DamageLimitation

This afternoon, I was notified that my "Essentials" app had an update available. Now installed, it seems to be much like it was before it became mostly useless... ...so I can only assume that the earlier version(s) had a bug that may have been elusive and transient (i.e. no one knew what in the software was causing the problem, and as its appearances were not predictable, it was hard to pin down), and potentially serious. After all, why else withdraw the app/make it unusable for more than a week?

I've just updated my "Essentails" app, and it's now working... ...but unless the function has been moved to a different screen, it doesn't currently provide a way of either seeing the charge in the battery (it does give me the current "cruising range" in miles, but so does the MySkoda app, with the charge) or a way of switching the charging on or off. (This may or may not be because I've been controlling that -- it's charging now -- using the MySkoda app.) With regard to the MySkoda app, I can set the units used to 1) Metric, 2) Imperial (UK) and 3) imperial (US) and I've changed it from (1) to (2) but in the status for fuel consumption per distance, it only shows US gallons per mile. (Okay, I can work out what that means in miles per UK gallon in my head, but it seems odd to offer both imperial units as options while only displaying one of them.)

At first glance, that seems to be working. 😀 Many thanks. 😀

So it isn't just me, then. 😠

I only bought the car in November 2023** and have been using the app since then without any problems, including getting updates, until last night. ** - It was not on order. My Mk3 was in for its MOT in early November and I asked when imports of the iV might restart. I was told an iV had arrived that morning, but it wasn't clear whether it was a replacement demonstrator or one for sale. Whichever it was, I test drove the existing demo car a week later and had bought and drove away the new one less than a fortnight after that. 😀

As of yesterday evening, the MySkoda Essentials app (on an android phone) has become useless: The My Octavia screen contains nothing but an image of my car and, if I swipe on it, a "processing" icon that does nothing (other than, very occasionally, flashes a message in tiny text that's gone before I can read a word of it); The Inspect screen asks (with no way for me to answer) "How is your Skoda?" (plus the useless processing icon); The Navigate screen asks (with no way for me to answer) "Where are you heading?" (plus the useless processing icon); The More screen asks (with no way for me to answer) "Looking for more?" (plus the useless processing icon) and a "settings" icon that does work but the settings it lists have nothing to do with what it displays (or not) to me. Apparently, the MySkoda service is not down generally, but it is for me. Previously, it's worked fine. I only really use the app to see the state of the main battery's charge (the car is a 2023 iV) and to switch the charging on and off (I use a conventional 13A plug to charge the car). Has anyone else experienced anything like this with the app?

It doesn't have that on my 64 plate Octavia with ACC. There is a speed warning feature: "Warning at excessive speeds". You set the speed and you get an audible alarm when you exceed it. (At least that's what the manual says it does; I've never used it.)

Yes... ...as it exceeds the 150PS threshold for getting IRS on Mk3 Octavias.

My dealer offers a free** pick up and drop-off service. I can choose from where the car is to be collected and I've had it collected from both work and home. (I've never been farther than five miles from the dealer, so that may be a factor.) ** - There's never been an obvious charge... which probably means that everyone having their car serviced by the dealer is paying towards it.

I think the correct question is: Have you been given the boot?

I sometimes get the Red Screen of Death on the approach to roundabouts where the lanes curve only in the last ten or twenty metres and Front Assist thinks I'm going to crash (though not at great speed) into the stationary cars in the lane to the right rather than continue along my often empty lane. (Even if I'm in the left-most lane and my LH indicator is switched on, it makes no difference). After such events I have never experienced what the OP has. I have, however, been shown the 'ACC / Front assist not available' message. It was just the once, when I started the car in a car park (the very ASDA car park I'd earlier used to take pictures of the car). Switching the ignition off and on again did the trick. This was well over a year ago and I've not seen the message since, I'm pleased to say.

Adaptive cruise control (ACC) does apply the brakes if the car accelerates due to gravity, but that would still be of no use to the OP: ACC does not put the brakes on if the driver accelerates past the set speed.

And I suppose the ASDA supermarket is on the right, just out of shot....

My 1.8 TSI L&K (shown here) came with a spoiler just like the one in the link from the first post. As I bought the car from (UK) stock, I have no idea whether the spoiler came as standard, had been specified by whichever dealer had brought the car into the UK, or by whoever might have ordered the car then not gone through with the purchase.

Thanks, to the b@£$!&d who... ...threw something through my rear windscreen, shattering it. (When I heard the bang -- I was driving the car at the time -- I thought a tyre had blown explosively.) Whoever did it was nowhere to be seen. At the moment, it looks like the replacement rear windscreen may have to come from the Czech Republic. :(