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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.

Is it not as simple as Skoda has a smaller market share as an emerging brand rather than a long established one like Audi, BMW, VW etc. But like lots of emerging brands (you can’t really call Skoda the same brand as the one pre full VW takeover 20 years ago) they have to build products that their customers love and retain the value proposition. Audi will sell just because it’s an Audi and have cars like the Q3 for example to prove it. There is nothing at all special about a Q3 beyond the Audi badge. Whereas Skoda have to fight for that value proposition and also keep their customers happy with good finish and build quality. I suspect that’s all this is. VW in my experience have gone downhill in last five or six years to point where I think a many Skoda cars are simply plusher and more expensive looking than their VW equivalents.

The L&K doesn’t have blind spot or side assist either and nor can you add it. These have been pulled from all VAG cars by the start of this year ish. No idea whether it was in at launch but I’m surprised it wasn’t a vRS thing - are you sure it wasn’t pulled due to the chips?

It’s the biggest survey of car owners out there. Are you trying to say it’s invalid because you disagree with the outcomes and they didn’t ask you? I don’t think it’s that controversial either, most reviewers and most of these sorts of surveys put the kodiaq right up there. It’s widely acknowledged as one of the best cars you can buy.

Thanks. I have I think sorted it. To do so I had to do a factory reset and start again. The problem was that when I picked the car up the connect registration got almost to the end then failed. The dealer thought it was a signal issue so I went home to try but it still failed. Then I managed to find somewhere with really strong signal and completed the registration. But the half failed first attempt had turned on some of the connect services but not others but the profile could not be set as primary user. This meant the seat was locked to some odd position for my profile and no matter what I did it wouldn’t fix itself. Every time I signed in the seat back reclines itself almost all the way. Factor reset and setup my profile again and now it’s working as expected and as you described. Personalisation is activated and you can see it under the menu with privacy settings as it shows there all the services that are either turned off, blocked because you’ve not registered or activated. My only issue is that before the factory reset the car has downloaded an update. But since I’ve done the reset it’s not finding that same update again. And I think there is one as the home menu edit is the bottom of each icon rather than the symbol which I think means it’s on the factory software rather than the newer version. I’m hoping it will pop up at some point.

Another question. I have finally managed to get my Skoda connect activated. What a palaver. The main reason I wanted to do it was key personalisation. I have personalisation activated but no option in the vehicle menu or any other menu. Is this something I can do or just not in spec?

I notice that the Kodiaq is now ranked 5th best car in the massive auto express car power ranking based on user experience. Highest of any large suv in the rankings by far.

Yeah it’s a mix of bay and parallel parking. It’s not an issue. I’ve never had it before, apart from an old golf where I never used it because it was useless. But it’s just a nice system to have for those tight spaces or whatever. I don’t think it’s absolutely necessary it’s just having used it, it’s better than it used to be and for not much extra cost would have been worth it.

Had the kodiaq since Friday and absolutely loving it. It’s a joy to ride in and feels like a pillowy soft ride. The only cars I’ve been in that feels as nice are the xc90 and a Q7 which are even more refined. Obviously the xc90 also has better seats etc. However there are two things I’m very much kicking myself about not adding on. I don’t miss the sunroof from my Karoq it’s a nice to have but not for the money and I think the sportline styling sort of suits the darker moodier Audi like interior. I don’t miss ACC or Lane assist. I do miss blind spot monitoring but that wasn’t an option due to chip shortages. However the two things I’m kicking myself for is rear blinds and park assist. The rear blinds would just be great for the kids and whilst I can sort this with some carshades or equivalent I still wish I’d just paid the little more for the family pack as they are really smart. I’d never have even thought about park assist but wife’s new Arona has it and I’ve been using it a lot. A couple of car parks I use have tight spaces and oddly shaped lanes so reversing in is best way. The park assist on the Arona is vastly better for this than the system I had on a golf back in the day as it just does it at normal pace without fuss. It does like straightening up when really it’s not necessary as it’s already straight but I can just cancel it then. The kodiaq reversing camera is absolutely ace but I’ve already wrestled with it into a couple of very tight spots already. Not an issue but for what it cost I wish I’d put park assist on just for those odd occasions. Anyone else got stuff they wish they had added?

Well thanks that’s solved it. It was taking a while for notifications to load seemingly which is why when I tried going there it was empty. But just waited a minute and sure enough it popped up as a notification and is now installed.

How are you meant to update your infotainment? I start driving, update flashes up, click ok…can’t update while driving. So I stop at destination but no option to start update and no update in system information is there to select. Switch off. Start again and mid drive update pops up again and repeat… Tried sitting on the drive with ignition on for ten minutes but wouldn’t pop up. Start driving and it’s there again…