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On reflection, I have a crimper and some crimps - might use those instead of the scotchloks in the kit to splice into the R/B wire. Any suggestions re the CAN-Bus wires? I guess I could crimp, would just need to check the size of the wires. The other connectors go into the fuse panel and have proper terminated wires for that.

The Brink kit was the only dedicated one available that I could find. It's quite poorly manufactured, tbh. It came with a Jaeger module. Are they okay at least?! I had 3 suppliers take orders for an ECS kit only to cancel and refund because they didn't have stock. The Brink kit also includes scotchlocks (at least they operate like scotchlocks) for connecting to the twisted CAN-Bus wires. Anyway, thanks for the advice, will go with the RB wire in the brown block. Hopefully no more issues.

Tow bar fitting is going reasonably okay so far. The crash bar is off, the tow bar is on, socket etc in place but have hit a bit of a problem which I'd appreciate some help with. The Brink wiring kit needs to be scotchlocked into the high brake light feed - a Black/Red wire - and the instructions show this: BR apparently stand for 'Brown'. So far so good but I have three blocks at that location - these are the rearward sides (presumably outputs): Now the middle one seems to be Brown. It has 5 pins but only has 4 wires. The black one at the back also has a Red/Black wire. Which has made me question what I was about to do (i.e. connect to the middle R/B wire). Being super-cautious I want to make totally sure I attach the kit to the correct one. Any help gratefully received. Once that's in I can take the wiring across the boot and up to the fusebox - a bit more trim will need to come off but that's okay and the wiring from there looks to be straightforward. Cheers.

Am putting a tow bar on my Superb and was just going to post a 'what bolt is this' question, but you've answered it for me - cheers! (Bought some Waxoyl spray too. 👍) (And sorry for the necropost but I wanted to say thanks)

Might be even slower - Benbudet has emailed to say they took my money when they didn't have stock to sell. So no wiring loom. 😞 Discount Towing Supplies to the rescue. It's a slightly different kit (a Brink).

Thanks. Yeah first thing will be to get familiar with OBD11 with something simple (power tailgate beeps or something) but before that will be making a scan and a backup. I'm not going to use any of the 'apps' - maybe later if they're known working ones. But there's not that much I want to do to the Superb. It came with needle sweep, reversing mirror dip. And it doesn't have a toy engine sound maker. There's no real hurry so I can take my time and get it right. Slowly slowly catchee monkey, as they say.

Ordered all the parts, after being messed around by sellers taking my money with no stock (that's you, PFJones). Should all be here by Friday, then the fun can start. Astonishingly the first parcel to arrive will be the OBDEleven from Lithuania - tomorrow (Weds 12th) having been ordered on Monday afternoon. Just hope I don't feck up the car with it! Thanks to all for the help - including @rover220, @DEZMONDE , @Lutz and @3T51704x4 👍

FWIW I think you're right - you can 'reject' the car. I don't have any direct experience of this but I'm sure someone who has will be along soon. Hope it gets sorted out.

Yeah, 2000/80 in the manual. Plenty really as we're only going to be using a trailer or bike rack - although some of those come in at >20kg. Hope this weather holds.

Thanks for that. I've got a TowTrust detachable swan in the cart, to get 2000/100 weights. Plus ECS SK017D1U - says it comes with active pins 9&10 and the instructions show a separate link wire. £320 altogether leaves budget for OBDEleven or VCDS 3-VIN. Will take a look at that Westfalia though.

Right. I've decided to go ahead and do it myself. Any recommendations for wiring/module kits? The Westfalia one is out of stock (will check again before hitting buy) but I could get ECS or Right Connections kits. The blurb for them doesn't mention any incompatibilities with VCDS etc. PF Jones's eBay shop prices are quite a bit lower than their main website, wonder why? Not a problem if the products are the same.

Thanks @DEZMONDE Looks like that's way to go. Even if I buy the Pro OBD11 the total cost for the tow bar job comes to about £470 - ca. £200 cheaper than paying for fitting.

Had look at this and the price is attractive vs VCDS / taking it to a dealer. I'm seriously considering fitting a tow bar to my Superb II ('61 plate, only done 56K so am keeping it for a while longer) and will need to do the coding to get the TPS/fog off etc. Was it straightforward, or a PITA-but-doable kind of thing? It's not entirely clear what you can do without 'credits', for example. Cheers

Thanks for the replies - yeah, I'd already checked and it's 1D0 so no prep unfortunately. My local trailer centre came back to say they don't fit vehicle-specific wiring as 'too many problems with them'! I guess they don't want the hassle of removing all the trim.

That's a very kind offer, but I'm down in Surrey, quite far from you. (And I wouldn't want to risk you catching covid just for this - like most folks I don't know if I've got it/had it/carry it or not). A bit OT but I must look into vcds, could possibly get that and still be cheaper overall and I'd have it for future use. Haven't looked for any how-to 's yet. Did see a YouTube vid, that was LHD (not too hard to 'flip' for a normal car ) but it didn't go into details re the wiring. I'm guessing OEM parts won't come with instructions.

It's tempting. Pretty sure I could do the mechanical stuff, it's the wiring that might be tricky, and I don't have the kit to do the coding. Will see what other prices turn out like. £550 or thereabouts would be okay.

Inflation everywhere - Indespension come out at £687.60 and I'd have to drive out to them in Crawley. There is a local trailer centre near me, will see what they can do.

Yeah, inflation and Covid inflation I guess. The figure was actually £680.54 inc. Will take a look at Indespension, cheers

Hate to dig up a thread long dead but it's the most relevant I could find. Tow bar fitting for my 2011 Superb is coming out at around £700 for the 13-pin vehicle-specific electrics and a detachable swan neck (that's PF Jones). Sound about right or too high? Cheers