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I tried for quite some time with various tools. I’m not sure it’s possible.

Hi Octy 4 owners... Looking to possibly add midrange speakers to my setup in my Octavia 4 (running a Match DSP m5.4, with Focal PS165FE at the moment). Has anyone got any good pictures of either the midrange fitment in the door card, or the canton speakers that would fit there? I can't seem to find anything sensible for the Octavia 4 online. Also, has anyone run a power cable from the battery on a RHD? Any pictures or hints as to how best to run it from the engine bay backwards would be much appreciated.

Good on you for trying - this is my worry, that it all seems to be a bit of a black box! Do any of the other presets work? Interesting that you’re getting a lot of cancelling frequencies. I’ve got my HU going into an ATF Match M5.4, which I can do a raw out into the RCAs. If I have a moment, and can psych myself up to running the VCTool presets on it (really worried about not getting it back to something workable, but if something is flat that’s fine…) I’ll do a REW analyser export of a handful of them. If there are any specific ones people are looking to try (beyond 14) let me know.

Hmm its odd that they allow you to write an arbitrary set of 10, but don't say what they mean / do. Is it possible to pull any of these down, and use the MIB sound dataset editor on them? It all feels a bit too undefined for me to try and push one in the hope that it works. It sure as anything wouldn't read the dataset for me from my 2024 Octavia, so I'd be really hesitant to have it try and write.

This is interesting @petrbazant - I spent ages either VCTool, different ELM adapters, DoIP etc trying to get the dataset import export to work on a 2024 (pre FL) Octavia 4. Did you end up having to do anything specific that made it work? I didn’t think it was possible. Are the VCTool parameters the same as datasets? Have you had any luck with the datasets themselves or just the parameters? Hoping to find a flat dataset. Does the tool indicate which dataset is currently active?

I can probably dig mine out although it may be very different as different speakers. How did you route your battery cable @TommiH ?

Ahh thanks - LHD or RHD and do you have a pic or a rough location where the hole was?

How did you route the power for the sub?

I believe rockbox will display as mass storage which the car should read - although at that stage you may as well just put it on a cheap USB stick and save the cycles on the ageing iPods battery.

Is the unit a physical fit? I guess with the older OI you aren’t able to go back to home / menu?

I believe it’s available from EKTA (sort of - not as a cohesive pinout - as PIN numbers!). It’s not printed on the device sadly. If it’s speaker wires you’re after, they’re thankfully fairly obvious as the same as other generations. Having made a loom first time round, I’d highly recommend just buying an iso harness and using that.

@Ayeshen I’ve never been able to find the right model / train on mib helper. Someone on this thread had uploaded the ZIP around.

That’s really neat. Wish my pre-FL did this.

I’d expect that from an RS4 - it’s got 2x the HP at similar weight! My 3.0 TDI Quattro (at slightly more HP than the Octy would never break free, even on a launch.

I think unfortunately it’s all part of the VAG “brand engineering” - to slightly cripple the same hardware as you go down the lines. Seems like a waste to me.

It’s unfortunate- I had (what I assume is) exactly the same part in an Audi, even with the settings menus in the Skoda (which I have), it feels a lot less “useful”. It was nice on the audi to be able to slide between pages to get to nav destinations, phone calls, media… it feels odd to have to go into the dial selection to add media, nav,… to a dial to go back in and then select something. Selecting “home” or a recent destination in nav feels a lot harder now.

That’s a shame - I think this must be the first car I’ve had where the USB ports don’t support the iPod, even over the USB to 30pin. I was dead pleased our current model Volvo still supports it. That said, BT and CarPlay have been rock solid for me, and I’ve ended up using PlexAmp to play all the iPod library stored at home, which works fantastically.

In defense of some of the solutions, the matrix lights seem to be really proactive at knocking out the sections. I can see them dropping out segments all the time for the slightest bit of light.

Battery voltage OK? Been using it much recently?

Many thanks for the list @SurreyJohn- will check these out, and stick the Bridgestones on the shelf for now! Is it a 4 corner job or are the Bridgestones ok on the rears?

Fine during braking. It’s largely (as another poster mentioned) turning while pulling away. What are the best sensible AS tyres I can put on it for grip?

Taken delivery of a 2024 VRS about 6 months ago now. Finding the grip on the front end to be pretty terrible, to the point that I feel I can’t really “drive it” properly. Anything other than dead straight, perfectly dry, and it breaks if I do anything other than really gently mouse the throttle. Not sure if was spoilt before coming from an A4 3.0TDI Quattro, which never broke free, or a Volvo V60, which had so much weight on the wheels, but it’s somewhat limiting my enjoyment at the moment. Has anyone had significant luck changing the stock Bridgestone Potenza tyres for something grippier?

I see some have the parking sensors not blocking the whole display (and oriented correctly) - Is this a setting? Mine still seems to take the whole screen

I do, but can't see any option in there to disable it.

Must have been a boatload of options as the base of the SE-L was about 33k in 23. Someone went mad spec’ing that one! what engine / drive is it? Is it the AWD diesel? (If it was available)