TheWanderer

You can get a dealer to do it at cost, if you have an early software revision, it's better to pay them a £100 or so to do it, rather than try doing it yourself and bricking the infotainment system and having to have it replaced. Although I believe that East_Yorkshire Retrofits maybe able to recover it if you were to attempt it and fail. http://www.eastyorkshireretrofits.co.uk

The salesman is an idiot. The app is useful for the things that have been previously mentioned, I swear that half of them don't know what they're talking about or the product. Download the app, register your car and get it linked and then use it, it's really useful for checking doors and windows, alarm activation and finding where you left the car and so on. You can even run the vents for a few minutes if you want to prior to using the car. Maps are OK, but I tend to use Waze or Google Maps for navigation as they seem more reliable.

You will lose app access and traffic info updates IIRC. Map updates I think can be done manually via the update portal. TBQH unless you do a lot of driving and don't have a smartphone with Waze or Google Maps, then it's probably worth it. I did them this time, but I don't know if I'll do the infotainment online update next year, as I haven't decided whether I'm going to keep the car. The app access is useful as you can check all sorts of things and check the windows are closed, doors locked, fuel level & even do toot and flash if you forget where you parked in a shopping complex or to scare away kids or creepy characters.

Early software revisions require a visit to the dealer first as it requires additional work and possible component replacement after 1896, you should be able to upgrade, but it might be advantageous to do it in two steps, in that you do 1941 first, making sure that it's all stable and fine, then do 1969 next or just leave it to update itself.

All very well if you have access to OBD11. I don't.

I think that I'll wait for the OTA update to happen this time, the system is working well and not causing any issues, the only reason I manually updated last time was to eradicate the number of crashes that the system was experiencing.

OTA - Over The Air(waves).

You can try it.

Nope just Automatic & Manual settings, no GPS or anything else.

After that distance changing the air filter would be a good idea. Oil should be of the grade recommended by Skoda for your car, so if you have the ability to do an oil change (with filter) and air filter do it. It's one more ✅️ in the box.

I think so.

Shame my council tax has gone up by 5% now as well. £3350 pa. Band F! Soon be in a bloody campervan or static caravan at this rate.

That's OK, then as it proves that the vehicle hasn't been "clocked", so if you have a limited warranty take the car back to be checked for a injector fault or something like that.

Is there official documentation to prove that you're only the 2nd owner with mileage?

Nope, nearest Asda is Sheerwater (Woking), Nearest Morrisons is Woking, Tesco is Aldershot or Broadbridge Heath, Costco is Farnborough. Godalming JS is only worth it, if I'm going there or Waitrose across the road, which I do as it avoids the new speed cameras on the A25. Apparently HMRC are adjusting my tax code as of the new tax year. So I'll have to see what they take off of my pension, which has just gone up by 6.65%, only for HMRC to tax me at 20%!

I just use petrol prices app, get the cheapest & nearest to me, add a shot of Millers EcoMax to a tank full. It's cheaper than any 97/98 or 99 octane stuff,I have a choice of Jet, JS, BP (Bloody Pricey), Esso (regularly closed), Texaco or Shell (Bloody Extortion) I'm retired with HMRC screwing me on "Emergency Tax" and I have 4 bottles of EcoMax in my possession. So EcoMax will do. The only time I get to use Momentum 99 is when I'm in the WoE and I stop at Tesco Minehead to fuel before I leave the area for my homeward bound journey and it often gets put in with the remnants of 95 with EcoMax in it and it often shows that I have nearly 400 miles in range as a consequence. And I'm not paying between £1.60 & £1.67 per litre when bog standard 95 is £1.42-£1.48 per litre and I most certainly won't be paying the high end prices for a bog standard 95.

Don't have this problem with Android.. 😉

I just pop 50ml of EcoMax into a tank of E10 (95), it works and adds about 20 miles a tank.

I'll have a look and see.

Give it a shot of fuel additive that cleans the system like Redex or Injector cleaner just to see if its got a bit of muck in there.

But when you have a car with the setting and it should do it automatically without any further intervention and considering the price of the car, it should work.

Correct. A 💩 idea. I nearly cancelled the order over it, but I didn't as I love RSs.

What lighter socket? It doesn't have one. USB-C sockets only.

Try a different cable. Apple stuff is notoriously picky. Copied this from a Google search for Car Play via wired connection. Connect iPhone to CarPlay Start your car, then make sure Siri is on. Connect your iPhone to your car: If your car supports CarPlay with a USB cable: Plug your iPhone into the USB port in your car. The USB port might be labelled with a CarPlay icon or a smartphone icon. Be sure to use an Apple USB Cable.

The infotainment system will tell you when it needs a service or how many days until it needs one, I'm certain the app will also tell you how many days until it's needed, so you can book it well in advance, I usually book mine 40 days in advance as so to stop the computer going all womanly and constantly nagging you to get it done.