Good afternoon, I have noticed in the past when it is very cold my Amundsen unit played up - however now it's dead, I have checked the fuse which is ok..

 

Does anyone have any ideas of how to get it to turn on a possible reset? I have removed the device -unplugged for a few minutes and plugged it back in. (no joy still nothing) 

 

It may be completely dead and might need replacing - any tips tricks or ideas are appreciated as I have no use of any of the functions, I don't have the ODB cable to check for any fault codes.

 

yesterday it kept restarting every few minutes which was very annoying.

 

thanks in advance.

Take a look at this

Substitute the part number to 5E0035874A for the MIB1 Amundsen or you can consider some upgrade options but the scene has changed for these lately as the 5Q0035874A MIB2 isn’t so easy to work with anymore, VAG closed the door.

Thanks Sasha, looks like its bad news and an expensive replacement.  

You can get a radio unit for under £100 and then about £100 at the most for CP removal so it’s not overly bad if you can keep the prices that low.

14 hours ago, SashaGrace said:

Take a look at this

Substitute the part number to 5E0035874A for the MIB1 Amundsen or you can consider some upgrade options but the scene has changed for these lately as the 5Q0035874A MIB2 isn’t so easy to work with anymore, VAG closed the door.

Is it just the 5Q0035874A? I’m about to upgrade from Bolero to 5Q0035874C. I didn’t realise there were recent changes! 

29 minutes ago, Stoops said:

Is it just the 5Q0035874A? I’m about to upgrade from Bolero to 5Q0035874C. I didn’t realise there were recent changes! 

They have always been more complex. You should be fine but check with your installer.

25 minutes ago, SashaGrace said:

They have always been more complex. You should be fine but check with your installer.

Complex in terms of the Hardware or software? (Ie fitting or coding?) 
 

Speaking to pab567 about it, and from what I’ve read here he may as well be a wizard with these things! 

20 minutes ago, Stoops said:

Complex in terms of the Hardware or software? (Ie fitting or coding?) 
 

Speaking to pab567 about it, and from what I’ve read here he may as well be a wizard with these things! 

Fitting is the same, Pawel will sort it for you, he’ll be doing more work to that radio compared to how the 874A used to be able to be done so no need to worry if you have him on the case

thanks for the help - is there a way to test which device is the issue? the screen has no power and I have no way of telling if the control unit is the same.  

 

I did try and run the VCD diagnostic - however the one I borrowed is out of date running windows XP which I am trying to update so I can see if there are ny fault codes etc.

Diagnostic is best, if there is no comms with the 5F unit then it’s the radio. 

It turns out the issue is with the sat nav maps, since removing the card everything is working! How strange! 

Hello Sasha / Pawel

I bought 5Q0 035 874 C from ebay. I have received it . I have installed it on my skoda octavia 3 2020. i have no power / display.

Could you please let me know if this is dead unit from ebay.

My display screen is 5E09190605M.

I removed 5Q0 035 874 C. i have installed back my old main unit mib1 . it is display ok.

any thought ?

Thank you

Marto