[wingco]

Hi All,

I've just got my new 1.6 TDI CR Elegance DSG & would like to know if I can increase the volume on my rear parking sensors. If this is possible, please can someone talk me through how to set it. The owner's manual says "you can adjust the tones" but gives no clues on how to do it. I'm worried I'll dig a big hole for myself & mess something up to be quite truthful. A simple "Janet & John" description of how to do it would be greatly appreciated, especially how to back out of it when finished. BTW I have the standard (non multifunction) steering wheel.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Regards,

Wingco

[gadgetman]

It'll be in the menus on the radio. Your manual should tell you how.

[mikeholroyd]

Its done in VCDS. Controller 76, then go into adaptation. It's in there on one of the channels.. Won't have chance of looking for a couple of days, but will post up exactly where it is in the next couple of days

Mike

[splat]

Parking sensor volume adjustment is in the MaxiDot menus.
However, turning the radio volume down when you go into reverse is in the radio menus.
Took me a while to find it, but I guess its logical!

[wingco]

splat, on 03 September 2010 - 08:04, said:

Parking sensor volume adjustment is in the MaxiDot menus.
However, turning the radio volume down when you go into reverse is in the radio menus.
Took me a while to find it, but I guess its logical!

Thanks for your help.....I must be thicker than anyone else on this forum because after half an hour in the car with both Bolero user guide & Octavia owner's manual I'm damned if I got anywhere. There was nothing obvious in the options having pressed "setup" on the Bolero & even less in its user guide. As for the MFI all I can get it to do is cycle through it's driving data info. My owner's book (which has "anglicky 05.10" on back cover - page 23) says: "you can activate the MAIN MENU by pressing the rocker switch (A) for more than 1 second." Well, if that works for all you other guys I'm pleased for you, but it doesn't seem to work for me.

I think I'll have to pop over to the dealer (Station Garage - Ewhurst, Sussex) & ask them to show me. I'm left wondering just how many ways there are to press a switch for more than one second. I know that it's my stupidity somewhere, & I'm sure someone here or at the dealer (perhaps more diplomatically) will tell me where!

I'm off to see if I can still open a bottle (or two) of Guinness.

Cheers for now.....

[jrw]

If you have the rocker and not steering wheel controls just press the top or bottom of the rocker in for a while until the menu appears. Then scroll to setup and in there there will be assistant i think and in there you can change the tone and volume of the pdc.

[wingco]

jrw, on 05 September 2010 - 18:12, said:

If you have the rocker and not steering wheel controls just press the top or bottom of the rocker in for a while until the menu appears. Then scroll to setup and in there there will be assistant i think and in there you can change the tone and volume of the pdc.

Thanks to all respondees, I can now wrap this up as I found out this morning at the dealer about the differences with the computers fitted. It didn't really register with me about the maxi dot type which is standard fit on L&K models & an optional extra on my Elegance. I recall seeing it in the spec in the brochure, but didn't realise what it was & how it differs from the standard MFD. Yes you all shout - "I should have looked in the forum & found out about before I ordered the car!" Anyway, the dealer has set the volume to it's max via their computer.

As for how to mute the radio when reverse is engaged is definitely not mentioned in the Bolero user guide. What hopefully may be of help is exactly how to do it, forget about the "setup" button on the radio - that's too obvious as the first place you would look, instead:

1/ Press the top left button with the semiquaver icon.
2/ Select "Volume"
3/ Select "Parking Distance Control. Entertain. vol. reduction"
4/ Select "Parking Distance Control"

Options to select are: "off" - (no mute) - through low, medium & high (high totally mutes the radio). Now I know....but why don't Skoda put this in their damned Bolero book?

[gregoir]

This was in my Bolero manual but I do not have Maxidot so it is all done on the touch screen.