Mk8 software version poll

[Exonian]

Four days in to 1896 and and all I can say is I bloody hope it’s just the cold weather, as having resisted the move from my original 1666 due to its general reliability on my car for two years, I’m now absolutely besieged with SOS and all the related warning bongs constantly for the first ten minutes or so of every journey in the last few days.
Before I got the odd few bongs, worse in cold weather, now it’s a full on assault on my ears!

Bong, bong, bong, bong… pause… bong, bong, bong, bong, bong ad infinitum.
I don’t even notice the 5 minute bong I’ve always had for the traffic warning thingy anymore, it’s lost in the cacophony.
Stuff this and I’m not accepting it’s a faulty steering wheel controller as it’s been fine for two years.
I’ll wait to see if it settles down when the milder weather arrives next week otherwise back to the dealers it goes.

[fredgroves]

I think its to do with the design around the device fail notifications. The actual behaviour of the car is the same, its just down to how its reporting the problems to you.

Seems 1666 was pretty blind and didn't report sh1t, 1667 and various versions prior to 1896 reported errors, didn't wait long enough to see if they were transient never cleared them until power off.

1896 tries a few times, then reports errors but does clear them if the issue goes away.

[fredgroves]

Surprised today to notice that suddenly Google maps and waze now both give nav directions in both the nav bit on the dash and in the hud. I'm talking about android, no idea about those apple things.

Don't know if that's vw or Google that have done it, but about time!

Waze has a little problem with roundabouts, displaying just one direction symbol for them (exit at about 7 o'clock) but Google maps gets it right.

Thought you might like to know... Makes a change from bongs...

[Exonian]

I'm talking about android, no idea about actual proper phones.

Corrected for you 

Interesting to know though

[ash_rage]

Got 1896 on my ED45, built May 2022

[Salamanca]

Got a notification this morning for an over the air update to 1899.
It’s in 3 parts, part 1 installing now.

[massimo23]

Got a notification this morning for an over the air update to 1899.
It’s in 3 parts, part 1 installing now.

I have also received the 1899 OTA update from 1896. My car is a My21 built week 47/2020 so it had the 1666 software from factory. it was updated to 1896 last May with the 91CU recall.
Last month I had received the service campaign OUF1 which is about OTA software update 1899 for the infotainment.
So far only those that have this OUF1 will receive the 1899 OTA update.
Have not heard of anyone getting updated to 1899 with the existing 17xx or 18xx software on Golf 8 cars built after 48/2020.
Also if you still have 16xx and don't have the 91CU recall then no updates either.

[Sniffer]

I had the 1896 software update installed at my local dealers last month, and I am delighted to say that it seems to have cured the traffic alert issues.  But, this doesn't mean to say that my car is now working perfectly. Far from it! That day is just a distant dream.

Firstly, I have to say that it's a great pity that the dealer didn't do the software update at the same time as the steering wheel replacement in November. It might have saved a return visit in December. At the time, I did query why the software part of the well advertised (on here) fix hadn't been done and was assured, by the service staff, that there was absolutely no difference between versions 1890 and 1896. I was, of course, totally convinced by their completely false assurances (i.e. lies). Yeah right, why update 1890 to 1896, if there's no actual difference between the two software versions? Utter bollocks! That's the reason why I continued to experience traffic alert issues for a further two weeks.

Anyway, as I said earlier, the traffic alert issues seem to have been sorted but, unfortunately, the Infotainment screen is now unstable and keeps crashing and rebooting.

Has anyone else experienced this problem and, if so, is there a known solution?

[fredgroves]

I got 1899 OTA last night too.

Shame VW don't actually publish release notes to tell you what is new or fixed...

Sniffer, maybe 1899 will come to you? My infotainment system also had a few crashes under 1896 but nothing like the 1666 one did!

[Ceefeesh]

Received the notification earlier today for 1899, in three parts. Just updated it so I’ll keep an eye out to see how it behaves.