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  1. I reckon I'm being absolutely thick here but I can't work out what I need to do. I've just traded in the Kodiaq (which had a SIM card slot built into the glovebox between the two SD card slots) for a 2017 MkIII Superb (which doesn't). The WLAN hotspot and Skoda Connect functions are present in the MIB, but there's nowhere to put the SIM card. I had assumed that I needed to use one of those USB Skoda CarStick things that I've seen before, but when I look at them the description says they're strictly for MIB2 Amundsen head units. How do I get the WLAN hotspot and Skoda Connect functions working please? I used to be absolutely boiling hot on this kind of thing but now I'm 40 and the world is increasingly confusing and scary and I feel like my dad trying to work the video recorder in 1992. Thanks in advance!
  2. Sorry to resurrect a relatively old thread but I finally got round to talking to the dealer about this. They say it's classed as 'trim' and not covered by the warranty. It'd be 700 smackers to fix as it'd require the replacement of the entire door card assembly. Once I'd retrieved my jaw from the tiles I had a think about this and I'm really not sure that it's trim at all - it seems to me to be an electrical failure. The electric window switch is in the door card as well; is that trim? No. Also, it did occur to me that the LED interior light package - while standard on the vRS - is a cost option for most of the other trim levels (indeed there's a section in the main brochure with some nice pictures dedicated to upselling the thing). If I had specced it on, say, a Kodiaq SE and then it had failed during a warranty period, I feel that it'd be reasonable to expect this to be warranty work. I'm thinking about dropping Skoda UK an email and arguing the toss.
  3. Argh. Sorry to hear this Simon. It certainly made things very noticeably better for me so I assume it's some kind of software difference as ahar suggests. Direct (controlled by threshold).
  4. No probs Simon - let me know how you get on. Will be interested to know if your experience with the response is the same as mine.
  5. This is my experience. Have had a MkIII Octavia, an A6, now a Kodiaq (and the Mrs's Touran) and the stock discs seem to attract rust faster than any other make we've had. I love the cars and doubt I'd change from VAG given the overall experience we've had generally with them but what you say definitely rings true.
  6. I've got a Carista - 25 quid from amazon plus a month's subscription for £10 (which you can cancel immediately after taking it out and then use for the next thirty days, so you only pay a tenner). Worked fine for the throttle thing and I also did a few other tweaks like having the nearside mirror drop when reversing, audible beep when locking from the keyfob, and so on. They all seem much of a muchness as far as I can make out, these dongles.
  7. Straightforward one, this. Does anybody know whether there’s a first- or third-party mount capable of attaching a dvd screen / iPad holder / etc to the back of the front seats in a kodiaq vrs please?
  8. This is the thing - my issue was not about the depth to which the pedal is depressed. It was to do with the fact that you could drop it to the floor and there’d still be a second or so’s lag before the car responded. Changing to sport mode didn’t remedy that; all it did was dictate the nature of the car’s behaviour when it HAD responded. In other words, what VAG refer to as ‘throttle response’ in the context of their different drive modes has to do with the amount of gas pedal depression required to open the throttle fully, rather than the actual time it takes for the engine to react to a variation in the position of the gas pedal. Changing the throttle behaviour in the OBD from gradual (based on time depressed) to linear (based on extent of depression) makes the car respond more like it would if it had a mechanical throttle rather than throttle-by-wire. It really does make a significant difference - feels like how the car SHOULD be set up from factory.
  9. I forgot I posted this and only came back to it earlier this week. In short - thank you very much. I had a Carista dongle I bought ages ago so subscribed to the app for a month and changed the setting today. It drives like a different car. Feels like it’s got about 30 extra horsepower.
  10. My last few cars have been a 1.4 petrol mk3 Octavia, a 2 litre TDI ultra A6 and now the Kodiaq vRS (2.0 TDI with the dual turbochargers, not the new petrol one). The mrs drives a 1.6 TDI touran which is probably my favourite car out of the lot of them because it's a spritely little thing which carries all of us with two weeks' worth of luggage on the smell of a barmaid's apron and drives and parks like a golf. All of them have the most rubbish throttle response known to man and I've little choice other than to assume it's a VAG thing. I'm thinking of getting a DTUK pedal box and/or a DTUK tuning box for one or both cars. My question is this. I've read a lot (including on here) about the pedal boxes and how they've transformed people's driving experiences without any extra power being added. Is it worth getting one without an accompanying tuning box?
  11. Thanks very much both. I’ll run it over to the dealership and see what they reckon.
  12. Odd/niche question but worth a go I thought. I've just bought a 3 year old Kodiaq vRS which I'm really enjoying so far. One thing I've noticed though is that the thin LED light strip towards the top of the driver's door only illuminates at one end - the section which makes up the front two-thirds of it appears to have failed. All the others work as expected. My question is - does anyone know whether this is something that can be replaced easily, or is it a 'replace the entire door card and speaker assembly and door wiring loom and so on' job? I'm on an approved used warranty but I'm assuming it's not covered.
  13. Not been on here for a while! Just paid the balance on a 2019 vRS with a few nice options (canton, sunroof, rear heated seats, reverse cam, electric boot - though not the heated windscreen, annoyingly). Chucking in an A6 which was nice but never as good as the MkIII Octavia it replaced. Glad to be coming back to a Skoda. Hope it's not a lemon. Pics to follow when she finally arrives.
  14. I'd often wondered whether this was the case - thanks for confirming. This car is the first turbocharged (petrol) engine I've had. All the other petrols have been normally aspirated and higher-octane fuel made absolutely no difference whatsoever - though they were very small engines for non-turbos (998cc Austin Metro, 1.2 Fiesta). Makes sense I suppose, thinking about how a turbo works. I'm still pretty amazed at the actual perceptible difference in performance it makes. I wonder whether (at the risk of going off-topic) the difference is even more marked in the 2.0 TSI? I think I might do a search given that this has very probably been discussed on here before....
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