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. :(

Regarding Front Assist, it can generate the Red Screen of (Not) Death on some run ins to roundabouts, as it doesn't understand that the car directly in front (as it sees it) is actually in the lane to the right (in the UK and other places where one drives on the left).

I never did get round to telling the dealer. However, during a panic** when I thought I'd be contacting the dealer and had better report the sunglasses issue at the same time, I found that the latch problem had gone away. I'm assuming that the last time I thought I was applying the temporary fix, I'd actually manoeuvred the latch into its correct position. ** - I hadn't seen how I could use the key to unlock the door if the key fob battery failed. The panic is now over, but only after extreme measures: I read the manual.

The last car I saw with its lights off - on Wednesday night -- was slowly emerging from a multi-storey car park. Although the car was out in the open by that point, it was still in an area with overhead illumination. (I didn't wait to see whether the driver would put his lights once in the dark -- I expect he would have, but couldn't be sure -- but instead signalled that they were off and he corrected his error.)

Around where I live, we have quite a few road junctions where there's a short extra lane at traffic lights to allow, say, cars to get in front of vehicles (e.g. lorries/buses) with poorer acceleration. At one place with this arrangement, I've found that when the car I've been following has been driven at about 35mph (on a 50mph road**), it inevitably moves into this overtaking lane. Their drivers don't tend to shoot away when the light turns green, but they often manage to collect extra cars whose drivers end up fuming more than their cars' exhausts. There must be something magic about 35mph for this type of person, as I notice them doing this speed before and after speed limit changes between 40mph and 30mph. Perhaps they think sticking to 35mph is a valid means of saving them the bother of working out what the speed limit might be on any given stretch of road. I suppose that I should be grateful that they haven't chosen 25mph or slower. (And really grateful that they haven't settled on 60mph or more....) ** - This is a road designed to bypass a built-up area where the main through roads often have 40mph limits. So it's particularly annoying knowing that I might have been able to travel faster through the built-up area.

According to the November 2014 brochure, the vRS TDI is 8.2s (and with DSG is 8.3s); the 184PS Scout (DSG only) is 7.8s. (But perhaps kallekilponen may have access to other, different, figures.)

There's a long-standing tradition that photographs of Mk.3 Octavia L&Ks have to be taken in ASDA car parks and the car must be parked across a number of bays. For reasons past my comprehension, the local ASDA has been attracting more customers in the week since my car arrived. However, a miracle occurred today: the ASDA car park was unaccountably deserted.... So without further ado, here are the results. (Needless to say, the car was a better sitter than I am a photographer: it remained perfectly still during the taking of each shot.)

"It's happened again, Amelia! I parked the Gallardo a bay away from Toby's 458 and when I got back, someone had parked their Skoda between us. Bl**dy cheek...!"

I know the boot is big, but I doubt this proposed feature would be much use if your railroad was in a scale much larger than N....

It comes with the SE and all the trim levels derived from it (i.e. every car other than the S) and is positioned immediately behind the front interior lights. (It's shown at the bottom right of page 10 in the brochure.)

I was having a look around the car interior and opened the sunglasses holder. I couldn't get it to close. It wasn't that it wouldn't catch; it was meeting no resistance at all. While poking around the catch, I caught the clip on one side with my fingernail and found that it and the matching clip dropped down a few millimetres. Closing the holder, it caught. Opening it again, and the catch stayed out of reach until I pulled it down. I'm guessing that the spring in the catch is missing. As it happens, I wear glasses, so my sunglasses are prescription and I carry them about in a case. I have no need for the car's holder. I'll probably never open the holder again, but I might mention it when the first service comes round and get it fixed (for the next owner).