Drive mode resetting every time

[Mupwangle]

New Cupra Leon. You know the Drive mode settings? The one where it's something like Eco, Normal, Sport or Individual and with Individual being able to set specific settings like power steering. It resets every time the car stops back to normal, regardless of whether the driver changes. I know there are some settings that reset, like lane assist, etc, but I've had other VW cars with this feature and they never reset back to normal. I thought it might be a new change, but my sister just got a relatively new Octavia with the same options and it doesn't reset to normal. So to me, pardon the expression, this isn't normal.

Is this deliberate or a bug?

 

[MJ]

The drive mode saving for sport and individual settings was dropped in 2017/2018 due to rule changes, I assume based around emissions. You have to select them every time you use the vehicle. Absolute ball ache.

 

[Mupwangle]

Really? The Skoda Octavia that had the same options, but remembered them was the 2021 model. My previous car, which remembered the settings was 2018.

The ones that are mandatory are the lane change assist and speed assist. Not aircon, suspension and power steering. Only one of those have logical reasons why they might have been blocked, but suspension stiffness isn't possibly one of them. Suspension settings or power steering settings have nothing to do with emissions.

 

[MJ]

Making any vehicle system act in such a way that it puts additional strain on the engine will have an impact on the emissions, regardless of how small that change is. Energising DCC shock absorbers to make the suspension stiffer (all the time) will have a direct impact on current draw from the battery, that then requires greater output from the alternator, which in turn - puts further load on the engine, hence increased fuel burned and incrementally higher emissions.


I dare say, but can't quote as a fact that it will 'usually' stay in normal or ECO mode.

 

[Mupwangle]

Sorry, but you seemed to have missed my point - if this was a regulation change in 2018, for whatever reason, why would Skoda be exempt? I'm not arguing about the relative ecological merits of any settings, just that it's not remembering them.

Also if that were true, surely it would change to Eco mode and not normal mode.

It remembers changes I make, such as to the DCC settings, but it doesn't associate them with the drive modes - which makes any legislation irrelevant - I can change all these settings globally , I just can't set it to a drive profile.

I assume, given that you're on the Cupra Leon forum that you have a Cupra Leon or a Formentor - can you confirm that on your car it doesn't remember the last mode you set after a restart?

 

[MJ]

I would guess that VWG Vehicles are tested for WLTP purposes in 'normal' mode and 'ECO' mode offers further economy benefits, hence - the car might well stay selected on one of these settings as they fit within the emissions spectrum set during testing.

I can't say I've come across any VWG vehicles built after 2018 where the drive mode stays permanently selected in ECO, SPORT or INDIVIDUAL. You normally have to toggle the desired setting you want to select back to, upon the start of the journey.

There's plenty of folks over on the Briskoda forum with exactly the same issue.

Form what I remember at the time, the wording from VWG was something along the lines of "this feature is no longer available as of late 2018 built vehicles due to the recent homologation"

 

[cairus]

You must change the driving profile data record in the gateway.