LHD 2020 Skoda Octavia into UK

[JohnRS4]

My brother in Law has just moved back to UK from France and brought his LHD 2020 Skoda Octavia with him. Part of the process to get it certified in the UK is to have a permanent MPH display . Having spoken to his local Skoda dealer they can only recommend that he orders a UK RHD speedometer and see if it works. This will cost about £1200 to fit with no guarantee of success.

Has anybody any knowledge of doing this or can anybody suggest who he can talk to? I really don't believe that with a 2020 car you cannot just reprogramme the speedometer to display in MPH.

[Martyn76]

Is it one with a digital dash? There are plenty of people out there who "code" cars now, if the dealership can't help might be worth a bit of Googling.

[sjg]

I'd be surprised if you can't just code it.

If not, something like this is what gets used on modern japanese imports with CANBUS wiring that need MPH speed to pass an IVA. http://www.canm8.com/can-bus-interfaces/speed-puls...

[KobayashiMaru86]

Get someone to change country of origin in VCDS. I remember on my Mk2 Fabia vRS we changed it to Australia so the digital speedo (in km) could be mph instead. I never drove it in Europe so wasn't an issue.