Well its been a few days now and I've only had a couple of hiccups so far... had a few warnings about manoveur braking not being available but not the daily collection of bongs from before.
Seems snappier now, starts quicker and I've finally got wireless android auto.
Supposedly its all OTA from here on.... we'll see!
Have you had your steering wheel replaced, too, Fred?
I got the manoeuvre braking warnings, after I had the steering wheel replaced to cure some other travel assist related "bongs" but, when I collected the car, I discovered that the dealer hadn't updated its software, simultaneously. I asked them why and they gave me some cock and bull story at the time about v1890 being exactly the same as v1896. Yeah, sure!
Two weeks later, armed with video evidence, I went back to the dealer and demanded they update the software because of the continuing issues with annoying "bongs" and warning messages. Why, I asked, did VW bother to release a v1896 if v1890 had solved all of the system gremlins? They took one look at my video evidence, apologised and immediately agreed to update the software.
I haven't had any problems since. Fingers crossed!