Connecting Phone To Car

[Budlet]

I have an Honor 10 phone and a Mercedes A180. I would really like them to talk to each other! I get so far (bluetooth switched on phone, search for phone on vehicle screen) but it is not picking up my phone. Also my phone is not coming up with available/paired devices. It picks up my husbands fit it OK which is strange. Any ideas?

[douglas9401]

Is the car definitely Bluetooth equipped? Try a different phone to search.
If it is and the car is pre-owned the memory may be full so delete old devices to make space.

[Gizmonster]

Is your phone bluetooth set to "visible"? If it's not, then other devices won't be able to "see" it.
Have you tried connecting the other way - get your phone to do a bluetooth search and it should find your car and then connect. That's that way I connect my phone to my Peugeot.

[Budlet]

Gizmonster - the phone is set to visible but is not picking up 'available devices' during scanning. I suspect something on my phone is blocking. It was working up until yesterday. I also managed to link a portable speaker to it, neither of which are showing on my phone today

[Budlet]

Douglas9401 - I deleted all devices on my car and started from scratch

[rockyracoon]

How old is the car? A BMW that we used to own wouldn't pair up with a new model iPhone that I bought. After a bit of googling I found out that it was a problem for a lot of people.

[Budlet]

Rocky racoon - the car is a 2013. The Bluetooth was working up until a couple of days ago