SimonB68

I'm simply trying to understand whether your car behaves the same as mine. I can unlock the car with key or handle, but the seat will not move to the saved position until the door is actually opened. This doesn't offer much advantage since I could simply press the memory button and it would take almost the same time. I had hoped that I could be walking to the car, unlock it with the key and the seat would have moved, or at least be moving, by the time I open the car.

The seat moves without opening a door?

Thanks, that's very informative, and I was leaning towards the same conclusion that other than a third key the option doesn't deliver much. It was unlikely that "extensive, ongoing discussions with my dealership" would prove fruitful so I had resigned myself to not really knowing if this feature had been fully enabled or not, but the dealer has to provide me an extra key, at some expense, which I consider goes towards compensation for the mess of the car delivery. Might I ask if you've ever tried locking the car with the non-key owner's profile loaded, and then seeing which profile is loaded when the car is next opened again with that key, once the car has shutdown? I have a feeling that the profile is not hard linked to the key, and it just appears that way since owners' key management makes it so. There doesn't appears to be much profile personalisation above what is meant to be default, if anything, and that is linked to the last key used to lock (according to the manual). In reality all I really wanted was electric seat and mirror position memory, and since the seat only moves once the door is opened, being linked to a key is a bit pointless since at that point it's easy enough to just press the applicable memory button on the seat. I had hoped and assumed that the profile, and all the saved settings, would activate when the car is unlocked, and the seat would have moved or at least be moving when the door is opened.

That's apparently how standard personalisation works, it stores the current seat and mirror positions in the key used to lock the car. I need to experiment more and see if keys are now locked to particular accounts or the system just remembers the user account that was active when the car was locked. Assuming we manage our keys properly then this shouldn't be an issue, unless we, for example, share the drive on a particular journey and switch profiles, or bring both keys in which case how does the car decide which key is active. Whilst I don't have an issue as such with user profiles, they make some sense for the sort of personalisation features that I want, but to be reliant on a phone network connection before loading the infortainment system I find a bit ridiculous. To not be able to reliably get in the car and start using the sat-nav or smartlink immediately seems nonsense. And what's with the S-PIN login.... someone's been watching The Transporter too much. Overall I'm very happy with the car, but the owner's manual could do with some work to make it clearer how some of the software works.

Many thanks Scot5 for taking the time to put that together. I had already registered the second user, so just selected that when turning on the ignition. It seems to have taken, but doesn't operate quite as slickly as I had hoped. The procedure in the owner's manual was appealing since it just required assigning keys in the UI rather than faffing with toing and froing to the car with different keys. The feature then appears to just be an extension of standard personalisation, in that some additional settings are also saved. Saving of the last user and seat and mirror positions are standard. I wonder what would happen if I switched from the second user profile to primary user profile and then locked the car with the second key. I suspect it would save the primary user. Also the whole user profile thing is laborious and slow. It can 20-30 seconds to load a profile and several minutes to synchronise profiles when switching. I presume because it relies on a GSM connection to Skoda Connect and the signal our way is poor. I modified Radio favourites and climate settings for the second user. The extra Radio favourite was also set for the primary user, but the climate settings were saved, and remembered between keys at least. Overall, not convinced it's a terribly useful feature over and above the standard personalisation, and certainly misrepresented by the owner's manual which I had checked to see if the feature was worthwhile before specifying. It does give me a third key at least, assuming the dealer gets around to supplying it. Seems like the dealer was right then with the way he described the Personalisation configuration in MIB3.

Many thanks, much appreciated I should probably clarify 'ordered'.... I specified it, it appeared on the dealership's vehicle order form that I signed, but they failed to add it to the factory order. This wasn't the only issue, or the only failing of the dealership. It's frankly been a tale of woe. When the issue of rectification came up, and I was offered the 'tech guy' solution, I pointed out the feature included a third key. This came as a surprise to the salesman, but eventually it was agreed an extra key would be ordered. When I will actually get it could be a whole other story. I like the car, but have absolutely no desire to ever return to the dealership.

Hi, I have a question about the 'Personalisation of drive mode selection' feature on MIB3 (Columbus) if anyone with this combination can please help. Is the feature as per the owner's manual where there is a 'Personalisation' tab in the MENU->Vehicle->Settings page, where key assignment to accounts is managed? Reason for asking, new car delivered without it despite specifying it, and the dealer claims to have had it enabled but I still do not have that tab, and dealer reports that his 'tech guy' says that with MIB3 that feature is managed entirely in the User screens. I see no way in that screen to do key management, and it goes against the description in the owner's manual. Many thanks Simon

I should be collecting my 1.5TSI DSG SEL around the beginning of March. I'm coming from a Freelander2 SD4 2.2L diesel turbo with 190bhp. I was particularly worried about the performance, but wasn't prepared to pay the 4k difference in cost for the 2.0, and with the options I wanted it would push me over the 40k barrier. I arranged an extended test drive and drove many of my common local routes to see how it comperared to the FL2. It definitely lacks the same outright performance of the TD, but I was pleasantly surprised and if you're willing to give it some revs I found the acceleration to be acceptable. No doubt I will have to adapt my driving style, but I felt it was something I could live with, though of course only time will tell. I would strongly advise that when possible you get the whole family on a test drive and see for yourself, since noone really knows what you consider normal family life.

This was discussed in another thread. Apparently you need to fill the second page with favourites.

In my case this also forces the RVM USB-C port to be dropped, which is very annoying. When I queried the change in Sat Nav model the dealer initially stated, simply based upon the current brochure, that it would be Amundsen. However when I queried this I am now being told my vehicle will have Columbus. I am getting him to confirm this absolutely as well as question why this is not affected by the above BW48 changes. I do not have a build week yet, as far as I know. Order is SEL 1.5TSI DSG

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I don't know if this is new news, but just contacted by my dealer to tell me that because some options and exterior colours have been discontinued from Week 48, for my new Kodiaq order I had to decide to either remove Traffic Sign Recognition, or add an option to allow it to be included. I had no intention of adding another option, it was only included since it seemed to be needed for HBA and/or the high level USB-C. I chose to remove it as long as the dealer could provide assurance that no other option would be affected. Anyway, just a heads up that perhaps other features may no longer be available.