RodDuggan

can't follow what you're doing

I do think it's funny when the senior executives do a presentation on the new facelift model and get so excited about such tiny details like the slightly new shape of the headlamps etc, that really don't mean a lot to customers.

Just picked up our facelift Karoq yesterday and started to try and learn things from the manual. Aaaaarrrgh! The people who write these things must have no idea what it must be like for a new owner to find out how it all works writing such nonsense as: "Engine is not switched off via the START-STOP system due to the operating conditions that are not met" is one gem. We worked out most of the sat-nav system yesterday afternoon, despite the owners manual which is misleading and downright wrong in some paragraphs. I've been to the online manuals and they're even worse, the left hand location menu resets so you can't read the Function/settings one after the other. I've just gone back to the bookmarked online manual to find a Skoda foreign language page demanding an email and password that was not needed ten minutes ago! With all the work that goes into developing such great cars, why can't someone devise a useful owner's manual with ways to achieve everyday tasks instead of a sketchy button by buttton nonsense?

V12 SD card arrived yesterday, installation was started and after two time-outs from the car electrics I had to give up for the day as I couldn't leave the car open with the keys in overnight! It got up to nearly two thirds complete according to the green bargraph. The installation process was easy to set up and the installation resumed fine after each time-out. I started it again this morning at 10.07am, and it decided it had to start from scratch! I left the keys in, with the ignition on and a battery charger connected to make sure the battery didn't flatten itself, and by 13.23 it had finished installing. That's three and a quarter hours to install! There must be a Sinclair calculator chip in there processing the instructions. I kept checking on it every 15 minutes or so, and at one stage the screen had gone blank. Switching the ignition off made it resume the installation, and switching it back on caused it to go blank again. However on the previous day, switching the ignition off allowed the watchdog timer switch the satnav unit off! So apart from the time-outs and the 3.25 hours it takes, all installed fine and the menu confirms it now has V12 installed. The satnav appears exactly as it did, except now both the Destination Memories and Last Destination Memories will not work! They show up in the lists, and all the details show up when interrogated, but if selected for navigation, the message " This destination memory cannot be selected" or "This last destination cannot be selected" comes up. There is a workaround - if you rename or edit each entry, it then saves it as a workable destination, but that's a lot of work to fix a serious bug.

Just ordered V12 update as the car currently has V4 which is so old it only shows Roman roads, with messages like "XXIV miles to destination".

Thanks Frenchtone, it's some years since I did any searching for updates, and you're right there's SD cards available online with newish maps for £31. But... There are reports of v9 and later causing system problems, so I may just stick with the old (stable) maps rather than take a risk, especially as the Yeti is out of warranty.

Not true I'm afraid.

We've just taken a call from our local Skoda service department who are carrying out our annual service. It's a 2013 Yeti 1.2 with 48k miles on the clock. Although no brake wear indicators have come on yet, they are recommending new pads and disks all round. The originals have lasted very well as we don't often tend to use the brakes! The cost was quoted as just over £700! Unbelievable.

We have a 2013 Yeti with the Amundsen sat-nav, and gave up trying to update the maps years ago, after what can only be described as a protracted fiasco with various factions of Skoda. Starting off from new we understood from the sales person that maps were updated every three years, so after three years I was advised to go online to the update portal and enter the VIN. The message came back "there are no updates for your vehicle, please contact your local dealer" So we contacted our local dealer where an over-enthusiastic lady told us we had to go online to the update portal and put in our VIN etc... I told her we had tried and had been redirected to the dealer, but she wouldn't have any of it. After a lot of arguing, she reluctantly agreed to ask someone and get back to me. That was 2017 and we haven't heard from her yet. I phoned Skoda UK where a chap in the help department told me they didn't know anything about what issue maps they were up to, it was something Skoda weren't informed about and he didn't know anything about updating the sat-nav. He recommended going to our local dealer. Brilliant! As the sat-nav is not very good anyway, especially when compared to Tomtom devices and now mobile phone technology, we gave up with trying to updatethe Skoda sat-nav and just accept it for what it is as a sort of third rate back-up to the alternative technologies. We still crack up when the lady says "stay on this road - for a very long time".