PetrolDave

... but if you do remove it then if an MOT tester spots it then that's an MOT fail as any car originally fitted with a DPF must have one (or what looks like one!) when presented for an MOT.

Maybe someone else on here has had the same question and will chime in? One thing I can suggest it that if, using a diagnostic tool, you can post an adaptation channel map of the instruments (address 17) that might give some clues?

Is there a setting (either visible or using a diagnostics tool) in the instruments to disable the beep? - I'm thinking that someone (a previous owner?) has disabled them deliberately.

It sounds to me like @Keypurrwants stop/start to work and it isn't? There are many conditions for stop/start to work not just battery state of charge, try looking on the infotainment where there is a menu explaining what conditions are not being met.

Under what circumstances do you expect them to beep and they don't?

The sat nav in my previous Octavia had a problem with town names like Bicester - which is pronounced as "Bista" but she pronounced as "Bi-ses-ter" - and Fareham which she pronounced as "Far-um". I reckon they use phonetic rules now rather than recorded speakers like the RNS-E in my previous Audi.

I loved the Quattro (capital Q) as it was an iconic coupe, the more 'normal' quattros (lower case q) with Torsen centre diffs were great, it's taken a while for the Haldex software to catch up with the seamless transition between FWD and AWD that the Torsen provided. My 1999 8L S3 had Haldex and you could really feel the delay and change in handling as it switched between FWD and AWD - a good car but not a great one even after I had it tuned to 285PS.

I've just reached UK pension age so probably older than middle aged, however I don't expect my car (new in 2020) to be the last car I will ever drive so I fully expect I will be driving an EV later in my driving life. I hope that by then the public charger availability and hogging issues discussed on here will be a thing of the past.

Best/favourite cars I've owned: 1985 Renault 5 GT Turbo - test drive the main competition (Peugeot 205 1.9GTI, Fiat Uno Turbo) but none match the excitement of a car lighter than a baked bean can with a tweakable engine and chassis (thanks Brodie Brittan Racing). If I could find a good cheap one (I know...) now I'd have it as a fun day car. 2007 Audi RS4 Avant quattro - fast, fun and practical (rescued wife & friend from work where nobody else could reach due to snow and ice even on summer tyres). 420PS wasn't enough so had to visit MRC in Banbury for a non-resonated Milltek exhaust and a custom rolling road tune.

Infotainment firmware does not have any effect on bulb failure monitoring, that's done by the BCM - so changing infotainment firmware will not cause bulb failure errors, it's no more than an unfortunate coincidence.

What did your friend change?

The top search on Google for "camping" returns the definition "the activity of spending a holiday living in a tent." A pod is not a tent; a tent is canvas (or similar) but those shown in the picture are wooden constructions so are a chalet or similar.

Camping? - I see no tents...

Surely if the infotainment upgrade was the cause (which I'm 99.9999999999999% certain it isn't) the problems would have happened straight away? It would help if you post the detail of the codes rather than just vague descriptions. BTW when you do a firmware change on the infotainment unless you reset the SVM code (which @pab567explains) you WILL get a fault code, but it doesn't affect operation.

VCDS requires the correct cable from either Ross-Tech or one of their distributors to work.

Coding has to match the current state of the car, so it cannot be coded until after the trailer module etc is fitted - without generating fault codes, some of which may stop some systems working.

USB is a digital data connection but a 2.5mm jack is an analogue audio connection, so no.

That always used to be called Tourist Mode.

Have you tried just copying the files off the D card, this always worked for me? The knowing that I had a backup copy I quick formatted the SD card and copied the unzipped downloaded files onto the SD card - worked every time for me.

Fuel cutoff happens only when engine rpm is above approx 1400rpm, so when in 4th the engine rpm will be above that threshold and fuel will be cutoff but when in 5th the lower engine rpm will mean that the engine is still being fuelled.

Please explain more what you mean by 'mp3' - USB stick, MP3 player, something else? If USB stick or similar how is it formatted?

Nor did my 15 plate have it.

Blame 'Dieselgate", VAG (all makers by implication) have to make their cars default to the modes in which the WLTP tests were done.

The HEX-CAN cannot have its firmware updated to fully decode the longer CAN bus messages on newer cars. Both the HEX-V2 and HEX-NET fully support newer vehicles so this problem is solved with them.

When I retired I went from a 4.2 V8 Audi to a 1.4TSI Octavia 3 and was pleasantly surprised with the performance, particularly the mid-range torque, of the 1.4 TSI so I would suggest you consider the 1.4TSI. Not read good things on here about the later 1.5TSI with ACT which had gained a bit of a reputation for kangaroo starts.