Was told by local dealer new heater control panel had to be programmed to car and was not plug and go, Is this true?

I remember something in the Haynes manual about having to do some coding work if replacing the climate control panel so dealer could well be correct.

Sarge

Thanks for feeding back.  I found a thread that there may be a series of fault codes that may need resetting after installation.

Anyway, I've brought a new control; panel for £50 of Ebay so it hopefully will just be a reset cost.

Still better that the £283 charge from the dealer.

No problem. If you've a fellow Briskodian nearby with VCDS they may be able to coding for a few beer tokens. Somewhere on this site is a map of their locations.