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2021 Seat Leon Mk4, updated manually, took 2h to update all maps of Europe from a USB stick.

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[–] varyingExpertise 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Whenever someone has to do this on an electric car that turns itself off after half an hour (or 90 seconds, looking at you Audi Q8 eTron), just jam something lightly onto the brake pedal, so far that has kept them all on. Cardboard boxes of filament work well for me.

I'd hate for the update to fail because the puny 12V boat anchor runs out of juice with all the kWh sitting unused under the floor.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago

I just drove around for 2h....

Also, according to the manual, the update will resume after the car was turned off...

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Did something similar myself recently. 2019 Volvo XC90, and the maps were severely outdated. My process was pretty much the same as yours.

Went for a long drive with the family last weekend, and the maps were so fresh they even accounted for a lot of temporary reroutes from roadworks.