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JezzaA

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My ateca was in the garage yesterday and when picking it up they said there was an outstanding “item” on the car that had just been announced and that they would need to book the car in again to perform an update to the drivers display.
Anyone got any idea as to what the issue is?
 

Mike the_cupra

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Do you get the speed limit signs coming up on the driver's display? A Leon owner noticed that I did, but they didnt. It's probably something really small like that, but hopefully it's something fun!
 

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Do you get the speed limit signs coming up on the driver's display? A Leon owner noticed that I did, but they didnt. It's probably something really small like that, but hopefully it's something fun!

That's traffic sign recognition (TSR) means you got the lane assist camera and possibly had the VCDS to enable it. I thought they were all turned off as they left Seat these days, possibly hidden hands enabled it for you in the dealership. Thread on the standard Ateca side and a resource on how to do it yourself with VCDS tools but can only be done with cars that have lane assist. It uses the high definition camera to read the traffic signs dynamically and can give you warning tone if you speed by a predefined amount over you set. I find it very good but if you use ACC to lock onto the car in front as the youngsters do any miss reading may slow you down. I don't so that's not an issue.
 

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That's traffic sign recognition (TSR) means you got the lane assist camera and possibly had the VCDS to enable it. I thought they were all turned off as they left Seat these days, possibly hidden hands enabled it for you in the dealership. Thread on the standard Ateca side and a resource on how to do it yourself with VCDS tools but can only be done with cars that have lane assist. It uses the high definition camera to read the traffic signs dynamically and can give you warning tone if you speed by a predefined amount over you set. I find it very good but if you use ACC to lock onto the car in front as the youngsters do any miss reading may slow you down. I don't so that's not an issue.
Is that right? My car has lane assist, but I just assumed the speed limit knowledge was linked to the Sat Nav. It just shows you the speed limit, much like any sat nav but there's no alerts for exceeding it.
 

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My ateca was in the garage yesterday and when picking it up they said there was an outstanding “item” on the car that had just been announced and that they would need to book the car in again to perform an update to the drivers display.
Anyone got any idea as to what the issue is?

The likes of Obdeleven inform you of known software updates to the display.... partners Arona has one identified. It will be worth having if the dealer wants to do it. Normally firmware updates don't get done.
 

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Is that right? My car has lane assist, but I just assumed the speed limit knowledge was linked to the Sat Nav. It just shows you the speed limit, much like any sat nav but there's no alerts for exceeding it.

It gets the speed from two sources, the maps and TSR. But TSR has to be enabled with VCDS type tools... I know some Cupra owners have done that.

You know when you have it working since if you speed throu an area with a sign it's read it tells you, you have exceeded the "dynamic" speed. One of the fun things to watch in how it reads temporary road signs... obviously good where you miss them yourself.

The speed warning will only sound if TSR is configured that's exceeding the digitised speed of the road or what the camera has read. You can twiddle with priority of those. Don't change mine. It was an option on the launch Xcellence Ateca's, as one of the packages, now the only way of getting that option is to turn on the latent software in the unit which is only in those cars with Lane Assist.

As I said the only downside is if you use ACC for latching onto traffic in front via the front radar, if it erroneously reads a sign it will slow the car down / warn you. Wasn't impressed with lane assist or ACC but love TSR.

Thinking about it the other thing that Leon standard head owners with a virtual cockpit could get enviase of with a high unit with virtual cockpit is it can show the map on both screens at the same time. It could have been that. Not enough umff in the standard units to be that clever. The maps get thrown to the virtual cockpit with the left icon and the infotainment screen becomes dumb in a standard unit. Could have been that.... normal next turn works the same as one without the virtual cockpit. It's the next turn screen that will get the TSR icon I reckon.... it's there somewhere once installed.

Pages from the manual on its use.
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JezzaA

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Well it went in today to get updated and..... the dealer couldn’t do it.
The machine they use needs to be updated first they found out today and that takes a week as it needs to be sent off to seat.
So waiting to have it booked back in again grrr...
 
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JezzaA

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Shame after dropping off the car this morning at 8am that they only told me this when I picked the car up at 6pm.... oh well
 

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Some garages way of working. Frustrating. "We will phone you when it's ready"... means "Phone us if you want to find out". They tend to have a production line running between the front desk and the workshop, so basically it's not untill the end of they day in some places do they get onto the billing part and phoning people up. That last hour of work they keep fixed. Not all garages work like that thou, others are happy for you to come and collect.

It would be nice to know what that update is and what it does. Ask them. If you had VCDS / Obdeleven tools you could note down what the firmware release is and what it's moved to.
 

JezzaA

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I’ll ask and update this post when they eventually get round to updating It!
 
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