Hi.......Just re-checking if there is someone local to Stafford who could change my Yeti readout to mph.

Many thanks.

PS Many thanks also for those earlier replies from VCDSers from farther afield

No can do unless you travel to Australia.

Suggestion? Accept it and put up with it and tolerate it and leave it alone. Yes?

Post in the VCDS section or contact somebody from that list.

I like in Wednesfield if thats any good for you?!

Thanks guys.....will sort this shortly....amazing how this massive improvement is not more widely known about......

I would leave well alone, very very useful and essential if you travel to the continent as I have just done.

I would leave well alone, very very useful and essential if you travel to the continent as I have just done.

it enables a tick box in the maxidot to change back to kmh. A win win if you ask me.

No can do unless you travel to Australia.

Suggestion? Accept it and put up with it and tolerate it and leave it alone. Yes?

Wrong

I would leave well alone, very very useful and essential if you travel to the continent as I have just done.

Why would you want to 'leave well alone' when it takes a few seconds to re-enable through maxidot? (no longer than it takes to activate 'tourist' setting on xenon headlights)

Get someone with VCDS who knows what can be done and what they are doing and don't listen to those who either say it can't be done, is illegal to do etc, as they clearly have no idea on the matter.

Just had this enabled on the Yeti, and it's the best "thing" yet.

I've no idea why the speedo is not in 30/50/70 graduations to fit in with national speed limits, and life driving the car is so much more pleasant now you can see your speed when being followed by plod and trying to observe the road ahead.

Also this week I drove the car at one of LR test hills sites, used for RR Sport and Evoque software testing, and the car just walked up and down with no dramas at all - very impressive, even to the LR guys.

The only slightly annoying "thing" was the collection of gravel stored on the underbody protection trays - removed by hosing the debris out parked on a hill. Still, it did get of a workout to see how it went.

Strewth!!

Who rattled your cage, Gizmo?

No one is this thread has said it is "illegal" to alter the VCDS settings so that you can get both the KPH and MPH settings. A couple of members have said they can't see the point in doing so, that is all!

I find it amazing that the greatest number of queries over this "setting" are found in this Yeti forum, yet the same unit is found in many other VAG cars, and they hardly ever bother about it. If you don't like it then you have two options:

1/ get your car changed to Australian spec by VCDS and accept that there may, repeat may, be some future effect that no-one yet has found.

2/ get used to it, and use it as reminder that the UK hasn't quite caught up with the rest of Europe yet.

;-}

Strewth!!

Who rattled your cage, Gizmo?

No one, I just get fed up of the misinformation given out (mainly) on this subject, if you don't know what you are talking about then STFU and let the thread progress with the FACTS.

Opinions are great, the following is not an opinion mind:

No can do unless you travel to Australia.

I am still amazed at 2+ years on the same subject still gets call either illegal (granted not yet in this thread) or can't be done, all it takes is a bit of research and you will see it can be done and is legal.

BTW if you really do not like it or don't see the point then it can be quickly and easily deactivated in the maxidot, so there is nothing lost

I personally do not use CH/LH lights as it is pointless where I park, both however are activated in the controller, but the boxes are un ticked in maxidot, as there may be a time where I park somewhere away from home where they would be useful..

If the car is capable of doing it then personally I would like it activating from the factory or VCDS and then let ME choose what I would like to use.

I believe the reason these things are not activated as std is to both a/ enable the dealer to charge for 'options' (read software code changes) and b/ to differentiate between the brands (Audi for example come with this as std).

No one, I just get fed up of the misinformation given out (mainly) on this subject, if you don't know what you are talking about then STFU and let the thread progress with the FACTS.

At no time have I said altering the settingss are illegal, and I do know the facts, thank you, so no I will not STFU, as you so rudely put it. I suggest you read the last part of my posting again:

If you don't like it then you have two options:

1/ get your car changed to Australian spec by VCDS and accept that there may, repeat may, be some future effect that no-one yet has found.

2/ get used to it, and use it as reminder that the UK hasn't quite caught up with the rest of Europe yet.

Additionally, as the work system won't allow me to edit.

