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I can't tell if it's the same manual as I have -- although the cover** looks the same, and it has the same number of pages -- but I've just noticed that there is one at Manualslib that can be downloaded. I hope this helps. 😊 ** - The page to which I've linked shows the first few pages as thumbnails, with an expanded version of the first one (and you can click in the others to see them).

Apologies for revealing my basic ignorance/foolishness (particularly as you have been engaging with a Skoda dealer), but.... Perhaps you have a different manual to the one I have, but I'm confused by you mentioning Page 71. (Note I have the Columbus, not the Bolero, but both are included in the manual I have.) The section on the operation of driving mode selection starts on page 131 in my manual... ...which makes me wonder** if there are two different functions at play here, one for simply setting Eco, Normal, Sport, etc. (accessed through a function on the screen menu) and one that does that and allows one to switch between E-mode and Hybrid (accessed by using the Mode button) and gives access to the "auto" function with the latter. ** - Sorry, but I can't be bothered to get in my car and find out for myself and, besides, I'm hopeless when it comes to navigating decision trees, except for a knack of ending up where I don't want to be.

My car (a 2023 Mk.4 iV) very occasionally does this, so on roads where I know the speed limit, I quickly use the ACC stalk to set the correct speed. It's helpful that the "cockpit" speedometer displays all these different settings. What my ACC/PCC also does, though much less often, is to change its "speed limit" to the (incorrect) one stored in the navigation system. Sometimes this data is many years out of date and applies to only sections of the road, even the whole road has always had the same limit along its whole length, whatever the speed limit is/was at the time.

Sorry, but I can't: I can't remember. I downloaded the PDF in early May 2022 and didn't note from where on the Skoda site (or even which Skoda site) I got it. When I bought my car (November 2023) I went looking to see if there was a newer version; I found neither a newer one nor the original. The car did come with a paper version of the manual but, obviously, searching for something in that is nowhere near as easy as it with the PDF version (although the index isn't that bad) and in any case, I keep the paper version in the car.

My downloaded PDF** 2022 iV manual (I have a 2023 car) states, in the sections about Smart Link with regard to both Bolero and Columbus: ** - I can't be bothered to trawl through the multiple web pages of the one on the car and the one on the Skoda site.

They're not that good... ...and what's worse is that my last car was a Mk.3 (pre-facelift) L&K, with these wheels:

I have**, and the first time it did this (well, the first time I noticed it) the sound was so bad that I thought I'd scratched my (3-month-old) car on the one parked next to it, as I was on my way out of my slot in a car park. At first glance, there seemed to be physical evidence of this -- it was hard to tell just by looking, as the car park was dark -- but it turned out that the marks on my car were simply streaks of sand (the car park was right next to a beach) that had been damp enough to "stick" to the paintwork. I left a note for the other driver, but when he phoned me, he could see nothing wrong with his (hire) car (and the hire car company never got back to me). I ended up assuming that a child's small plastic beachball might have got stuck under the car and been scraped on the road surface... but when, a couple of days later, I heard (much more muted) sounds at the same time as the car was feeling a bit hesitant, and this occurred more than once, I worked out that something must be wrong. I took the car to the local dealer (Hendy Skoda in Bournemouth) and they replaced the auto-hold unit in the centre console. I've not had a problem with it since (touch wood...). ** - My car is an iV, so the instrument panel wasn't telling me anything about the revs at the time.

From the manual:

Is there a particular reason why you want a copy of the online manual rather than, say, the PDF of the physical manual? I only ask because I downloaded the iV manual -- not a version of the online one, but a PDF of the physical manual (which contains links that help one to navigate through it) -- back in May 2022. (I bought and collected the car -- new, not second-hand -- in November 2023; it had arrived at the dealer on the November day I was having my Mk.3 serviced and MOT'd.) So far, I haven't found anything different between it and the paper version that came with the car (fingers crossed that this continues to be the case). I can't recall from where I downloaded the PDF (looking for it just now seems to only point me at the online version), but someone might know. Obviously, my manual doesn't cater for the e-TEC, and as it's 27 Meg, I couldn't upload it here even if it had been of use to you, as the upload limit here is 10 Meg. But perhaps someone has done what I did, but for an eTEC, and can still recall where they got the file from.

The My Skoda app doesn't have any of my driving data, i.e. there are no bars on the graphs, but Essentials is still working... for the moment. I'm assuming that the chances that any of the data will be transferred across will be, at best, zero.

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?