Ianrally

In my two previous cars, Octavia VRS saloon and Octavia VRS estate, I had a really strange event where the Car Play always lost connection as I approached the M6 Toll from the north. After about a mile into the M6 Toll, connection was automatically re-established. With the first car, I just put in down to a purely connection issue, but on subsequent trips in always lost connection at that spot. When I got the estate and the same thing happened, I thought that something weird was happening at that location. Now with my current Kodiaq I haven't been down that way as yet, but cant wait to see if the same thing happens again.

I set Auto Hold to 'ON' in the vehicle braking section of the infotainment screen. All is fine for two or three days, then the next time I start the car the Auto Hold setting is disabled. I then have to go into the settings again and re enable it. What is that all about?

I have it set to the maximum distance, it is far too sensitive.

Same here, flashed up many times but luckily not hit the brakes. One aspect I really hate is when passing a junction where a car is waiting to turn out onto the main road, it flashes up then. I just hate it with a vengeance, it frightens everyone in the car to death.

The reason I ask is on ACC, the slowing down starts much sooner and at motorway speeds, muck harsher than you would tend to do driving normally. I have found cars behind think I’m brake testing them!

Just a question, when the car slows down on ACC, do the brake lights come on?

I couldn’t agree more. I do exactly the same thing. I have travel assist switched off and use ACC which slows the car down when catching the car in front even in traffic then automatically speeds up again when the car in front sets off again. Remember also that the slowing down is provided by the rear brakes.

Thanks for the info dembala

Thanks, I'll give it a try.

I have had a few issues with Car Play losing the connection to my IPhone. This happens randomly while in the the middle of a journey. I have tried various ways of re-connecting but the only way that works is to get switch off the car, get out and lock it. When i get back in, Car play connects immediately on switching on the ignition. Anybody else had this issue ?

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It’s also on the infotainment screen here

Thanks Lee, Yes it is shown in virtual cockpit but only when you turn off the ignition and it shows for a few seconds. You are correct about the Skoda Connect App, you have to tap Inspect at the bottom of the page then Car Details and it’s half way down in the list. Strangely not in Driving Data where trip distances are shown. Thanks for the heads up, Ian

Am I right in saying that the only place you can see the recorded total mileage is in the display when you switch the car off?

OK Thanks.

Although I can deactivate Lane Asist and Speed warning, is it the case that one of the three, Travel Assist, ACC or Limiter have to be active, as I can see no way to toggle them off.

Many thanks to you all for the helpful advice, I have it sorted now. I was misunderstanding that I had to turn off wifi on my phone when actually what was meant, was to actually select my Skoda wifi network and then select "Forget this Network" All good now and thank you to everyone.

I’ll just ditch Waze then and use Google Maps. Thanks for the info though.

Thanks. It’s wireless and CarPlay. I’ll try to ditch the Skoda Wi-Fi on the phone but I suspect the phone will not connect to the car then. I have full free data but as I said earlier over three years of using Waze there has not been a problem until the last few weeks.

Thanks but I’ve tried both of those to no avail. Removed the app and reinstalled it, and done a hard re-set of the phone.

Has anyone else had a problem with Waze not working on the infotainment system? I have used Waze for three years with no problem but now it only gives the “Using Offline Maps” message and I can’t use route info nor live traffic info. Phone data shows four bars so mobile data isn’t an issue. All other connection between phone and car is fine with music and phone calls working as normal.

I give up

I can’t help it if you can’t get your head round my post. I’ll leave it there. Explain ICE as I don’t converse in abbreviations.

It’s nothing to do with having accidents with non electric cars. Where do you get that idea from? It’s to do with insurance costs increasing because of the repair costs of electric cars.

Mine went up this year from £388 to £568 fully comp with no claims or convictions. It wasn't auto renewed and the £568 was the cheapest on comparison sites. When I questioned many of the companies they said the increase was due to the repair cost going up especially the cost of repairing electric cars. My reply was that I don't own an electric car and therefore the increase to repair electric cars should not be spread across the board but confined to owners of electric cars, and lets see how smug these "green" car owners would be then! Of course I didn't get a reply. Looking forward from a reply from Dan@ Adrian Flux who posted earlier.