This rather inclement weather is doing my head in! I love the snow and cold etc., it's my Furby temp display that's winding me up! I really don't need it to default to temperature every morning, I know it's cold!!! I need it to stay on the clock, which is where I always have the MFD, as I need to know how late for work I am.....

Anyone know a way of disabling the temperature defaulting to the display at anything below 4deg and getting it to stay on the last known display at switch off?

Hi, I think if you let the display blink to tell you it is below 4 degrees and wait it will stop blinking and then about 10 seconds or so later should change back to whichever setting you had it on last e.g. clock or mpg. It certainly does this in the mkII Fabia and I'm sure my old mkI Fabia did the same.

David

Not in mine. Starts and stays on temperature no matter what you leave it on if it's 4 degrees or lower. You have to change it manually if you want to go back to the clock/mpg etc.

Same here!

spend 20 mins deicing it, only to have it tell you its -4 degrees... no **** I can't feel my fingers or my face, thanks furby

Let's get a reality check here. Is it really that big a hardship to touch the end of the stalk to revert back to the clock? On the mornings when it is colder than it feels isn't it useful to know? Do you really expect your little furby to think "brrrrrr, it's a bit chilly today and my poor owner has spent ages scraping my windows - best not upset him with a daft wee snow flake light"?!

A few years back I had to drive up from Reading to Edinburgh in a Peugeot 406 hire car. Nice and warm in the morning when I set off, but by the time I'd dropped a colleague off in Dunfermline the temperature had dropped and a snowflake lit up because the temperature had dropped to 5 degrees. It was enough to make a back road a bit slippy and I could feel the loss of grip - after a very long drive I was glad of the warning TBH.

Let's get a reality check here. Is it really that big a hardship to touch the end of the stalk to revert back to the clock? On the mornings when it is colder than it feels isn't it useful to know? Do you really expect your little furby to think "brrrrrr, it's a bit chilly today and my poor owner has spent ages scraping my windows - best not upset him with a daft wee snow flake light"?!

A few years back I had to drive up from Reading to Edinburgh in a Peugeot 406 hire car. Nice and warm in the morning when I set off, but by the time I'd dropped a colleague off in Dunfermline the temperature had dropped and a snowflake lit up because the temperature had dropped to 5 degrees. It was enough to make a back road a bit slippy and I could feel the loss of grip - after a very long drive I was glad of the warning TBH.

No one was complaining of the warning!

I agree with PeterM, it would be nice if it stayed on for 10 secs and then reverted back to what you left it.

all i know is that if you leave it on the clock when you turn off the car when you start back up it will display the temp yeh but if you click up once the time is now rite next to it so you dont have to scroll through!

and yeh i know the snowflake is anoying but im sure theres gota be a way of reprogaming lol

What would disconnecting the temp sensor do? (Assuming it's not needed for anything else)

i think it throws up an eror if you do.

Sorry to Hijack the thread, but my temp gauge has been fine for the last couple of weeks but has now gone missing. When i put it on to the temp, all i am getting is --*c.

Any ideas?

check sensor conection, its at the front by the fog light.

Edited 11 January, 201016 yr by lex2311

Hmmmm, I don't get a snowflake. Ever. Just temp. figures. I'd be quite happy with a snow flake actually, it would compliment the clock I want!

Interestingly the system intervenes at -5 and takes over again with one of VWs nice range of chimes. But if it was plus four when you start your journey, and you then have the temerity to change away from outside temperature on the MFD, it'll happily keep quiet as you lose eight degrees and plummet past freezing. Throughout that period a snowflake or two would be most welcome really......

Looks like the consensus is that I have to keep going up the system back to the clock and we can't beat the default. It's not that I can't cope with this it's just being a grumpy old sod, especially first thing in the morning, it's another little thing to tweak my mood the wrong way! Terrible isn't it: I need to continue to accept and enjoy my car and work on my anger management instead I suppose!

Could be worse. Remember Clarkson and that Merc Satnav that just wouldn't shut up

yh lol fort it was a bmw 1