Digital Cockpit - Widescreen Map

[CR99]

Hi Everyone.

Just taken delivery of my Leon Mk4 FR and it is really great. I have been reading these forums in advance of purchase and also downloaded and read the manual, but even so the infotainment and digital cockpit were quite daunting on first use. Took me a while to figure out and set the settings, then I think I opened the car with the other key and had to start again.

The Digital Cockpit is fantastic and I have worked out how to change the view and the supplementary info on the right and left side. As far as I can tell, I can set the left and right views to 'nothing' and then the map displays across the whole width when in Nav view. However, it is a bit of a faff to switch both sides on and off when I want to do this. Is there a quick way? Or can I set the Nav view to wide, but still have the info in the middle of the speedo and rev counter when I switch to classic view?

Thanks

 

[FalconTech]

This is a bit impractical. And it probably cannot be otherwise. Left and right side settings are global and affect to all views. I was also hoping that for each view different information could be used on the left and right side, that would allow a quick switch between different needs.

 

[dan555]

Hi Everyone.

Just taken delivery of my Leon Mk4 FR and it is really great. I have been reading these forums in advance of purchase and also downloaded and read the manual, but even so the infotainment and digital cockpit were quite daunting on first use. Took me a while to figure out and set the settings, then I think I opened the car with the other key and had to start again.

The Digital Cockpit is fantastic and I have worked out how to change the view and the supplementary info on the right and left side. As far as I can tell, I can set the left and right views to 'nothing' and then the map displays across the whole width when in Nav view. However, it is a bit of a faff to switch both sides on and off when I want to do this. Is there a quick way? Or can I set the Nav view to wide, but still have the info in the middle of the speedo and rev counter when I switch to classic view?

Thanks

Theres no way to have the sides hide for one view.

If you hold the 'VIEW' button it does hide both side panels and holding it again shows them

 

[CR99]

Theres no way to have the sides hide for one view.

If you hold the 'VIEW' button it does hide both side panels and holding it again shows them

Ah - thanks Dan - that sounds like it could be the answer Will test later

 

[BoomerBoom]

Press and hold the view button hides the left & right info panels, as stated although the built in satnav is pretty poor compared to Google maps.

The Seat routing and traffic information is rudimentary and often out of date, if only we could get maps displayed in the instrument display - instead it cuts the top half of the display off during Google maps routing, with some random text.

I'm reaching the conclusion that Seat have little to no idea on modern software, they're perhaps ten years behind the curve. I've honestly had cheap Chinese smart phones with better operating systems than the MK4.

 

[Zoidberg]

I'm suspecting that VAG are holding back features like AA in the digital cockpit because there is more money in selling their own navigation solution.

Maps in the cockpit may be a bit too much to ask for, but I don't understand why we can't at least have turn-by-turn instructions. Clearly it is already working, because if you have an active AA navigation, it will display the name of the next waypoint in map view, and if you scroll away from the map view, it will display the next instruction, but only once. It even updates distance in real time, so clearly the functionallity is there, it's just not fully implemented. I also read somewhere that this feature was actually working on some Skoda models a few years ago, but the function was then removed again at some point, no idea why.