'26 HUD question
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'26 HUD question
Question... With the '26, does the HUD always mimic the display selected for the 'virtual cockpit' or can they be set to be different... i.e. the tach in the main console (aka virtual cockpit) and the adaptive cruise display in the HUD?
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This can be different to the main binacle, so you can have your maps on the binacle , or the tach, with two boxes either side displaying other information and the HUD reading whatever option you want.
I have a '26 which is already in for repairs, and a '25 on courtesy car. The 25 MMI feels outdated to the 2026, BUT, the information in the two boxes on the main binacle is better on the 2025, the 2026 is limited - try getting trip data like mpg etc in one of those boxes on the 26, I think it's impossible. The 2025 software is easier to use if not more limited.
Overall, the software feels very much unfinished on both.
And just wait till you have to deal with a dead battery...
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the 2026 is limited - try getting trip data like mpg etc in one of those boxes on the 26, I think it's impossible. The 2025 software is easier to use if not more limited.
The HUD cycles through car view with driver assistance, minimal (just speed and limit), media (just station on XM). Various alerts also pop up briefly, like station change and phone. The View button gets tach, car view, or map. I have the HUD in a '25 Q6 and prefer the '26 Q5, 'all depends on what you like. The cockpit is finally able to show song title, the Q6 just shows album art that requires bifocals.
2 months this week, everything works.
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If you choose the left display window on the '26 with short term, long term, tire pressure, etc., you can cycle through to show both short and long term, tires, odometers.
The HUD cycles through car view with driver assistance, minimal (just speed and limit), media (just station on XM). Various alerts also pop up briefly, like station change and phone. The View button gets tach, car view, or map. I have the HUD in a '25 Q6 and prefer the '26 Q5, 'all depends on what you like. The cockpit is finally able to show song title, the Q6 just shows album art that requires bifocals.
2 months this week, everything works.
The HUD cycles through car view with driver assistance, minimal (just speed and limit), media (just station on XM). Various alerts also pop up briefly, like station change and phone. The View button gets tach, car view, or map. I have the HUD in a '25 Q6 and prefer the '26 Q5, 'all depends on what you like. The cockpit is finally able to show song title, the Q6 just shows album art that requires bifocals.
2 months this week, everything works.
I've tried to see if they can be activated but not had any luck at at all. Its such a poorly designed software, go and try a Range Rover Velar or a Jaguar F Pace, and its all simple, makes sense and is user definable.
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I believe it is but I cannot check until it comes back from its dealer visit in a week or two...I'll play around with the scroll wheels on that menu option again but I know for sure I couldn't pull up the same mpg menus like on the 2025 loaner I have now.
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Its in the 2026 Q3 software, when you have the left **** pit window open to the long term odometer screen you switch up or down for short term.
I can't remember the last car I had that had a dead battery, it had to be over 15 years ago.
I can't remember the last car I had that had a dead battery, it had to be over 15 years ago.
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Yup, four days without use and the battery was completely dead, wouldn't even open the doors. There are lots of report of the batteries being knackered from the four months it takes to get from factory to door in the UK, and Audi pushing back on replacing the batteries. I imagine I will be in for some pain.
The car was also delivered with the external trim in the wrong colour and a wireless charger that stops working after ten minutes.
Audi have been, horrific to deal with.
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