Audi A3 2021 MIB3 Map Update Support

[Harun Ünal]

Hello, the Audi unit was removed and the FEC license was activated. Navigation appears on the digital instrument cluster and MIB screen. The map is from 2020. I downloaded version 26.2 offline OI_P169_TUR from the forum, but when I plug in the USB, it says "No update files found on USB" under the online or USB update options. I think the files are incompatible. I would appreciate your help.

 

[Tell]

If it's like mib2 high which it will be you need the navigation FeCs for your region they are different to European ones I reckon. But then where you say no update files found I don't think you present them as a "update" it just finds them. On those pdfs I put on the first post on mib3 offline map updates. So it's probably not "update" as a menu option.

Now I'm not too sure whether Audi dropped their mapcare service or whether they want you to pay. If so your navigation FeCs wouldn't be life long but truncated to a time period. Then we have the mystery of what maps your unit takes. We know Audi have some esoteric units. Mib helper may give you some help on what it's expecting your unit to take.

The other thing is to try a different historic map. Presentation is all important with these map files so if not unzipped correctly it won't pass the validation.

If you got a retrofitter to do it for you they might not have done the activation correctly. So it's finding that Audi navigation fec and seeing whether it's life time. This revolves around what deal Audi have as I touched on above. Seat, Cupra and Skoda scrapped mapcare and allow uploaded maps for free. Check the Audi site. You should find on the net a decode for the Navigation FeC. I mutter this since an unscrupulous retrofitter was selling map updates / software updates for mib2 highs that only gave you 12 months. Good for repeat business.

A few pointers.

I'll check to see what your third line down on the screen is saying.

 

[serdar_18fr]

If it's like mib2 high which it will be you need the navigation FeCs for your region they are different to European ones I reckon. But then where you say no update files found I don't think you present them as a "update" it just finds them. On those pdfs I put on the first post on mib3 offline map updates. So it's probably not "update" as a menu option.

Now I'm not too sure whether Audi dropped their mapcare service or whether they want you to pay. If so your navigation FeCs wouldn't be life long but truncated to a time period. Then we have the mystery of what maps your unit takes. We know Audi have some esoteric units. Mib helper may give you some help on what it's expecting your unit to take.

The other thing is to try a different historic map. Presentation is all important with these map files so if not unzipped correctly it won't pass the validation.

If you got a retrofitter to do it for you they might not have done the activation correctly. So it's finding that Audi navigation fec and seeing whether it's life time. This revolves around what deal Audi have as I touched on above. Seat, Cupra and Skoda scrapped mapcare and allow uploaded maps for free. Check the Audi site. You should find on the net a decode for the Navigation FeC. I mutter this since an unscrupulous retrofitter was selling map updates / software updates for mib2 highs that only gave you 12 months. Good for repeat business.

A few pointers.

I'll check to see what your third line down on the screen is saying.

He's got MHI3. Fec installed by a retrofitter along with 2020.6 high maps. The files he downloaded from your thread are MEN3/MOI3 ones so MHI3 does not accept them as valid update files. Via PM, I redirected him to MHI3 updates on MIB helper, there's a 2023 map update link for MHI3 Turkey maps there, he will try in the morning.

 

[Tell]

He's got MHI3. Fec installed by a retrofitter along with 2020.6 high maps. The files he downloaded from your thread are MEN3/MOI3 ones so MHI3 does not accept them as valid update files. Via PM, I redirected him to MHI3 updates on MIB helper, there's a 2023 map update link for MHI3 Turkey maps there, he will try in the morning.

Very good. I think we have had this conversation before or with someone. I looked at the map files and they were not "mib3" as we know them, elements of mib2 high in them if they are the ones talking eggnog etc. Happy with eggnog in mib2 high but no eggnog MEN3/MOI3 . Whether you can get after 2023 on an Audi will be how their map licenses work. Pass on that.

Seat / Cupra / Skoda scrapped mapcare. Skoda and VW had scrapped it before 2020. Seat / Cupra 2020 on. UK Consumers Association were tired of £200 charges to update built in car maps. Probably the same with the EU. Money making wheeze. Audi may still want a pound of flesh... that's a Shakespeare quote.