Everything posted by PetrolDave
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Columbus Map Update 2021-2022 (MIB1/2 HIGH)
Much of that difference is down to how the size of disks, USB sticks, SD cards, etc. is specified. On an HDD, USB stick or SD card 32GB means 32,000,000,000 bytes; but when Windows reports the formatted size as 29.7GB it means 29.7*1024*1024*1024 = 31,890,132,172 bytes (the difference being the space taken up by the format information).
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ACC misbehaving
That's another bug that has been commented on several times in this forum, it also means that at night the headlamps dip into oncoming traffic!
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Wireless CarPlay Adaptor
IIRC @SashaGrace has used the CarPlay2Air.
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Octavia 1.0 ETEC DSG v Octavia 2.0 diesel dsg 2021
I guess it might depend on what length drives you normally do, only short drives tend to be bad for the DPF on the diesels leading to them having problem regenerating unless you regularly (say weekly) do a long enough drive for a DPF regen to happen.
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VRS 245 not exciting. Keep or change
Neighbour over the road has an Abarth 595 - as soon as it starts up in the garage I know about it, the exhaust sounds like a completely empty piece of pipe and nothing like any of the other cars in our road!
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My Fight is over
Waiting with interest, hopefully it will have been properly tested this time
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Software/fault reporting
This is a long running fault from with VAG infotainment systems , even as far back as 2005 this was true in an Audi S4 I owned (RNS-E sat-nav)
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SD card for different part of the world.
... or visit the VW map update website (the VW and Skoda maps are identical) https://app-connect.volkswagen.com/mapupdates/download/#download Select Golf from 2017, then Discover Media (VW name for Amundsen), and download World - Bundle 3
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My Fight is over
A new batch of software is being promised imminently, but what isn't being promised is that it will fix all, or even any, of the problems that are being experienced.
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SD card for different part of the world.
You can do it on a Mac BUT the Mac will install onto the SD card some temporary files that the Amundsen will not like and make it reject the SD card - so after copying the files onto the SD card you will need to remove the temporary files by running a Mac program such as Clean Eject or Blue Harvest.
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My Fight is over
Given that some members are still driving loan cars whilst Skoda try to develop/write/test software fixes it appears they don't actually have software/firmware updates available yet.
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Engine cover 1.0TSI
I did the same on my 1.4 Octavia 3, and also got a Skoda bonnet badge to fit on the cover as I didn't like the VW badge being visible when I opened the bonnet.
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Mk3 Owners + Workshop Manual info
Is that since December 2020? all new Haynes Manuals made electronic only
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SW version on reporting bugs
But posting infotainment versions gives an incorrect impression that this gives a complete picture of the software version(s) of the car - at least that's how I'm reading the majority of posts in this forum? What's better? - incomplete and possibly misleading information or no information? It could be argued that no information is better than misleading information based solely on infotainment version numbers?
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SW version on reporting bugs
It can so long as you have either a HEX-V2 or HEX-NET and run the latest version of VCDS (which is free to download). Posts on the public part of the Ross-Tech forum exist of the Golf 8 - which is basically the same car (and there are many more posts in the non-public section, but I can't say any more than that due to a non-disclosure agreement).
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So called 'Hot Start fix' question
I would suggest you ask on the Ross-Tech forum, they will ask for a full VCDS Auto-Scan and I would suggest you also post an adaptation channel map so they can see what adaptation channels exist in the engine ECU you have - not all engine ECUs have the same adjustments possible.
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SW version on reporting bugs
My impression is that you are in the minority in understanding that. Many driver and system updates are applied to Windows without the version displayed in the system info screen changing - the same applies to cars. What it means is that showing the infotainment software version is not a useful indicator of updates done by a dealer to the other systems - so isn't actually useful when comparing faults and fixes between different cars. Hence why I suggested that a VCDS or OBDEleven scan is actually what is needed to be able to see what the software state is of the car.
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So called 'Hot Start fix' question
The engine ECU for the CAYC will be running different software, so those old tweaks are unlikely to exist in the new software - those instructions use adaptation channel numbers, if the CAYC engine ECU uses the UDS protocol then adaptation channels will have names not numbers.
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SW version on reporting bugs
Something has been puzzling/worrying me about the infotainment screenshots showing software versions in this thread .... Isn't this just the software version of the infotainment NOT the other modules in the car? If that's true, which I am 99% certain it is, then that would explain why some dealer software updates don't change the version shown on the infotainment screen - because it is OTHER modules (engine, ABS, etc.) that has been updated. The only way to know what has really been updated after a dealer software update is a before and after scan of all the modules in the car using e.g. VCDS, OBDEleven, etc.
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Finding a decent Mkiii Octavia
Provided it's a MIB2 Amundsen (2016 model year onwards) twice yearly free updates will be downloadable from both the Skoda portal and the VW Infotainment website for several years. Updates for the MIB1 Amundsen appear to have ceased with the 2020/21 update.
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Delivery times?
When I was working for a chip manufacturer over 15 years ago the cost of a new fab even than for older processes was in excess of $5bn, and after being built it was taking several months to get the clean rooms actually clean enough after all the building work.
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Delivery times?
That as well as the other reasons I posted means the chip manufacturers don't expect to catch up with demand until late 2022 - which is why President Biden recently held a meeting at the White House to discuss ways of building more chip fabs in the US (trouble is they take years to build at a cost of several billion dollars each so that won't be a short term solution).
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Gear whining
What gearbox oil did you use?
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Delivery times?
... affecting most car manufacturers, and most tech manufacturers too. Caused by sudden increase in demand post-Covid and made worse by weather problems in Texas and Taiwan.
- Air con working but not coming out of vents (anywhere)