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The Dacia Spring comes fully loaded with CarPlay, but it’s wired only. There’s a solution that lets you turn a wired Renault/Dacia R-Link into a wireless one.
You can pick up this little dongle on Amazon (non-affiliate link).
The principle is simple: you plug it into the R-Link via USB, then connect to it from your phone over Bluetooth. Once the dongle is recognised by your phone, the next time you start the car CarPlay will launch by itself — no need to plug your phone in 📞. OK ✅, you still need your phone on you 😆.
Overall I’m very happy with it. We have two phones connected to it — when both phones are in the car, you just select which one connects via CarPlay. Obviously only one phone can be connected at a time 😝.
It takes about 30 seconds from when the system starts before you can actually use CarPlay.
From time to time the wireless connection doesn’t establish — in that case, just unplug the USB cable from the dongle and plug it back in, and it’s sorted. Since the USB port is at eye level, it doesn’t bother me at all — it’s still faster than pulling your phone out of your pocket and plugging it in.
🏷 Price-wise, you’re looking at around €100, which is pretty reasonable.
As for after-sales support — as always with Amazon, you cross your fingers and hope nothing goes wrong 😉.
