Instrument cluster -> Analogue instrument cluster operation for Your Volkswagen California Van Third Generation (2015-2024)

Analogue instrument cluster operation  
Fig. 1 Right-hand side of the multifunction steering wheel:  
buttons for operating the menus and information displays  
in the instrument cluster.  
Fig. 2 On the right of the steering column: Buttons on the  
wiper lever (illustration).  
There are no buttons on the wiper lever in vehicles equipped with a multifunction steering wheel. The multifunction  
display is controlled using the buttons on the multifunction steering wheel only. The functions of the buttons on the  
multifunction steering wheel depend on the vehicle equipment.  
Vehicles with multifunction steering wheel: If any priority 1 (→ Warning and information messages) warning  
messages are displayed, you will be unable to open any menus. Some warnings can be confirmed and switched off  
with the  
button → Fig. 1.  
Vehicles without multifunction steering wheel: If any priority 1 warning reports are being displayed, you will be  
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unable to open any menus. Some warnings can be confirmed and hidden with the  
button → Fig. 2  
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Selecting a menu or information display  
Vehicles with multifunction steering wheel:  
1. Switch on the ignition.  
2. Personalisation: select user.  
3. If a message or the vehicle pictogram is displayed, press the  
→ Fig. 1 button, several times if necessary.  
4. Press the or button to display the menus and to browse through a menu→ Fig. 1.  
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5. To open the menu or information display as shown, press the  
information display opens automatically after a few seconds.  
button → Fig. 1 or wait until the menu or  
Vehicles without multifunction steering wheel:  
1. Switch on the ignition.  
2. Personalisation: select user.  
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3. Press the  
displayed.  
→ Fig. 2  
button, several times if required, if a message or the vehicle pictogram is  
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4. Hold down the rocker switch  
→ Fig. 2  
to display the menus or to return from a menu or an  
information display to the menu selection.  
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5. To browse through the menus, press the rocker switch  
→ Fig. 2  
up or down.  
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button → Fig. 2  
6. To open the menu or information display shown, press the  
or information display opens automatically after a few seconds.  
or wait until the menu  
Making settings in menus  
Vehicles with multifunction steering wheel:  
1. Press the arrow buttons or in the displayed menu until the desired menu option is highlighted.  
A frame appears around the selected option.  
2. Press the  
button → Fig. 1 to make the required changes.  
A tick indicates that the relevant function is switched on.  
A tick indicates that the particular system or function is active.  
Vehicles without multifunction steering wheel:  
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1. In the displayed menu, press the rocker switch  
until the desired menu option is marked.  
→ Fig. 2  
on the wiper lever upwards or downwards  
A frame appears around the selected option.  
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2. Press the  
button → Fig. 2  
to make the required changes.  
A tick indicates that the relevant function is switched on.  
Returning to the selection menu  
Vehicles with multifunction steering wheel:  
1. Press the or button → Fig. 1.  
Vehicles without multifunction steering wheel:  
1. Select the Back menu option.  
button on multifunction steering wheel  
Press the  
button to switch between the current and previous menus.  
Press and hold the  
→ Fig. 1 button to select from the list of preset information profiles:  
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