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The new 8” standard screen won’t display map I don’t think or be as customisable as the VC. On my VC I have my music in one dial and route guidance in the other. With the map in the middle. I’d say it’s easily worth £400 and is probably the favourite toy I’ve had in a car yet. You can navigate far more easily and it just makes the cockpit look really modern.

In fairness the horror stories of Volvo waits are pretty epic. That seems a very very very lucky scenario. Got my kodiaq in 5 months which was faster than expected. I know someone waiting for a new xc40 quoted over a year and that’s if you are lucky.

Your car said that the keys couldn’t be detected? I had problems setting up primary user but it was different error message and before you got to the key detection part.

This isn’t an error in profile registration but that the car isn’t physically detecting the two keys so no matter what happens the OP won’t be able to progress to set the primary user until the car detects those two keys and the fix for that as outlined by Skoda themselves seems to need a dealer to be involved.

When I did it I pressed them at exactly the same time and it worked fine.

I’m afraid I don’t think you will fix this without a dealership visit.

Ouch. Mind rather than happened on my old car than the new Kodiaq! Kodiaq is mint well worth the wait. Easily the best car I’ve ever driven. Had a few not really into car friends in the car and they didn’t know what it was - black lettering really hides it and were asking ‘what the hell is this car is it a merc or something?’. Because it was so nice to them. They nearly choked when I told them what it was.

For DPF if can become more problematic over time but if you are running on motorway once a week then it should be fine. Higher mileage dpfs do become more difficult to clear.

End of the day in terms of value the plate does matter if you are planning on selling the vehicle relatively soon. But for a lease or a longer ownership it’s irrelevant.

I’d take the car when it’s ready and ignore the plate personally. I heard loads of dealers say currently people are taking cars a few days before plate changes even just cos they’ve waited so long. Don’t think the plate makes much difference right now.

No it will use the inbuilt sim or the WiFi connection whichever is active. You are right that the inbuilt signal would also be better but the speed of it is slow. My phone on 5G completed the user process in a minute once I’d got the signal.

My guess is it transfers profile data to the cloud and then secure account data to the backend and if the signal (e sim is slow anyway) isn’t absolutely perfect it fails. Lots of these processes now time out due to server security if they take too long. And once that has happened my guess is there is no easy fix other than deleting the profile and starting again. I had to connect car to my phone Wi-Fi via hotspot and drive round the block where I have full 5G signal and the process then was able to complete.

That’s unusual and I suspect the systems just didn’t update. Normally car is built within the week. If you think of their lines you can’t have a car sitting there four weeks.

This is true but Skoda really changed from 2000 onwards when vw took full ownership. Their direction and trajectory since then has been moving from budget brand towards something much more equivalent to VW themselves..accidentally somehow vw have allowed them to become more premium (but at same cost) which seems odd.

Same I’m not even particularly keen on Skoda as their dealers are in my experience a bit annoying compared to my experience elsewhere. But I’ve had a Toyota, several VWs, an Audi back in the day, and now have a SEAT too and I still look at some Skoda cars and just think ‘what is better than this’ and can’t answer it. Enyaq, Kodiaq, Kamiq for me are all pretty much the best in class. Fabia too is right up there. Excluding of course the obvious luxury models. Kodiaq just won best large suv in auto express announced this morning.