Getting more familiar with our new Yeti, and would like to ask if what the small number '1'  is on the maxidot display. 

It appears just under the time and gear info bar on the right of the display, directly under the gear info. 

Anyone know please? 

The maxidot stores two sets of data

1 for the current trip which continues until the engine has been off for two hours. Gives you trip time, consupmtion, distance etc

The other, probably 2, since last reset which is probably on mine multi thousands of miles and gives the av speed and consumption over that time. Useful to see the long term average consumtion which is over 50mpg on my Greenline, although there was some discussion on here years ago as to accuracy. Interestingly although the speedo is optimistic, the distance record is spot on so the average speed may be spot on?

 

To be honest i would have to look at the handbook to find how to switch between 1 and 2 as so long since I did this and it is not obvious.

 

2 would be useful to record a whole holiday over several days as it does not reset automatically, although it may only go to 9999 miles from memory then resets.

 

If you are looking at a second hand Yeti, this is perhaps an opportunity to assess the previous users driving speeds and habits from average speed and average consumption, as most sellers would not think to reset this.

Edited 30 March, 20179 yr by kenfowler3966

Simply press the rolling selector switch on the steering wheel and it clicks between the two.  My '2' data had never been reset from new until I changed the battery. :(

Thanks very much Ken. Appreciated. Still working out a few things on the maxidot. I have to go up to Inverness in a few days, so want to be able to understand the readings. It will be good to get a long trip as it will give us some proper consumption and data figures rather than just around town. 

Thanks Weasley. All info useful and helps us to understand the car. 

One thing we have found is that the older (online) manuals have far more information in them than the new ones that came with the car. 

The new owners manual that we got with the car is about 100 pages.... The online one is 200 and far more detailed. 

Bit like the Haynes manuals imho,  the old ones were far more explanatory. 

On 30/03/2017 at 16:54, kenfowler3966 said:

To be honest i would have to look at the handbook to find how to switch between 1 and 2 as so long since I did this and it is not obvious.

 

IIRC you just press the rolly thing under your thumb - the thing you use to select what the Maxidot displays. To reset the running total/average you press and hold while it's displaying option 2 (that resets all the running totals/averages in one go, not just the one that's on the display at the time).

Thanks. Helpful info . 

I leave mine on 1 and occasionally check 2, particularly on a long run.

However, bear in mind most of them read about 10% high.

Fred

On 30/03/2017 at 17:05, weasley said:

Simply press the rolling selector switch on the steering wheel and it clicks between the two.  My '2' data had never been reset from new until I changed the battery. :(

 

The "2" data resets at 100 hours driving.

19 minutes ago, Urrell said:

 

The "2" data resets at 100 hours driving.

 

"....or 9 999 kilometres driven....", says the Manual for my "new" 1.2 (see sig below).  Seems they expect the hours to be reached before the distance. 

 

( Yes, I'm actually RTFM.  There might be important differences from my previous 2.0TDI!) 

I've just got a Yeti 1.2 SE had it almost a week now and love it so far.  I had the same question about the second lot of date so do you press the wheel on the steering wheel down to click between the two or do you have to set it up in settings on the screen?

Regards

Graham

just click  small roller on rhs stalk!

5 minutes ago, Frenchtone said:

just click  small roller on rhs stalk!

Many thanks I will try it.

Graham

1 hour ago, Frenchtone said:

just click  small roller on rhs stalk!

I'm sure he means the right hand side of the steering wheel.