Having had my Yeti new since 2017, I, like many owners have found it quite amazing ( stupid actually) that the YETI  has no MFD setting to change the Maxidot display from MPH to KPH for occasional trips abroad. I don't think I've ever owned a car that doesn't have a dual mph/kph display before in over 50 cars....they call it progress......all sorts of legal waffle.

The only way seems to be to either find a friend with VCDS, and most of us just don't have that option, and it's stupid expensive to buy for one off jobs anyway, so it's a bit pointless.

 

So here, for those of you who may be thinking of a holiday in the EU, or anywhere else for that matter, where you need to obey KPH speed limits, is a FREE way to do it.

 

If you or a friend have an old mobile phone lying about ( and there are plenty of them) which has GPS and compass settings, just use it.

 

You DO NOT need a SIM card in it, so it won't, and can't use any roaming data,  Just charge it up, load the  DIGI HUD Speedo app onto it (free) pop the phone onto a car cradle or on the sunblind  (somewhere you can see it), and the job is done. It really is that simple.

No expense needed, and it does the job perfectly.

 

DO NOT be tempted to use your existing phone as messing with that whilst driving  can get you a big fat fine, and is dangerous. And before anyone says it.....I don't care if you disagree...Having had a car written off by one of these "phone warriors" who use phones at the wheel, and who swore blind he hadn't been on his phone whilst ploughing into us in a stationary queue of  traffic at 38mph damaging 6 cars in the process ! Fortunately other drivers had dashcam footage of him, and our own rear facing camera did too. NOT WORTH IT, 

 

 

Just load the app, Switch it on. You can select from pretty well any colour you want, have MPH or KPH and set overspeed warnings as you wish  and many other settings. Just tap the screen twice to access all the settings.

 

We do this every time we go across the channel. never had a problem with it.

 

What's not to like. Hope it helps a few of you.

 

 

 

BE SAFE and enjoy your nicely displayed KPH absolutely free.

Every Yeti has KPH on the Maxidot.
For those that have had it changed to MPH with VCDS or Carista etc there is a tick-box in the options to change it between MPH and KPH in seconds

Hi Urrell

 

Much as I respect your knowledge and the great help you are to everybody on the forums......and thank you, genuinely for that.

 

I'm afraid that I have to disagree with you on this one.

It may well be the case that all Yetis have KPH built in.

 

But I am talking here about my car. As delivered into the UK, and so, as far as I am aware, it's never been near any VCDS or Carista software. Never will be either.....barring problems. It is a 100% factory delivered car. Delivered into the UK.  UK speedo etc.

It is exactly as we picked it up from our dealership in March 2017. It's not been modified in any way at all.

 

So as a totally unadulterated YETI there is NO WAY on the Maxidot to change from MPH to KPH. I can assure you after 5plus years of ownership, that there IS NO SETTING on the maxidot to allow this. I know the maxidot by heart now. There IS no setting to do this.

My model a 2017 Yeti 1.2 Drive, was one of the last of the range, had pretty well every extra included, but you can NOT change from MPH to KPH . There IS no setting to enable the change on the maxidot. 

3 minutes ago, Yetianimal said:

Hi Urrell

 

Much as I respect your knowledge and the great help you are to everybody on the forums......and thank you, genuinely for that.

 

I'm afraid that I have to disagree with you on this one.

It may well be the case that all Yetis have KPH built in.

 

But I am talking here about my car. As delivered into the UK, and so, as far as I am aware, it's never been near any VCDS or Carista software. Never will be either.....barring problems. It is a 100% factory delivered car. Delivered into the UK.  UK speedo etc.

It is exactly as we picked it up from our dealership in March 2017. It's not been modified in any way at all.

 

So as a totally unadulterated YETI there is NO WAY on the Maxidot to change from MPH to KPH. I can assure you after 5plus years of ownership, that there IS NO SETTING on the maxidot to allow this. I know the maxidot by heart now. There IS no setting to do this.

My model a 2017 Yeti 1.2 Drive, was one of the last of the range, had pretty well every extra included, but you can NOT change from MPH to KPH . There IS no setting to enable the change on the maxidot. 

Very strange I too have one of the last made Yeti’s a 2017 1.2 SEL Drive and the maxi dot shows speed on KPH. Perhaps a quick trip to the dealer is needed because if it reads MPH it is not right.

Yep very starnge, because mine is the exact same model. 

 

There is NO speed display of any sort in the Maxidot display.  NONE. Only on the speedometer. There is the issue.

 

Unfortunately the super helpful Dealer we used has sold up (Silbury Skoda of Cramlingotn near Newcastle on Tyne) and was taken over by another outfit, who....

well let's just say we won't go near.

