u/Sergio_Cejus

Image 1 — Screens not working, car not shutting down
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Screens not working, car not shutting down

I'm having quite some strange and troubling issue. The car was working fine, I parked it, came back 2 hours later and:

  • the secondary screen (with the km/h, battery status, etc) is not working
  • the main screen is partially working, but it forgot all my radio settings, it doesn't show the battery status, android auto doesn't connect
  • the turning lights work, but there is no sound inside the vehicle
  • the car is driving fine, but I can't see how fast I'm driving, etc.
  • the connection to my cupra app doesn't seem to work
  • the car doesn't shut down when I get out of it, or at least the screens don't shut down

Resetting the infotainment system doesn't help.

UPDATE; SOLVED WITH THESE STEPS:

  • I disconnected the negative terminal of the 12V battery (in the front hood of the car). It was not easy to do, thankfully i had the right ratchet wrench to be able to access the nut...
  • The car was not really shutting down, but it did so when I pressed the brake or accelerator after having disconnected the 12V battery
  • I waited for a couple of minutes (not sure if waiting for 15 minutes is really necessary in this case; I repeated the process a second time waiting those 15 minutes because of the next points, but in retrospective, I think the issue was solved the first time around)
  • I re-connected the negative terminal of the 12V battery: the car came back to life
  • When I tried to start the car (brake + turning the gear selector), a lot of errors started showing up in the cockpit display: ABS not working, power steering not working, etc.
  • Those errors seem to be normal, after having disconnected the 12V battery, not just in Cupra Born, but in many other car models, apparently
  • I put the gear in "D", and turned the driving wheel all the way to the left, all the way to the right, and then to the center. Then, I turned the car off with the "Start/Stop button". And back on.
  • No errors, screens working fine.
u/Sergio_Cejus — 7 days ago

Map on driver's display (cockpit) screen doesn't work

I have the new 2026 facelift model, without integrated navigation system. I use Android Auto to connect my phone. Using Google Maps to guide me to a destination works fine on the big infotainment screen, but it doesn't show on the driver's display, when I try to toggle it on by using the arrow keys on the driving wheel. I get an error saying something like: "maps are not available".

Funny thing is, it did work a couple of times in the last few weeks, because I saw it while circling through the different cockpit views.

Any idea why? Maybe I changed some configuration in some deeply hidden menu that affected this...

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u/Sergio_Cejus — 1 month ago