Update Maps on MK8

[Dav3smith]

If your car is under 3 years old it should have the subscription still that enables OTA map updates.

Its only when it runs out you'd have to use the manual process (or pay VW an arm and a leg for more online services)

The map updates only come out about once a year anyway...

Does anyone bothered paying for connect plus?
If they made it cheaper they would have more people getting it.

Absolutely not. £129 for 12 months to me is obscene. My car has just hit three years old so I received the email reminder that this fantastic service was ending its free period and I now had to pay if I wanted to continue to benefit from it. It was then I realised that not on one single occasion had I used it over the three years of my ownership. What irks me is that my car is in the high tax bracket so as it was over the threshold at purchase point and its things like this that should be free for the entire duration of my ownership. Rant aside some of the more useful aspects of that app are still available subscription free such as car location etc. So you'd only be paying for some data and that vent thing or whatever.

[fredgroves]

The crazy thing is that they don't unsubscribe your car from the data network... oh no, they WANT that telemetry data, its got (resale) value.

So they are charging you all of that money for...

Well its not the money they pay the mapping people for, because you can download the maps for free yourself....