New Nav map available in Skoda update portal

[Fitzall]

My MY15 Skoda Octavia Elegance has updated Maps!!
Thought I'd put all my ramblings over the last few pages all together in one post.

Many, if not all, MY15 owners have never been able to update the Navigation Maps. I've been hassling Skoda HO for 18 mths trying to get the issue resolved and finally the great day came.

Last Tuesday, I took my vehicle to Brisbane City Skoda ... they had it for approx 6 hrs & when I picked it up, no longer was ROW2014 showing, but ROW2016/2017 (believe these to be the June2016 update). Excellent. I understand they did some hardware & software updates on the Columbus System (via their techo's at Skoda HO in Sydney), & then loaded the maps via the SD card.

Every time I'd accessed the Skoda Update Portal during the previous 18 mths using my VIN it would either show ROW2014 available or nothing at all.

On Wednesday when I entered my VIN, it displayed MRM2017 was available to download, which i did.

Downloading took approx 24 hrs!! (our internet is 271 kps) .... Unpacking after download took approx 90 mins.

Updated the Columbus via SD card this morning .... took about 40 mins and version now shows ROW2017 with the Update Portal now showing next update due in May 2017.

It's a great day!

[Mcsteve]

Great news for the rest of us stuck on ROW2014. I'll have to check the portal myself and grab the iso. Thanks for the update!


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[Lucki]

Is this some sort of a joke or for real? Thank goodness I wasn't sitting down when I read the last few posts as I would have fallen off my chair . So now they update the maps when I have decided to part with my RS!

Jokes apart - well done to Skoda for taking this seriously and resolving it. It left quite a bunch frustrated for too long.

Anyone in Melbourne successfully updated maps on their MY15 cars through their local dealer?

[LunchboxVRS]

Having some dramas getting mine to work.
I have downloaded the update. Placed it on sd card. Placed it in the unit. Gone to system info and hit update. It searches for a while then says error no software found. Am I meant to do something with the file befor placing on the card?

[Smart1]

Have you unzipped the update, it normally comes in as a zip file and you need to unzip to the root directory of the SD card.

[LunchboxVRS]

Have you unzipped the update, it normally comes in as a zip file and you need to unzip to the root directory of the SD card.

I thought that too but when I bring it up it only has the option to compress.

[auditwmba]

Evening all,

Our MY14 Elegance was in for a service and I quizzed the Service Manager regarding maps and firmware only to be told 'there isn't one for cars as old as ours!' one word - stunned!
I guess I should have not used a multi-make dealer!

[pjam73]

I thought that too but when I bring it up it only has the option to compress.

The root of the SD card needs to contain two folders - Mib1 and Mib2 - and a .txt file (can't remember the name). That's what you get when you decompress the zip, or if on Windows you get the downloader program to do it for you.

[wackjam]

I contacted Skoda yesterday via FB. Was told the maps would be available "1st quarter" of 2017 and to check back late January.

Evening all,

Our MY14 Elegance was in for a service and I quizzed the Service Manager regarding maps and firmware only to be told 'there isn't one for cars as old as ours!' one word - stunned!
I guess I should have not used a multi-make dealer!

[gadget007a]

My MY15 Skoda Octavia Elegance has updated Maps!!

Last Tuesday, I took my vehicle to Brisbane City Skoda

Contacted Brisbane City skoda to see if they could provide some information that I could take to a local Dealer.

they asked for the details of my car so they could book it in for them to do it, when I explained that I was in Adelaide and bringing my car to brisbane was not an option could they provide me with details that I could provide to a local service center I just got the reply

"Any Skoda dealer a sat nav update and then load the system. "

Skoda HQ aren't much help either as I got the standard reply when i asked about progress on this I just got the automated response
"I can confirm that your details have been passed onto the department that will be in contact with you once the update is available.

We were asked to provide the details today.

As soon as i have any information i will let you know.

We do appreciate your patience and thank you.

Thank you for contacting ŠKODA Australia."

Not very impressed at the moment, and getting fed up with the systems mispronunciation of simple words like Road and North

[bbcrowdog]

Contacted Brisbane City skoda .......

Hi gadget007a (and other lost Octavia drivers!!) , I'm in Adelaide too and have just started the process of trying to get my maps updated (MY15 vRS). I had read this thread prior to my recent service so asked them to look into updating it while I was there, having seen Fitzall's success.

When I put my VIN into the portal I only get the option of ROW2014 (and my car already has ROW 2014/2015), but when I was there they were downloading a later version so I can only think they used a different VIN. Anyway, they were supposed to send it to me on SD but sent it to the wronf address by mistake. Today they are downloading (MRM2017 I think) using a VIN from a superb to try.

Does anyone know if that is likely to work...I got the impression from here that the download is matched to the VIN. Can you use a map downloaded by someone else for there VIN?

[Smart1]

I had my MY14 in for a water pump change last week and they said that there were no firmware updates available and that maps cant be updated yet.

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[Fitzall]

Does anyone know if that is likely to work...I got the impression from here that the download is matched to the VIN. Can you use a map downloaded by someone else for there VIN?

I've offered my SD card to a fellow MY15 owner to give it a try (MRM17). Interested to see your results

[Smart1]

In short, no. I've tried and failed.

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[Fitzall]

In short, no. I've tried and failed.

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Was it for a MY15 vs MY15?