Got my 280 4x4 combi on saturday,  and everything is working really nicely!

 

however, when attempting to connect up my nexus 6 android phone to android auto, i got the following error - "Communication error 7 - Your car's software did not pass Android Auto security checks. For Details and support, contact the manufacturer" which briefly appeared and then disappeared every time I tried to connect

 

it drove me nuts for a while, but its now fixed. short version is make sure your time and date is set from your GPS, or at least as close to correct as you can manage, and this does fix this!

 

Got my 280 4x4 combi on saturday,  and everything is working really nicely!

 

however, when attempting to connect up my nexus 6 android phone to android auto, i got the following error - "Communication error 7 - Your car's software did not pass Android Auto security checks. For Details and support, contact the manufacturer" which briefly appeared and then disappeared every time I tried to connect

 

it drove me nuts for a while, but its now fixed. short version is make sure your time and date is set from your GPS, or at least as close to correct as you can manage, and this does fix this!

Time and date on the phone or on the car?

in my case, it was on the car

 

good point!

 

normally, as a note, your phone sets its time from the local base station, rather than gps, but it can of course use that too.

Cheers lads, finally got my phone to connect to the car - it was the GPS time that sorted it.... 5 weeks later!