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As far as I am aware, any of the apps functions won't work until your car has landed in your country and been registered/had a pre delivery inspection. You can feel out and try and get shipment status from your dealer, and then go on the live shipping websites and try and guess which ship it's on (look at my thread history for how you can do that, as on my 4th Octavia and I previously liked to try and work this out)

Forums can at times be a place to share issues with particular models of cars, rather than populated with folk saying "my car is fine." Now on my 4th Octavia (mk 4.5), and it's all good! I think the heated windscreen on Octavia is like the one you mentioned, like the superb; although as I don't have that add-on I might need correcting by someone who does actually have it!

Good choice of colour (biased), and petrol might be the way to go, but I guess it also depends on what's available to purchase. If I were in your shoes, I'd go for petrol

Yes, same on mine: one click for Laura, presumably and hold for the Google lady

Sounds like trafficaction. Probably start by turning that off and wait a week or two and see if you have any German men giving you alerts. I doubt it's Android auto or Waze/Google

Passenger side vent clip fell off on my previous vRS, felt like very thin plastic. With the heat cycles it's surprising that more didn't just pop off

You chose the best colour and in estate version too! Power is definitely not the same as your previous, but still a fun car when it wants too. Just be gentle for the 1k miles, but you probably know that already

It was fuse 14 (infotainment) I think, pop it back in after 10 minutes fixed it. I don't think that's necessary anymore, as hopefully all of the cars who had the dodgy software have been updated

Had a MK4 vRS for 3 and a bit years and it was fine. Some gremlins with the infotainment on delivery, but pulled a fuse and it was fine after that. Have a mk 4.5 vRS and it's even better!

I found the same under my driver's seat when new car was delivered. The top small edge felt sticky I think, maybe a delivery thing to keep pedals clean? No idea

You will find some folk suggest you don't really need to be gentle with it, but I'm sure the handbook says for the first 1000 miles try and keep up it below 3k revs @stubev156 I kept mine below 3k during the first 999 miles then had a blast

A friend of mine purchased a secondhand MK4 Octavia just over a year ago, one of the early models with electrical oddities (incl like your issue @jimharston23). I think he had to jump through a number of hoops, but he managed to get Skoda to replace the headunit when it was well out of warranty. The live traffic updates, which I think Skoda calls 'traffication,' is one of the paid for apps (after a free trial). Some folk use other map apps like Google or Waze to traffic updates, but you probably know that already

It might be worth pulling a fuse or two, this tended to kick the early MK4 electric gremlins up the bum: consider taking out fuse 19 (infotainment) for ten minutes

Press all the buttons, you (probably) can't break it

Whichever route to selling you chose, I had a really good experience with motorway. Went online on the Sunday evening, sold straight away for more than I thought, collected later that week. Just be honest in your listing and take the photos using their platform (can't upload you're own, if you know what I mean). Only faff I had was getting the settlement figure from Skoda!

Nice. What extra toys have you gone for? You've probably read elsewhere on the forum, the mk 4.5 in whatever trim feels like a step up from previous versions.

Waiting game can be tough, but you'll appreciate it whenever it arrives! I sold my previous Octavia on the guesstimate on when next one would arrive, but unbeknown to us there were port delays at the time and it sat there for a bit

If you've got a helpful dealer, they might be able to give you status updates (at port awaiting transit/on ship etc); you can't use the app for this sadly. You can also geek out and track the ships (e.g. www.marinetraffic.com) leaving and arriving into your nearest port, guessing if your car is on the ship or not!

Wow, that shopping bag is a lot points @WaveyDavey! I think I only have 70 something. Handy tip too regarding the widget view (I wander if it works on Android)

That is a weird one! Not experienced the very audible click you've got there

Prefer the look of the second image, but looks a bit odd as it decided to cover the fogs

Maybe worth checking if you have an independent VAG garage near you for them to have a look at it. Which will cost, but will probably give you reassurance

I'd suggest that isn't normal, sounds like a belt, but whatever it is I'd defo get it checked out

Do you have a photo of the black shiny thing?

I enjoy washing and waxing too much!