New car, new questions!

 

Sorry if this has been asked before. I have Columbus unit in the car. Now on my Yeti I could input postcodes into the satnav. Try as I might I cannot see how to do this with the Karoq. Have tried voice command and keyboard and have read manual.  Any ideas or has this facility been removed?

 

 

Andy

@AndyC - my first Yeti (2009) had to have an upgrade to get past the dreaded 4-out-of-6 digit problem. My 2012 one worked fine. My new Karoq, nope back to 4. And it's not a very intuitive interface is it!

 

All I've found so far is using the Skoda Connect App where you put in a full postcode, send it to the car, save it as a name then search for that name. It's not quite as tedious as it sounds but...

 

The sales-fella where I bought it tells me there's a video he can send me, so we'll see what that says. But I spent quite a while with it before giving up and going with carplay. Annoying tho as built in satnav is really nice esp on the virtual dash.

 

If I get any further I'll report back!

Thanks for the reply. If you do get the video, please it.

 

I have been playing with the Satnav. Haven't tried Connect yet, but I found that if you input a postcode in the 'new destination ' line, I think it converts it to what looks like coordinates for latitude and longditude and plots the route, but dosen't store the postcode.There must be an easier way.

 

I don't have the VC but the map display is miles better than my 2010 Yeti.

 

Andy

This seems to be a software fault in the new MIB3 satnavs. There's a discussion about it in the Kamiq forum at 

 

Yes thats exactly what I'm getting.

 

Andy

And I've also seen a thread on a VW forum from someone with a VW Arteon with the same problem. There it was suggested that the satnav only recognised a postcode once it had been near it! As the MIB3 satnavs download updates over the air when needed, I wonder if that means once you get near the destination it updates its local maps, and then has full postcode data for that area? And if you leave it long enough, will it update the whole of the UK maps to solve the problem? 

 

Thread at https://www.volkswagenforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=37021&p=129803#post129803

 

Dealers seem at a loss to solve the problem, but hopefully the November map update will help (assuming all the VAG software engineers haven't been diverted to working on the iD3/iD4/Enyaq!

Edited 7 October, 20205 yr by CJJE
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The first thread pointed at ^^ "solved" the problem. In that I can enter a full postcode and it'll direct me to the middle of it but

 

- it converts it to a grid

- you can't find it afterwards and even if you could, good look remembering the grid ref

 

It's not too bad using the extended UI to enter city/street/number but it's a bit rubbish really.

 

 Coming from a lowly pauper spec SE I have no inbuilt satnag apart from Google Maps (which does me very nicely indeed), have I got this right.  There is a satnav in this day and age that doesn’t let you put in the full seven letter/digit UK postcode?  If so, how very early naughties!

To enter a postcode on the Columbus. Tap the new desination button, if your unit is not set for "enter address step by step" press the button with the flag and cog on the top right of the screen and set it. You should find that you will have a postcode button on the bottom left of the screen. Your unit should stay in the above mode until you manually change it.

I dont actually know unit what is in my Karoq edition, MY20, but I just enter the postcode into the search bar, with or without a space and a few seconds later it offers me a destination to choose. Much simpler than previous Yeti where it had a postcode button if you found the right screen and you had to cycle keyboard between letters and numbers to put it in. The Karoq has all the letters and numbers on the one keypad display on the screen.