Long code Camera Heater off?

[Jon Howlett]

Hi

I have an A5 Sportback 2017. The last few months the Pre-sense fault has been re-occurring frequently and its damn annoying. The fault code is B11CE15 which is the heater open fault.

I have read somewhere about someone going into Longcodeing and switching the heater off to prevent the fault occurring. I have OBDeleven  but never done any longcoding. Anyone here familiar with it? The car is out of any warranty and the price for a replacement camera and calibrating is ridiculous, especially for a system I don't really want. I took it to our local Audi specialist centre who stated it was not something they could do but did inform me there was an update for it outstanding which may solve the problem, but did notice misting in the camera.

Anybody got any suggestions?

[Stevey Y]

22 minutes ago, Jon Howlett said:

Hi

I have an A5 Sportback 2017. The last few months the Pre-sense fault has been re-occurring frequently and its damn annoying. The fault code is B11CE15 which is the heater open fault.

I have read somewhere about someone going into Longcodeing and switching the heater off to prevent the fault occurring. I have OBDeleven  but never done any longcoding. Anyone here familiar with it? The car is out of any warranty and the price for a replacement camera and calibrating is ridiculous, especially for a system I don't really want. I took it to our local Audi specialist centre who stated it was not something they could do but did inform me there was an update for it outstanding which may solve the problem, but did notice misting in the camera.

Anybody got any suggestions?

Hi these cameras are a pain in the backside, Esther not a menu on the dash that disables it I have it on a new VW I have bought but at least I can turn it off on the dash, apparently they are affected by rod film on the windscreen and getting to hot, might be worth getting the update and the lens's on the unit cleaned.

Steve.

[Jon Howlett]

Hi Steve 

There is a setting to turn off the pre-sense but it restarts once you restart the car. Yes a complete pain in the rear. I did clean the car and this did not make any difference.