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  1. The fact that you have a Parrot mic above the rear view mirror suggests that you have an after-market Parrot fit, rather than a factory-fit VW/Skoda system. Unfortunately, I have no experience of the Parrot system. Good luck.
  2. The Skoda was seen on my Galaxy as "SKODA_BT". Are you absolutely sure that you have Bluetooth fitted to your car? Check under the driver's seat for the BT module. Edit - Just had a thought, I am sure that one of the options in BT on my maxidot was whether to have the Skoda BT discoverable or not, and for how long. Check that you have set the car to discoverable. I didn't have to do that on mine, but you never know.
  3. My Galaxy SIII paired without problems. But I initiated it from the phone, not the car. On the phone I switched on BT, then made it visible, then searched for new devices. It found the Skoda, a set of numbers appeared on my Columbus, and a voice backed this up saying 'Enter code XXXX on your phone'. The Samsung then asked me whether I wanted to pair using SIM access (ie RSAP). I said yes to that. Then the phone asked me if I always wanted to connect automatically in the future. I accepted that. The SIII is one of the very few modern phones to use RSAP. The down side is that, when connected via RSAP, you won't receive emails. The up side is that you get excellent reception (it uses the car radio aerial), and you can see incoming texts on the Columbus (in my case).
  4. I would like to add one further point. Having done all of the above, before you can use BT audio, you need to start the music playing on your Iphone first. If you don't, the Blutooth option on the Media page will be greyed out. That button is only available when it detects a BT audio signal.
  5. Have you tried searching for new BT devices from your phone? It should pick up Skoda.
  6. Iphones are not RSAP compatible but, luckily, the GSM III connects to phones using RSAP or Hands Free Protocol (HFP). So your Iphone will connect using HFP. The only thing you will miss out on is that you won't get texts on your Bolero/Maxidot. HFP will copy your phone book to your car, and you can dial names, favourites, recent calls, etc, but texts will stay on your Iphone.
  7. Yes they do, and my handbook and chassis number plate both carried the code for Variable servicing. However, when I picked up my brand new Fl Octavia, I found it was set to Fixed. I reckon unscupulous UK dealers are changing them to Fixed during the initial prep period, so that they can see customers coming back for servicings at about twice the rate they should do.
  8. I have had mine for 18 months, and it's coming up to its first service at about 18000 miles. Runs as sweetly now as it did the day I got it. It took about 5000 miles for the engine to settle in and produce good fuel consumption. I averaged high 30s mpg in the early days, and now average 42-43 mpg. Like you, I am not a high mileage driver, I calculated that I would need to cover about 90K-100K miles to recoup the extra money for the deisel engine, so stuck with the petrol. I would say that the engine is easily powerful enough for the size of the car (the same engine is, of course, also available in the Superb). The combination of supercharger and turbo means it pulls quite strongly at all revs.
  9. There is such a demand for Skodas (hence the long waiting lists) that Skoda dealers are under no pressure to sell. They sit and wait for buyers to come to them. My local dealer doesn't even bother opening on a Saturday afternoon or Sunday. And in fainess, why should he?
  10. Sorry, but I beg to differ. I agree with your statement when referring to Columbus/Bolero in Skodas from MY 2011, but for those with older cars, an Android phone will not connect, as they require the phone to have RSAP integrated. It's not actually anything to do with Columbus/Bolero, it relies upon the BT module fitted to your car. From MY 2011, the BT unit was changed to accept RSAP (pretty much only Nokias) and Hands Free Protocol (HFP), which is integrated into every phone. There are one or two execptions to the incompatibility though, and that includes the Samsung Galaxy series, as in the post above. As Fluffmeister has said above, you can replace the BT module in older cars with the latest version, and any phone will then pair.
  11. But..... If you carry out the modification as above, your car will no longer comply with the EU regulations which states that you should have an indication of speed in both mph and kph. As the speedo is only calibrated in mph, the maxidot is normally configured to show just kph. Of course, if you have the maxidot set to anything other than MFD (nav, phone etc), you won't see the kph reading anyway, so it makes a nonsense of the regulation even without the VCDS mod.
  12. Have you spray-washed your car recently, or driven in heavy rain? I have found that if moisture gets in behind the rear bumber, then I get this problem until it dries out.
  13. Not having the safety cameras is indeed a pain. But my solution is to use the app 'Radardroid' on my Android phone. This gives me an audio alert when approaching a camera, and a warning buzzer if I am over its speed. The only drama is that I have to disable the media player BT link every time I fire it up, otherwise I get no audio from my phone. So for me, Columbus for nav, music and phone, and my phone for safety cameras.
  14. You will not be able to access the text aspects of your iphone or, indeed, 99% of Android phones. That is because to use the remote text facilities, your phone needs to connect to the car BT using the RSAP protocol. Iphone doesn't support this, and only a very small number of Android ones do.
  15. Not my experience though. I have had a few TomToms over the years, and subscribe to the Live services. It's true that TomTom 'stifled' the HD Traffic by limiting its ability to look well ahead on your journey. But I understand that has been reversed, at least partially. But in use, I have rarely lost the Live services. When I have, it is because I was in a Vodafone black spot, as TomTom uses a Vodafone sim card to download data. HD Traffic is simply the best on the market, as every TomTom user contributes towards the situation, as your progress, or lack of it, is sent live to TomTom. If a couple of TomTom Live users hit a jam, within minutes it is on the system. As far as I am aware, no other traffic system does that.
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