Aussie Cupra Ateca VZx Owner here !

[steveyoshi]

Hi Scott, Mark and Mark,

Thanks for hosting this forum we hope we can be involved and assist others from Downunder.

Cupra Australia, last month sold their 10,000th vehicle, so there are a few owners down here.

Anyway, we have had an interesting start to ownership, with some fairly dire exterior paint issues, that are now fixed.

See you on a thread soon.

Stephen

 

[serdar_18fr]

Hi Scott, Mark and Mark,

Thanks for hosting this forum we hope we can be involved and assist others from Downunder.

Cupra Australia, last month sold their 10,000th vehicle, so there are a few owners down here.

Anyway, we have had an interesting start to ownership, with some fairly dire exterior paint issues, that are now fixed.

See you on a thread soon.

Stephen

Welcome, and some photos please!

 

[tracktoy]

Welcome to the Forum we do like to see new members pride and joy so put up a few pics.

 

[Syphon]

Hi Stephen, great to see another member from Aus, thanks for joining. Yes pics please!

Cheers,

Scott

 

[steveyoshi]

First wash

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[steveyoshi]

First drive on the Great Ocean Road... Lorne

 

[Rob66]

Great Ocean Road! that brings back some great memories. Drove from Adelaide to Torquay along that road back in the early 90s, in a Ford Laser Rental car, fabulous. Hoping to get back there this year.

Enjoy your new car.

 

[serdar_18fr]

First drive on the Great Ocean Road... LorneView attachment 52983

Take good care of that last great old-fashioned car money can still buy as brand new, in terms of interior design, buttons, switches and nicely placed infotainment screen, and keep it for long time!

 

[steveyoshi]

Great Ocean Road! that brings back some great memories. Drove from Adelaide to Torquay along that road back in the early 90s, in a Ford Laser Rental car, fabulous. Hoping to get back there this year.

Enjoy your new car.

Yep, pretty close to us. In fact I am in Torquay for work every day. Don't get down on the GO Road as often as I like as life gets in the way.

 

[steveyoshi]

Take good care of that last great old-fashioned car money can still buy as brand new, in terms of interior design, buttons, switches and nicely placed infotainment screen, and keep it for long time!

Absolutely, it is a fun car with just enough bells and whistles, would still prefer a manual gearbox but the rest of Australia (World) doesn't agree with me.

 

[Yern]

We did the GO Road from Adelaide to Melbourne in 2018 driving a Holden Commodore SV6. Impressed at the time that a rental car had both Sat Nav (didn't need my plug in Garmin) and HUD and the car was a great drive.

 

[Tell]

Nice to see some sunshine downunder in those pictures. Distinct lack of sunshine in Blighty at the minute.

@steveyoshi you might find some Skoda drivers that have taken the plunge with that satnav map file update as discussed on the other thread. You could be brave and see whether it takes it. I know I have advised quite a few Australians on ozzie maps in the past. It is the legitimate way of doing map updates. Saying that there were a few early mib3 users (2021 or so), well a couple where it updated once but couldn't get it to take the next update . You then installed the 2021 one then and it settled back down. It was the Briskoda map supremo on map files it happened to, plus one other with a Skoda. Will be a firmware issue for them. Pesky mib3s.

By and large there is success with that Leon 4 thread where I place the details but the same across brands. It's the Eastern European folk here that take that route since they dont have connect services like you in Australia. Outback and all that offline maps are useful . Quite a few people scrap their subscription to connect services in Europe, not everyone. You get the firmware updates over the air even if you scrap the subscription but not map updates, there you use the file method and that thread gives you the latest. Those extras that you have via connected services like starting the AC before you get in an EV, sending map coordinates to the car etc you loose out oon. If I had mib3 I'd keep the subscription.

Tasmania has been my last two trips to Australia and the pleasure of seeing those Tassy deadly snakes. They kept on appearing on walks. Oh yes thats the... blah blah at ones feet.

