Retrofit OEM Reversing Camera to UK Model A6

[Acquell]

Hello,

I'm about to fit the OEM reversing camera to my UK RHD A6 Avant and was wondering if anyone had experience of this?

The instructions I have from Kufatec and online show routing down the right hand side and across the glove box, which is ok for LHD models but for UK model it would either involve crossing over in the boot and down the passenger side to go behind glovebox or down the drivers side and behind the steering wheel.

Probably not a big deal either way but interested in what cable routing direction others may have taken.

Thanks in advance!

[dean warren]

Pretty sure I fitted as per instructions as it goes to the left side fuse box. Though been a few years


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[Acquell]

Thanks for the rapid reply, the module goes in the right hand side behind the lights but in the instructions I have it routes the cable straight down that side to the head unit but behind the glove box. For a UK model that doesn’t work as would be behind the steering Wheel unless cross over in the boot first then back again.

Hope that makes sense as first question may have been a bit poorly worded

[dean warren]

Actually that rings a bell, do two wires go to the can bus connection on the side of the dash? I think you can still pick this up from driver side UK? The part to the mmi I sent along the route of the loom round the rear seat and down passenger side. And it was tight I think I had to remove some of the loom tape to free up a couple of inches


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[Acquell]

Yes, from the kufatec loom looks like couple cables to the can bus on right hand side in boot then two to the MMI unit, will give it a measure up beforehand to get an idea of cable will reach as may be a big hope to expect it to cross over and back again unless there’s an easy cable route across the drivers side to the mmi in the front.

Still remember the scratched knuckles from getting an extension cable in so I could retrofit AMI socket into the armrest rather than the glovebox, was definitely worth it though!

Thanks for the replies!

[dub_irl]

Hi Acquell,

I also purchased a OEM Reversiing Camera Kit with the Kaufatec loom but never managed to get to the end of the process with the coding - could you please let me know if you are successful in getting it fully installed. The way you are installing is sounds similar to the way we did it about 2 years ago but we had issues with the coding of it which I never got back to sorting. It the only thing I had not sorted since I bought it I love the car otherwise Its an A6 Black Edition Ultra with tech pack

I may need to head back to the UK to get it sorted unless I can find someone here in Ireland that is familiar with coding them.

Cheers

Paul

[Acquell]

Did you go down the drivers side or passenger side and across?

I’ll let you know how I get on, may be a couple weeks before I get round to it as waiting for some parts to arrive then will need a quiet afternoon but think I’ll probably do in phases.

[DPN]

Hey, what coding problem did you have? I did the install and got through the coding pain. Though I never got the calibration part to work, it functions perfectly without calibration.

[dub_irl]

Did you go down the drivers side or passenger side and across?

I’ll let you know how I get on, may be a couple weeks before I get round to it as waiting for some parts to arrive then will need a quiet afternoon but think I’ll probably do in phases.

Hi Acquell,

The wiring was down the passenger side and then across - My mechanic patiently did this over a couple of hours but he said was not too bad.

[dub_irl]

Hi DPN,

I think I may have spoke to you before - we follow all the steps - I basically got to the to the end of the instructions but ended up with the blank screen when in reverse - I definetly think we missed something in the coding somewhere but never got acround it to trying again.

Do you happen to recall the coding for it ? All I know is we spent a fair bit of time playing with it but never sorted. We did have the latest version of VCDS so we reckon we either missing something when coding or did not check something.

Just a a summary of what we did in coding :

19 CAN Gateway - I installed camera module (6C) and its visible for diagnostic equipement.
6C Camera module - I reseted all fault codes apart form Basic Settings not performed - I didn't touch anything else in it (the car has no trailer hitch fitted and but has parking sensors fitted front and back...)
9 - I changed Byte 35 Bit 4 to value 1 (before value was 0), coding was accepted and no fault codes appeared...
5F - I changed Byte 6 Bit 2 to value 1 (before it was 0), Coding was accepted, but Fault code appeared (1543 - Control Module Incorrectly Coded.............)
I ignored existance of the code and reseted the MMI pressing MENU+ROTARY KNOB+RIGHT TOP together.
Camera is still not working.

That was as far as we got.

If you have any suggestions I would be most grateful to get this resolved.

Paul