Aussie Cupra Ateca VZx Owner here !

[steveyoshi]

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.

hello Tell,

Hope you are well and sorry for the delay in responding, last few weeks has been a bit nuts and there is more for me to say with this response.

I have installed a Blackvue 2k, 2 Channel Dash Cam (Fr & R), with a remote Battery to it, seems to be a decent bit of kit, once you get the settings sorted.

Plenty of sun here, especially for 3 seasons of the year... in Autumn at the moment, have blue skies followed by overcast clouds or vice versa.

I haven't changed the Map File as yet, nor have I tried... I am due the first service reasonably soon, so I am going to ask if they will do it for me... hopefully get a Map Update too, as the car has an old version installed and I think it is poor that when we picked up the car, they were already well out of date.

See how we go and fingers crossed.

I have asked my nearest dealer about the connect services in Australia and got a no idea answer effectively. From what the Media said, there was talk of the Cupra Product Manager really pushing hard to get approval from Cupra HQ...

https://www.carexpert.com.au/car-news/cupra-pushing-really-hard-for-connected-services-in-australia

Nothing has been said since then back in August last year.

Love spending time in Tassie but it has been a few years, since I have been down there... I used to go down to photograph Targa Tasmania, prior to Covid, so it has been a while. Never been in the Centre but I did spend 3 weeks in NT and WA (Darwin, Kakadu, Katherine, Kununurra, 70miles of Gibb River Road, Purnululu National Park and a few places in between.

Snakes are not the problem, Salt Water Crocs are more a concern. Snakes normally keep away unless startled.

The best explanation I understood is... if you throw something in a river (or fall in), a Freshwater Croc will swim away, a Saltwater Croc (also live in Fresh water) will swim straight there to investigate. Both Crocs will hurt a lot, regardless of age but a Saltwater Croc attack will not be survivable. They make you really nervous, sitting on a boat ramp in a Car at night... you are watched by all these sets of eyes... and you are inside the car.

Not sure there are many royalists down here anymore, except maybe my Mum... especially with the most recent shenanigans. I don't think they carry the prestige anymore. I am sure all Customs officers are suspicious buggers, you should see the Customs shows over here... they have some right sorts trying to get into the country.

So what were you in Tassie, the Red Centre and Northern Territory for ?

 

[steveyoshi]

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.

you know no one drinks fosters here !! lol
The Aboriginals in regional towns can be quite a sight... a lot of the time not in a good way... I have never had an issue but you should always be careful. A lot of the time they have dry communities but serious crime in the southern states is normally nothing to do with the original custodians of the land.

 

[Tell]

Yes, top end, Cairns, Sydney, Blue Mountains and south a bit plus Tasmania. Not the west. We had Costa Rica's version of crocodiles on boat trips. About one inch above the water line. Early trips to India you knew you had to be careful around "water tanks" reservoirs. The partners got a degree in zoology so I refer tricky stuff on. Been a lot in the past. Snakes in the room. Scorpions on shirts in the morning. Bed bugs you name it. Settle for travelling in Ireland these days more tame and no snakes . Not even grass snakes. Suppose to be religious significance in that one. They were banned or something by a Saint.

Ah the Wallace line coming back to me. Ofcourse Oz is on the opposite side. PNG is where we could have had trouble with the natives. Left a reserve by the back entrance where we subsequently found out not a good idea but OK. Travelling in Mali and Senegal was a bit tricky. High level of crime and pickpocketing. Travelling to these far off places before it became a right of passage for youngsters and TV crews making travel programmes and the elderly with their luxury arranged tours.

 

[Tell]

hello Tell,

Hope you are well and sorry for the delay in responding, last few weeks has been a bit nuts and there is more for me to say with this response.

I have installed a Blackvue 2k, 2 Channel Dash Cam (Fr & R), with a remote Battery to it, seems to be a decent bit of kit, once you get the settings sorted.

Plenty of sun here, especially for 3 seasons of the year... in Autumn at the moment, have blue skies followed by overcast clouds or vice versa.

I haven't changed the Map File as yet, nor have I tried... I am due the first service reasonably soon, so I am going to ask if they will do it for me... hopefully get a Map Update too, as the car has an old version installed and I think it is poor that when we picked up the car, they were already well out of date.

See how we go and fingers crossed.

I have asked my nearest dealer about the connect services in Australia and got a no idea answer effectively. From what the Media said, there was talk of the Cupra Product Manager really pushing hard to get approval from Cupra HQ...

https://www.carexpert.com.au/car-news/cupra-pushing-really-hard-for-connected-services-in-australia

Nothing has been said since then back in August last year.

Love spending time in Tassie but it has been a few years, since I have been down there... I used to go down to photograph Targa Tasmania, prior to Covid, so it has been a while. Never been in the Centre but I did spend 3 weeks in NT and WA (Darwin, Kakadu, Katherine, Kununurra, 70miles of Gibb River Road, Purnululu National Park and a few places in between.