31 minutes ago, Yetianimal said:

 

There is NO speed display of any sort in the Maxidot display.  NONE. Only on the speedometer. There is the issue.

 

There has to be an alternative Kph speed reading as there are no Kph markings on the speedometer dial.

Should be under settings and something like "Alt. speed dis" if I remember correctly.

 

If it's not there, you car hasn't been correctly set up from factory or has been messed with (even if you're not aware it has been) 

1 hour ago, Yetianimal said:

Yep very starnge, because mine is the exact same model. 

 

There is NO speed display of any sort in the Maxidot display.  NONE. Only on the speedometer. There is the issue.

Then the only answer to that is a box has been unticked in the Maxidot menu as EVERY yeti has the ability to display KPH as posted by Kenny R as above.
PS: it is illegal to not be able to display KPH so is not just an option

Edited 5 April, 20224 yr by Urrell

Thanks guys, but again, I've just spent 30 minutes in my garage, going through every single setting under MFD, and there is nothing.

That BAR with the kph info is simply not there on mine.

 

Then I had a thought...I didn't want to do this, but I decided that I would, so I pressed the Factory Reset.......

 

NOW I have that bar, as shown.....So Thank You.  The Maxidot was originally set up by the dealership, so  maybe they didn't do something right...who knows.

 

But I'm still going to use my own OLD phone for this, because it is TOO SMALL to be of use,,, and I don't want to be gaping at that whilst running into the back of somebody.

 

HERE is MY display as on the DIGI HUD app. I think you'd agree, that it's far more informative, AND I can have it on the dash where it is very clearly visible. I can even set it as a HUD display in dark hours so that it projects onto the screen.

 

Thanks anyway...

10 minutes ago, Yetianimal said:

The Maxidot was originally set up by the dealership, so  maybe they didn't do something right...who knows.

It's set up in the factory so if a UK car it would have had it.

Thanks Urrell.   Well that's as maybe...

 

Not worth falling out over, but I can assure you that that part of the display on our car was not there, and never has been.

I've owned it from new, and we have never seen that area on the maxidot before today. We've covered almost 40,000 miles in it. We WOULD have seen it that time.

My wife also drives the car  when we are abroad, she has never seen it either. That area was blank before i did the reset.

So I don't know ?  

 

 

 

 

Hopefully you have it for keeps now. I don't how it could have gone missing as you say there is no option to change it during normal use, so it can't be done by mistake either. 

Glad you have got it sorted. 👍

Thanks Rick

 

I KNOW we haven't done anything to cause this, so thank you for your refreshing comment.

 

Unfortunately motor forums always seem to have members who will never believe what is actually the case....No matter how compelling the information given by the op,

So being judgemental about it is never helpful.

There's always a first time for everything.  As in this case. Learn from it. Don't knock it. It could happen to any of you. It doesn't matter how experienced you are, LEARN. Never stop learning. Don't get fixed ideas and ridicule peopole because of it.

 

We don't know how the information is loaded onto the car. Why would we? The factory manufactured the vehicle. We bought it. End of.

But clearly in this vehicles case, the programming of the maxidot didn't happen properly. Skoda made a mess of it. Not me, not my wife. We are not stupid people, and we know what WAS and WAS NOT on the Maxidot right from the day we bought it.

 

We were always reliably informed (as per countless posts on this, and other forums), that changing the MPH display to KPH was not possible without lining the pockets of "The ubiquitous Main Dealer" using VCDS or changing the country to Australia....

 

Thank you.

 

I won't comment again on this subject., I put the post up to HELP people, not to be ridiculed, 

Edited 6 April, 20224 yr by Yetianimal

32 minutes ago, Yetianimal said:

Don't get fixed ideas and ridicule peopole because of it.

I don't think anybody did that did they?

 

 

33 minutes ago, Yetianimal said:

We were always reliably informed (as per countless posts on this, and other forums), that changing the MPH display to KPH was not possible without lining the pockets of "The ubiquitous Main Dealer" using VCDS or changing the country to Australia....

That is the first time I've seen anybody wanting to change MPH to KPH.
PS: The main dealer will not or can not carry out that action.

1 hour ago, Yetianimal said:

I KNOW we haven't done anything to cause this

 

If I remember correctly, if you enable "digit speed" in MFD data, it might hide the "Alt. speed dis" option...

 

I haven't got a similar car to confirm this but it may explain why it was missing and then reappeared after the reset. You may have unintentionally caused it but of course the owners manual makes no mention of this...

 

Disabling the "digit speed" should restore the "Alt. speed option".

3 hours ago, Yetianimal said:

Thanks Rick

I KNOW we haven't done anything to cause this, so thank you for your refreshing comment.

Thank you.

Hi Yetianimal,

I've sent you a Private message.

 

Rick. 