The UK Construction and Use Regs in conjuction with the equivalent EU regs specify that a vehicle has to have a speed reading that shows both KPH and MPH readings. In general this is done by additional markings on the speedometer, but VAG ordered some units with these. Therefore in the UK it was decided that to satisfy the Regulations the Maxidot system would be used to display the KPH element.

If the Maxidot system is altered to display both KPH and MPH readings then how that fits into the EU and UK Regs is debateable, but it would be up to a Court to decide.

I make no comment on the legality or otherwise.

I think you have got completely the wrong end of the stick of what I was trying to get across, If you read what I said:

I just get fed up of the misinformation given out (mainly) on this subject, if you don't know what you are talking about then STFU and let the thread progress with the FACTS.

It is (probably just to me?) plain to see that I was referring to the comments made before you appeared on the thread.

Most of these threads tend to go off on the tangent of

a/ can't be done

b/ illegal to do

Opinions are fine, what suits one will not suit another, I have no issue with that, when I code cars I always point out what can be coded and what it will do, it is up to the owner if they decide for it to be coded or not, I do not push them one way or another - just give them my opinion.

Anyone who is misinforming others that things are either illegal or cannot be done at all is a different matter, if they don't know the facts or are just guessing then IMO this is when the 'STFU' would apply.

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For the legality I hope this clears thing up:

Speedometers

35.—(1) Save as provided in paragraphs (2) and (3), every motor vehicle shall be fitted with a speedometer which, if the vehicle is first used on or after 1st April 1984, shall be capable of indicating speed in both miles per hour and kilometres per hour, either simultaneously or, by the operation of a switch, separately.

(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply to—

(a)a vehicle having a maximum speed not exceeding 25 mph;

(b)a vehicle which it is at all times unlawful to drive at more than 25 mph;

©an agricultural motor vehicle which is not driven at more than 20 mph;

(d)a motor cycle first used before 1st April 1984 the engine of which has a cylinder capacity not exceeding 100 cc;

(e)an invalid carriage first used before 1st April 1984;

(f)a works truck first used before 1st April 1984;

(g)a vehicle first used before 1st October 1937; or

(h)a vehicle equipped with recording equipment marked with a marking designated as an approval mark by regulation 5 of the Approval Marks Regulations and shown at item 3 in Schedule 4 to those Regulations (whether or not the vehicle is required to be equipped with that equipment) and which, as regards the visual indications given by that equipment of the speed of the vehicle, complies with the requirements relating to the said indications and installations specified in the Community Recording Equipment Regulation.

(3) Instead of complying with paragraph (1) a vehicle may comply with Community Directive 75/443 or with ECE Regulation 39.

Seems like Gizzers has used his thingummybob to give himself a sense-of-humour by-pass as well.

As if anyone would seriously have to take their Yeti to Australia to gat this done... Doh!

Gizmo,

the way you posted with my quote directly above appeared to imply that it was me that should "STFU".

I agree with your copy from the Regs, as I have said above, but I am sure I saw a short EU Reg that amplified it slightly.

Overall we actually seem to agree with each other.

(Smiley face)

I believe the law states that the car must have the ability to display both MPH and KPH readings, but don't have to do that at the same time. For instance, our Land Rover Discovery in work has a conventional speedo with MPH on it, but it also displays MPH on the computer screen. You can change it show KPH though.

Out of interest, does the Australia setting allow you to change between MPH and KPH on the display, or does it just show MPH? Does it affect anything else in the menu?

You get the large MPH display OR the small OE KPH display.

When you turn off the "Alt. Speed. Disp" (KPH) setting you get the outside temp display showing.

Sorry I'm confused , if I change it to the Australia setting, can I switch between MPH and KPH on the display, or will it only show MPH, in the same way the UK setting only shows KPH?

Does the rest of the menus on the computer stay the same, or do some of those change as well?

Take a look here: Had some VCDS changes done this morning!

This is what you end up with:

You 'loose' the small KPH display that you currently have, this is replaced with the temp display, you can then regain the KPH display (and 'loose' the temp display and large MPH display) at any time from the maxidot menu.

It will only show KPH (small) or MPH (large) in the maxidot - you cannot have both together.

everything else stays the same as it is now.

Ahh okay, thanks for the info

I didn't even notice my KPH indication was small lol, I'll have to have a look through my menus and see.