Ok I'll give it an hour just incase 🤣 am yeah I've tryed the spare. And both keys have new battery's in them. Both reading 3v. Can't move it out of P unfortunately 

No joy on the battery disconnect. 🤬

 

Needs scanned to see where the communication error is. 
As suggested above, return it to the way you found it, and ring the dealer you’ve recently bought it from and tell them it just quit. 

Not sure what the rules are in Ireland but you may be able to put pressure on the seller as they have sold you a car that tracks your position and provides that information to a third party without your knowledge or agreement.

 

GDPR stems from an EU directive so something similar should apply in Ireland.

Not sure what the rules are in Ireland but you may be able to put pressure on the seller as they have sold you a car that tracks your position and provides that information to a third party without your knowledge or agreement.

 

GDPR stems from an EU directive so something similar should apply in Ireland.

Ok so I solved it. After re checking all fuses today, I decided to go after the relays. The 645 relay in the inner fuse board was blown somehow...(was most likely me hitting something off the body while removing the gps kit)

 

Went to the local Skoda garage, no stock. Rang local VW garage, €24 + Vat each. So off to the scrappy I went, got 3 relays from a 2019 wrecked Octavia for a fiver. Popped these in and bobs your uncle, dash sprung back to life.

So after all this the dash was like an Xmas tree, and my Delphi is only a Chinese clone,wouldn't clear the faults.  So off to the local Skoda garage again to give them 40 quid for a diagnostic reset. All's right as rain again. 

I'd like to thank everyone for their help and input into my problem. 

 

On a side note, is vcds worth the $$. Seeing as my Delphi can't keep up any more, time to upgrade my kit.

 

Glad you solved it. An inspired guess or some logical tracing with your meter?

 

Often a dash lit up like a Xmas tree is a temporary phenomenon due to low or disconnected battery. A drive around often extinguishes most lights, and an OBD reset should do the rest.

 

But thankfully you didn't involve a dealer to recover the car and attempt to fault find, they could have been mega expensive, changing all sorts of random expensive bits along the way until they either give up or you run out of money 

 

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VCDS is certainly worth the money for the older cars (2019 down) but it seems a lot of features and options that could previously be enabled with it are being locked out requiring dealer only access tools. That said it’s still a very good piece of kit.

There are cheaper options around like obd11 or Carista, the former seems quite powerful while the latter is more basic but still allows some coding if it’s in their menu system as an option to be enabled.

9 hours ago, xman said:

Glad you solved it. An inspired guess or some logical tracing with your meter?

 

Often a dash lit up like a Xmas tree is a temporary phenomenon due to low or disconnected battery. A drive around often extinguishes most lights, and an OBD reset should do the rest.

 

But thankfully you didn't involve a dealer to recover the car and attempt to fault find, they could have been mega expensive, changing all sorts of random expensive bits along the way until they either give up or you run out of money 

 

 

So basically after the panic wore off i started to think logically.

If none of my fuses were blown, go after what supplies the fuses, the relays.

so a few relay swaps later i got my dash back, car started and drove. 

i didn't mind paying the 40 quid for the Skoda diagnostics, at least then i knew that i hadn't done any further damage.

All in all a learning experience that i didn't want or need, but got anyways. ever days a school day. 

 

@SkudMissile21 was looking at OBD11 alright. its a toss up between that now and vcds.