4 hours ago, Yetianimal said:

Thanks Rick

 

I KNOW we haven't done anything to cause this, so thank you for your refreshing comment.

 

Unfortunately motor forums always seem to have members who will never believe what is actually the case....No matter how compelling the information given by the op,

 

I think the point others are trying to make is that your Yeti was obviously faulty when you took delivery of it;

Under the The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986, all new vehicles sold in the UK must be able to display speeds in both MPH and KPH. For some reason yours was not configured correctly.

Edited 6 April, 20224 yr by muddyjim

4 hours ago, muddyjim said:

I think the point others are trying to make is that your Yeti was obviously faulty when you took delivery of it;

If that is the case how would a "Factory Reset" clear a problem that is had when leaving the factory?

Ask the factory maybe? I'm a driver, not an electronics or software engineer. 

I also know that it wasn't possible to have it programmed by our original dealer (Silbury Skoda) up here in Newcastle upon Tyne, because he sold the business in 2019. 

But the next person who implies that I am a liar had better be ready to defend that allegation of libel in a courtroom. 

Be warned. Be seriously warned! THAT I am not taking from any member of Briskoda. 

 

This post is now CLOSED. 

 

 

 

 

11 minutes ago, Yetianimal said:

But the next person who implies that I am a liar had better be ready to defend that allegation of libel in a courtroom. 

Be warned. Be seriously warned! THAT I am not taking from any member of Briskoda

That's brilliant from someone coming on here wanting help to sort a problem
You are too thin skinned to see when others are trying to help.
I am trembling.

EDIT: Post here from above where anybody insinuates you are a liar.

Edited 6 April, 20224 yr by Urrell

1 hour ago, Urrell said:

If that is the case how would a "Factory Reset" clear a problem that is had when leaving the factory?

That is not what I said, I said "when he took delivery of it". IOW the supplying dealer must have changed a setting in the mfd.

8 minutes ago, muddyjim said:

the supplying dealer must have changed a setting in the mfd.

Well someone had.

A Skoda as do other manufacturers cars arrive at a Dealership Distribution centre with Factory Settings and In Transit settings.  Then the In Transit is reset at a PDI and a Skoda might well be changed from a Variable / Flexible service  setting to Fixed Servicing.   As much as you might expect the person doing this to know what they are doing sadly many know that is not always the case. 

I'm surprised at how upset the OP is getting when the forum members have helped him resolve a problem he has had for several years that the dealers said nothing could be done about.

 

I have not read anything suggesting he is a liar.

 

So putting that aside as indeed he should have done I am very pleased that he now has the legal compliant KPH display and I do agree with him that it is too small to be of any use in my case, I only have vision in one eye and glances at the dashboard have to be no more than momentary, a much bigger display which is possible for a MPH display (Australian settings) is what I require but nobody has yet solved that one for me, if anyone can I would be really gratefull and they can even call me a liar if they want!!!!

 

Someone said they had never heard of anyone wanting to change the digital MPH display to kms, I was one such person as was Frenchtone and there will be many others like us resident in EU countries and driving RHD vehicles.

 

I am hoping that the person who prints speedo dial faces in kms or miles to convert the clocks from the other units will one day put the kmh markings on the MPH speedo as Skoda should have done in the first place, all I need to know is am I above or below 50kph, 70kph, 80kph, 110kph and 130kph, in fairness the 50 and 80kph limits are where most of the speed cameras etc are and I know that is close enough to either 35 or 50 mph but the 70kph limits are a challenge.

On 05/04/2022 at 13:36, Yetianimal said:

Hi Urrell

 

Much as I respect your knowledge and the great help you are to everybody on the forums......and thank you, genuinely for that.

 

I'm afraid that I have to disagree with you on this one.

 

On 05/04/2022 at 16:26, Yetianimal said:

Thanks Urrell.   Well that's as maybe...

 

Not worth falling out over,

 

On 06/04/2022 at 12:47, Yetianimal said:

Unfortunately motor forums always seem to have members who will never believe what is actually the case....No matter how compelling the information given by the op,

So being judgemental about it is never helpful.

 Don't get fixed ideas and ridicule peopole because of it.

 

On 06/04/2022 at 12:47, Yetianimal said:

We are not stupid people,

 

On 06/04/2022 at 12:47, Yetianimal said:

I won't comment again on this subject., I put the post up to HELP people, not to be ridiculed, 

 

14 hours ago, Yetianimal said:

But the next person who implies that I am a liar had better be ready to defend that allegation of libel in a courtroom. 

Be warned. Be seriously warned! THAT I am not taking from any member of Briskoda. 

 

This post is now CLOSED. 

This make me think of the pair of characters played by Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse that wind themselves up into a frenzy 🤣