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No. 449669
Anonymous
13th February 2022 Sunday 4:47 pm
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Not completely related, but I retrofitted a double-DIN Audi Navigation Plus sat nav to my A4 a few years ago. I bought it fair and square legally off eBay, from somebody who had believably removed his from his own car, but there were loads of them "new/never installed" but still for less than 800 quid. Listed retail price at Audi was in the region of £2,000. The thing was that Audi sat navs were stolen in the hundreds by employees from Audi factories especially in Eastern Europe and then either laundered by being brought to Germany, France or the UK and then advertised on their local eBay sites, or you could get them straight from a seller in Hungary, Slovakia or Russia.
The problem with retrofitting an Audi sat nav is that if it isn't installed in the car that it got electronically paired with at the factory, you will need a four-digit PIN code that you have to enter everytime you reconnect the battery. Only Audi has those unit-specific codes, and they are stored in an online database at Audi headquarters in Germany, so I had to go to an Audi UK dealership, give them my sat nav's serial number, and for a fee of £20, they retrieved my four-digit code. They also told me that if somebody came to them with a unit that was reported stolen from the factory as per its serial number, they would call the police on the spot on suspicion of handling stolen property. So you would have been both out your money and your sat nav would have been confiscated, and you would have faced criminal charges.
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