I believe the car should come with the cable per other posts, however should my mine not and then the dealer says okay and does not have one that means I have to wait and cant be bothered with all that.

i got an official VAG group one from Ebay for £ 10 delivered.

Worse case scenario i get one with the car as well and put the one back on Ebay an recoup most of the cost. (or sell it on these forums)

Its one of those things that should be clear but unless the cables in the glove box/boot when the car ships its easily forgotten with the excitement when you pick it up at the dealers.

With the VAT saving I (and a lot of you got) I thought as my comments above, for a £ 10 outlay better safe than sorry - gotta have me tunes going when i pick the car up !!!

Hi, Latte

Many thanks for the information which is a great help.

I saw my dealer yesterday to hear that my new Fabia vRS is in transit.

I reminded him about the brochure which says that the MDI connection cable is included, although few dealers seem to know this.

The sales manager said he would supply it, but what cable did I want? I assumed it was just the one cable, he said he would get a member of the staff to contact me to ask what equipment I would be connecting.

I propose to use my Blackberry to play my music.

What cable do I need?

Ahh, well, my Blackberry Pearl has a mini-USB socket, so to connect it I needed a MDI to USB adaptor lead and then a mini-USB male to USB male lead. But I am afraid it didn’t work. Skoda told me that Blackberrys were not guaranteed to work with the Bluetooth phone prep and MDI in the fab.

The missus’s Iphone connected straight up and synched the phonebook via bluetooth, my Blackberry was a little more difficult to connect but we got there, and eventually this too synched its phonebook with the car. We can stream audio over Bluetooth from the Iphone but not the Blackberry.

However streaming is pointless because you have an MDI port, and this will enable you to search from the car audio controls. However MDI cannot see my Blackberry. MDI does see the Iphone, and works well with track search from this, but it disables the Bluetooth connection so you lose the phone connectivity!

So the solution I found is as follows. I bought a portable hard drive (250gb freeagent drive) at Maplin for £35. I connected it to my PC, formatted the drive to FAT32, created 26 folders named A,B,C through to Z, then copied my albums into the relevant folders. This makes searching easier. I used the USB to MDI lead to connect it to the car. The hard drive fits well in the cubby by the MDI port, it goes to sleep when you turn off the ignition, and resumes from where it left off playing when you restart the car. This works well and has been done by other Briskodians.

This leaves my Blackberry free to work over Bluetooth with the car which it does well. Shame you cant view your e-mails on the maxidot, but the fewer distractions from the road ahead the better in a VRS!

Thank you for your exhaustive reply.

My Blackberry is the 8900 Curve. I have checked the handbook and see its USB port is named "Micro-USB Port". I assume that this is the output to which I should attach the Skoda lead AZO-800-003 (Media In Cable for mini USB.)

I only want to send music from the Blackberry for amplification through the car's radio. I would not use the Blackberry as a 'phone.

Do you think this will work OK based on your experiences, or is there an issue between Skoda's system and a Blackberry?

Thank you for your exhaustive reply.

My Blackberry is the 8900 Curve. I have checked the handbook and see its USB port is named "Micro-USB Port". I assume that this is the output to which I should attach the Skoda lead AZO-800-003 (Media In Cable for mini USB.)

I only want to send music from the Blackberry for amplification through the car's radio. I would not use the Blackberry as a 'phone.

Do you think this will work OK based on your experiences, or is there an issue between Skoda's system and a Blackberry?

I dont think it will work with the MDI. If anyone knows different let us know.

There is another way though, you could use the headphone output of the phone with a jack lead into the aux port.

Just an update..

Today I took delivery of my vRS and I got the MDI cable with it.. but only because I went to the dealers yesterday to hand in my old car and asked if they had my cable ready.

Once again I pointed out that it says 'included' in the brochure. The dealer had a look and was amazed that it should actually be included. He even went on to say that he'd sold several vRS's and none of them had been given a cable

Anyway make sure you get yours and state what sort of plug you want on the end as I think there are about 4 different ones.

A colleague of mine recently ordered a VW Golf with the MDI option yet she got both a USB AND iPod cable included with her car.

I concur my MK6 Golf also came with the Ipod and USB cables. Whats the point of supplying standard MDI if you then cannot use it upon collecting the car without spending more money to make it work?!

One thing I will say about the MDi on the Fabia is its a shame they've positioned it where they have. Is a bit of an eyesore sat under the glovebox, also leaves your MP3/HDD out on display when you're away from the car meaning you'd be best to unplug it and hide it when leaving the car somewhere.

On my Golf it's hidden in the armrest.

One thing I will say about the MDi on the Fabia is its a shame they've positioned it where they have. Is a bit of an eyesore sat under the glovebox, also leaves your MP3/HDD out on display when you're away from the car meaning you'd be best to unplug it and hide it when leaving the car somewhere.

On my Golf it's hidden in the armrest.

Yeh I totally agree....I'll be looking at some way to route the cable into the glovebox.

Sorry about the lameness of the question but am New to skodas. So were these fitted 'supposedly' as standard to fabia vRS? I'm buying a '56 plate should there be one on that? If not how easy/hard are they to fit and what's the processes involved?

Standard on the new MkII vRS but not available on the MkI I'm afraid.

Ian

Standard on the new MkII vRS but not available on the MkI I'm afraid.

Ian

Thanks for the heads up, any idea on how to have iPhone/iPod connection on a mk1?

phoned my dealer and asked about this, his answer was if there isnt one in the car, he'll nip out the back abnd grab one, simple as that.