DaveFromSydney

It is the Apple equivalent of Android Auto. So only for those with iPhones.

That does sound pretty painful. So when I am in an 80 km/h zone and it becomes a 60 zone near some shops I would need to press that button 20 times instead of 2? Wow! I suppose what I would do instead is brake to close to the right speed and then do a resume and adjust the last few km/h. And on exit from that zone back to 80 I would accelerate to close to 80 and do a resume and adjust. But I wonder if you right? At the top of the page that I show above it mentions "By holding in steps of 10 km/h". I know you cannot see the heading that preceded it, on the previous page, so I have included it below. It says "Variant with cruise control". So it appears that both CC and ACC can adjust in the larger increments. However the variant without cruise control says only "Increase limit" or "Reduce limit" by some unspecified amount. However I would expect it, like the CC version, to use the tap for 1 or hold for 5 mi/10 km method

Since it is now 4.5 weeks since the part was supposed to be ordered I contacted the service rep today and got back a reply: "Thanks for reaching out. As you can imagine we are seeing some delays with back order parts given the covid restrictions affecting delivery services. I am yet to receive the new control unit for your vehicle. Please know that once I do have the part I will be in touch to have the vehicle in to perform the repair." So it could be a long wait.

This is the sort of thing I was hoping for (from the manual for a set-top box available here in Australia)

There is such a feature in our car too. It works by 1 or 10 km/h increments. I suppose in the UK that would be 1 and 5 mph.

If I was going to use a radio command it would be to switch to a favourite (or even non-favourite) DAB station by name or part thereof. so "Play 2UE" or "Play 954" or play "Radio 954" or "Play ABC Classic". I wonder if those will work. I wonder if the word "Radio" is necessary so it does not think it has to pass the request to YT Music to recognize as a possible song name. Or perhaps it needs commands to switch the infotainment system between radio and Media first? Amazing that such a potentially complex sub system of the car is basically undocumented.

Here is one that you could purchase in the UK. http://www.kopacek.com/Skoda/OCTAVIA-IV/Octavia-IV-original-Skoda-rubber-mat-over-the-rear-tunnel My image is from our local site (I am in Australia). I have a full set in my car, including the tunnel mat. I like the appearance and the fit.

Same here. In our state of New South Wales there are only 5 RS Wagons available, 4 of which are demonstrators. Little choice of colours and no fitted options except, in some cases, sunroof. And the demonstrators are selling for the same price as a new vehicle. But, due to our lockdown, you can buy from what stock they have (which is plenty for other models such as Fabia, Kamiq etc) by "Click and Collect" - like it was groceries!

There is another mat that you might like to get to go with these. It covers the tunnel between the footwells of the rear seats.

Still interested - if you have the time.

It is not clear to me how that post relates to this topic - other than having the word "software" in common.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if all of the problems we experience and are waiting on fixes for could be as easily cured. If they were actually something physical like badly installed wires - rather than blaming everything on software. How else to explain why some cars are ok while others are not? Maybe Skoda should consider stripping our dashboards and reassembling them as a possible way to get us the functionality we lack?

I see you have an MK4 E-TEC but you are in Australia. How did you obtain that?

Yes I had seen that before. It is (slowly) interactive. I thought there might be a PDF.

I have two modes: a) When there is no traffic nearby and the road is wide: foot flat on the floor b) When in traffic, since I do not trust the ACC to pull me up in time, or the Lane Assist or Autonomous Emergency Braking from doing something stupid: foot hovering over the pedals, ready to take action.

Which URL did you use to download that manual?

I guess that is so but if you are lucky enough to have the heads-up display they appear there. The heads-up display is one of the single greatest features of my car, with the speed, the sat-nav direction and distance, the cruise-control settings and speed, the distance to car in front, the lane indications and (in some markets but not mine) the speed limit.. I do not really need to look at the dash or infotainment screen at all.

That might be ok for short trips but my typical use for a trip counter is for a multi-day trip totalling say, 2000kms, during which I will fill up with petrol each night which would reset that counter. So I will be using the long-term counter for that purpose. Which is ok because long-term will definitely reset after 9999 kms (or miles in UK) so it is not like it was going to be useful for a real long-term set of stats.

Thanks Jim but I recall that stuff from the manual. I guess I will have to try it out myself when the fix is installed. It just seems it would be helpful if there was a list of sentences that work - such as is provided by Google for their assistant. I really do not know how tolerant it is of different ways of expressing the same thoughts in English, e.g. "make me two degrees warmer" vs "increase driver temperature to twenty two" etc. And can it also do stuff like defrost rear window, or defrost windscreen, or stop those things, or set fan to maximum, or turn recirculation on or off, or direct air to upper or lower vents etc. Or control seat heating, or mirror heating. Or turn auto/stop on or off. Or lane assist etc. Or go from Android Auto to station XYZ on DAB radio. Or pause media playback. The list of possibilities is extensive but all I know so far is that it can probably set an explicit temperature.

That IS good to know. I look forward to trying it out - if they can get my Skoda voice assistant working. Since delivery it just gets stuck on "Loading Voice Control". After software updates that did nothing they have ordered a new infotainment control unit.

My Honda actually had two trip counters! If you are not concerned about the real "long term" there is an option somewhere in the Skoda settings to reset the long term counter. It can then function as your trip counter. Not ideal - but that is all they offer now.

Do any of the others work? The manual is silent on the subject of voice commands.

I am looking forward to seeing that. I expected it would be very helpful but it did not work in my car as delivered and 6 weeks later I am still waiting for them to get the parts to fix it. Meanwhile can you point us to a source of information of exact phrases that work. Or perhaps provide a list of your own? Particularly what one can say to the aircon. Can you say "Set Fan to High" ? Or "Set fan to fifty percent"? Or "Set aircon Sync ON"? Or "Set temperature to twenty-three"?

That's a big deposit. I only had to pay $2000 on a purchase price of over $60000.

Not here.