Hi all

Have any of you come across this before?

I have an 11 plate Superb Elegance tdi and a couple of days ago I lost the oil temperature from the MFD.

Does anyone have a solution for this?

 

Have you manually reset the service interval?

 

The oil temperature only normally shows on cars that are set to variable or long life servicing and is often lost when changing to fixed service intervals.

 

It can be displayed if your car is set to fixed servicing, however when setting to fixed it automatically defaults to off, it can however be turned back on manually.

 

This is where it gets a little patchy, some owners claim they can turn it on from within the MFD, others have said the option isn't there and it can only be done using the VCDS software and cable.

That makes sense as the service interval was reset, I'll speak to the garage about it.

Thanks for the reply.

Mine is set to fixed servicing and is reset every time. I can still see oil temp in the MFD without using VCDS

Fixed to fixed isn't the issue, its variable to fixed.

@brianski  Have you checked in Main Menu / Setup / MFD Data if it's checked to be displayed? 

Not for the Superb but the principle / layout is largely the same...

 

SETTINGS > MFD Data > Oil Temp

 

 

Edited 27 December, 20178 yr by silver1011

8 hours ago, brianski said:

Hi all

Have any of you come across this before?

I have an 11 plate Superb Elegance tdi and a couple of days ago I lost the oil temperature from the MFD.

Does anyone have a solution for this?

 

 

The oil temperature vanished on mine after I insisted on fixed service intervals (and a service) when I bought my Superb back in 2015

 

Would like to see it back again but I want to stick to fixed servicing, mine not available in MFD

 

Edited 27 December, 20178 yr by bigjohn

Thanks for the replys chaps.

The option is no longer in the MFD, I'm pretty sure now that it has something to do with when the service indicator was manuallly reset. The car was being serviced every 10k but I asked the garage to change that to a long life service. They forgot to do that at the last service and basically just reset the service indicator when the car said it needed another 10k service. I'm pretty certain I lost the oil temp display at that time, hopefully I'll be able to get it back in about 9k's time when it goes in for another service which shouldn't be that long given the mileage I do.

@bigjohn why do you need your car to tell you when to do a service?

 

I've bought my car at 3100 miles, done 1st service at 10k and doing service every 10k - air / fuel / oil filter, engine oil, every 20k pollen filter - and after problems with Haldex - I'll do Haldex oil change & filter cleaning every 20k.

 

Car is on variable but I don't care - just get it reset at each service - of course services are made by friendly independent garage - not indy and not Škoda.

 

Just select some round number easy to remember and stick to it

Edited 28 December, 20178 yr by jafo

11 hours ago, jafo said:

@bigjohn why do you need your car to tell you when to do a service?

 

 

 

Because I bought my car at 14months old and it was still in warranty so wanted to keep inside the terms and conditions (Claims are more difficult if you don't especially re goodwill). It hadn't had a service at that point but I wanted a service as part of the deal and fixed servicing thereafter - Like you I like regular oil changes especially when I've got an engine with the infamous cam chain. I do about 15-16k miles a year.

 

Edited 28 December, 20178 yr by bigjohn

On 27/12/2017 at 18:30, silver1011 said:

Fixed to fixed isn't the issue, its variable to fixed.

Sorry, I should have been a bit clearer. When i first bought the car about 4 years ago it was on variable servicing. I had the dealer change it to fixed servicing and as far as i am aware I have always been able to see oil temp. I certainly can see it now

I had this missing oil temperature on mfd problem since last week,it also had yellow warning saying oil level sensor fault at startup, I took it to a brilliant auto electrician within local garage and he found the culprit was 2 corroded wires within the loom,the loom and wires had chaffed against crossmember next to steering rack,the car is just over 2 years old and auto electrician said this should not happen to a car that age. It is used as a taxi so warranty is now up as 70k on clock.