My car has been with Skoda today having the alarm looked at which I have given up trying to solve myself.

It turns out that some complete numpty has connected a wire to the convenience module at some point during the car's life which has buggered it up . The garage are not sure what the wire was used for but it's not connected to anything now.

Anyway, the outcome is that I need a new convenience module :(. I was just wondering if they are all the same? I.E if I found a car of a similar age would I be able to take the unit out and swap it with mine? If I could, would it need programming?

Thanks :(

You'll have a part number on it Phil.

As long as the part number matches you'll be fine.

If you have the car back, and have VAG-COM you can get the part number via that.

If you give me the number I may be able to give you an idea of which vehicles it was fitted to.

Might be worth PM'ing your chassis number, that might reveal it.

Thanks Stu! I'll send you the details across as soon as I get the car back if thats ok. They're just putting it back together at the moment.

With a lot of help (and partience!) from Stu, I have now got a replacement convenience module.

Does anyone know what is involved in coding the new module? I'm just wondering if it can be done in VAG-COM, and if so, how?

Thanks

With a lot of help (and partience!) from Stu, I have now got a replacement convenience module.

Does anyone know what is involved in coding the new module? I'm just wondering if it can be done in VAG-COM, and if so, how?

Thanks

I'll ring on my way home from work mate give me an hour

i bought one for 30 quid from a scrappy off a mk2 golf.80 quid to have it fitted and programmed by skoda,but anyone with vag com should be able to recode your keys for you.

part number is there too.though you may have a different one because of the alarm on the ltd edition

http://www.briskoda.net/forums/octavia/central-control-module-central-conveniece/83243/

Should be fine with VAG-COM.

Did you get the softcoding from your old one Phil.