I received my new CAN Gateway today - Perfect and many thanks to Eddie-NL for sending it so quickly and at a good price.

I've taken screen dumps of all the relevant info using VCDS - All I need to do now is find the old gateway in my car!

Don't suppose any one has any idea where it will be? (Octavia Estate pre-FL '07)

It is not behind the glovebox (unless it is very good at hiding. Can't see it behind stereo either (had to check just in case).

I believe that they moved it from behind the glovebox from '07 onwards and put it high up behind the steering wheel, but I just cannot see it (doesn't help that I can't get the OBD-II socket off the plastic trim).

So, does anyone know the exact location where it will be if it is behind the steering wheel?

And does anyone know how to remove the ODB-II connector from the plastic trim?

Thanks to anyone who can help in advance of them doing so.

That was the year it was moved, I have a 56 plate and mine is behind the glove box. Yours will be on the drivers side up behind the steering wheel mate, bitch to get at but not impossible......

I'm in there as we 'speak' but I cannot find it and don't want to pull the diagnostic cables around too much.

Can you be more specific as to where it should be? Left or right of the steering wheel for example.

I'm in there as we 'speak' but I cannot find it and don't want to pull the diagnostic cables around too much.

Can you be more specific as to where it should be? Left or right of the steering wheel for example.

Sorry mate, I don't know specifics, are you 100% its not behind the glove box, as you look at it, its just up on the right hand side laying flat.

Thanks vRS_Pagey, I'll have another look behind glove box tomorrow morning, but I couldn't see anything today.

Has anyone else found theirs behind the steering wheel?

Or know how to remove the ODB socket from the plastic trim?

Edited 7 October, 201114 yr by KBPhoto

I changed a CAN gateway on a 07 plate a few months ago, and it is cable tied to the back of the relay box by the drivers feet. It's not behind the clocks, so don't disturb them.

Remove the lower dash trim, and unbolt the relays you'll see secured by the bulkhead, close to the accelerator pedal, It's in there!

No point looking again behind the glovebox -- if you couldn't see it, it ain't there. Once the glovebox is removed, if that's where it's mounted, it's slap bang in the middle of the hole, in full view, not hidden by anything at all. If it is not here, it can only be where I've said.

And as said, it's a pig to get to!

Mike

Ooops, my bad, sorry buddy.

Found it!

Changed it!

Coded it (with errors)!

2 hours and I'm not a mechanic and don't have the best tools around.

Diagnostic cable came out fairly easily, flat bladed screwdriver on the clips (one above and two below) then push it towards the front of the car.

Mike: You were right, it isn't behind the glovebox. It is above the relays (beneath the steering wheel on the right, behind the fuses).

Eddie_NL: Thanks for the link to this page as I followed it: pretty easy.

But my CAN plug is blue not red...

Like I said, under 2 hours to remove refit and code the new CAN Gateway.

I'll start a new post with the error codes it has thrown up once I have cleared the DTC's on an individual controller basis and seen what comes back up (after lunch).

Thanks to everyone who helped on this thread or by PM.

Edited 8 October, 201114 yr by KBPhoto

Glad you sorted it mate, sorry for the wild goose chase.....

No worries - I was greatful of any response I could get.

Hopefully my pain will save another member suffering in the future.