anyone retro fitted finger print start button?
 

I know they are not well thought of, but I would like to retro fit if possible...but is it ?

They're crap :)

If you have the plain button, retrofit the newer, round metal button.

I wish I could bloody get mine to work!

On cars with it fitted as standard, there is no memory seat buttons for the driver. That means, I can't set a preset for my preferred seating position or anything.

Grrr...

Yes you can. You need to activate the menu so the key moves the seat and mirrors when you open the door.

It's a bit of a gimmick really - cool to tell people you have it but if it was a good idea the other manufacturers would have done the same back in 2003/2004 I say. I think I used it once when I picked the car up, programmed my finger but it changed the mileage to km, all the radio settings and adjusted everything possible to do with the seat so I didn't bother using it after that :ROFL: , but yes it can be retrofitted.

+1 for retrofitting the facelift chrome Start button

Sadly not with mine. I get a 'System error' every time I try to do anything like that. :(

Sorry, didn't mean to hijack the thread, but it's vaguely on topic.

Mine had a hissey fit where the finger bit wouldn't work or let me delete or add new users, no end of vcds buggery would fix it.

In the end I had the battery disconnected for 30 mins for something else, and if by magic the fingerprint system started working properly again so i'd give that a go if I were you.

Thanks Del. Tried that - my battery is only too keen to oblige by going flat. It didn't work.

I un-coded the module, re-coded the module, changed the switch, you name it.

If you'r a masochist go ahead and retro fit the fingerprint start button. I'd be happy to see the back of mine and its irritating negative message almost EVERY time I fire it up

If you have a duff battery maybe thats the problem. The control module for the keyless entry and start button are the first ECUs that get shutdown to preserve power.

My D3 gets little use these days, and after a week or so of short trips the battery on mine gets low, and I usually end up using the key remote and ignition to start the car until I go for a long run to charge the battery back up.

There are issues having the memories tied to fingers, for example if one driver is short and the other tall then shoe horning yourself behind the steering wheel and hitting the start button could be difficult, before the seat moves back to your usual position.

If setting up having got the car remember to delete all the programmed users before you begin otherwise you simply end up with their settings for everything. Remember its not just the seat position set by your finger, the climate control settings, radio presets, last station, satnav destinations, steering wheel, mirrior positions etc. are all individual.

Almost unbelievably, I've never had a problem with the fingerprint button start on any of the D3's I've had, and that's quite a few....

I can see it would be quite irritating if it failed though...

I do think it speaks volumes that since the D3 facelift, and in the D4 and the newer platforms etc. it is no longer available, so I guess it really was more trouble than it was worth.....

As for retrofitting, almost anything can be done. But in this case, I guess you'd have to question if you really want to... +++

Can I retrofit one that works?!?!

Agree that it's a bit of a gimmick, but it is cool to say you have it, as has been said...

I was chuffed with the thought of having it in mine, until somebody said to me that my MMI board must have been changed at some point, because they didn't do finger print recognition in the 58 plates...

I was told I should just have the silver button... anybody know if that's true or not? :Confused:

I saw a couple of 58 plates with fingerprint start. It may just be that your build date was while they were still using them.

The Feb 2009-onwards brochure mentions nothing about fingerprint memory/start.

It is not true. I have seen plenty of 58 plates with finger print start. Even late registered ones from 2009 (like mine). But someone did also tell me the same. Maybe the same person....?

Its important not to confuse the order and build date with the first registered (UK DVLA) date.

The latter could be months, or even a year or two after the first.

Prefacelift and facelift cars are built side by side at the factory for a short time as there is order overlap. There is no cut off date for producing the old ones, but there is a start date for the new ones obviously.

58 reg unfortunately could be late pre facelift, or early facelift. Highly unlikely to be 3G MMI though as that was 2009 build onwards.

If you have square fog lights, chrome start button and chrome trim around the door pockets on the car, then its a fair bet its facelift. If you have round fog lights, and either a plastic or fingerprint start button you're looking at a pre.

Sure. It is just not a hard and fast rule because some of us have "square fog lights and chrome trim around the door pockets on the car" with finger print start rather than the Chrome button.

In my case the build date is August 2008

Me too and my build is June 2008.

Here's another

http://pictures2.autotrader.co.uk/im...142b89e77d58c4
http://pictures2.autotrader.co.uk/im...de8a76dc66b989
http://pictures2.autotrader.co.uk/im...63a5d00def26e2
http://pictures2.autotrader.co.uk/im...2a3b259456009f

Good example..... so looks like that was a very early facelift, with fingerprint sensor option....

Absolutely loving the wonky 5.2 badge on the boot lid and the V10 below the passenger airbag...... not. :rolleyes:

Different flavours out there... Early FL, late FL and a bit in-between the two.

Somewhere in there came the umbrella holder in the boot lid and in the sales brochure for the very late ones, there was rear, side window blinds and 3G MMI, HDD sat nav and jukebox as standard equipment.

I smiled when I saw the boot badges in that ad, but I've only just noticed the V10 badge inside the car, above the Quattro sign.

Looks like it was previously owned by Shouty McLouderson

That was a quick search on AT. The one below it in the search was the same...early FL


So these must be the early facelifts or maybe a 2008.5 model year?

http://pictures2.autotrader.co.uk/im...49cdff8426204d
http://pictures2.autotrader.co.uk/im...91e7bef70ed234
http://pictures2.autotrader.co.uk/im...2512c07b2d4dd9
http://pictures2.autotrader.co.uk/im...25013b8d0af702

That V10 badge on the dashboard, no no no! :angry3:

Mine is a November 2007 facelift car with fingerprint for what it's worth. However I've just discovered that fingerprint (or "One-touch memory") was standard only on S8 back then, who knew.

Audi must have been pretty lazy back then because in the 2009 brochure for the S8, it also says "V10 badge on wheel arch above indicator"... the indicator is incorporated in the mirror housing on facelift cars.

http://i66.tinypic.com/11185xl.jpg

http://i65.tinypic.com/b6recg.jpg

I've driven that silver S8! That's the one I test drove when I was looking at mine.

It had clearly had a tough life - alloys were beaten up, interior was a mess and it didn't ever want to stop when you hit the brake... Probably should have bought it over mine! :D

Well that clears that up!

Cheers fellas... I'm back to feeling good about having it now +++