Can car play be activated with VCDS?

[Glenn Board]

 

[Deaky]

No VCDS won't do it.

 

[rippelep]

From my knowledge you have to buy the key from VW, and in Germany it costs a lot, its not possible with VCDS. There is a (illegal) way to do it, google for "CarPlay AndroidAuto activation with MIB2 Toolbox patch" if you want to go that way...

 

[Skyliner33]

@Dav-Tec

 

[Dav-Tec]

From my knowledge you have to buy the key from VW, and in Germany it costs a lot, its not possible with VCDS. There is a (illegal) way to do it, google for "CarPlay AndroidAuto activation with MIB2 Toolbox patch" if you want to go that way...

What exactly is illegal about it?

 

[rippelep]

I think it is not legal to patch software to get features for nothing which normally cost something, but that just my opinion, perhaps it is ok to do so, I am not a lawyer....so I change my (illegal) to (perhaps illegal)

 

[z1ts]

There is a damn good how-to here:-

DIY Android Auto unlock

I have decided to try and unlock Android Auto on my MY2016 MIB2 Amundsen. I believe I can follow these instructions: Before I do anything else, my first step is to update my firmware so I've just requested this here: I'm interested if anyone else has tried this, has any advice or gotchas. I will ...

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