26 minutes ago, jeffl said:

Bit of an AliExpress spending spree for me. Bought a wireless Android Auto/Car play dongle as I was bored of plugging the phone in for short journeys. Works fine and well worth the £12 I paid.

Also got a reversing camera that someone on the Octy 3 forum mentioned. For £40 can't complain. No coding required, but routing the cable was a bit of a ball ache.

OG Octy 3 thread and a useful video on cable routing for the estate Superb.

https://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/485897-how-to-reverse-camera-fitting-guide/

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kAndR7pgjcM&pp=ugUEEgJlbg%3D%3D

They’re the same changes I did. Had them both for nearly a year and performed perfectly. Well worth it.

I also added a MagSafe charging pad. Ideal for short journeys but tends to get a bit warm on longer ones.

Spent the evening connected to @pab567 in an attempt to revive my failed MIB 2 to 2.5 upgrade. Unfortunately it’s not in a state to be recovered remotely so the MIB unit is off on holiday to Poland for some TLC.

1 minute ago, Binx1310 said:

Spent the evening connected to @pab567 in an attempt to revive my failed MIB 2 to 2.5 upgrade. Unfortunately it’s not in a state to be recovered remotely so the MIB unit is off on holiday to Poland for some TLC.

Was the old screen bad well? I managed to get mine done remotely with a lot of hacking and me buying a UART board and a very helpful bloke in Telegram. I spent a few days beforehand driving around listening to a Bluetooth speaker in the car and hoped I wouldn't have to access anything on the screen

1 minute ago, nick6262 said:

Was the old screen bad well? I managed to get mine done remotely with a lot of hacking and me buying a UART board and a very helpful bloke in Telegram. I spent a few days beforehand driving around listening to a Bluetooth speaker in the car and hoped I wouldn't have to access anything on the screen

Screen seems to be good as far as I can tell. Old unit as MIB 2 worked perfectly. Some kind of issue during the upgrade corrupted the eeprom. Spent the last week learning about uart and PAB connected remotely this evening to try to fix it. But it can’t be written to or read through the terminal. Needs a physical connection to the eeprom directly to reflash it unfortunately. I have a friend who is an electronics engineer and he offered to have a look but we would both be learning what’s needed and winging it whereas I can send it to an expert and get a plug and play unit back.

This is the last thing I do to the car. Essential maintenance only from here on in!