Can anyone tell me how/if I can check the remaining adblue range. Car is MY19 SE L with Amundsen and virtual cockpit. Manual seems to say I have to wait for the low adblue  warning. 

Thanks

Just wait for the warning, otherwise you can just top it up.

Should be in driving data, just scroll through the trip until you find it. If it’s not there, go to the instrument tab in the vehicle menu and check to see if it’s ticked.

I am looking for the same indicator in the MaxiDot of my 2015 2.0TDI 110CV Yeti, but it isn't present neither scrolling the visible ones, nor in the tick list in settings menu...

Any hint?

@Ulisse

That is how it was with a 2015 Yeti.  Not how you might expect with 2019 Octavia.

OMG, sorry! I used the search bar in the Yeti section, didn't notice this post was about Octavia! 😜

I'll look better next time!

Its in Driving Data; it will show you the number of miles left b4 your next Ad-Blue top-up needed.

 

Thanks

 

 

Max

Caution from a (former) 1K+ miles per week driver:

Don't risk running out, when it hits No Engine Start in xMiles ... plan to go shopping!

I ran a 2016 Superb 4x4 with gentle use / mway driving it was consistently spot on with estimated adblue refill mileage, however, 6 months of inner city stop start traffic increased adblue consumption by around 25-30%, this went back to normal with a change of driving conditions / location.

Even poundland stock it now (£5 / 5ltrs) certainly pay no more than £1 a litre - when I started it was £3.50 a litre but wider adoption of the technology has delivered lower prices

Just got my new 2019 model year (came out of the factory April or May 2020, they tell me) Octavia combi Scout.

Although the owner's manual says that the remaining Adblue range should appear on the driving data page, I don't see it. It'd be a bit hard to swallow that this car, this year, would not have a display for it, only the "fill up in the near future" warning.

Anyone have, on a 2019 Octavia diesel, the actual remaining distance/amount of Adblue? Or can we only wait for the warning? (The warning comes way, way in advance, I know, so it's not really a problem, just I prefer to be able to see the information - get an idea of consumption, and I'm never happy about inaccurate manuals...).

cheers,

 

It should be there in Driving Data.  Find your Average MPG - then it is should be three/four UP on the scrolling wheel (right hand scroll). My Scout is an MY19 - and has the AdBlue remaining miles.

Thanks varaderoguy - I looked, and looked; I actually don't think my April 2020 (2019 model year) Octavia III combi Scout is missing this. Which makes no sense.

I also cannot find any way to reset the trip odometer. I found a couple of threads discussing it, but my car's user interface doesn't match any of them. And I don't see instructions on resetting the trip odometer in my car's user manual (which of course makes no sense). I'm beginning to wonder if my car has mismatched/ erroneous software/firmware loaded in it.

How do we see the infotainment system version information, and does anyone have the release notes/dates or "current" version information for same, please?

thanks.

 

@JayLiboveMaybe you can do a Zoom meeting with myself if you are free and I can talk you through the settings for reset the Odometer as well as finding where the Ad-Blue is configured. If it is missing, it can be enabled (assuming you have a Mk3 and not a Mk4 Octy). I will just need to check my 09 module to check. 

Edited 24 November, 20205 yr by varaderoguy

@JayLibove - if you don't end up on a zoom call, add some pictures so we can at least see what you're trying to do and from where

 

Hi everyone.

Ok, so I was being a bit blind, as to the trip odometer reset. I also think that the user interface leaves something to be desired. I found the "odometer reset" (which, upon selecting, more properly is described as the TRIP odometer reset) under "Instrument cluster settings", which to me doesn't make much sense because it's not really a "setting" (despite the command name being "reset"; to me, a "setting" about the "instrument cluster" would be a configuration change. Anyway, there it is).

As for Adblue remaining range, I'm still stymied. Here are some screenshots.

And, thanks again.

-Jay

 

Oh thats nice. A Scout with a Virtual Dashboard. I want one for my Scout!

 

However - you are looking for the AdBlue settings in the wrong place. It isn't on the centre consule or MIB2 interface - the settings are on the Virtual Dashboard.

 

Using the righthand button on the steering wheel marked with two squares inside each other, you will enter into the various system menus for the car. Select - Vehicle Information. Now using the scroll wheel - scroll around until you find the AdBlue information.

 

The offer of a Zoom meeting to assist is still on the cards if you want it.

20 hours ago, varaderoguy said:

Oh thats nice. A Scout with a Virtual Dashboard. I want one for my Scout!

 

However - you are looking for the AdBlue settings in the wrong place. It isn't on the centre consule or MIB2 interface - the settings are on the Virtual Dashboard.

 

Using the righthand button on the steering wheel marked with two squares inside each other, you will enter into the various system menus for the car. Select - Vehicle Information. Now using the scroll wheel - scroll around until you find the AdBlue information.

