Hi everyone, just took delivery of my new Kodiaq Sportline in Australia. So far loving it and have a couple of questions:

1. I set the infotainment screen to auto shut off after 10 minutes and show the clock. But this option is not persistent. So I have to select it again every time I start the car. Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?
2. In the virtual pilot, the standard mode with the tach on the left and speedometer on the right, how can I stop the sat nav from showing in the middle part? Is there a way to put other information in the middle part?

 

Thank you.

1. No idea how to fix that 

 

2. Press the back button on the right side of the steering wheel. Might be useful to read the owners manual?

1. My Kodiaq is 2 years old so things might have changed since then. Due to lockdown and lack of car use, I didn't want my infotainment screen firing up every time I turned on the ignition, so I have it set to just show the clock. Once set, that's how it remains. 

Not sure how I did it now, but I think i just pressed the off icon on the infotainment screen (not for too long because that will cause a reboot) and the clock then becomes the default screen when you fire up the car.

Try it.

Olderman1, I can confirm my MY20 Columbus unit does exactly what you describe, in case that helps

5 hours ago, kamb1ng said:

1: I set the infotainment screen to auto shut off after 10 minutes and show the clock. But this option is not persistent. So I have to select it again every time I start the car. Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?

 

4 hours ago, olderman1 said:

Due to lockdown and lack of car use, I didn't want my infotainment screen firing up every time I turned on the ignition...

 

Not sure that's quite what the OP is asking here or if it's me who's misunderstood.

 

Autoshut off is when the infotainment turns itself off when the engine isn't running or the key is out of the ignition.   Can't remember off hand what the default is but it isn't that long. I switch on the radio when washing the car. If i forgot about it being on, the infotainment would run the battery down to zero.   Auto shut is used to prevent that from happening, the infotainment will power itself off after a set time.

 

kamb1ng - Apologies for answering a question with a question but what are you trying to achieve?  Are you saying that when the engine is running, you want the infotainment screen to change to clock display after 10mins?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited 3 July, 20205 yr by Guest

9 hours ago, Scot5 said:

kamb1ng - Apologies for answering a question with a question but what are you trying to achieve?  Are you saying that when the engine is running, you want the infotainment screen to change to clock display after 10mins?

 

Hi Scot5, yes I want the infotainment screen to change to clock display after 10 minutes of no activity during a drive. I know this works because I can set this up while the engine is running and it will behave this way throughout the drive.

 

This is the set up:

 

And this is what I see while I'm driving:

 

The problem is, after I get to a destination and turn off the car, and when I get back into the car to start a new drive, the option becomes unticked. So it's not persistent. I have to go back into the menu to tick the option again every time I start a new drive. I hope that makes sense?

 

 

 

Yes, cross purposes here, I thought the OP just wanted a clock showing all the time as I've done with mine.

Don't know if what you're asking is possible and if ZDM doesn't know, then maybe it isn't.

I find it really strange how some features in the infotainment system stay as you programme them and others revert to default when the ignition is switched off.

On 03/07/2020 at 19:53, kamb1ng said:

In the virtual pilot, the standard mode with the tach on the left and speedometer on the right, how can I stop the sat nav from showing in the middle part? Is there a way to put other information in the middle part?

Use the scroll wheel on the right hand side of the steering wheel. Spin the scroll wheel up and down to select different information. You can have things like Navigation (as you've already noted), Trip computer, fuel consumption, lap timer and a few other items. You can either select the item by scrolling to it and then waiting a few seconds or you can push the scroll wheel in as a button and it will select the item you want. Then you can use the scroll wheel as a button again to scroll through different sub menus.  As an example You can select trip computer spinning the wheel. Then you can select between Long term, since refuelling or since start options pushing thew scroll wheel as a button. I hope this makes sense.

 

Like you I've just bought a Kodiaq only a few weeks back and I'm still learning all about it too. I love it though.

The Virtual Cockpit certainly takes a bit of getting used to.

 

There are an amazing number of permutations for the display.

 

With DCC giving 5 driving modes, VC allowing Auto plus multiple Style options, it takes forever to reach an optimum option.

 

Yesterday was only my second long drive (100+ miles) since delivery in March and it took a while to remember how to change the screen display - as mentioned above.

 

I just keep pressing Mode button and View button on wheel to see the options.

 

ps - my 2 favourites are Sport view with concentric RPM and speed or blackout minimum.

On 14/07/2020 at 23:38, EsPeGe said:

Use the scroll wheel on the right hand side of the steering wheel. Spin the scroll wheel up and down to select different information. You can have things like Navigation (as you've already noted), Trip computer, fuel consumption, lap timer and a few other items. You can either select the item by scrolling to it and then waiting a few seconds or you can push the scroll wheel in as a button and it will select the item you want. Then you can use the scroll wheel as a button again to scroll through different sub menus.  As an example You can select trip computer spinning the wheel. Then you can select between Long term, since refuelling or since start options pushing thew scroll wheel as a button. I hope this makes sense.

 

Like you I've just bought a Kodiaq only a few weeks back and I'm still learning all about it too. I love it though.

 

EsPeGe thank you!

 

The only missing step was that I had to first press the back button on the steering wheel to pop up the menus of what to show on the middle part. After that it was very easy to scroll up and down to choose.

 

Thanks again.