blue_boy

Thank you ….

I am 4 time skoda owner Octavia and Superbs and they have been brilliant with no serious issues. Should I worry about getting a Fabia and which Mark? Probably can only afford a MK 2…. Thanks

I’m totally confused. When I heard on here I could use IOG for my Elroq I effectively signed up . I have a relatively old BP charge master which as far as I am aware is not smart. I think I got a session to work once but failed so often gave up. Even trying to do instant charging failed as octopus takes over and schedules the charging only for me to wake up to a red light on the charger and no charge in the Elroq. Found a work around by being a GUEST user when I turn on the Elroq and go into private mode . Car then charges on instant charging. Set it off at 10:30 … I am presume I get the 6 hours IOG cheap rate as car needs that time a more to go from 20 to 80…. Is my presumption correct and Any better ideas out there for charging I could try . Thanks

Just in case anyone interested the charger is a bp chargemaster that is 7 years old !

A bit of a pfaff and in the end not sure what I did but right now the car is charging via the Octopus app using Intelligent Octopus Go…. A schedule set up by octopus to get us to 80% using the 6 hours of cheap time plus a couple of other hours before than at Octopus’ choosing …. Thanks for the heads up . The technology is baffling and hopefully all goes well as car down to 2%

Thanks for the posting about Intelligent Octopus Go….. this was definitely not the case back at end of May when we ordered the car and have had trouble charging on scheduled time but will try this now

Sorry, yes did that but still could not get schedule time to start. Working on principle that will simply charge car with full 5 hour slot and having charge % down below half by starting at 10pm.

How did you get on the next time you tried 🤔

Not noticeable so far… same options as on my Superb MK3 but with the added option of Sound. Normal or Sport 🤭 Annoying that Mode has to be set every time you get in the car. I rarely change it in my S3 that I can’t find the button and it was only this year realised why my dash shows E and the gear I am in, which changes to S if I flick the the gear change to sport rather than D and gear I am in . All because DCC set to Eco. Nothing like that of course with the Elroq on the Dash

Thanks our screen looks like this

Currently cannot get our new Elroq to charge at a scheduled time. Does charge immediately though. Ideally like most people want to have benefit of cheap charging overnight. We are with Octopus Go so have the hours from 00:30 much later than bedtime. I’m wondering if it’s to do with out BP Chargemaster charger or more likely the car since the charger works in immediate mode but not really a smart charge - no interface- . Just a case of the car switching to please charge me now mode , so to speak . Thoughts please …. As car so new picked up last week doubting anything like Fuse 3 issue. I’ve read . Thanks

Car fine - charging not… cannot get the car to charge at a scheduled time. Will only charge immediately so missing out on Octopus 5 hour cheap electricity at night. Any thoughts ? Thanks

Had a surprise this morning. Skoda dealer calls to say our new car has arrived and ready for collection tomorrow. Will be something of a rarity as one of the last 85 SportlLine with DCC…. Hoping the Black Magic Pearl Effect looks better in the flesh so to speak 🤞🏻

So lucky me - thank you for taking the time for the response. Wife’s car hopefully arrives late June and I’ll give a view on whether the DCC is noticeable on the 85 sport line

Steve153, thanks for the info. One bit really interests me. When you say you can stay on the tariff if you charge once per month on the IOG tariff, you can turn off smart charging but still get the longer hours. Now I see two scenarios for how you can be in this position. 1) one's previous car worked with the charger you have and was able to register for the tariff, BUT now you have a new car but do not change your car somewhere in the App. 2) one sign's up picking any car that combines with your particular charger that works and so you can switch.. After that you are on your own and switch off smart charging and FINGERS CROSSED your car charges without any trouble..... that bit actually troubles me.