I have a mobile phone and my wife has her own.

Is it possible to connect both phones so we can both make and receive calls in our Fabia Mk3 (not at the same time)?

If yes, can anyone tell me where I can find insructions on how set this up?

Thanks

Possible, there are several phones that can be paired. Pairing procedure is the same, check infotainment unit manual.

Thanks for the reply.

I've never paired a phone before and don't have an infotainment manual. Is there anything online that I could look at?

Thanks

13 minutes ago, sparky203 said:

I've never paired a phone before and don't have an infotainment manual. Is there anything online that I could look at?

Yes. And if you don't have it you can also download a free VWŠkoda pdf version of the 'Owner's Manual' for the car. If you read the car's 'Owner's Manual' and refer to it then you can help prevent some (cost) visits to Dealerships, garages, mechanics and auto-electricians, and you will know more about the car than many/most long term owners.

Now because you're dealing with computers don't think you've necessarily done something wrong if the phone(s) do't pair up first time of trying or if one or both drop out at some point later often/usually it's the fault(s) of the computers or their programming, and not the users' (your) fault as computer workers often make out it is.

And instructions are always well written.

You don't say which Mk3 Fabia you have so I'm assuming (always dangerous) that its two separate books.

VWŠkoda site for their free 'Owner's Manuals' and 'Operating Instructions' pdfs. - https://www.skoda-auto.com/apps/manuals/Models

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Thanks very much Nigel.

I'll have to dig a bit deeper to find out what infotainment version I've got (Amundson etc)

I'll try and download the correct manual but I found the selections a bit confusing!

Thanks again

Steve

Steve,

I think these manual were written by German engineering students and then sent to somewhere like China for translating to English.

I found it easiest to go through the menus on the touchscreen (or real buttons) and follow from there. I done it perfectly the first time but no the computers wouldn't have it so thought I must have balls'd it up but done exactly the same again a second (or third, I forget) time and bingo i got it passed Hal 9000. A week or two later my wife said the phone wasn't working on the car - it had dropped out, I think to show who was really in charge but it hasn't dropped out since.

When doing anything electrical on the car do make sure the 12v car battery is in a good state of charge, run the engine if needed, also make sure the phone has a good state of charge and the bluetooth is enabled and working both ends.

If you change phones or cars do remember to delete all the phone details the car holds - my wife had a loan car and when I paired her phone it also had the phone details for the loan driver's phone and previous those for a previous customer. Never put in your home phone number as home, same as with a TwatNav don't list your home as home and leave in journeys that clear show where you drive back to is probably home even if you've labelled it differently.

Put up a decent photo (landscape please, you generally get more info in a landscape orientation) of your infotainment and what year your car is and someone will identify it if not me and perhaps be able to guide you more.

Thanks again Nigel,

Sorry about the delay in replying to you but my wife insisted on dragging me out for some last minute Christmas shopping!

Thanks for your very useful advice and tips.

My car is a Fabia Mk3 manufactured March 2021

I'm attaching a photo of the Menu screen of my infotainment display. Hopefully, you might be able to identify the version enabling me to have a go at setting 2 phones up without cocking things up.

Thanks

Steve

5 minutes ago, sparky203 said:

Sorry about the delay in replying to you but my wife insisted on dragging me out for some last minute Christmas shopping!

My car is a Fabia Mk3 manufactured March 2021

You have my sympathy on both.

6 minutes ago, sparky203 said:

I'm attaching a photo

Thanks for that Steve, a SpecSavers special. 😁

Well you have eight real buttons (thank gawd for you) and top right one is for TwatNav so it's the full fat unit called summat like Amsdum IIRC, colourful virtual(?) Telephone button so hopefully things are there to work. I'm extremely lucky as I don't own a so-called "smart" (they're not) phone so I'll make a pot of tea and hopefully look at the 2021 instructions and return hopefully with some info (perhaps), in a bit.

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I've just had a look on the VWŠkoda 'Owner's Manual' site and your car being a 2021 it has the online version rather than a downloadable pdf version. I assume (always dangerous) you get a paper printed version with the car that you can look at too. Otherwise you can take a laptop or tablet to the car (subject to wi-fi reach and items battery remaining) and work off that. Do one phone at a time to save complicating things.

Your unit is 'Infotainment Amundsen' so we have a start.

VWŠkoda site for their free 'Owner's Manuals'. - https://www.skoda-auto.com/apps/manuals/Models

In the 'Owner's Manual'

• click on 'Infotainment Amundsen' section

• and then click on the 'Telephone' section (under/in the 'Infotainment Amundsen' section)

• then click on and read the 'Conditions for connecting a telephone with Infotainment'

• and see how you go from there.

