Hey guys! I'm having trouble turning off my columbus unit. I was trying to check the version of my columbus firmware by pressing the setup button longer, but i only got the am-fm radio menu. I gave up and got out of the car. When i took the key and turned of the ignnition, the columbus disnt turn off. Even when i locked he car it stayed on. It's still on. Has anyone experienced the same issue?

 

If you turn the Columbus on manually without the ignition on it still comes on, and will stay on until it hits a cut off time when it'll turn itself off automatically. So go back to the car and check if it's turned off. If it is then get in and turn the ignition on. If the Columbus comes on with the ignition then turn the key off and remove it, and the Columbus should turn off.

 

If you get in and turn the ignition on and the Columbus doesn't come on, then turn it on with the ignition still switched on. Then turn the ignition off and remove the key, it should turn off when the key is removed.

1 minute ago, Rustynuts said:

If you turn the Columbus on manually without the ignition on it still comes on, and will stay on until it hits a cut off time when it'll turn itself off automatically. So go back to the car and check if it's turned off. If it is then get in and turn the ignition on. If the Columbus comes on with the ignition then turn the key off and remove it, and the Columbus should turn off.

 

If you get in and turn the ignition on and the Columbus doesn't come on, then turn it on with the ignition still switched on. Then turn the ignition off and remove the key, it should turn off when the key is removed.

I went back and it was still on. The columbus didnt react to the power button. I was trying to turn it off manually but it stayed on. I forgot to mention this earlier in the post.

Edited 20 August, 20178 yr by nepsterke

Oh dear. Sounds like summat's ronnied.

 

First thing, have you got the security code for it? Second, pull the unit out and see if the code is written on it (if you don't have it). Third, disconnect the Quadlock plug at the rear for 30 seconds, then reconnect it and see how it behaves. If it asks for the security code then input it and carry on. If it asks for the security code and you don't have it then the unit is failing and will need attention.

8 minutes ago, Rustynuts said:

Oh dear. Sounds like summat's ronnied.

 

First thing, have you got the security code for it? Second, pull the unit out and see if the code is written on it (if you don't have it). Third, disconnect the Quadlock plug at the rear for 30 seconds, then reconnect it and see how it behaves. If it asks for the security code then input it and carry on. If it asks for the security code and you don't have it then the unit is failing and will need attention.

I'm going back home now and try to figure it out. Thanks for the info.

23 hours ago, nepsterke said:

I'm going back home now and try to figure it out. Thanks for the info.

You can first try to just unplug the cars battery and see if it starts to work normally? The car stores the radio code, so you shouldn't be prompted to insert the code when switching it back on.

That happened me once after getting off the ferry in Dunkirk late one night and it was changing maps over (used to upset it turning car off in one country then turning it back on in another took it a few min to adjust but seemed to partially freeze that one time). I gave up and pulled over exact same thing so I just pulled the fuse for it which was under the bonnet, put it back in and worked spot on again. Was an 11 plate vRS with a C revision unit I think. Code shouldn't be an issue as even if retrofitted once code was entered surely that pairs it to ECU and code for it being plugged into that vehicle should never be needed again (99.5% sure)? 

 

I did however make a right mess of it in the rain with asylum seekers onlooking from the sidelines I didn't know which fuse to pull so tried them one at a time and after I got it I sat for a few min before putting it back and couldn't remember where it went... Took me about 15 minutes. 

Edited 21 August, 20178 yr by FUBAR

It should be possible to unplug the unit and reconnect it without putting in the code again, but if you do need to input the code then the unit is damaged.

Just do a soft reset, quite common. Hold down the next/previous track buttons and the eject I think. Or might be the speech button.

2 minutes ago, Rustynuts said:

It should be possible to unplug the unit and reconnect it without putting in the code again, but if you do need to input the code then the unit is damaged.

I wonder if there would be some hacked versions of FW that would leave it needing code each time? I was well happy at being able to hot swap them and put Bolero back in before I sold car to dealers, since Skoda don't give you the code for your own radio from factory.... SODS! 

Just now, FUBAR said:

I wonder if there would be some hacked versions of FW that would leave it needing code each time? I was well happy at being able to hot swap them and put Bolero back in before I sold car to dealers, since Skoda don't give you the code for your own radio from factory.... SODS! 

Not that I'm aware of. I've tried pretty much all of them and none display those sort of issues.

Just now, Rustynuts said:

Not that I'm aware of. I've tried pretty much all of them and none display those sort of issues.

Im surprised that with all the theft of that unit in it's day that there wasn't a FW that removed the need for one, but I suppose it's more an ECU demand side of things. I'm having flashbacks now to a long cold evening trying to set a custom boot logo trying every type of optical media I could find burnt with every bit of freeware I could download lol. I have a PFL now with a Stream MP3 and do miss the Columbus as much as it used to wind me up with the 53,000 different FW's there seemed to be for it.