iamdrew

I owned a 2017 Superb Mk III and recently swapped to a Mk IV and love the car apart from one very dangerous fault. Occasionally, the car decides I’m about to hit something and slams on the brakes - so hard, that you think you have hit something! It has happened several times whilst manoeuvering at low speed in reverse which is somewhat disquieting. But it has also recently done it whilst driving forwards - in no way on any occasion was there a risk of collision with either stationary or mobile obstructions. Twice whilst turning left into a side street outside my house after pulling away from the kerb, and once whilst approaching a roundabout at approx 20mph. The latter one could have caused an accident if the person behind had not been paying attention. I wonder how an insurance company would react, especially if an accusation of ‘brake checking’ were made by the person behind. I can put up with the red flashing warning and beep for front assist and the parking sensors when reversing, but I would dearly love to permanently (or even temporarily) disable the automatic braking. Is there any way to do this and if not is there a contact at Skoda that I can contact to put the case? I think this is a dangerous feature that has not been properly developed and it will cause collisions, quite aside from inducing cardiac arrest in driver and occupants of the car! It spoils what is otherwise a very fine and capable car. Drew