- Oct 29, 2016
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Traded our 6 year old BMW in and picked up new Seat Ateca Auto yesterday & drove it home, very impressed thus far, but its full of gadgets, plus a big "infotainment" screen.
I was given an owners manual, plus an A4 instruction page on how to set up The Seat App on our I phones.
Apparently you need to set up The Seat App & register it to the car, needing to input The Vin Number and Model to get half the gadgets in the car to operate, like door mirror folding plus loads of other things I do not know about yet like self park maybe.
I drove it to the supermarket this morning, and its already telling me on the screen that it needs to download a software update, but it cant as we haven't registered the phone, or our home E-mail Address with it yet. Then another instruction appeared "Check Safe Lock Setup" "Use Drivers Manual" well I am a bloke, I don't read manuals unless forced to, then the wife reads them out slowly, whilst I sit and have a fiddle with the controls.
It has 3 different speedo screens, I found them all from pushing buttons on the steering wheel trying to adjust the DAB radio to select & scroll radio stations.
It reads road signs and beeps if I go 2 miles over the speed limit, it has adaptive cruise control with lane assist, but I have not driven on a motorway yet, so not used.
I have decided that I will buy a box of fancy cakes, take it back to the dealership, hand over our I phones and let them try & set the damn thing up, it even alerts the emergency services if involved in an accident, of GPS location, my name, probably next of kin etc!
I also reckon it would dob me in for speeding also, as everything like time recorded at last stop, start time & mileage since start, average speed & MPG is all recorded on the screen for all to see.
I have yet to discover loads of stuff like blind spot monitoring, anti collision Radar, but it sure is a giant learning curve, tech has certainly moved on in the last 5 years I guess.
Even more annoying that I still cant get a decent DAB signal in The Vans Double Din Apple Play all singing/dancing heap of Pioneer Crap Radio, where as this car has found what seems like 60/70 radio stations, inc Radio Punjab & Islam!
LES
I was given an owners manual, plus an A4 instruction page on how to set up The Seat App on our I phones.
Apparently you need to set up The Seat App & register it to the car, needing to input The Vin Number and Model to get half the gadgets in the car to operate, like door mirror folding plus loads of other things I do not know about yet like self park maybe.
I drove it to the supermarket this morning, and its already telling me on the screen that it needs to download a software update, but it cant as we haven't registered the phone, or our home E-mail Address with it yet. Then another instruction appeared "Check Safe Lock Setup" "Use Drivers Manual" well I am a bloke, I don't read manuals unless forced to, then the wife reads them out slowly, whilst I sit and have a fiddle with the controls.
It has 3 different speedo screens, I found them all from pushing buttons on the steering wheel trying to adjust the DAB radio to select & scroll radio stations.
It reads road signs and beeps if I go 2 miles over the speed limit, it has adaptive cruise control with lane assist, but I have not driven on a motorway yet, so not used.
I have decided that I will buy a box of fancy cakes, take it back to the dealership, hand over our I phones and let them try & set the damn thing up, it even alerts the emergency services if involved in an accident, of GPS location, my name, probably next of kin etc!
I also reckon it would dob me in for speeding also, as everything like time recorded at last stop, start time & mileage since start, average speed & MPG is all recorded on the screen for all to see.
I have yet to discover loads of stuff like blind spot monitoring, anti collision Radar, but it sure is a giant learning curve, tech has certainly moved on in the last 5 years I guess.
Even more annoying that I still cant get a decent DAB signal in The Vans Double Din Apple Play all singing/dancing heap of Pioneer Crap Radio, where as this car has found what seems like 60/70 radio stations, inc Radio Punjab & Islam!
LES