Hi all

 

Just taken delivery of my new SE L Octavia - love it so far. It's the third Octy on the trot for me. But I have a silly question...

 

My last two Octavias had an easy to use trip counter, with a reset button on the dash. Has that gone on the Mk4? Could be that I just haven't found it yet...

 

Thanks

Read the manual!

I would assume not though, most of that sort of thing is in the trip computer and the last few new cars I’ve had didn’t have a physical reset button. My 97 Volvo does but that’s all mechanical!!

The Octy Mk 4 trip counter resets itself if a journey is halted. I'm not sure for how long, but I guess two hours. If you go into 'vehicle', 'data' you can then look at mileage and fuel consumption for the current journey, since refuel and long term. All can be reset in this menu.

As a backward step, it now only has the record of 'since start', 'long term' and 'since refuel'. The quick trip mileage option has gone. 

Thanks for the useful replies! 

My Honda actually had two trip counters!

 

If you are not concerned about the real "long term" there is an option somewhere in the Skoda settings to reset the long term counter.

It can then function as your trip counter.

Not ideal - but that is all they offer now.

Exactly. Long term to me suggests the course of a year - useful for seeing long term mpg etc, whereas a trip can be how far we drove on holiday, or similar.

Why they can't put another couple of 'long term' trip meters is beyond me - it's only software. Even my basic i10 has two independently settable mileage counters.

As I understand it, Long Term is about 3000 miles (probably a round number of Kms) and resets itself automatically after that distance. It is manually reset-able which I use for a weekend trip/holiday. The 'Since Start' is literally that excepting for short stops (up to 2 hours IIRC). Since Refuel is again literally that. Not sure if that can be reset or not (user manual implies that you can), but as I've only every used it for what it says on the tin. If, however, it is reset-able, then there is your second trip counter.

9 minutes ago, sneal said:

Since Refuel is again literally that. Not sure if that can be reset or not (user manual implies that you can), but as I've only every used it for what it says on the tin. If, however, it is reset-able, then there is your second trip counter.

That might be ok for short trips but my typical use for a trip counter is for a multi-day trip totalling say, 2000kms, during which I will fill up with petrol each night which would reset that counter. So I will be using the long-term counter for that purpose. Which is ok because long-term will definitely reset after 9999 kms (or miles in UK) so it is not like it was going to be useful for a real long-term set of stats.

 

Reading all these things are making driving harder.in a modern car you need a degree in electrical engineering to understand what to do and not what to do.a big thank you to you all that are advising us mere mortals how to get over these glitches.

5 hours ago, Joss1733 said:

Reading all these things are making driving harder.in a modern car you need a degree in electrical engineering to understand what to do and not what to do.a big thank you to you all that are advising us mere mortals how to get over these glitches.

It took me nine weeks to find out some key features and I'm certain there are more. The most irritating was to get a full DAB station display so the current song details could be read, but now it's so easy! Now that I've had the car for ten weeks, I'll re-read the handbook. Before purchase, it was difficult  to follow some of the instructions without the physical presence of the car and I'm hoping that I can fill in the gaps now, especially in setting up the home page. I'll also check whether some of the things I stumbled on are actually in the handbook.

6 minutes ago, Jim2015 said:

It took me nine weeks to find out some key features and I'm certain there are more. The most irritating was to get a full DAB station display so the current song details could be read, but now it's so easy! Now that I've had the car for ten weeks, I'll re-read the handbook. Before purchase, it was difficult  to follow some of the instructions without the physical presence of the car and I'm hoping that I can fill in the gaps now, especially in setting up the home page. I'll also check whether some of the things I stumbled on are actually in the handbook.

I know it's off topic but how did you do that with the Dab station lol?

If you display favourites on the radio screen all the selected icons appear. Tap on your choice, then centre left on the screen is a small vertical white bar. Tap it and the full screen will appear. Let me know if this works for you. Perhaps there should be a thread entitled 'things I've discovered on the Octy Mk 4 infotainment screen'!

When I get any new car I always spend a couple of hours sat in the car with the handbook going through everything. Even when I had a basic Astra a few years ago I found a few features which I never would have discovered on my own. 
I would imagine there’s a LOT to go through with an Octavia PHEV so might save myself for a whole day with my wife to go through everything!

17 hours ago, Jim2015 said:

If you display favourites on the radio screen all the selected icons appear. Tap on your choice, then centre left on the screen is a small vertical white bar. Tap it and the full screen will appear. Let me know if this works for you. Perhaps there should be a thread entitled 'things I've discovered on the Octy Mk 4 infotainment screen'!

It did work lol!