Hello again,
I've got a 60-plate, Mk4, Mondeo.
It has a module that allows your mobile phone to connect to the radio via blue tooth. I have used it in the past to receive calls. The same module also does the voice control for the car; I have not used that much; I only know the command to change the temperature of the air conditioning!
Everything was working at the weekend. Then on Monday one of the headlamps blew again (it seems to happen too often imho). I do not know if this is a coincidence, but that is the only thing that has changed since.
On Tuesday I found the bluetooth will not work. My phone says it is paired with the car but the radio does not mute the station and switch to the phone's audio.
At first, I thought it was the phone, so I unpaired the phone and tried to re-pair it. It "sees" the car and the car radio prompts me to enter a pin on my phone, so the module is half working. However, when I enter the pin, the phone says the pin is wrong and the radio displays a new pin and the cycle repeats.
If I try to press the button for voice commands, nothing happens, so I now think it is the module.
Could a voltage spike from the headlamp blowing have damaged the module or is this just a coincidence?
Are there any fuses going to the module? I am guessing not; I am supposing it shares the radio feed? If there was a way to power it down and back on again, I'm wondering if that would reset it?
is there anyone who repairs these or would they just through this one away and put a new one in? I'm guessing they are not cheap?
Thanks, Stephen.