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Sorry for the slow reply, had a few things on! If anything, XDS/XDS+ is more useful on a car with an LSD or VAQ fitted. The LSD/VAQ reacts to the unloaded inside wheel spinning and redirects the torque to the outside wheel to improve traction/acceleration out of the corner. At maximum effect, an LSD/VAQ can only lock causing the two front wheels to spin at the same rate, neither system can force the outer wheel to rotate quicker than the inner one. Given the entire point of a diff is to allow the outer wheel to rotate faster as you corner, as it locks to transfer torque it'll effectively cause the wheels to rotate at the same speed and actually induce understeer! The advantage is that the understeer should be predictable and the loaded outer wheel can still accelerate the car. This is where XDS comes in. From what I understand, the original XDS system predates the VAQ and would only brake the front inside wheels during acceleration. This will both cause drag on the inside wheel and indirectly force the outside wheel to spin more quickly - effectively trying to rotate the car and minimise understeer. The improved XDS+ will when required, activate in all unbraked cornering states and can also use the rear brake to increase the effectiveness. In short, the LSD/VAQ is to improve traction and XDS/XDS+ is to improve rotation. Both have completely different functions but when working in harmony, will help the car handle better. TC off should just let the front wheels spin a little more which can be helpful on loose/slippery surfaces. ESP off will allow the car to slide a little more or apply smaller corrections with the general aim to keep the car moving in the direction the steering wheel is pointing. Even though the buttons say 'off', these systems will never truly turn off and will still activate when certain limits are hit...

it's a hit or miss situation. they have talking about it for months. It depends where you are. I live in Lyon and it is still actif. go here it will give you your rating depending on the fuel type and year (it will pop up on the right of the screen above the picture of the car) : https://www.certificat-air.gouv.fr/simulation edit : your are crit air 1 so good to go anywhere

I am considering returning to the Briskoda fold after 15 years running a variety of Golf GTIs. Returning to buy a new 4.5 vRS. During that 15 years I have greatly enjoyed being part of the GTI Forums with enthusiastic and friendly owners exchanging views and great advice. I have to say I’m not “getting the love” from this forum that I had hoped for. To be blunt, I really don’t care about an armrest on a 2021 1.5 tsi estate or the 12v socket on a 1.2 hybrid. I’m looking for a proper vRS enthusiasts site. So my question is…….am I looking at the wrong place with Briskoda as is there somewhere else for proper vRS enthusiasts to gather?

21 works https://mibsolution.one/#/1/9/MHI2%20-%20HARMAN/Gracenote

Thank you.

Only thing that did not work is Gracenote.. I don't know which database i can use. So i left it empty and got an erro 134 during install. The fec codes work now and i have updatet to 450. I renamed the patch folder to MHI2_ER_SEG11_P4709_1_MU1447_PATCH to make it work under MIB because the AIO 1447 renames the firmware to MHI2_ER_SEG11_P4709_1 and MIB looks for a patch folder with the same name as the running firmware of the device.

Greetings! I found this forum while searching for advice online. I'm living in the Netherlands and have an Octavia 2 estate.

Hello and welcome to Briskoda 👋

Ping me your VIN in a private message and I can look it up for you.

Agree 100%, even though I keep the maps on my Amundsen up-to-date I always use Google maps via CarPlay. I use this wireless adapter CPLAY2air

I suggest you speak to a decent independent VAG garage. If you have a FL vRS with the lower power 230ps engine and solid rear discs, your car does not have the VAQ differential (which is what the 30,000/3 year interval is for). Of course you do have a differential, but it is part of the transaxle/gearbox - it quite literally cannot be serviced separately!

Merci! That's interesting to know. Regrettably other things now mean we'll have to postpone travelling far just for now, but we'll hope to visit France next year, and by then will definitely have a Crit'Air sticker!

https://www.briskoda.net/forums/guidelines/ See section 8

Update: Early indications are good, and suggest he may have been right, unless something has just spontaneously resolved itself. I did a 40 mile round trip, mainly motorway, yesterday. The first 10 miles it was as previous days, with ridiculous fuel consumption. Then I started seeing much more typical readings in the 'live' MPG readout, and the average since start started to increase. By the end of the trip the average was just above 30mpg - double what I'd been seeing for similar journeys over the previous couple of days. If it has finished a regen and we start afresh today I'd expect to be seeing an average of mid-30s again in the coming days. I'm not quite ready to relax yet, but hopefully all will be well from here on.

I have just had a reply from Skoda Auto cz having given them the full version of my car and the VIN # and they say the diff DOES need an oil change every 3 years ! I am very, very puzzled ?

hehe, sorry for that mods list: full dechrom window tint black/white badges double sided tape under number plates sportline rear diffuser painted gloss black eibach lowering springs front splitter rear spoiler from sportline + gloss black extension R3 H03 20x9 ET37 wheels with 235/35 tyres did some bits inside (flat bottom sterring wheel, MIB2,5 upgrade, gloss black trim, changed cluster background to white from sportline/L&K) waiting for 340/310mm brakes to put on once I have some time also planning to fit sideskirts and rear bumper side splitters

Was there not a blunt tool in the fitting kit?

