some kind of water ingress to me... These cars leak like sieves. Some of the places they leak from: 1) Pollen filter housing (front left of bulkhead) 2) ECU housing (front right of bulkhead) 3) Sunroof drains getting blocked 4) Door carrier panel seals Good luck working it out.

I have a brand new bonnet cable if you need one, but no latch...

You thought you were driving a car, but it is, in fact, a boat. Misbehaving lights is one symptom of water ingress damage. Either current or previously repaired (perhaps a repair coming to the end of its life). Check through the big thread on the subject.