Hello

in regard to the face lifted Octavia's and the display that you look at

Does this display give a digital readout of the speed you are doing ?

Or will this readout only be displayed on cars with " maxidot "

It only gives that read out if you have maxidot and you have someone with VCDS who can change the car to an australian profile

jaysus, sounds like hardship

nothin is easy : )

if the capabaility is there, why the hell dont Skoda just enable it as default, as opposed to having to do VCDS stuff...............................I dunno !

Edited 4 April, 201214 yr by obi604

jaysus, sounds like hardship

nothin is easy : )

if the capabaility is there, why the hell dont Skoda just enable it as default, as opposed to having to do VCDS stuff...............................I dunno !

Er, not quite correct.

If you have maxidot the speed is always shown digitally as default BUT its in km/h. You don't need vcds to enable it.

If you would prefer to have the digi display in MPH then you need vcds to change the country code to Australia.

Clearer?

ROB

Yep, thats clearer now, thanks

ah, sorry, might be a country difference! Your speedos are in kmh and ours are in MPH. So to get a big MPH display it needs VCDS (over here anyway).

another q on this, does the non maxidot dislpay advice you what gear you should be in ?

Can't say for sure on the octy but my dad has a Fabia which has no maxidot and it has the gear change indication

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Can't say for sure on the octy but my dad has a Fabia which has no maxidot and it has the gear change indication

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Thanks Are these gear change indicators any good at all though ?

I presume it just tells you to change when you hit 3000 revs or something.......and not very intuitive ?

Yep, non maxidot on my Octy shows gear recommendation, not that I take any notice of it as it shows change up way early IMO !

BTW my non maxidot shows kmh in small numbers at the bottom. Cycling through the display (mpg, trip etc) it does seem a digital mph is in the menu, but just shows " - - - mph" !

Edited 6 April, 201214 yr by Mr Grump

On face lifted Octavias, is there an easy way to tell the difference visually between a car that has maxidot and one that hasn't ?