Carlinkit 2023 4.0 Wireless CarPlay for The OEM Factory CarPlay Cars and for iPhone & Android Phone, Achieve The Wireless Life, Built in CarPlay to Achieve Wireless CarPlay & Wireless Android Auto

I had a horrendous time to get my new Carlinkit 4.0 2023 model to start up for my Audi 2018 Q7. Dropped a mail to customer support but no response for 12 hours so started doing some research. It just would not startup the CarPlay prompt on connecting the dongle. Finally after some thinking and plenty of research it connected and is now working like a dream. That’s why I took off a star. And gave 4/5 for bad setup instructions else the product is a 5 star.Update: it’s working now beautifully! The instructions are really poor on how to make a connection. I am leaving some details for anyone else with a AudiQ7 CarPlay who faces an issue to connect carlinkit 4.0 2023 model.1) when you connect the dongle to your USB and the red light indicator goes on but nothing happens to your car screen interface to show a CarPlay prompt (which is where I was stuck at) take the following steps2) turn on your wifi on iphone and look for a new wifi connection. Weirdly enough it was showing as Volkswagen C2 on my iPhone wifi settings. Rest were familiar ones. So I connected to Volkswagen C2 and it asked for password. I entered 12345678 (got this on some research) and it worked.3) that was it ! The green light start blinking on the carlinkit 4.0 dongle and Audi MMI display showed a prompt to connect and activate a new CarPlay connection. I said yes and agree.4) then the screen gave me a name AUDIMMI to detect in my Bluetooth settings which I did and my iphone 14 pro max was instantly connected wirelessly to a seamless and almost no latency CarPlay.5) I am happy this worked! But carlinkit guys if you are listening - you need to have clearer instructions or a page on your website where car owners can select their model to learn how to connect. Your bad setup instructions took away the fun out of an awesome device.

Works great in my 2018 F150 Lariat. Literally, set it and forget it!! Occasionally does not sync but given how often I get in and out of the truck it seems pretty rare. Just turn the car off and restart and it resets and works normally. Phone works great and access to apps is as advertised. Best purchase all year.

It works great

I was happy to upgrade my car with carlinkkit 4.0my first experience setting it up was not good since the boot screen had choppy image and was not progressing. had to replug the device and it got connected. i could connect 2 phones to this device supporting android auto and apple car play. both works just fine. Randomly the device disconnects during the drive. I think this product is over priced for it's quality but overall it meets the basic functionality of wireless android auto and wireless apple play feature. currently there is not much options available to compete with this device hence if you are one of those who just want to upgrade the current USB plug to wireless connection for their android auto or apple play connection then just go for it.

Try to do every thing before returning it but no luck

Product was easy to setup, and that's where the positives end. Once it is connected, takes about 30 seconds to establish Android auto with my Pixel 6 Pro, it displays my maps app and plays my Pandora. Trying to enter in any locations, there is about a 1 second delay that can only be reduced to 300ms, not really an improvement as it is still infuriating when trying to enter in a road name, an artist, or similar. I figured I would just consider this processing delay. But whenever I am listening to just audio, I will regularly have audio dropouts at least once a minute, and more so if my phone is trying to look for a Wi-Fi signal.So I reached out to their support on their webpage store. Since it wasn't purchased from their store, they direct you to their main website, sure, fine, whatever. Since I had just updated it within the last month of contacting their support, I figured there shouldn't be too much difficulty. Nope. They want me to do a new update, change the frames per second and bit rate of the device which they don't document very well if at all, and the audio dropouts and severe response delays are still present.TLDR, this is not a complete product and should not be released by the manufacturer. I had purchased another Android auto device, works faster, no delay, no bizarre setups required