Snakes are not the problem, Salt Water Crocs are more a concern. Snakes normally keep away unless startled.

The best explanation I understood is... if you throw something in a river (or fall in), a Freshwater Croc will swim away, a Saltwater Croc (also live in Fresh water) will swim straight there to investigate. Both Crocs will hurt a lot, regardless of age but a Saltwater Croc attack will not be survivable. They make you really nervous, sitting on a boat ramp in a Car at night... you are watched by all these sets of eyes... and you are inside the car.

Not sure there are many royalists down here anymore, except maybe my Mum... especially with the most recent shenanigans. I don't think they carry the prestige anymore. I am sure all Customs officers are suspicious buggers, you should see the Customs shows over here... they have some right sorts trying to get into the country.

So what were you in Tassie, the Red Centre and Northern Territory for ?

Suspect you might have to do the map update yourself. Radio station logos is another one. I posted up the link on the Leon 4 thread... Will check on that. At one stage the files included Seat / Cupra then the ID got left out, then the ID is back in but whether it works pass. Really East European, Middle East and Africa plus your part of the world where connect services are not provided so map updates and radio logo files are required. Those without connect services licences were they arent paying do get get over the air firmware updates and a radio logo update often follows. Anyhow you are only interested in the logo update if you have a hole where it should be. Its the disaster of mib3. Mib2 you could in fill these yourself. Vag in their wisdom didnt design it in for mib3. The hack used to change the firmware in the car for mib2 not on the bench used the POI import facility to ride firmware into the unit, so their security advisors said no POI and logo jpeg / png imports. Only legitimate files which are the mib3 radio logo and map files allowed.

Yes here:

radio logos update

Try this Can you please share the 1.31.40 zip file? Is not available anywhere sadly. Thank you

www.seatcupra.net

I'm waiting to hear whether these are any good for Seat / Cupra mib3. Phonostar is the contractor that Vag uses to get their radio logos from. Phonostar is a German Internet radio provider. I have a theory which seems to be true that if the station isnt on the Phonostar Internet radio system them you dont get the logo. Troc people still have gaps on the UK Absolute Radio and Greatest Hits etc with this update and they arent in the Phonostar system. I have the German Phonostar Android TV app loaded up for cross check. A little remiss of Vag not to workout that if the radio station wasnt being broadcast as part of the Phonostar Internet radio system then you wouldn't have the logo on your FM or DAB broadcast in the car.

The other thing that hasn't happened is for Seat / Cupra to tell their customers about these files. VW does and Skoda forums found out about them and some European Seat forums after. All a bit pass the parcel.

 

[Yern]

I am sure all Customs officers are suspicious buggers, you should see the Customs shows over here... they have some right sorts trying to get into the country.

Hopefully we're all familiar here with "Nothing To Declare". Can't believe when they open the suitcase with packs of fresh/dried/pans of food. What part of 'edible' don't you understand? I've always ticked the card sections even if we've only had a packet of sweets and a couple of snack bars.

 

[Tell]

Hopefully we're all familiar here with "Nothing To Declare". Can't believe when they open the suitcase with packs of fresh/dried/pans of food. What part of 'edible' don't you understand? I've always ticked the card sections even if we've only had a packet of sweets and a couple of snack bars.

I've known someone with a banana taken off them arriving in Australia... trusty dog found it. Coming back in from PNG they studied the wood carvings for wood worm. Fortunately we didnt buy any of those phallic salt and pepper pots that are the thing. They missed the eggs in the conch shells that subsequently hatched out into geckos and ran about the floor in Essex. Even we didnt known untill one shell was turned upside down and you could see the popped egg where it had come from and one still to go. ... which subsequently hatched out.

 

[Loadmaster748]

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.

KI is a lovely retreat, but of course remote and with a very low population. My wife and I enjoyed our nine days there and saw most of the island, but that was enough, put in the nicest way.

 

[Tell]

KI is a lovely retreat, but of course remote and with a very low population. My wife and I enjoyed our nine days there and saw most of the island, but that was enough, put in the nicest way.

It doesnt sound like the fridge cabin we stayed in, in Kakadu National Park. Industrial freezer you lived in... so hot outside. Where I first saw Imparja TV (Aboriginal TV). That's now on SBS. With a VPN you can watch SBS and recreate the moments and learn the lingo. Black fella, mob, your mob etc. Aboriginal film production and actors, quite a big industry now.

Imparja Television - Bringing you the best of the 9 network.

Imparja was established in 1987 after the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA) applied and won the Remote Commercial Television Service (RCTS) license for Central Australia.

www.imparja.com

Imparja grew into SBS.

SBS (Australian TV channel) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

You get to know so much you can play little games with people. Australians and those that emigrated there ... taking the black fella view. Ah but you were not first nation. They reply it's an old country and a very young country. Partner's nephew migrated and is married to an Australian. See them once a year in the old country. Like the UK on their travels.... after a few glasses of wine.