I've just ordered my Scout (Corrida Red, MFSW, VBF, Full spare) but suspect delivery will not be until late October or early November. I will therefore be fitting my Winter tyres pretty soon after getting the car. I will probably buy some steel wheels and I already have a virtually new set of Michelin Alpin 205/55/R16s from my current 4x4 estate. These will run approximately 3.8% faster than the standard 225/50/17s on the speedo. I have heard that the MAXIDOT can be set up to correct this slight speed difference. Is this true?

The alternative is a new set of tyres of course. 205/60 would be virtually spot on but still cheaper than 225s.

Yes Maxidot has a option to choose winter tyres on it's setup.

Yes Maxidot has a option to choose winter tyres on it's setup.

This option is only to set a speed warning notification (bong!) when using winter tyres with a lower speed rating than summer tyres it does not recallibrate the maxidot. Bare in mind that most speedo's have a variation in them anyway in my case my speedo overeads (compared with accurate sat nav speed) by about 3 % on 17" wheels so more like 7% on 16"

Some useful info I posted herelast winter rearding the 16" steels I have on my Scout. HTH

Edited 29 July, 201015 yr by KayakJim

Thanks for that KayakJim. Did you get your stell wheels from Skoda?

I got my steel 16" from Skoda when i ordered the car + 1Z0071435A - FREEDOM plastic covers for 16" steel rims.

Rims cost about 50 pounds each, plastic covers about 60 quid for 4.

I've just ordered my Scout (Corrida Red, MFSW, VBF, Full spare) but suspect delivery will not be until late October or early November. I will therefore be fitting my Winter tyres pretty soon after getting the car. I will probably buy some steel wheels and I already have a virtually new set of Michelin Alpin 205/55/R16s from my current 4x4 estate. These will run approximately 3.8% faster than the standard 225/50/17s on the speedo. I have heard that the MAXIDOT can be set up to correct this slight speed difference. Is this true?

The alternative is a new set of tyres of course. 205/60 would be virtually spot on but still cheaper than 225s.

If you have a Tom tom (etc) just use the speedo on that.

Thanks for that KayakJim. Did you get your stell wheels from Skoda?

Got mine from ebay for £65 for all 4 (came of a Seat Altea and are the same as the Skoda ones)