My older daughter bought a 2009 SEAT Ibiza 1.4 16V 84PS SC, and it gave her no trouble, she went abroad on an exchange job thing and I kept that car and used it now and again, it rewarded me by starting to drain the battery, using only the internet as a resource, I discovered that one reason for that on that age of any VW Group marque car of that size and engine, was wrong programming of the BCM by the supplier! As too much time had run before this became an issue, the relevant TPS on this had rolled out of the visibility and/or knowledge of dealership workshops, result was when handed into a local SEAT dealership, a faulty "clockspring" was found and replaced, though VCDS had no found any fault codes logged, that did nothing to fix the battery draining, then that SEAT dealership was closed by the chain that owned it so that the land could be sold of housing! They gave me a reference which would allow SEAT to support me via another SEAT dealership's workshop! I had initially mentioned this "known issue" and that a TPS existed covering the recovery action, but that info had fallen on deaf ears. Maybe a year later, just before that daughter returned holiday for a month at Christmas over her "Summer" break, I approached another SEAT dealership, Arnold Clark in fact, the service reception guy knew exactly what I was talking about - luckily for me, as they had had to sort out a same age and engine VW Polo that they had in, so that made getting the correct info from SEAT mothership a lot easier, and that sorted out that problem. Now, I'd think that every "same" BCM programmed over a known period in time would have the same problem - and what did VW Group do about it - well after first discovering it and issuing a TPS, buggar all, just left all the affected cars to let down their owners and end up coming back one at a time into their dealerships, the "flash patch" update is free, but carrying out an exhaustive diagnosis was not free neither was the time spent finding and requesting the "flash patch" and then applying it. No doubt this way of doing things gets covered by "wear and tear" and so customer coughs up for manufacturer's supplier's mistake. This is VW Group's get out of jail free card which gets used quite a lot.

I put the "wheel bearing" issue, well on the 2015 VW Polo 1.2TSI, down to the factory fitted bearing was "Made in France" SNR! Probably a very good (cheap) part, if it's in one VW Group marque it is probably in all that use that hub assembly, or even complete suspension strut.

The plug was loose in the control module inside the door. All working now. Thanks.

If the deviations are too large, dynamic calibration no longer works; a static calibration must be performed.

@Binx1310 - I got mirror caps from AliExpress that had the blind spot indicator built-in. I then wired it up to work in parallel with the existing mirror blind spot indicator. Perfect. U can read about it here.

Being a petrol it has not got a DPF, it is a GPF which regens / cleans in a different way. So off the accelerator. Once hot and running along. Did it actually use 4.56 litres in less than 21 miles or is that what the dash shows?

Hi all, Just an update, thanks to Breezy_Pete I’ve confirmed it is the right part for my 2016 Yeti. Number is printed at the bottom of the seatbelt where it anchors to the car. Hope this helps others and thanks again Breezy_Pete 👍🏻

Wiring loom going to the passenger door is probably the cause. I will have them replaced. 😀

Why do people post pictures like this! Now my bank account is going to take a hit trying to replicate this! Would love a full list of mods. It looks awesome!

Yes that will be from their documentation. Mib wiki and all of that. It was the Audi FeCs that I worked out how the Seat ones worked. Users were in the dark. Retrofitters were selling firmware updates with just one year of mapcare on it, not the lifetime one. It ran out and stopped working - good for repeat business. Effected two of us. The retrofitter looked at the FeC screen, tapped it and said its your navigation FeC. I'd photographed them before and after, so comparing notes worked out the year sequencing of them. Different from the Audi table I'd found. So the long life FeC we had been sold wasnt long life. It's just off the end of the table which makes it a long life FeC. Kick it to the end and it's a long life FeC. Hex table. Seat were shipping cars without life long FeCs unlike Skoda and VW. They ran out after a year. Mapcare was never sold to UK customers of Seat so you were stuffed. You had to sort it out yourself for the mib2 high. Seats love / hate relationship with built in navigation, all rather daft. Now they love it and you need it for predictive braking in EVs. See if I can find that Audi table that I decoded... was this fragment which had been worked out for Audi Audi added +2 ( 20 > 2019 map, 22 > 2019/2020 map) 24 > 2020 26 > 2020/2021 Hex characters. Did the same for Seat and worked out the sequence. So the Audi ee is way off the end. The Retrofitter's mumble gave the game away of their business model and photographing of their before and after screens. They were not selling life time FeCs. They fixed. The guy returned to Poland after Brexit. (will be a hermit crab)

Yes 330 supported all the brands navigation FeCs but by 350 they reduced it to just the two 08300008 and 023000EE . I did have a moment where I thought it had been changed in 330 but no 350. The wonder of how the navigation FeCs work you can throw them all in and it runs through them till it finds one that works. I was told by the person that helped me set it up previously in 2022. "You can remove it now" once they reverted. Decided no, I'd keep it how it was just in case it happened again. It did, three or so years later. Nice English day gecko in the picture. Did accidentally import the real thing from PNG once. Given two conch shells by a local. Un beknow, one had two eggs inside. One morning a gecko was spotted running across the carpet. Where did that come from. Found the broken egg inside the shell. Few weeks later the second one hatched out. It had travelled half way across the world in the luggage. Papa New Guinea day geckos. Just as well it wasnt a gekko gecko (tokay gecko) they are considerably larger and noisy. Had those Indonesia living behind a picture frame at a orangutan rehabilitation centre. Let you do the Google. Partners got a degree in zoology. Comes in handy.

Thanks buddy! Fingers crossed for the airbag light 🤞 is dont see any reason for the light being on, apart from staying on due to the fault with the gateway module... so once reset, hopefully it will stay off 🤞