What's the difference between these two Kodiaq headunits?

 

Is one the Columbus and the other the Amundsen?

 

1)...

 

 

2)...

 

 

Yes - top is Columbus.

 

The bottom one isn't Amundsen though - it doesn't have MAP or TRAFFIC buttons. I would suggest it is the Bolero, which is the same as Amundsen but without nav.

I think they're both Colombus. The top one is the new updated version, and the bottom is the original version.

1 hour ago, Markymate said:

I think they're both Colombus

 

No, they're most definitely not. The bottom one is definitely the new style of screen and buttons, and it doesn't have NAV (not MAP, my mistake) and TRAFFIC buttons. This is the old style Columbus:

 

Looking at the manual pg127/128

 

1. Columbus

2. Bolero

 

Bolero looks very similar to Amundsen, but top right button is ‘Nav’ on Amundsen and ‘Setup’ on Bolero.

My mistake, should have looked more closely.  Just saw the screen with no buttons and thought it was the new Columbus system, which doesn't have buttons.

I'm going to miss the volume adjustment knob and physical buttons.

 

Looks like the latest Columbus is asking to be constantly covered in greasy finger prints 

In the test drive I found it quite tricky to reach all the way over to those volume buttons, and just used the ones on the steering wheel

Call me old fashioned - “You’re Old Fashioned” - but having seen and played with the new bigger screen today, I really feel that Skoda have fallen into the trap that others like Peugeot have fallen in to.

 

Forsaken function for fashion.

 

I love having knobs and/or easy to reach buttons to twiddle those functions that I twiddle with many times on every journey, especially for sound and comfort.

 

So moving to a flat screen that has to be fumbled with, risking serious distraction from driving, to even swap from one function to another instead of instantly poking the appropriate “button”, far less simply adjust minor things like volume, which my number one passenger does frequently, would be a real loss to me. Hence, I’m very unlikely to ever buy a button-less car in the future.

 

The old small screen with knobs on will do me just fine.

 

Long ago I was told that Volvo retained Nice Big Buttons for the heating controls that could be operated with gloves on 

I loved them.

 

2 hours ago, BoxerBoy said:

I love having knobs and/or easy to reach buttons to twiddle those functions that I twiddle with many times on every journey, especially for sound and comfort.

 

I thought that too - wasn't sure how I would get on with the new Columbus unit. However, after a couple of hours sat on the drive playing with it, I remembered that most of the time whilst driving, it's just sat there and I don't actually interact with it much anyway. And most of the functionality you need to use when you're actually driving can be done on the steering wheel anyway. Or by voice control, if you're brave .

5 hours ago, BoxerBoy said:

Long ago I was told that Volvo retained Nice Big Buttons for the heating controls that could be operated with gloves on 

I loved them.

 

For a while we were toying with the idea of a used Volvo XC90 instead of a brand new Kodiaq, this one to be precise...

 

65 plate on 80,000 miles for £28,000. The Kodiaq is good but the XC90 is one or two places higher up the league!

 

Anyhow, one thing that did put me off was that everything is controlled through menus on a touch screen, and I mean almost everything! At least the Kodiaq separates the heating controls.

 

That and the fact that Volvo rank much further down the reliability charts than I realised soon got us back onto a brand new Kodiaq!

 

I guess Volvo figured that with heated seats, nozzles, windscreen, mirrors and steering wheel, gloves are a thing of the past 

 

 

 

3 hours ago, WiggosSideburns said:

 

I thought that too - wasn't sure how I would get on with the new Columbus unit. However, after a couple of hours sat on the drive playing with it, I remembered that most of the time whilst driving, it's just sat there and I don't actually interact with it much anyway. And most of the functionality you need to use when you're actually driving can be done on the steering wheel anyway. Or by voice control, if you're brave .

 

Don't get me started on THAT! Spawn of the Devil.