Hi I have a 13 fabia monte carlo and want to upgrade the current swing radio to a columbus unit. I cannot seem to find anywhere that tells me this definitely will fit, I know you have to get an earlier version for it to fit but is it just simple plug and play?( apart from the GPS antenna) but is the mk2 fabia can bus compatible and all that?

 

Cheers for the help 

 

Alex

2013 Fabia will be a straight swap mate, with the addition of a gps antenna and some coding to make it all work it takes about 20 minutes or so from start to finish.

Cheers mate, what does the coding do ? Because I don't have maxi-dot 

The coding makes it all work. The car needs to know you have a different unit fitted so that it can talk to it correctly, and the unit needs to know what options your car has so that it can talk to them. Like the reversing sensors, and climate control showing on the screen perhaps.

Make sure you can find someone who's actually done this on a car without Maxidot. It should work fine but I haven't seen anyone who's done it. I've done mine (with a Maxidot) and coded up a couple of others. If you've already got telephone prep then be warned that the voice activation on the Columbus won't work without additional wiring to route the microphone to the headunit first and then to the telephone unit under the drivers seat.

I installed a Amundsen+ and didn't have to code the unit to tell it that I had OPS etc...? surely its less coding if he doesn't have maxi dot as he wont need to code 37 Navi. It should just plug and play no problem. 

It will need coding. The sat nav picks up data from the cars sensors and Abs system to help it navigate when there's no Gps signal (tunnels for example). Maxi Dot if not really relevant as a measure of how much coding is needed.

16 hours ago, Rustynuts said:

It will need coding. The sat nav picks up data from the cars sensors and Abs system to help it navigate when there's no Gps signal (tunnels for example). Maxi Dot if not really relevant as a measure of how much coding is needed.

I see, so does that mean I will have to do some coding for my unit?

Kinda depends on how your car was coded, and more importantly how the sat nav was coded to the previous vehicle. They need coding to suit each other and the only way to tell is to check and see what theyes set up like.