Hi All ,

Newbie here , so please be gentle

I bought a 4.4 v8 54 plate vogue a few weeks ago , but the venture cam doesn't work .

I found the internal battery was flat , and testing the pins in the docking station with a multi meter showed no voltage .

I bought a fully charged venture cam off ebay , but it still fails to connect to the bluetooth system. I returned the vehicle to the Main Dealer , who said they couldn't fix the Venture cam system . After I pointed out that they promised to repair it when I bought the car , they stripped the dashboard down and found that there is a PCB ( which I assume supplies the charging voltage to the venture cam and may also be the receiver for the bluetooth signal ) which has fried , possibly due to water dripping on it from somewhere .

I have also interrogated the secret diagnostics pages on the touch screen , and ran the video inputs test which reported that there is a "companion input video failure " , which I assume to mean the Venture Cam.

The garage says that the PCB is not available any more .

Can anybody shed any light on this PCB with regards to part numbers or wiring diagrams ? I have both of the Brooklands Workshop manuals , but there is no mention of the venture cam system in the mechanical or electrical manual .

I would like to get this camera working so I can see behind when towing the caravan.

Any help much appreciated

Thanks

Blubberman

bad news on the pcb..the only place i can think would be ebay for a replacement...

RAVE might have the info you need.. ... - .- -.




Y. O. L. O.
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Try another main dealer to make sure yours is not talking out his arse, and if it really is obsolete ask for a part number to help your search going forwards.

Cheers Fellas ,

I have been looking on Ebay , only 2 cam units and no PCB's at the moment . As for the dealer , I'm not very impressed with the after sales service at the moment . They are too used to swapping out modules to fix an electrical fault , instead of using proper fault finding techniques . I had to tell them that the docking station probably operates a micro switch when it was pushed up , they hadn't bothered to check that

Guess what , they phoned me and told me I was right , the micro switch was broken ( but I resisted saying "told you so" )

But , in all fairness , when they put their lead technician on the case , he did find the PCB was fried too .