A few trips to the top end, Northern Territories and the centre but not down the bottom. I'm the navigator on these trips. We only had satnav for Tasmania, paper maps on the early ones . Used Copilot for Tasmania which Here Maps the same as what you have in your car. Was the paper maps that customs was so interested in, in the top end. Folded it out looking for annotations. Bloke. Suspicious lot. Probably thought we were collecting snakes or something. Diane and Charles were playing about... had to explain to the women that it was all fine... a few years ago on that one. Passport stamper was a royalist. Little things you remember.

 

[Loadmaster748]

Welcome along to the forum.

This time last year we were in Oz for a month visiting our eldest daughter, spending our time split between Adelaide, Kangaroo Island, Hahndorf and Mount Gambier.

 

[steveyoshi]

We did the GO Road from Adelaide to Melbourne in 2018 driving a Holden Commodore SV6. Impressed at the time that a rental car had both Sat Nav (didn't need my plug in Garmin) and HUD and the car was a great drive.

I don't do the Go Road, as often as I should. I am about 20mins from Torquay and an hour from Lorne too... but so many tourists that don't have a clue how to stay on the correct side of the road... that and the fact it is either 60 or 80kmh in most places.

Used to be 100kmh.

Not sure about the SV6 being a great drive... a but mushy in the rear and vague in the front. Lol

Worse cars though.

 

[steveyoshi]

Welcome along to the forum.

This time last year we were in Oz for a month visiting our eldest daughter, spending our time split between Adelaide, Kangaroo Island, Hahndorf and Mount Gambier.

Thank you, I appreciate the welcome... some nice places there... so much to see everywhere you go.

Did your eldest daughter move around all those places ?? LOL

I am in Victoria, close to Geelong.

 

[Yern]

We did the GO Road from Adelaide to Melbourne in 2018 driving a Holden Commodore SV6. Impressed at the time that a rental car had both Sat Nav (didn't need my plug in Garmin) and HUD and the car was a great drive.

I don't do the Go Road, as often as I should. I am about 20mins from Torquay and an hour from Lorne too... but so many tourists that don't have a clue how to stay on the correct side of the road... that and the fact it is either 60 or 80kmh in most places.

Used to be 100kmh.

Not sure about the SV6 being a great drive... a but mushy in the rear and vague in the front. Lol

Worse cars though.

My car at the time was a Nissan Note so the SV6 was a fabulous 'upgrade'. My first Leon FR was 2019, post this particular Australia visit. At least we know which side of the road to drive!

 

[Loadmaster748]

Thank you, I appreciate the welcome... some nice places there... so much to see everywhere you go.

Did your eldest daughter move around all those places ?? LOL

I am in Victoria, close to Geelong.

She's based on KI but they intend to move back to Adelaide.

 

[steveyoshi]

She's based on KI but they intend to move back to Adelaide.

Never been to Kangaroo Island, it is meant to be lovely (Presume it is this and not King Island - although that is meant to be nice too). Adelaide is nice too, just a little sleepy, or was anyway. So many nice places in Australia.

 

[steveyoshi]

My car at the time was a Nissan Note so the SV6 was a fabulous 'upgrade'. My first Leon FR was 2019, post this particular Australia visit. At least we know which side of the road to drive!

mmm a Nissan Note has never been sold here in Australia, we got the Micra... which was like a race car... just throw it in to a corner and hang on.
I guess the V6 Dunnydore had a fair bit of power, just never really had the chassis for anything but a distance drive. IMO

 

[Tell]

Never been to Kangaroo Island, it is meant to be lovely (Presume it is this and not King Island - although that is meant to be nice too). Adelaide is nice too, just a little sleepy, or was anyway. So many nice places in Australia.

Might be something to do with the warmth rather than Blighty, windy and wet. Top end trips and staying in roadhouses is my memory and the digger dog in a utute (spelling) that was given a can of Fosters in it's bowl to drink when they pulled up. Outback dog living. Plus the Aboriginals sitting a circle as you do. The old colonial style towns with the shaded walk way fronts. The workers that like to party on Labour day. No good if it's your hotel. That one was is Tassy. The national parks are always done nicely with facilities and walk ways.