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It's common for the sensor in the light assist to go, mine has failed twice now. Had replaced once under warranty and again now outside warranty and I can't be asked to get it replaced as it's so expensive - whole new mirror unit which houses the sensor for light assist at the back. The fact that you get no green light on the front of the mirror makes me wonder if there is a power or fuse issue for the mirror unit. After all the light assist sensor is part of the mirror.

No specific light by the lock. Possibly in basis you can set the car interior light to come on upon opening the door but agee this may not provide sufficient illumination at the lock to help find it. Over time you'll get used to the location and manage it as second nature, so personally I don't think this is a major omission.

Mine are Hankook Ventus S1 Evo²

Mine is a 2015 Octy which was fitted at factory with Hankook tyres. My car is still below 30k miles and I had the same appear on my back original tyres 6 months back. Apparently wouldn't have happened if I was doing more miles... The rubber dries out like this and cracks when it's flexed less (not driven as much), according to the tyre fitter. Nothing to worry about really. Tracking/alignment... Be mindful of the fact you probably have radar based front assist which may need special treatment? Perhaps others can shed some light on this just for knowledge even though YMe may not need it right now?

Not tried it yet personally but certainly have read on here that people do it with varying degrees of success and that the thicker 2032 battery lasts longer.

For what it's worth, my car refuse to start of the driveway as the battery was dead. I have Roadside recovery through Skoda so the chap showed up and jump started the car. He also checked the price and availability of a replacement battery and did the replacement for £213 all in. I'm happy with that having checked the battery prices on ECP and knowing I didn't want to end up getting the wrong battery as I know it needs to support stop start, nor do I have the kit or know how for VCDS. Interestingly I also get the feeling the DSG is performing better in the new battery? I think the old battery (original that came with the June 2015 car) was well and truly gone as I noted stop start barely worked even after long drives. DSG was starting to get sluggish changing gears. Seemed to hold into 1 and 2 for a bit longer than I would expect, but is now shifting as I would expect. Dunno if that's a false perception or actually the strength of the battery affects DSG since it ultimately relies on the battery?

I assume if you indicate left you don't get exactly the image in B but instead you get the arrow going left rather than right shown in the image. Is your car manual or DSG? If DSG, I wouldn't normally perform a reverse manoeuvre using the accelerator, not sure if you are and that's what's causing the Park assist to disengage? Also I usually slowly disengage the brake after engaging reverse so that the car slowly creeps backwards.

This is a common problem and I'm not 100% sure what triggers it, nor is there a 100% solution to get the time back in sync by leaving the setting on GPS adjustment. However I can tell you it does eventually automatically resolve itself if left on the automatic GPS setting. A strange quirk 😛

I have the same issue although it seems to crop up much less nowadays after a software fix? It's a very intermittent problem that would only crop up after a lot of driving around in town.. slow speeds with lots of acceleration and deceleration. After a long period of rest it would go away. Skoda couldn't reproduce it so I produced a video for them. If you see the comments under the YouTube video, the person that posted the video says VW say it's a DSG fault and are replacing the gearbox as it's under warranty. It's always been a worry that it's a problem with the DSG, which are known to have issue which VAG don't readily admit to.

Is it just me or is the Light / High Beam Assist equipment very failure prone. I've had mine fail some years back and again in the last few weeks. At £800 to replace I really don't think it's worth sorting. I can't imagine the headache when other more key aspects of these high tech cars start to fail. I bet other aspects of the tech are also more failure prone than the mechanicals 😰

I think MY16 cars (Octavias) were all fitted with MIB2? Note MY16 cars started production summer 2015, so even a car with a 15 or 65 plate may be an MY16 and have an MIB2 system.

Adaptive cruise control has a stalk that looks like this... I think it's adaptive by default, not sure if you can make it behave like normal cruise control. SEL spec in the UK briefly got this as standard. Mine has it and for me it's now a must have feature.

Interesting topic. So there's clearly a lot of software in these modern cars which can get updated over time. Question... Is updation of the various firmware done by explicit request when car goes into service and is it done at extra cost? Or is it done automatically as part of routine service? I would hope the latter but doubt it's the case. If at extra cost, how much extra are you paying just for the updates please (if you don't mind me asking). Also do you get firmware updates for the entertainment / navigation system?

Error would come up when light assist was enabled and put hight beams on. Car would revert to regular high beam. Took it to the dealer under warranty and I believe they replaced the whole mirror unit?

So far so good! Checked a lot of the things before taking back the car. Obviously couldn't test the Front Assist Radar but they said they had it calibrated along with wheel alignment which has to be done as part of calibration. So just have to take their word for it. Took it on an A Road on the weekend and switched the maxidot to show car in front distance and seemed to be fine and didn't warn unexpectedly or slam on the brakes, so that's a good start.