Skoda 000051409F Surfstick Carstick LTE Connect, only for Amundsen navigation system (Gen. 2)

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I was under the impression that Car Net would be the equivalent of my old Tom Tom, which gave excellent live traffic updates for the road I was driving along. Have you got a Columbus or Amundsen head unit? My Amundsen doesn’t have a globe, but a standard Wi-fi fan type symbol instead. Are you saying you can tether it via USB, or do you mean connect to the personal hotspot whilst it’s plugged into CarPlay? The views expressed herein are those of the individual contributors and not necessarily those of BRISKODA or SKODA.

Ah so it's just a wifi hotspot, using the van for power. You could plug it in to a battery and it'd serve the same function. Plugging it in with hotspot enabled then forces it to connect and it continues to work after unplugging. Yes, Car-Net Guide and Inform (Basic) comes as standard equipment on my model. I did not want App-Connect which you appear to have. You state that you connect your iPhone to the Infotainment system using a USB cable, but then you refer subsequently to using only Apple CarPlay, Siri, Apple Maps, etc.. Can you connect via USB cable and use the Car-Net Guide and Inform services? As implied in my original post, this way of connecting is not mentioned in my Infotainment manual. The Discover Media happily connects to the Huawei modem, seems to be getting all the correct traffic updates, CarPlay is streaming music etc. With car play (or Android auto) you lose functionality on the instrument panel in front of the driver. It only works on the centre screen.

Starting to think it's only configurable via the discover media head unit which means I've wasted 100quid

I'm driving the vRS to work tomorrow so I'll carry on experimenting to try and confirm these methods. If using streaming services occasional dropouts due to signal loss are avoided by saving playlists to the phone. Your car can also connect to a mobile hotspot either on your phone, or via a usb "myfi" device that you can just leave plugged in if necessary. This will be fairly cheap and let you use all the car-net features including nav updates.I've got my carnet code - and I've actually paid for another year because it was going to run out in November.