byteme

If the manufacturer, with their vast resources, can't fix the problems they've built in why would you expect a dealer based technician to be able to? All of these problems are being, trying to be fixed, directly in conjunction with Skoda Technical so perhaps it would be more accurate to say Skoda can't fix their own cars and are leaving the dealers to pick up the pieces. Dealer's in these instances will simply be following guided test plans and relaying back their findings in ongoing dialogue until the problem is fixed or Skoda run out of ideas. The other factor to realise is that dealer level diagnostic equipment only has certain levels of access whereas the manufacturer has total access.

Rubbish! Problems occur all the time with aircraft and all manner of help is available to flight crews while in the air. The reason they don't drop out the sky is down to over-engineering and redundancy along with long established systems and agencies that work for a common benefit but problems always happen. Then of course there's the 737 Max, grounded for two years. You have no idea of how the motor trade works and how they're left to sort out and excuse problems built in by the manufacturer who themselves often don't have a clue how their vehicles work. I recently took delivery of a PHEV Octavia and it's riddled with software issues so please tell us why you believe this is the responsibility of the "motor trade" and not the manufacturer. We operated identical helicopter types in pairs (AS355s, then AW109s and then onto S76Bs) as it was the only way to guarantee one was always available. There's no comparison between operating aircraft and cars.

I use the speed limiter and have preferred this as an option since driving Volvos. Why the idiots at Skoda require I have to select this at each start is beyond me. Volvo also had a tap up/down in 5mph/5kph steps, again Skoda haven't included unless it's buried down in the basement levels of the options. It's such a good car ruined by rotten software.

Not Android, I don't use it and use an Apple company phone, it's just the rubbish software that plagues this car. Mine is a short term company car replacement so I don't much care but if I paid money for this otherwise excellent car I would reject it. A pity because while in many ways this is better than my Superb the software is so poor it makes it dangerous.