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My wife just received this email from the dealer where she bought her present car. It looks like a national marketing campaign in which the dealers are getting some financial support from Skoda UK. Does anyone know the size of the discounts on offer? Is it for PCP only, maybe? We're unlikely to travel 50 miles to find out unless the deals are likely to be exceptional. Normally marketing stuff of this kind goes straight in the trash but in this case we like and trust the dealer principal who runs a family-owned business. "You have been selected by Škoda UK and West End Garage Škoda to receive a brand new manufacturer upgrade on your current vehicle. Your selection means that you have been chosen along with only a handful of other drivers in the region to receive considerable financial support in upgrading to a brand new Škoda or approved used model at a significantly reduced price. Your support must be redeemed between the 8th and 12th August to qualify and is exclusively available at West End Garage Škoda. Please be assured this is a genuine opportunity to upgrade your vehicle and is only for drivers who qualify for this exceptional incentive. We look forward to welcoming you to West End Garage Škoda and helping you drive away a Škoda at a very special price." Any comments? Not on such offers in general, thanks, but on the specifics of this campaign.

Iridium, which is one of the materials along with platinum that is commonly used in modern spark plugs, costs £3,331 per troy ounce at present.

But we are not talking about some dongle you have. Look up the bitrates of the OP's Galaxy S23 and the MIB3 he is using it with.

In case it wasn't clear from my earlier post: since Android Auto requires both Bluetooth and wi-fi all the time it is in use, you can't connect your phone to another wi-fi device at the same time. That means you can't use Android Auto with a MiFi device that connects to 4G if that MiFi device uses wi-fi to connect to your phone. A portable router providing 4G data that connected to your phone by USB might - or might not - work, if there is such a thing. By the way, Apple Carplay is no different, requiring both Bluetooth and wi-fi connection to the car simultaneously.

Android Auto uses both Bluetooth and wi-fi to connect to the car. Bluetooth for pairing and phone calls, wi-fi for navigation apps, music streaming and other things. Bluetooth cannot handle the bandwidth needed for those things. If it were only Bluetooth, you'd get a car screen that updated about once every half minute. Don't get me started on the other limitations of Bluetooth, a 30-year-old protocol that never worked particularly well.

I was able to download a digital certificate just now. It shows the car's mileage as it was roughly a month ago.

Open Android Auto Settings on your phone and choose to alter one or more of the following settings: Start Android Auto automatically Start Android Auto while locked Start music automatically There are many more settings that may be of interest.

If you have a backup of your iPhone made using iTunes on a PC or Mac, it may be easy enough to install an older version of an app. If you have never taken an iTunes backup, you are probably out of luck unless you are technical enough to do difficult things such as jailbreaking the phone (and if you were, you wouldn't be asking here). Instructions here for the iTunes method: Hexnode BlogsHow to downgrade apps in iOS and Android?Learn why corporates sometimes feel the need to downgrade apps, the different ways to downgrade apps in iOS and Android devices and the need for a UEM.

OTA updates for us were monthly throughout last year. Subscription was, and still is, in place. I think there is a difference betrween a full release of Europe-wide maps, twice a year, and more frequent OTA updates covering a lesser area. Hence the trick of forcing an OTA update by entering a destination very far away.

After being stuck on map version 25.1 since January, our MIB3 finally updated itself OTA to 25.5 today. (UK). Better late than never, eh, Skoda.

Apologies for a late reply, but you might want to consider a specialised car soundproofing company using specialised and well-tested materials: Noisekillers LimitedSkoda Soundproofing KitsBy focusing on key areas of your vehicle, our Skoda Soundproofing Kits provide comprehensive noise reduction that results in a calm, quiet drive. - either to do it yourself or for them (or their associated companies) to fit. Note, though, the one review of the Karoq kit, which says there is already factory-fit soundproofing inside the rear wheel arches.

I would be wondering about a stuck turbo actuator rod.

There are lots of sellers on eBay who get you to send a picture from which they match what you need,

Surely that means they were working till January and not since.

Menu > Settings > System Information -- Navigation database

Yes, it's working again here too. However, my version of the app, updated today, is 8.3.0 (Android). Not to my surprise, the release notes say nothing of having fixed this bug. These are software developers who do not like admitting to their past mistakes. Eiither that or it was a back-end problem. May I ask what map version people have, assuming you get over-the-air map updates? Mine is still stuck on 25.1. Last year it updated monthly; no updates now for four months.

That might actually make things worse. Many modern cars charge the battery only when the car is going downhill or decelerating to a stop, or else when the state of charge is very poor. The purpose of this is to save a bit of fuel, as the alternator is harder to turn when it is called on to produce electricity.

He says he has already done that.

Change the key battery. Even if that is not the fix, you need to rule it out as the easy first step.

It's not working here either. Moreover, the over-the-air map updates have not worked since January. I reckon it's all borked again. No surprise there, in view of Skoda's past incompetence with all things online.

Up to 30% opacity (i.e. 70% light transmission) is normal for glass. Some, but not all, windscreen replacement companies may have a light transmission meter if you want exact figures. But it may not be worth the effort of finding one, as any added film will very likely take them below the legal limit.

On ours (MIB3 / 0330) there is no top-level menu called CAR but there is one called Vehicle. Clicking on the gear icon there brings up a sub-menu which is probably what you are referring to. It does not contain a Reset item.

I have Settings > Restore Factory Settings, but it is not the last item on that menu. It comes before 'System Information'.

That web page is telling you that if your car has an auxiliary heater, it can be controlled via the app. That does not imply that auxiliary heaters are available in the UK.

At this link there is a download containing a bundle of service and repair manuals for the Karoq: https://getthemanuals.org/index.php?p=2&indexname=2018-2020_SKODA_Karoq_Service_Manual After you unzip it, you'll find a file called 'General body repairs, interior.pdf', which contains several pages on the rear seat assembly. I can't guarantee it will solve your problem but it might.