IanVFR750

Excuse my ignorance but I don't know what firmware is - and where would I find what version it is ???

Thanks for the offer varaderoguy. But good news - out in the car today the sat nav flickered back into life and seems to be working perfectly - time will tell for how long ???

The arrow on the sat nav does move when the car is moving but when the car is going East the satnav pointer goes West - the altimeter also shows me at 28000 feet ( nearly as high as Everest. I'm frustrated because if it was mechanical I could fix it but all this fancy electrical stuff is beyond me - I'll just have to swallow my pride and take it to a dealer to resolve this problem. Thanks a lot to all of you who assisted me with this problem - it's nice to know there is backup / knowledge out there if I need it again in the future. Regards, Ian.

Hi Max, Where did East End Motors come from !!! I must have had a senior moment. I popped in to West End Skoda at Sighthill today when passing but they wouldn't let me speak to the technician. He did look at the can but service reception said it needs a full diagnostics run on it ££££ but it was likely to be the aerial. Think I'll do further investigation myself. Thanks - Ian.

I have just parked my car on the top of a hill with 270 degrees clear view of horizon in blue/light cloudy sky and run the factory reset function for about 45 minutes and my satnav is now 8 miles out rather than the 10 miles it was before. 1 - have I run it long enough ? 2 - should I have to do anything after I have pressed the "reset all" button or is it all automatic after that point. 3 - should I see it doing anything ? ( the only sat nav related action I had to perform was to put in my home address ) 4 - is there any way I can tell if or when it's picking up any signal.

Hi varaderoguy - what branch of East End motors did you use ( Edinburgh / Dunfermline / Stirling ).

Hi Nicky - tried the factory reset but no luck - sat nav still showing me 10 miles from where I actually am. Thanks anyway for your help. Ian

Thanks - I'll give it a go later this afternoon and let you know how I get on.

Hi Nicky, Is factory resetting different to rebooting - if so how do you go about it? Ian.

Hope someone can help with Satnav problems on my 68 plate Octavia VRS estate with Columbus unit. A couple of days ago on start up I got the little triangular orange sign with the exclamation mark on my dashboard with a message saying something like "your emergency phone could not connect " but the error message disappeared before I could read it properly then after a few moments the little orange triangular light went out. However when I went to use my satnav I noticed that the arrow was not showing me as being on my drive (which I was ) but about 10 miles away in another town. I have tried to reboot the system by holding down the volume button till the screen cleared and rebooted the system but the arrow on the screen is still showing me 10 miles from where I actually am. Has anyone had a similar problem or does anyone know how to rectify the issues I'm experiencing. Ian.