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Not sure if it’s the same with Android but with Apple car play you can use the steering wheel button for both. Press the button and you get Skoda voice control. Press and hold and you get Apple car play with Siri. Might be worth trying press and hold with your Android.

Same for me.

There may be a better method but I use Siri to control the phone. If you press the voice control on the steering wheel quickly then the standard Skoda voice system kicks in. If you press and hold the voice control button, it activates Siri. That’s how I make my phone calls.

I am very much a beginner with OBD 11 but I have managed to make a few changes to my 2016 VRS using the coding in the VCDS sticky. OBD 11 has a search function in the adaptations and, even though the different elements are not in the same location as on VCDS, I just searched for the words in the sticky thread and changed them once I found them. I have not had any problems with OBD 11 except, as others have suggested, when I tried to use the built in apps. For example, using the app for enabling cornering fog lights only did half the job (inner bulbs only, not outer ones) but using the adaptations listed in the sticky thread worked like a charm.

When I specced 4x4 VRS, one of the differences the 4x4 made was that the normal lowered VRS suspension from Skoda could not be fitted and the ride height is the normal one. I was told this was to do with the Haldex diff. The ride height suits me due to the roads I use but I’m curious why Skoda couldn’t lower the suspension when after market kits can.

Yes. When I bought the next gen version, they hadn’t sorted out the IOS app other than to use the OBDEleven mini apps. Since then the main app got updated and you can now do adaptations and long coding on IOS.

I have now tried 3 different old Android devices with my OBDEleven NextGen but all of them have resulted in “Unfortunately OBDEleven has stopped working” when I try to connect. I can connect to the OBDEleven dongle with an IOS device so I know it is working but, of course, only some of the functions are available on IOS. The Android devices have ranged from Android 4.4 to Android 9, all with the same result. I have tethered each one to my iPhone so that they have an internet connection. I wondered if I would have a different result if I put a SIM card in the device instead of tethering. Is anyone able to advise why I always get the same message and, more importantly, tell me how to make it work? I would even buy a cheap Android device if someone can recommend one that will definitely work. Thank you for your help. Dave

Have you asked if you are able to do a voluntary termination? Then you could just hand it back.

I’m at work at the moment so can’t check but I think if you go to radio and select the settings button, you can change the setting for “Arrow buttons”. It sounds like you have station list selected. If you change to Preset list it should go through your stored stations.

Timpson, the key cutting place, do car keys including programming them. Might be worth asking them how much they would charge.

I recently enabled this and, after a couple of weeks, turned it off again. Selecting main beam myself is second nature but I found I was having to monitor the assist function in case it didn’t do what I wanted. It’s supposed to help but I found it distracting wondering if it was going to work as I would want it to and intervening when it didn’t.

What was the solution? Does anyone else know how I can fix the issue? The outer bulbs are the ones that really make the difference and they are the ones that are missing.

I got logos for all stations, some from the file on the Skoda portal and some downloaded from internet searches. However, they don’t all stay and I end up with text on the left and what appears to be a blank black square on the right. From some angles I can just make out the letters DAB in the black square.

How did you fix it?

Mine auto generates logos for some but not all stations. I have added the rest from the file on the Skoda Update Portal. For some reason they all stay on some views but not on the station info screen. Channels like Heart dump their logo. If you look really carefully you can just see a dark DAB logo where the radio station logo was. Does anyone know how to stop these logos from disappearing?

To be honest I haven’t tried. It was originally done using an app on OBDeleven so it should have been correct. Hatch very kindly advised above that all 4 would need to be coded separately but I’ve yet to find out whether the factory fit cornering fog lights use one of the bulbs or two. I currently have OBDeleven working on IOS as I don’t have an android device yet (I’m open to suggestions of which cheap one to buy) so I can’t do coding until the IOS app is updated. That’s why I haven’t looked at getting both lights to illuminate each side yet. I will buy an android device once I find a cheap one that will do the job then I can look at the coding.

I had a creaking noise that sometimes sounded like it was coming from the headlining. I eventually cured it by lowering the backs of the rear seats and then firmly pushing them back into place. Never did work out why it sometimes sounded like it was coming from the roof.

Thank you. I’ll try again!

I have had cornering fog lights (among other things) enabled on my 2016 VRS. This was done with OBD eleven. I noticed today that, when the cornering fog light comes on, only the inner bulb of the two lights up. Can anyone with a 2016 VRS and cornering fog lights confirm whether this is correct or whether the outer bulb should come on as well, please? If they should both be on, does each bulb have to be coded individually? Thanks in advance for your help.

A few years ago, I tried to point out to Tom Tom that the Spanish town of Torrevieja was completely missing from the maps. They said it was due to their map provider not having got round to adding it in yet. When I pointed out that there was evidence that there had been a port had been in that location since Roman times and asked how long they expected the update to take, they gave me my money back!

I am planning to enable (among other things) rear lights with DRLs. In the sticky thread on this site, there is the coding for enabling these “without sidelights, dash illumination, number plate lights etc”. When I requested this change from someone who has done a lot of coding with OBD 11, he put a question on the OBD 11 forum asking how many people had successfully done this coding. Unusually, nobody replied. The Briskoda sticky has this coding listed as tried and tested but I was wondering how many people on here have made this change successfully?

We had significant snow two years running. The first year I had the original tyres on and the car took me everywhere I needed to go home including driving around other cars that had been abandoned in the snow. This year I had changed the tyres for Michelin Crossclimate +. The car performed even better and was the envy of other people I work with. I ended up delivering people home from work when their vehicles couldn’t make it.

I had a noise that sounded like a rattle/creak that happened at slow speed. I eventually tracked it down to the catches on the rear seat backs. I lubricated the mechanisms and the noise went away.

I normally like to keep my glasses in a case but I achieved the same thing by lining the glasses holder in the roof with anti vibration tape. It protects the glasses and also stops them rattling.

At the risk of being too simplistic, have you slid the lock on the SD card into the locked position? This would stop formatting or putting anything onto the card.