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I test drove a car with Columbus, didn't find Skoda maps good and the sign recognition is a feature which I don't want, so it's another thing to turn off constantly. Went with Bolero, the few times I need navigation google maps is better anyway.

Why would you bother trying something like that when there is no way to tune the engine?

It can be sitting like this https://www.newsy-today.com/skoda-stores-unfinished-cars-at-hradec-kralove-airport-chips-are-missing/

Was it a custom order one or did you get the car from available ones?

Skoda configurator is broken all the time in Lithuanian page, also in northern region. My dealer told me to use the price list to choose options instead of the configurator, because there are more and they had more accurate prices.

The current situation is bad with any brand you pick, it is strange however that they don't know how bad the delay would be.

In anything electronic you always want to disconnect the positive or live first, leaving the ground or negative connected, so that capacitors can discharge properly, you don't have any voltages floating around in your circuits. The same goes for cars, always positive first and just take care not to ground your wrench.

Sign recognition is bundled with maps so to get it you will probably need to buy both. I wouldn't bother with it, Waze is just as good if not better.

I wouldn't say that you need to get very lucky. Early models were truly bad and even now those with First Editions and early 2020 models have issues with lane assist and emergency braking stuff. Late models with 1803 software and later hardware revisions only seem to have annoying software glitches that happen once in a while, which is not actually deal breaking for many people, if you consider the points 5 and 6.

VW has the same problems with infotainment, I was reading VW forums too. Same software version too, 1803 at the moment.

The problem is that these systems in cars are all proprietary and a lot of the stuff is baked in to the hardware design, if your hardware is flawed there is only so much you can do software wise. And another thing is finding the problem and replicating it, there are so many modules with so many different states/sensors/inputs, replicating the issue takes a lot of time and then fixing it without breaking something else takes even more. The MQB Evo platform is all new and it seems like it was rushed, because of all kinds of reasons.

Even if they are, look at how production is impacted by chip shortages, if you need to make a revision of just one board or a couple of them you're pretty much screwed and set back in line to wait for months. They already can't complete cars, making revisions of hardware is even harder. It sucks for the customers, but that's the world we live in, always lands on the customer.

It was just poor timing for the release of a new model, pandemic, electric cars coming out, pressure from VAG ****up with emissions which lead to cost cutting. Look at the Mk8 Golf, it didn't even get better compared to MK7.5, while Octavia at least has some advantages compared to MK3 (as long as they work).

There are a lot of people who don't go to forums and just drive their cars. Also almost no cars have no problems, especially brand new builds on new platform.

I ordered Octavia RS 245 TSI a few weeks ago, even though I've read all the problems in this forum, Czech forum, Polish forum and German forum. As far as I can tell most of the problems are gone by now and the ones that are remaining aren't too common and don't really cause you to stop on the side of the road. Sure it might get annoying if they happen too often, but I'm taking this risk, because I bought this car for the powertrain, there are simply no competitors for the price. Kia offers a 1.6 petrol 150kw with a dry clutch, or I could have gone for the i30N with the wet clutch, but that car is more expensive, smaller and doesn't have all the equipment Skoda gives.