Hi,

may be it's a stupid or naive question, but is it possible to make the car display fuel consumption in litres/100km rather than mpg? Don't know whether this is just down to ecu settings or it's the car itself - ecu sw, display etc.

thanks guys

I can do it without a cable, just the MaxiDot settings .... does not work for you?

thanks for your reply, not sure however what is MaxiDot settings. I am new to Octavia, just got a 2nd one recently. It's Octavia I Ambiente. could you give a little more details please.

Googled a bit, seems to me the maxidot thingy is some kind of menu on the center display. I don'thave that though, it's 2002 Octavia, It only has the small display under the rpm gauge.

Yes VCDS can change it

good to "hear" that, any chance you know the steps how to do that?

It may be a bit of trial and error, but on newer cars (10 & 60 plate cars) with maxidot, when you change the cars country to (for example) Australia it defaults to litres/100KM - this can then be changed back in the maxidot (when you have it )

For the country change it's under 17-Instruments.

VCDS > Select > 17 - Instruments > Coding - 07

Now wait for the coding chart to pop up and change it to the country setting of your liking.

thanks guys, it worked!

well sort of the odometer now shows 'km' and value in kms, but the consumption display still says 'MPG miles' , but shows in l/100km. So perhaps a specific display is required too, but i am ok with what i got. thanks for you help