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Not sure if CarPlay is affected, bit Android Auto is currently putting out issues where the 'turn by turn' display on the dashboard is not working if using Google Maps. It does work via Waze though. Try Waze and see if it works, then you'll know if it's a Google Maps issue. I am in 'discussions' with Google on this and they seem to think Android Auto is the cause, but I am repeatedly telling them it happened after a Google Maps update and that Waze works perfectly.

My experience with the auto headlights was that it seems to rely too heavily on the quality of lights coming at you. Does the opposing vehicle have similarly blinding bright white LED headlights? If yes, the auto function will switch off your full beam straight away. Is the opposing vehicle a vintage motorcycle with a single headlamp putting out barely any more soft smudged yellow light than the average candle? The Skoda does not recognise it at all and does nothing.

I would imagine an MOT would identify any dangerous brake fluid issues surely? Well, that and Skoda's own service report had the brake system down as green with no issues, after I had declined the opportunity to pay for a fluid change with no real reason given as to why, other than it was on the 'upsell' section of my printed service request.

So 'essential' is the brake fluid change that I have now visited my Skoda dealer four times under my service plan and they have asked if I want a brake fluid change at my cost. It isn't even part of the service plan yet they want you to have it change as part of a schedule? £££££££££££

As per others, I have several times had the car slam the brakes on to bring me to an instant stop when reversing and (in my opinion) way too far from the object it thinks you're going to hit. That said, it does seem to be speed-sensitive, so I assume the software does a calculation and decides I will hit this object in x.x seconds. It doesn't know I will be braking myself before I hit the object. What the car really does not like is when I am using ACC and it sees a car to the left (parked) while on a bend. It frequently slams the brakes on in those situations, to the concern of the driver behind, to the point I have long since acquired some muscle-memory whenever I am on non-motorway etc doing slower speeds and have stationary traffic that I know will be problematic to the ACC and so I switch it off until I am past.

That was one of the errors that used to pop up on mine in the first few months of owning it from new (21 plate, SE L DSG) and was sorted at the first service (the initial X miles thing) done at a dealership. I did tell them about the faults and they knew about them being common and there being a software update to rectify it. Update was done at the service and that message has never been seen again. There have been loads of OTA updates since, so I couldn't tell you what version that would have been, but if you know the dealership has never done an update then there's your likely answer. I understand there is a distinction between updates as well, ie at the dealership you get major updates to fix errors, whereas OTA tends to be pap like adding something to the in-car shop that nobody uses.

For future readers with the same problem... I never did spray anymore contact cleaner. I took to leaving the control in the 12 o clock position (I.e. not controlling anything) and moving the knob up/down/left/right as well as pushing it down/releasing back up many times and that has done the trick in getting it going again. Now on drives I just wiggle that a few times and so far it has stopped any reoccurrence. Given my experience and what I have read here and elsewhere, for anyone with the same issue I do recommend spraying contact cleaner under the knob and doing some vigorous wiggling of it before getting into removing trim or buying replacements. It's quite possibly just the dirt etc I described earlier simply stopping a good contact from being made.

Mine has suddenly started doing all of this. I liberally sprayed into the control switch a load of contact cleaner and it worked fine afterwards. Two weeks later it's playing up again. I am away at the moment so can't use contact cleaner today, but will bet it will fix it again and (in my case) it's just four years of dirt, grit, dust, sand, sweat(!), food, other stuff, getting in there.

As per @Ootohere, I also live in a hilly area (in the Pennines) and it is second nature for me to tap the throttle to enter coasting mode the millisecond I have crested a brow, to coast down the other side. I know my area like the back of my hand, and if I enter coasting at the right time and in the right place I can be coasting literally for miles before any form of intervention, i. e. braking or acceleration, is needed. I'd defy anyone to tell me I am not saving fuel by doing this, you don't even need to look at mpg comparisons to know it, it's obvious. The one thing I don't quite get from the OP from @Pooroldcodger is that you say it entered coasting while motorway cruising. Was this under manual control using the pedal and you'd taken your foot off the pedal, or other? Just that you can't enter coasting mode while using cruise control. Just curious. And on the other discussion about coasting while going downhill with a severe gradient and bends...mine both will and won't go into coasting, when I tap the throttle. On the same stretches of road time and time again it is baffling as sometimes the car will let me go into coasting, other times it flat refuses and insists on putting itself into a gear that is always far too low for the speed I'm doing - at which point I go manual.

Do you only have to take your foot off the throttle pedal and it will go into coast? Interesting (if yes). Mine only goes into coasting of it's own accord if I have been manual shifting and go back to auto while my foot is off the pedals, otherwise if in auto I always have to blip the throttle to engage coasting. I'm not sure I'd want the car to go into coasting simply by lifting off the throttle, engine braking has its place and the car shouldn't be making decisions on that. I'm presuming that is what's happening for you, if you're not actually taking a 'positive' action to engage coasting? Sounds more like you've developed a fault, not suddenly gained a feature haha!

I'm 7 speed and yes it coasts in Eco 99% of the time I 'request' it through either throttle tap or by dramatically slapping the gearstick from manual back to automatic. I don't think the dramatic slap makes a difference, but I enjoy doing it. I can sometimes get coast in Normal mode, but only use Normal by mistake until I change modes, so not thought about that too much. @Berisford, not wishing to teach egg sucking and all that, but you have been 'requesting' coasting through a tap on the throttle or shifting from M to A, you haven't just been lifting off the throttle?

I moved to all-weathers (Kumho) earlier this year, for the first time ever on any car, and my grip in the rain is superior to when I was driving 4x4 in an Xtrail.

To close the loop on this and potentially help anyone else who experiences this... It was nothing more complex than rust on the rims of the front brake discs. I knew from the MOT in June they were getting closer to needing replacing, but the rust had expanded to the point it was causing some rubbing at times. Discs changed, noise gone. If you get a noise like this, I'd recommend checking the outer edge of the discs for rust. I will say that's the first time with any of the 20-something cars I've owned that I've ever had a noise sounding like that and coming from a bit of rust on that part of the brake discs, and in all honesty it wasn't like there was 1cm of rust or anything, so I take it the Skoda brake-assembly doesn't leave much wriggle-room at all for slightly expanded rust on that location.

I'd honestly have to have my phone on record permanently and then look for the relevant part and edit the rest out, as I cam be driving 45 minutes and not hear it once, then there'll suddenly be a random five second burst of weeh-weeh-weeh-weeh-weeh and it'll stop.

I thought these now had some all-electronic system with no pump? I don't think it is steering though as it sometimes does it while not steering.