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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.

I'm curious about this new one... Something is making an oscillating noise, only ever audible at low speeds (up to around 30mph) and it seems dependant on varying circumstances, i.e. road surface, going up or down, sometimes while steering, sometimes while in a straight line. It is likely something going round, as it changes with speed. Steering is unaffected, car seems fine, in all honesty it has been doing it for around 8 months, maybe more. No issues raised at service/MOT so I don't think bearings, plus it doesn't sound like that. I would say it sounds like it is from the engine bay, definitely forward and central. Put the windows down and you can't even hear it. I have no idea how the modern assisted steering works, so not sure if that could be linked...it does it while not steering sometimes though. It isn't getting any worse, as I say no ill effects, so I don't know if it is just one of those quirks some cars have? Any thoughts? I am seriously loathe to take it into a garage for a spurious noise with a slim description as above, as the odds say they'd take the car to pieces and say they can't find anything amiss. Thanks.

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.