 

The offer of a Zoom meeting to assist is still on the cards if you want it.

Thanks @varaderoguy, you've been great. The Zoom won't be needed - with your last piece of advice, I finally found it.

Y'know, I studied user interface design back in the 1980s. Most user interfaces that I find today would not have passed professor Borenstein's muster...

The complexity of the controls on the steering wheel (as different from those on the infotainment console, despite that much of the data overlaps), and the (aforementioned only-partly overlapping) data displays, more than take getting used to; they're counter-intuitive, which in a moving vehicle is downright dangerous.

(Nothing as bad as Android Auto, of course, which is just plain unreliable, but...).

 

BTW, you mention a "MIB2" interface. Is that the infotainment system/ Bolero (in my case; we had so little choice of features to get a Scout here in Spain, that we didn't even have the option of thinking whether we'd want Columbus or Amundsen...)? What does "MIB2" stand for?

 

thanks again,

Jay

 

Well done Jay,

 

Glad you found all of the menus on the your Virtual Dashboard and I'm also glad you found the AdBlue remaining settings.  Flick through all of those menu options; you will find information about what the Radio, Phone and various other car status options.

 

So - to your question about MIB.  MIB stands for Modular Infortainment Platform.  This was generally start back on the MK2 Octavias, but the MK3's brought the MIB infortainment concept to the masses.  Generally, there are three or four types of MIB.  MIB or MIB1 - was on the original Infortainment system - generally found on VW Group cars between 2013 and 2017.  The newer generation (generally the buttonless radios) was called the MIB2 with the last of the MK3 FL Octavia's having a MIB2.5 system (generally - online connected devices).  The latest generation of Octavias have MIB3 systems.

 

I would say that if you are interested in doing light modifications to your Octavia, then your MK3 FL Scout is in a particularly fine place.

 

I have spent (too many) hours doing modifications to my Octavia via software.  The Scout is particularly interesting, because it is a high-spec car; however, the factory in Mlada have not enabled a load of functions, so if you are interested, features such as reading speed limit sighs, Lights Assist, Off-road status, tweaking Daylight running lights with indicators, enabling both fog lights etc etc etc can all be enabled for free. 

 

If you are interested in this, then I will introduce you to @SashaGraceis an evil genius with modifications on her Octavia.  If you want to upgrade your radio to either an Amunsden or Columbus, then you need to speak with @pab567 who will help with you the upgrade.  You may or may not have the appropriate GPS receiver on the roof of your car - this can be retrofitted and bar the coding of the car and modules, the radios are generally plug and play.

 

Well done and I hope you enjoy your Scout.  Please keep it and look after it well - they are a *super* rare car and whilst I think you can get MK4 Octavia Scouts, your MK3 Scout will keep its value for many years.

 

 

 

 

Again, greatly appreciated, @varaderoguy. I'm an old fogey in the sense that I've been around what we once called "computer mediated communications" since the early 1980s, and I love the ethos that I see here on Briskoda!

I've already ordered an OBDeleven (1st gen) device and a Pro license and have already found the Traffic Sign Recognition enablement information which will be my first tweak. If I manage that then the OBDeleven and Pro license will already have been a completely justified purchase. Next would be to hopefully reduce the aggressiveness of the Lane Assist (I also found some stuff about that, more on VW forums, remains to be seen if those tweaks are available on the Octavia MkIII Facelift).

As for our journey to getting our Scout, it's a nearly perfect car for what we wanted, and getting it here in Spain Was Not Easy. We actually thought we were going to have to go to another country to get it, but somewhat miraculously (we think it was a special order for a client elsewhere in Spain, who in the end chose to not buy it) literally just one new Scout came up .. as a 2019 model year closeout, so we got it, new, at an €11K savings. Hard to beat that...

We actually didn't like the MkIV Scout's less-buttons more-screen-taps user interface (and especially didn't like the idea of buying one in its first year (and even more especially for the €12K price premium it would have commanded over the super deal that we got (even assuming that Skoda would have eventually actually released it into the Spain market))). Our alternative, believe it or not, would have been a Seat Tarraco all-wheel-drive, but we found the Scout first. (Once in a while I'll miss those extra 3cm of ground clearance hehheh).

@SashaGrace (evil genius, love it!) I've seen many of your posts (some relating, I believe, to the Lane Assist issue), and I very likely will be in touch. I don't think I'll be looking at upgrading the infotainment system to Columbus or Amundsen - lots of money, and I think the only feature I'd want from it is the telematics/ over-the-air updates.

I won't be able to offer much back in the way of car hacks, but I've got decades of experience in Information Security and Data Protection, so if from time to time I can help in those areas...

warm regards,

-Jay

Spain