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I get a dual lights fault showing most mornings when driving up to our local ski field. The lights aren't even turned on. Not sure if its angle of the car, temperature or the sun strike on the camera. Clears when I park the car and restart it. Never had it show at night or any other time, matrix function works well otherwise.

I had the diesel vrs Kodiaq too and now have the petrol one instead, and we also have a Kamiq Monte Carlo too. I also use OBD11 to change the throttle responses to linear. I still ran a DTUK pedal box on the diesel though as its throttle response from stopped was way too slow compared to previous VAG cars. I only had to set the box on one of the lower positions to make it good for me. Interestingly the new petrol VRS doesn't have this throttle issue, but our Kamiq does. It is the other half's car so just left it as is though 😉

Agree with this. I have had both versions of the VRS Kodiaq. TSI for a year now after the diesel. I swapped as our government policies on diesel looked to be going pear shaped plus I got sick of the regens and wanted better headlights. I don't agree with written further above in the gearbox being different apart from that the petrol just revs out further because it can, it is the same gearing otherwise. The diesel was indeed stronger low down and uses higher gearing when it can vs what the petrol does as the torque made it easier. The petrol is faster when overtaking as doesn't slow down in acceleration like the diesel does after 150kph. I had a peddle box on the diesel as the throttle pressure required to do anything was too slow and long. I don't need it on the petrol one, it doesnt have lag and I have set the linear setting on both using OBD11. Canton is better than previous version, you can still change things using OBD11 too, and the Matrix headlights actually work and are superior in width and height to the previous dual LED set up. I'm getting around 8.5l/100kms now after 10,000kms which isn’t far off what the diesel did and with diesel with taxes and petrol being similar priced here I'm not missing the regens. The steering wheel is superior too in feel and has two ways of engaging adaptive cruise control now too. Handling is better as the front is lighter so turns in better and DCC feels similar to before in all the different settings. The brakes have better bite too but that may have just been my diesel's brakes weren't quite set the way I like them. So overall I missed the low down torque initially and had forgotten about revs, but the new one is just as quick, revs out nicely, is quite refined, better specced, and handles better so no looking back now.

Oamaru. Picked up Christchurch, Dunedin then back to QT.

Really happy with ours too. Our first drive home from the dealer as had to go to the city to pick it up, it did 470 miles before the fuel light came on, and that's open road driving at 100kph over varying terrain. Headlights are better than my VRS Kodiaq's, seats are comfortable, and handles well with the DCC suspension etc. glass roof can get hot in summer though as the heat transfer is high. No real problems so far except Nav has an empty blanked out speed limit sign display. Will go in for software update next month as a year old so hopefully fixes it. My sisters one is a month newer and is fine.

Yes I realise that, just like the Kamiq's LEDs are different to the pre face lift Kodiaq's and better as I stated. My point was that the 4 LED VW module set up that Zac mentioned and I am familiar with too, still seems to be better performing than the portrayed new Kodiaq Matrix set up now looking at videos online etc. I took a Polestar 2 for a test with Matrix LEDs too, and that still wasn't as good either unfortunately.

My Golf R 7.5 and the Passat R line before it both have better lights than the Kodiaq's, especially in long range distance using high beam. They had 4 separate LED units where the Kodiaq had only 2 plus some old school LED reflectors for high beam. Our Kamiq MC's lights are now better than the Kodiaqs on high beam too, so an advancement in the LED emitter number or LUX output or lens design. So if Skoda's Matrix is using the new Kamiq LED lens set up with the pixelisation applied then it should be an improvement on my old VRS above. But it would be hard for it to outperform the dedicated separate high beam distance lens that the VWs have which seemed to be the main advantage and as you say Zac, they swivel which is better than just turning off sections which ultimately means less light overall. For our roads being able to see around corners at full noise is an advantage. I enabled High beam assist on all our VWs and Skoda's using OBD11 including the Kamiq and it works fine. Doesn't like halogen lights coming towards it much as in reaction time sometimes, as lower power and different colour, but we are getting less of those around now too.

So same as this using obd11? I did it on my Kamiq basically and works fine. Doesn't need a code. Didn't have to open bonnet either. https://www.tiguanforums.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=7694

Agree its not quite the same and we never use the 7 seats now so can consolidate there. Yes, I'm sure new GTI motor will be fine but you have to admit the VRS is in a different league to having 150ps only, when passing slow traffic/trucks on single lane roads and attacking hills, especially if you are using all the space inside. The 500nm of the outgoing one made all that fairly simple and I live in an Alpine area too so use it frequently as well as the DCC options. We don't spend much time on motorways here, mostly on single lane each side 100kph rural mountain roads. I came from a Golf R so going back to pretty much that motor if we don't have a torquey performance diesel on Skoda's flagship vehicle I would have thought made more sense for what they are charging for it. I also had a Octavia VRs with the GTI motor, and the Passat AWD with the 206 motor and they are noticeably quite different in performance. If the Scout has 206kw, so should the top Kodiaq comparatively.

Agree. For the new Kodiaq VRS if they had to ditch the diesel due to virtue signaling and/or tax pressures in some markets, then it should have the Superb's 206KW motor. I'll be going for a Formentor Cupra when I replace mine, and it's cheaper.

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Thanks for that, I found it too that way yesterday. It is definitely on there as an option which sets the future state. Never saw the wizard as dealer probably did it initially, but you can make it start again using the menu prompt.

Hi everyone. Is the 24hour clock the only option in MIB3 and the Kamiq. Seems simple but I cant find how to change the clock to standard, as in non 24 hour time? We only have manually set and GPS as options in the menu. My Kodiaq it's an option but doesn't seem to be on our Monte Carlo. Thanks.

This is what I did. Go into Module 5F MultiMedia Select Adaptations, then Car_Functions_List_BAP_Gen2 Select traffic_sign_recognition_0x21, and set to Activated Select Adaptions, Car_Function_Adaptations_Gen2-menu Select menu_display_road_sign_identification, set to Enabled Select Coding, and then select Byte 24, activate Bit 6 – (was already ticked in long coding) Go into Module A5 - Front Sensor Driver Assistance Select Coding, and then select Byte 16, activate Bit 4 (‘Traffic Sign Recognition VZE’ ->Coded) Go into Module 17 Dash Board Select Coding, then Byte 5, active bit 2 (‘Traffic Sign Recognition Installed’ -> Activated) Go back into Module A5 - Front Sensor Driver Assistance Select Adaptations, then Road sign detection fusion mode, and change to Road Sign Detection. The original was Road Sign Fusion Enter Code 20103 to save the change Reboot the infotainment unit

That's what I have already so just went with the same as they seem okay. Done 27,000kms and down to 3mm so should get me through winter.