Sat nav won't eject. Help please!

Sat nav won't eject. Help please!

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Fastchas

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Sunday 1st March 2015
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I recently bought an Audi A6 and thought the sat nav disc was missing. I bought one off ebay and offered it to the drive but it won't accept it. A friend said it may be disabled and I have to enable it to get the dvd to go in. There may even be a disc inside I guess. I press eject but nothing happens.
Anyone know what I have to do to enable the disc drive or is it a main dealer issue?
Thanks in advance.

Fastchas

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Sunday 1st March 2015
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Thanks for the replies. It's an '07 reg and it won't take the disc in when offered up to it. I'll take it to Midland VW, see if they can enable it.

Fastchas

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Monday 2nd March 2015
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I was told the CD was missing from the drive and I needed it to get the map view to work, Is this not the case? The directions and voice work but the system can't find my girlfriends house which is about 7/8 years old. I bought the cd but now suspect the original may be locked inside the drive.

Fastchas

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Monday 2nd March 2015
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No, it doesn't show a map. The voice works and a direction arrow shows on the dash between the dials but the is no 'map' showing you going along on roads on the MMI display. Looking at a map would be advantageous sometimes I guess.

Fastchas

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Tuesday 3rd March 2015
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Here a pic of my centre console.

And here's a pic of the sat nav WHILST it's working. The lady's voice is directing me but there's no map on the screen as you can see. Sorry, I can't flip it!


Fastchas

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Tuesday 3rd March 2015
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I enter the postcode but it only lets me enter part of it ie; AB12 3.. but won't let me enter the final two letters. I then have to search for the street name before pressing 'start'. I've owned the car since November and not seen a map yet!
Midland VW have quoted me £20 to unlock the cd drive.

Fastchas

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Tuesday 3rd March 2015
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silentbrown said:
Pretty sure you have MMI Basic Plus: So all you'll get is directions on the DIS, and no map.
The screen is monochrome (red/black) and can't display a map at all.

Upgrading *may* be possible (google MMI Basic Plus upgrade), but I'd expect it to be a major job.

If you want maps in that car get a Garmin/Tomtom!
Mmm..I think you may be right. My sister has a '57 reg A4 s-line and told me I should have a map like her's.
So am I correct in thinking the CD is in the drive (but it's locked) and I won't ever see a map on the screen and the sat nav wouldn't work at all if there was no CD in there? I thought maybe the sat nav was preloaded but the map worked off the CD only.

Thanks for your answers guys.

Fastchas

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Tuesday 3rd March 2015
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silentbrown said:
Fastchas said:
So am I correct in thinking the CD is in the drive (but it's locked)
yes
Fastchas said:
and I won't ever see a map on the screen
yes
Fastchas said:
and the sat nav wouldn't work at all if there was no CD in there?
And yes.
Thank you Mr. Brown!! Have a beer all you guys