OCTAVIA III Owners discussion thread

[LunchboxVRS]

Jondalar,
I've already schooled the other half on how to tell the RS162 and RS230 apart lol

If your going to compare the two it's RS220 vs RS230 or 162 tsi vs 169 tsi
Makes it sound like it's 230kw vs 162kw

[HPRS230]

Just notiiced the RS230 is on the website

SKODA Octavia RS 230 - Å*KODA

Starts at 44.6K on road.

That approx 3.5K more than the regular RS but throws in 19 inch black pack, full leather, LSD, few other bits and pieces.
Comfort pack not available... heated seats separate option.

From what I understand is Comfort pack is standard and from UK/NZ specs, the fronts are heated (Standard with Leather), and the option is for Rear seats to be heated.

so its $500 for rear heated seats, but they will never tell you that....

Lunchbox, I agree, my bad, does sound cooler tho RS230 rather than RS169TSI...

[Jondalar]

I agree RS230 is cooler sounding but it's inconsistent as all the normal engines are named by the kW output, 110TSI, 110TDI etc.

Lunchbox, I agree, my bad, does sound cooler tho RS230 rather than RS169TSI...

[Spinifex]

After restarting Bluetooh, the car, the app and eventually the phone it seems to be working now! I enabled traffic alerts via Unit 5F -> Adaptations. I did a full reset of the media unit (holding down power until it goes off and on again), then pressed the Traffic button. Within maybe 10 seconds the reports started flowing in. I looked at the settings for Radio and it all looks the same (i.e. no obvious way to turn it off).

I have not yet been able to do this as I couldn't find a thread on any enthusiast forums how to enable live traffic!

I know I've read it somewhere - but now that my dongle has arrived and I have my car back, do you think I can find the thread now?

Could you link me to wherever the instructions are for enabling live traffic please mate - as this is one of the primary reasons I wanted the OBD11 in the first place.
Or maybe just post in here the steps required in OBD app - as the app is different to VCDS I don't want to mess things up.

[Jondalar]

Spinifex this is where I got most of the adaptations I used: Octavia III VCDS Adaptations - tried and tested - Diagnostics & VCDS - BRISKODA There may also be another thread on Briskoda as well.

Cheers,
Karl

I have not yet been able to do this as I couldn't find a thread on any enthusiast forums how to enable live traffic!

I know I've read it somewhere - but now that my dongle has arrived and I have my car back, do you think I can find the thread now?

Could you link me to wherever the instructions are for enabling live traffic please mate - as this is one of the primary reasons I wanted the OBD11 in the first place.
Or maybe just post in here the steps required in OBD app - as the app is different to VCDS I don't want to mess things up.

[Spinifex]

Spinifex this is where I got most of the adaptations I used: Octavia III VCDS Adaptations - tried and tested - Diagnostics & VCDS - BRISKODA There may also be another thread on Briskoda as well.
Cheers,
Karl

Yep thanks Karl - that's where I've been looking as well.

I'll have a better play around with it tomorrow, after some decent sleep and in proper light !!!

[pjam73]

When enabling the traffic notifications, the number you need to enter for Australia is 1024, as mentioned in this post:

Traffic Info Activation

Also, a lot of instructions refer to RDS and TP settings, presumably in the radio settings. I only have 'Radio text' (or maybe 'Radio data') both before and after the change. That setting was on when I got the car and I've not touched it since.

[pjam73]

The auto tail gate Hawk (Aaron) and I had no luck getting to work earlier in the year in my Jan MY16 build car but he had issues with his software so will organised a time to try again.

I have enabled tailgate close with both buttons, using the regular instructions and OBDEleven. This is on an April build car. I made sure I entered the access code 12345 as soon as I went into the controller. Only then did I go into Adaptations.

[Spinifex]

I can confirm my 2016 build (March I think) works with the tailgate close on button and keyfob.
Managed to code this today using OBDeleven dongle.
I also got my live traffic enabled, but I can't get the comfort indicators to flash 5 times. I've set it in the OBD11 app, from 3 to 5, but when using indicators it only flashes 3 times. Cannot find any settings in infotainment where I can select the number of flashes.

And cannot not work out how to "set bit0-2 to 03" to enable high beam assist when long coding, as is instructed in the excellent Briskoda forums linked earlier.
I can select byte 02 as instructed, and bit 1 is enabled. Bits 0 and 2 are unticked. What exactly do I tick/select here, to set bit0-2 to 03?
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[pologti18t]

so its $500 for rear heated seats, but they will never tell you that....

Website says "heated front and rear seats - $500" - Why would they even bother with a heated rear seat only option.?