There was recently a now locked thread that claimed the following;

He changed my car into Australian mode. G,day ,shrimps, Barby and all that

I now have the large MPH digital display on the maxi dot screen, the windows go up and down with the remote, both front and rear wipers have the tear drop wipe, if I jump on the brakes the hazard lights come on and the brake lights flash

Unable to activate the rear lights on with the DRL's. or the coming/leaving home lights

I just want to point out that this is NOT an Australian setting and blinking brake lights and auto on hazards when braking would make your vehicle unroadworthy in Australia meaning that you could potentially be fined and at a worst case have your vehicle taken of the road until it was made legal.

We do get the optional MPH but that is nothing to do with Australian law and is in fact an EU requirement where vehicles sold in the EU must have the ability to display the "other" speed reading for when mainland European vehicles travel to the UK or vice versa. All new vehicles in Australia have had kph speedos since 1976 and most have no ability to display MPH in any form. I have been told that all RHD Skodas are built with this feature enabled just like they also have the ability to reverse the angle of the headlights for use on LHD roads. Again a feature we get that is useless to us.

I think the blinking brake lights and auto hazards are just a programmable feature of an extreme braking mode!

P.S. Any chance of you taking Auric off our hands......please. ;-)

@ K1W1

You make a very valid point about my car and it been set to Australian settings. This was done by a member on here and I was present when it was done. It definatley was Australian.

I think we need someone else with a lot more knowledge to explain in detail to why it's an Australian setting

Andy

Nobody is confusing Australia with Austria are they. ;-)

Those brake settings may well be available within the programing of Australian vehicles but as I said in the first post anybody who implemented them in Australia would effectively make their car unroadworthy and risk at the least being fined.

I have never read about these settings on the Australian Skoda forum.

I think those brake settings are actually available with most country settings.

You still need to select them as they're not implicit though.

Buy a quality car Auric and it amazing! You actually have a digital MPH readout right infront of your eyes without having to plug it into a computer and tell it your now a Ex-patriot seeking the greener grass in Oz! Simples!

Buy a quality car Auric and it amazing! You actually have a digital MPH readout right infront of your eyes without having to plug it into a computer and tell it your now a Ex-patriot seeking the greener grass in Oz! Simples!

Like a Peugeot lol

Like a Peugeot lol

At least it shows the correct setting for the country i bought it in!!

At least it shows the correct setting for the country i bought it in!!

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