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Ask your dealer, depending on your holding deposit you might, if worst comes to the worst, be able to cancel, and reorder your car from the build list if they won't change the finance

that because its logged in the front assist menu. the vehicle information is for generic vehicle wide messages not related to other specific systems

Have a look in the VCDS sticky, Some of the coding changes to allow the traffic sign recognition may support traffic sign display

enabled it today on my MY16 TDi vRS DSG and what a difference, much better pickup, especially in D and loads of Torque in S

try Chris Knott, one of the site sponsors. They gave me a very good deal a few days ago

Thanks, the car was built on the 6th May, so I'll download the latest beta and try again. I've been resetting the coding as Ive going along. Next time I try it I'll try and do screen grabs as I go just in case of any issues. As for the out of range errors, I found by doing soft resets and coming out of controllers before goign back fixed that issue

Hi, 2 questions for all you VCDS experts out there. I plugged my new MY16 Octavia VRS into VCDS for the first time and started to try coding some of the possible adaptations. the first 3 worked (changing the throttle mode to audi, showing blower speed on auto and switching off the sound generator) and I was able to follow the instructions fairly easily, however when I started to try and code other functions I was getting errors. On trying to change the voltage for the Start/Stop system i followed the instructions: however when i came to apply the new voltage i get an error message saying the value is out of range. I also had this on the first stage of enabling Traffic sign recognition. The next issue is when it comes to enabling the intelligent light assist. I followed the instructions provided by Andyvee and there was a slight descriptive difference in channels, however the coding was accepted. When i came to activate light assist however (by pushing the stalk forward) I received a maxidot error "light assist error". Is this because I was stationary? I have now reverted all changes for the light assist to standard EDIT: I forgot to sya I'm using version 15.7.4. should I try again with one fo the newer betas? EDIT 2: I've just found this from Andyvee: Just to confirm, should I be ticking the box at the same time as changing the channel?

Having only had my car with canton a day, and only been in the car for an hour or so I think the canton is a good system, I'm still trying to tweak it but the sound quality is definitely dependant on music source. The only thing I would say is that it could probably do with having an "equaliser off" button like the harmon and pardon system in my land rover had to demonstrate just how much better over standard the sound actually was!!

Picked mine up today, she's great!! although is well in need of some software tweaks (auto start/stop off, sound generator off, ila on, traffic sign recognition on to name a few) oh and the beautifully clean look of the debugged rear has been ruined by whoever has removed the badges using a blunt instrument that has left tool marks very similar to those of a screwdriver on the boot. I'm waiting for a response from the dealer on that one!!

That probably explains it. Someone has probably tried to copy the card

I've just had a look on the bluespark website. They don't actually have a product listed as available for the current vRS (184PS) and it appears that their vRS tuning box is for the CR170 engine in the MKII. Their price also seems a little too cheap at over £100 cheaper than the offerings from DTUK and TDI-Tuning

+1 from me, took my policy out today after you guys quoted over £1000 less than academy and adrian flux (and £300 less than the cheapest price comparison website quote)

Most people on here seem to go for DTUK tuning boxes although I have a tdi-tuning box which will be getting reprogrammed for my vRS in a few weeks. They are all in the same ball park price wise

well mine is in the dealer, and ready for collection by Friday. can't wait.

I think my VCDS will come in very handy when I get the new car then

What gets me though, is that since I've lived here in the last 3 1/2 years I've had an E61 535d, an F11 525d and a Discovery 4, my insurance has stayed steadily below £500 a year. Change to a vRS (at a lower insurance group) and it shoots up to more than it ever was as an 18 year old student!! Oh well, at least I move in a couple of months

I find SWMBO is the main culprit for wind noise

you can go to the DVLA website and for £3 can request vehicle and registered keepers details, or pass the details to your insurance company and let them do all the running around

I've dealt with a next base 402-g "professionally" following an RTC. Myself and my colleagues were very impressed by the quality of the footage (although the UI could be slightly more intuitive at the roadside) and it certainly saved its owner a trip to court, a few hundred quid and some penalty points (he now needs a new microSD card though)!!

As my new MkIII Octavia vRS is due to be delivered anytime now I started looking at insurance quotes yesterday. Has anybody been getting some ridiculously high insurance quotes? I'm 33, 10 yrs NCD, 1 non-fault accident and 1 SP30 but I have no idea why I have been quoted in excess of £1300 by no less than 3 brokers and all the price comparison websites coming in at over £700. Thankfully Chris Knott have come back at just £380 but the rest have been ridiculous. I just wondered if anyone else was experiencing this issue. I appreciate that my recent driving history has some bearing on the quotes but even so..

mine has finally been confirmed as in the UK. A transport order has been raised and it should be at the dealers in a few days. I've asked for it by this Friday or Saturday so fingers crossed. On another note it looks like it probably came in on Gran Canaria Car yesterday so all of the BW18's due into Sheerness should hopefully be here by now!

excellent stuff, i'm hoping mines landed. I emailed my dealer saying I needed it for next friday and his reply was that it shouldn't be a problem and he'd get it psi'd as soon as it got to the dealership. no mention of it being in the UK though...

It doesn't really make much difference. Your settlement figure usually accounts for the last payment. It can take a few days for the payments to clear and the finance company will refund any difference

Driver "aids" eh!?!?!?! I doubt this is the first such incident

The quartz Grey looks much classier with the grey trim/piping!! (IMHO)