Gax

Bizarrely, after the first year of the live traffic etc expired I have never resubscribed to it, yet everytime I approach a particular road (a section where roadworks have been ongoing two years and have a year to go) even without using the Skoda satnav the car aka 'Laura' pipes up to tell me there are delays expected on this road. As I say, I don't even subscribe to live traffic...

To the OP, do you have the My Skoda app on your phone and have you been using it or intend using it? If yes, see my comments below. If no, save your money or you'll be paying for nothing. I have been subscribing to the 'Remote Access'pack since it expired, which gives full access to everything available in the My Skoda app. It's £30 for a 1 year subscription, which equates to 57p per week. The way I look at things like this is if you buy something like just one bottle of pop or a sandwich or...(any number of things) per week you've already spent more than this would cost, so why have a brand new state of the art vehicle packed with features....and not use them? As I say, that's the way I personally view it, I fully appreciate other people may not wish to spend for these features, they should actually be free as part of owning the vehicle, but they ain't. In terms of the satnav I don't subscribe as I use the Google Maps via AA anyway. I only ever use the car's satnav if I am in an area with no mobile signal, as the car satnav still works thanks to the onboard database. By not subscribing it means no database updates and no live traffic, but for me it's just a backup until reaching an area with a signal.

Heated nozzles are good when everything is up to running temperature, i.e. I have had cars in the past where it has been so cold that the nozzles have frozen while I have been driving! Heated nozzles should negate that. My experience however with heated nozzles is that you still should not assume they will be working at correct strength within 30 seconds of setting off if it's -5 out!

28 months of use from my battery from new, just changed it two weeks ago on the same day the dashboard warning appeared. I certainly won't complain about almost 2.5 years of use out of a very small battery that is subject to heat changes, being chucked about etc etc.

Have a search on the forum, I've posted loads about Android Auto. Having been insure of the cause of faults, I am now convinced it is Android Auto causing problems, and not the car. I say this because I just had around a 4 to 6 week or so streak of zero disconnection issues, then Android Auto updated on my phone on Sunday and all times I have used the car since it is back to disconnecting and/or not detecting a connection on starting the car. It happens with both wireless and wired use. Do not believe any of the nonsense you read about cable types, fluff in connections, blah blah, it is a software issue. Another workaround by the way is to delete the phone from the car settings and reconnect. Normally helps if your passenger does that while driving. Have a look at the Android Auto reviews on the Google Play Store, they're full of people with all makes of phone and all sorts of cars the world over who experience the same thing all the time.

Add me as another whose trip into Europe last year seen the car disobey my instructions to use GPS to set the time. It should offer an option to set it via the internal sim as well, that would pick it up

When mine was serviced at the dealership last year I got the exact same waffle about the brakes. When I collected my car, amongst the paperwork was a sheet attached which I assume was attached in error...it was a 'Successful/Lost Sales' section and in that section someone had logged that they had attempted to sell me some brakes and that I had declined. You know, if it was down in a 'Safety' checklist that's one thing, but down as being a 'lost' sales opportunity tells you all you need to know.

Bit of a sort-of update on this... I've come to realise that it isn't Android Auto disconnecting, it is the entire phone....or head unit. By way of explanation: As I am always driving the car and thus paying attention to driving, I'd never realised until a few weeks ago that sometimes AA stays connected, but the totally seperate bluetooth handsfree function has disconnected. I know this because the headunit displays a message along the lines of "Gax's handsfree device has disconnected". It includes three letters in the message though, HRP, or HTP or something - it may mean something to someone. I think the issue may therefore be to do with the heas unit bluetooth or the phone's bluetooth, or both in combination. How to determine this conclusively and work out a fix...I don't know.

Yeah there are times the car will shut some functions off, i.e. if iced up the Front Assist will disable, in mega heavy rain the ACC will disable. That is a safety feature in itself though, it is effectively handing control back to the driver rather than it guessing where things are ahead of you and guessing incorrectly (crunch)! Glad you got sorted.

In the UK keep it on left, if in Europe change it to right. It's based on the lane the car is in, not the side of the vehicle you are seated in.

Nothing on mine is automated, I change to right side driving manually. The clock is set by GPS but that never updates itself, neither from entering Europe nor updating the switch from BST to GMT etc.

Did they have selectable engine modes on those cars? Just wondering how the two might tie together, or if they don't. I wonder if the differing modes have made that feature obsolete perhaps? Thanks for confirming what the manual covered, that gives a lot of credence to my suspicion that if it isn't covered in a manual then it is because the car doesn't have it.

This self-learning thing has to be a complete myth. Why wouldn't it be mentioned in the otherwise comprehensive manual that has a section devoted entirely to how the gearbox operates? It also makes no sense. Automatics don't change gear depending on the length of the journey made. If you're cruising at 70mph you'll be in the highest possible gear, regardless of whether you are travelling 200 miles on a day trip on a motorway, or whether you pop out to buy a newspaper every morning and you happen to buy it at the service station which happens to be on a motorway only one mile away from your house. If you're up to 70mph you'll be in top gear regardless of it being a short trip you do every day or you're going on holiday. The car responds to throttle input full stop, if you keep your foot to the floor you'll be in shorter gears for longer, that rings true for autos and manuals. The DSG won't ignore throttle inputs, it will do what all autos do in the same circumstances, what is there to learn? I'm not saying there definitely isn't some sort of reset, athough to reset what I don't know, as I don't know either way. I don't believe in this self-learn thing though for the above reasons though, there's zero requirement for it to exist, and no way would a feature that alters the parameters of how the car drives not be mentioned officially in any documentation anywhere by VAG.

I successfully rejected my Octavia Mark 4 in 2021, after around 5 months of ownership, due to the software being absolute gash. This is all heavily documented on the relevant forum. Your dealer is talking absolute BS.

99 times out of 100 the head unit will either never receive the destination, or it will appear after a lengthy time, sometimes after 15 minutes, sometimes on a journey days later. I've long stopped bothering with trying to send destinations. For what it's worth though, I tried researching this after I'd gotten the car and the Skoda websites are an absolute mishmash of redirects and contradictions and it was quite difficult to get a straight answer on this, however.....my understanding is that feature isn't available (as per the supposed procedure) in at least the UK. According to the procedure for this, the head unit is supposed to have a menh function you enter into in order to receive and save the destination, only there is no such function within the menus anywhere. Meanwhile the app offers the functionality, even though the car doesn't. The car will, at random, sometimes tell you there is a new destination and ask if you want to save it. It usually never appears though. My point is you are supposed to be able to navigate through the menu and find the new destination to save it, only no such section in the menu exists to do this. Please update me if you get anywhere on this however!