Easyrider64

Subject line says it all.. In looking at a classic car I might buy but the battery is flat. Can I use my Superb iV to jump start it? Manual only covers jump starting the Skoda. Also, to do it, how can I make the car start & idle on the petrol engine, rather than in electric mode? Saw RAC guy do it but he didn't show me how. TIA Colin

Don't know, @roottoot although I'd suspect not, but fortunately my leasing contract will... 🙂

Morning... and Happy Easter! All sorted, thanks to a lovely chap called Simon from RAC Motability! The lock is purely mechanical... it just needed turned (to the right) with a bit more force than I was willing to try on it. Simon then opened the bonnet & jump started the car. It ran, but he tested the battery - which I now know is in one of the side compartments in the boot - and unfortunately it had a dead cell... apparently the AGM batteries needed vehicles equipped with a stop/start system are less tolerant of being flattened than trad ones... Happily, he had a new, actually higher spec AGM on his van which he has fitted. I'm going to take iVy (the car's nickname... her predecessor was Octy!) out for a run shortly - she's showing a lot of error codes for various monitoring systems, which Simon thinks may sort themselves out after driving for a bit. Otherwise, I'll take her up to Marshall Skoda on Tues. Have an excellent Easter Sunday, folks! C.

Thanks for your reply, Patent... much appreciated. I have indeed been pulling the handle - I'm old enough to remember when that was the only way to open car doors! 😉 - but it's not working (just went out & tried it again). Your point about the central locking & drive system is, unfortunately, a good one... I will never let this happen again!

Good Evening! Various chronic health issues have meant I've not driven my 2020 Superb iV Estate since before Xmas - I hadn't released it's been quite as long, but the MySkoda app confirms it. I did go out regularly, open her up & check that the Virtual Cockpit & main systems would "boot up" - as other iV owners will know, you can't start the engine (ICE) occasionally & run it up to temperature in situ, like you might (whether it's advisable or not is another matter!) with a petrol or diesel. Unfortunately, I've been unwell again & self isolating recently, and haven't been out for a couple of weeks or so to even do the above... which I now regret! Today, I went to open the car - KESSY didn't work, and she wouldn't respond to the remote fob either (I actually have & tried 2 others... same result). It's pretty clear that the 12v ICE battery is flat - according to the MySkoda app, the powertrain battery, however, is sitting happily at 96%. Having looked at the manual online, I removed the lock cover and tried the key bit (which, I learned today, you can remove from the fob after sliding the ribbed switch across) * - surprisingly, as I thought (hoped!) it'd be a purely mechanical system, it didn't work! 😞 I wonder if even this requires some ICE battery power...? If anyone has had this happen, got into their iV, and/or has any ideas, I'd be immensely grateful! In the MySkoda app, under Air Conditioning, there's a "Power Source - please allow battery usage" option... It's probably clutching at straws, but I wonder if it's worth planning a trip, so the car will try to prepare/warm itself up - and perhaps charge a wee bit? - from the almost fully charged power train battery. Otherwise, is there an "emergency" method to open the bonnet from outside the car? If I could do that, I could remove & stick the ICE battery on my Cetek 5. I need to get into the car ASAP - my spare wheelchair is in the boot, along with a box of spare wheelchair parts, including bearings, which I need as the castors on my chair have started to "grumble"... TIA Regards Colin C. * https://digital-manual.skoda-auto.com/w/en_GB/show/6eda015e75d209c5cc82de0844b9f17c_7_en_GB?ct=6eda015e75d209c5cc82de0844b9f17c_7_en_GB#titled243646492e8777

My mate has just reminded me that you set the cruising speed using the button on the end of the - on my Octy - the indicator stalk... on his vRS, it's on the separate stalk. But I'm pretty sure I'm right about making minor speed corrections using the radio buttons... Or am I? Haven't driven the Octavia for 2-3 weeks due to illness... am I confusing the radio buttons on the MFSW with the buttons on the end of the indicator stalk? Will check after work...

Morning Folks I'm about to order a new Superb SEL Estate iV, to replace my 2015 Octavia 2.0TDi DSG Elegance Estate. On the Octavia I specified the MFSW with paddles. To be honest, although it's been interesting & fun to have them, I've not used the paddles very much, particularly as I have hand controls on my car. However, I do use the cruise control a lot, viz. the radio volume up/down buttons to a) set my speed and then b) make minor speed adjustments up or down. Question: Is the ability to make minor speed changes on the new Superb - which unlike my Octy, has the cruise control on a separate stalk - dependent on having the MSFW? Or can you alter your cruising speed using the same buttons on the standard wheel? I'm honestly not sure, and neither is my sales guy at Marshall Skoda in Oxford. I had a test run in an iV last week with a mate who has a Mk3 vRS - he drove, as it didn't have hand controls - but we forgot to test this... Any advice really appreciated... I need to place the order today! TIA Best Colin