I recall reading some years ago in "Diesel Car" that, on VAG cars with climatronic control, a cunning sequence of button presses would bring up all sorts of information from the car's electronics on engine parameters etc.

Only:

- I can't remember the button sequence to perform the magic trick.

- I can't recall just what information you could access.

Can anyone do rather better with their recollections? I just want to try it out....

Could allways try a search, im sure its been covered.

It has

Good grief, the search function actually works! coming as I do from the Smart Club's EZBoard (where it doesn't) I had forgotten how to use it.

So the button combination is:

To get to the Climatronic Diagnostic Display press the following Climatronic buttons together:

Fan speed down + Cold (blue) + ECON

Repeatedly pressing the Red and Blue buttons will cycle the display through the channels available

Press ECON to return the display to normal

And the relevant thread explains the resulting control codes in as much detail as the collective Briskodian translation capability will permit.

Something to fool about with tomorrow...

You could always 'buy' the secret off Ebay!!!

:nono:

Not all cars are the same, JohnMorr - please don't patronise the shysters who "sell" freely available information on eBay.... :grumpy:

Wouldn't dream of it - that's what club membership is for. But, according to the vendor, over 700 marks have shelled out GBP1.99 each for the codes and are 100 per cent satisfied. That's a pretty good return for a costless email passing on information in the public domain!

It'll be interesting to see of the climatronic speed indication is indeed accurate (it'll be hard enough to read it) when compared to my Road Angel or TomTom GO GPS systems. They show that the Octavia speedometer reads consistently 5 mph fast at all speeds from 40 mph upwards. This must surely be a deliberate bit of programming by Skoda, since a percentage error would increase with speed.

My experience in my old Octavia was that the speedo read high by a percentage, and the clima display read low, i.e. the GPS was somewhere in between.

They are allowed to read up to 10% fast, but they are NOT allowed to read under. I do seem to recall the man from Skoda coming down some years ago with his lap top to re-calibrate a number of Octavias customers speedos that were identified by the factory as been incorrect.