Remember when doing anything electrical on the car do make sure the 12v car battery is in a good state of charge, run the engine if needed, also make sure the phone(s) has a good state of charge and the Bluetooth is enabled and working on the Infotainment and phone(s).

Other members will know a lot more than me about modern "smart" (they're not) phones and the various versions and what's required with them to get them working in the car.

Let us know how you get on.

Hello Nigel

You've cleared up something else for me. I wanted to download the owner's manual and so I entered my car's VIN as requested. I didn't see any option to download the manual and I can only look at one section of the manual online at a time.

I would have preferred the downloaded PDF version.

It's too dark outside now to have a go and so I'll try tomorrow.

I'll let you know how I get on

Thanks again,

Steve

Steve, that type of 'Owner's Manual' I find a right PITA but there might be a version of it in the car's Infotainment menu but how can you be in two different menus at once to follow and do the instructions, AFAIK you can't, same with doing stuff on other computers, such is "progress"!

I prefer the paper printed version as you don't need a computer, wi-fi connection a battery and can see the pages in daylight even in very bright sunlight - but you have a 2021 car so you have lots of other "improvements", "assists" and "aids" which you just have to get used to or switch off as many of them as you can (every journey for some). Personally I've always found phones in cars to be a distraction, often for the driver even if it's hands-free. When I had a hands-free kit at the start of this century I kept the phone in the boot when I was driving. 😁

All being well for one phone this should be a one mug of tea (and perhaps pee) operation but don't start if you're not in the right mood if you even look at any of the computers wrong they'll make you suffer.

Well, all the turkey and mince pies have gone and I've managed to get off the sofa to have a go at connecting 2 mobiles to my Fabia Mk3.

Following the advice given above by Nigel, I've managed to do it. It really was very simple, just add one phone and then add a second phone following the same procedure.

My only query was how do I tell the system which phone I want to use to make a call if both phones are active.

Looking closer at one of the screens displayed a button (circled in yellow in photo).

Tapping this button activated my wife's phone allowing her to make a call.

Thanks again Nigel

Happy New Year

Steve

Well done Steve and thank for the info detail on switching phones.

You're a better man than I, farting about with cars at this time of the year.

I'm not a fan of any type of phone in a car, when I was younger and even more silly than I am now in the 1980s I thought my mates car phone was clever but then when they became more popular, particularly with builders, wasted so much time saying "hello, can you hear me", "are you still there" was very annoying, things improved and now we're back to reception and phone issues, such is progress. Even when I had a handsfree kit, back at the start of the century, I keep the phone in the boot and not the holster as I wouldn't answer it if I was driving, I'm not and no one I know is that important. I have a mobile phone but it's rarely switched on and sits next to the landline phone anyway, and doesn't have Bluetooth, its 3G. 😄

ETA: I've just noticed a typo in a previous post of mine, I meant to put either a sarcastic smiley at the end or missed out the word not - "And instructions are always well written."

I also meant to put as your Infotainment has the colour picture 'buttons' the I think (don't know) it might have the 'Owner's Manual' and Infotainment 'Operating Instructions' in the 'Car'(?) menu but how you read the instructions on the menu 'page(s)' and implement them on the Bluetooth/Phone 'page(s)' is beyond me. Perhaps you take photos of the instruction 'page(s) with your phone then not be able to see them because your phone battery dies or you can't see the screen in sunlight or daylight even . . . 😁 I'll be glad when this Xmas, New Year, January sales stuff is all over and I can get back to my normal level of grumpiness.

One last thing, I'm guessing your Mk3 is a later one but if you want to you can add details of your car and location to your file that appears when someone presses the down arrow 'Author stats' top right of post. Cheers. Example -

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On 23/12/2025 at 16:55, sparky203 said:

I would have preferred the downloaded PDF version.

I have it as a PDF.

Thanks. AG Falco

Thanks Nigel for all your help and advice.

Thanks also to AG Falco. If you could let me have a link to the PDF file I'd be very grateul.

Steve

18 hours ago, sparky203 said:

Thanks also to AG Falco

PM sent.

Thanks. AG Falco

On 31/12/2025 at 20:42, sparky203 said:

PDF file I'd be very grateul.

PDF sent.

Thanks. AG Falco

Thanks very much. After a quick look at the PDF file,it looks exactly what I wanted.

I'm very grateful.

Steve