Just bought an A3, but my satnav doesn't work in it :(

[CrudeOil]

Hey,
bought myself an Audi A3 2 litre TDi Sport, the 170bhp one, and I love it. Anyway, I bought myself a new satnav this morning for £170, so I could find my way to the dealership (found the car on auto trader, and my flat mate drove me). Test drove the car, loved it, agreed on a price, paid on my debit card, jumped in and drove off in joy only to remember 15mins later I didn't have a clue where I was. So I go to plug my satnav into the cigarette lighter and it doesn't work.... there's no power going to the satnav. I put the lighter back in and the lighter works fine, so there's obviously some form of power going to it. Anyone got any ideas? It wouldn't bother me too much, but i just paid £170 for the satnav, and would quite like to use what I paid for If it's something simple I'd rather just sort it out myself rather than take it back to get fixed as the car dealer that i bought it from is 2.5hr drive away from where I live.


Many thanks

[Emeye]

Try pushing it in harder! Seriously.

[Dr G]

If the lighter works and the satnav doesn't I'd be more worried about the nav!

[Mag1calTrev0r]

There is a power socket in the boot. Try your nav plugged in there

[UVB]

If it is pushed in all the way, try rotating it around in the socket as that sometimes helps as well.

[McSam]

Congrats on your purchase!

The first thing I'd try is plugging the satnav into another car's cigarette lighter just to check that the charger hasn't, by some freak chance, stopped working (blown fuse, for example) right as you plugged it into the A3!

Which satnav unit is it? I might've heard something similar before. I've seen a couple of Garmin 1690 chargers that eat fuses, so it could be purely coincidental

Sam

Edited by McSam on Sunday 23 May 14:04

[Richard Hewitt]

Try and see if it will work in another car 1st. That way you will prove if its the satnav or the car/socket at fault