Hello everyone this is my first post in what seems to be a well used and knowledgeable forum I loved the 26 page thread on OBC issues!
This question is about UK and perhaps European? Cars so does not apply to those of you on the other side of the pond but you may well have some advice.
Background:
In the UK we do not have UVO.
In fact we don't have any form remote intelligent functions in the Soul EV.
Perhaps KIA consider us in the UK less worthy or something
Most cars are sold by specialist EV dealers only about 20 in the UK and even so there is lots of confusion at the dealership service dept level even in how to update the Sat Nav Maps.
We can't buy an SD card with the maps on, we have to go to a KIA Dealer to get it done as a chargeable piece of work and often the dealers fail to perform the updates on first attempt judging by some other threads I have read.
Often the cars are provided new with Sat NAV maps that are years out of date and worse, as a result so is the list of Charging stations
I bought mine on 1st April 2017 as a one year old ex dealer demonstrator and the dates on the SD card are all 2014!
We are told to update the maps often also requires AVN firmware updates as well hence the need to visit a dealer for me that is a 150 mile round trip and an entire day lost.
Feature like AA or Car Play would be quite useful to owners in the UK simply to be able to use RTTI for traffic and access updated charging station locations without having to interact separately with the phone handset
FYI
Here in the UK interacting in any way with a mobile phone in a vehicle even when stationary is a crime with a fine and 6 points on ones driving licence if reported, 6 is a lot because 9 points = a ban!
Identifying my AVN type and Version
This is part of my quest to try and find out why my 2016 Soul EV can not get Carplay or Android Auto (according to Kia Customer Services)
Maybe the AVN head unit is different to vehicles produced only a few month later?
But for now I am assuming it is purely down to the Firmware I may be wrong but in the first instance I would like to compare versions of mine to those that do have it working in the UK 2017 model year apparently
I saw this
http://kia.oemdtc.com/173/avn-4-0-uvo-eservices-dealer-engineering-mode-2015-kia-optima
I would like to know if the same can be done for the non UVO versions
If so how?
We don't have a Setup button on the UK version
To date the only info I can get out of mine is this:
This question is about UK and perhaps European? Cars so does not apply to those of you on the other side of the pond but you may well have some advice.
Background:
In the UK we do not have UVO.
In fact we don't have any form remote intelligent functions in the Soul EV.
Perhaps KIA consider us in the UK less worthy or something
Most cars are sold by specialist EV dealers only about 20 in the UK and even so there is lots of confusion at the dealership service dept level even in how to update the Sat Nav Maps.
We can't buy an SD card with the maps on, we have to go to a KIA Dealer to get it done as a chargeable piece of work and often the dealers fail to perform the updates on first attempt judging by some other threads I have read.
Often the cars are provided new with Sat NAV maps that are years out of date and worse, as a result so is the list of Charging stations
I bought mine on 1st April 2017 as a one year old ex dealer demonstrator and the dates on the SD card are all 2014!
We are told to update the maps often also requires AVN firmware updates as well hence the need to visit a dealer for me that is a 150 mile round trip and an entire day lost.
Feature like AA or Car Play would be quite useful to owners in the UK simply to be able to use RTTI for traffic and access updated charging station locations without having to interact separately with the phone handset
FYI
Here in the UK interacting in any way with a mobile phone in a vehicle even when stationary is a crime with a fine and 6 points on ones driving licence if reported, 6 is a lot because 9 points = a ban!
Identifying my AVN type and Version
This is part of my quest to try and find out why my 2016 Soul EV can not get Carplay or Android Auto (according to Kia Customer Services)
Maybe the AVN head unit is different to vehicles produced only a few month later?
But for now I am assuming it is purely down to the Firmware I may be wrong but in the first instance I would like to compare versions of mine to those that do have it working in the UK 2017 model year apparently
I saw this
http://kia.oemdtc.com/173/avn-4-0-uvo-eservices-dealer-engineering-mode-2015-kia-optima
I would like to know if the same can be done for the non UVO versions
If so how?
We don't have a Setup button on the UK version
To date the only info I can get out of mine is this:
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