Edela

Travel Assist keeps your car between lines and keeps distance to the car in front. It does not only kick in to correct your heading only when you are about to cross the line, it actually steers car, so basically driving becomes hands-free. As someone regularly doing long trips across Europe, I find this stuff to be very useful. 1000+km in one day and don't feel tired, only butt hurts a bit after sitting for long time.

I mean, it makes sense, isn't it? Could be more consistent on 1+2 roads, but overall I find it logical that it does not bling oncoming traffic on freeways.

Put any departure time in the middle of the day and off-peak time frame 00:00 - 05:00. That'll make it work, car going to start charging at midnight.

Also, at least in Spain, when car is immobilized and has to be towed to a workshop, things are resolved way better and faster. So might be useful to let it discharge once again and make your car towed.

You won't change the battery yourself, it must be coded. You need to ask your servicemen to install all necessary firmware updates to tackle drain, there were service campaigns for early Octavias. Software was bad, but it was fixed 3 years ago, so I don't understand why rant if it can be just updated and all be well. Particularly, 90V7 may solve your issue, but there may be others for your VIN. If they bull**** you saying you have to charge your battery, raise a complaint to importer and go to another service. After all updates are done, they must change battery on their expense, otherwise you'll get many new faults soon.

Your 12V battery is charged every time HV battery is charged and every time car recuperates energy while braking. So there's no need to charge it separately. The problem lies in parasitic drains and infotainment issues Octavia is known for, and before changing battery you'd need to check these first. There were service campaigns addressing battery drain issues, as well as infotainments and screens are being replaced under warranty for starting up in the middle of the night and draining battery.

When I was reading about "pop pop" issue I was thinking it is some alarm sound from speaker, or a sound similar to a static discharge there... How surprised I was when I was driving on a highway and someone knocked hard from within what felt like DSG selector area. I thought my selector is failing again! Really sounded like if I will knock the plastic with my knuckle. Then SOS error appeared. Then I was surprised again when discovered that it made navigation lose any idea of where I am. Comms module never recovered by itself so I unplugged its fuse and it made it lose all my driving data, which never happened before when I rebooted it that way 🤦‍♂️What a heck of a mess how everything is designed in this car...

As I wrote before, my issue appeared after changing 12V battery, on the third day after that. I always drive in e-mode, sometimes a month without starting ICE, but that is not relevant to the issue. After it was fixed I continue running e-mode only.

What you guys are talking about is not the problem which was discussed here originally. That car sometimes wants to run ICE is ok, but this is different behavior - it starts engine right at first launch, engine runs continuously for some time and does not allow to switch back to e-mode, no errors on dash. What we had (or at least I had) is that error pops up on the dash, and engine goes on and off intermittently. It allows to put it back to e-mode, but just to jump back to hybrid in a few seconds. That is clearly not ok and I am glad it was fixed in my case. Technician told me there were different 12V readings on 3 different gateways and that probably triggered the system to launch ICE thinking that 12V does not provide enough power.

I agree with mccririck. Factory fitted goodyears were the most noisy tires I ever got, despite having lower dB value than others. Basically tire noise and tire performance are always about combination of particular tires with particular car. Even the same tire models but in just a different size perform and sound differently on the same car model.

Tbh I think in 2024 we could have come to some standard in road construction. There are countries which manage to build brilliant roads which don't hold water and don't produce much noise. I see no reason why all surrounding countries would not adopt the same tech. Otherwise, no matter how much you spend on tires or sound deadening in the car, it is still the road what makes the difference.

In case if someone will be looking into such issue later, here's an update. Had this behavior for 6 days straight, then 2 days nothing. Then one more day and again nothing for a week. Today technician in a workshop was scratching his head watching my video, saying he had never seen anything like that before. Car diagnostic showed, as he said, errors in 3 different gateways triggered by power imbalance, as well as error with Type 2 charging socket controller. He did some flash updates for these gateways and initiated recalibration of electric motor. So far so good, hopefully problem won't come back. But the real reason is still unknown and why it appeared after replacement of 12V battery is also unknown.

Car was solid stable like on rails when I had what appeared to be half dead shock absorbers. After I changed all 4 to new, I have the same feeling that car is a bit bouncy, especially on high speeds. Many people say it is ok for Octavia, including workshop to which I complained. I'm still in doubts it is ok, since all the cars on this platform I drove before were driving very solidly, sticked to the road.

Can only speak about PHEV. When I first went on a parking covered in thick layer of slush, I could not get going after I stopped there. Good winter tires did not help. Very disappointing but also predictable, since even on dry surface car tends to spin tires when starts going...

@Rookie97, @vran22, I'm no expert here, though my dealer also insisted to swap infotainment when I had the same symptoms. It took them two infotainments to finally come to conclusion that it was faulty screen, not infotainment at all. Took them two years.

Had screen replaced to solve this issue (finally). Costly stuff without warranty, but very well known problem, so I'd expect Skoda to provide parts for free.

Long time passed. Would you mind to update us on how the problem was resolved? I just got new 12V battery on Friday, and on Sunday started having the same issue as you described. Engine starts every 20-30 seconds, runs only for 5-10 seconds, message appears that it needs to run longer.

The leak was in the heat exchanger in the HV cooling circuit. Frankly, I do not fully understand where it is and how it is connected to AC, though the same exchanger in ICE circuit is well visible when opening the hood. The guys on reception told me it is a bit of pia to change it, so cost of work was equal to cost of all the parts (around 1000 in total). Happy to have extended warranty.

Exactly. Got it back today, all fixed.

Since it is a well known problem, you should insist on Skoda covering the cost of the part.

Joining the club. Had my car towed yesterday with completely empty HV cooling circuit. No leaks, no puddles, just sudden cooling system error on dashboard when circuit was already dry, I only could hear how pump tries to push whatever leftovers were somewhere there. Since I saw no leaks I suspect the worst, that it all went to battery somehow. Also during a week or so before that I had smell of vinegar when starting the car for after it was parked for long time (overnight or work) and now I think if that is connected, since people on this topic mention that AC may be a contributing factor. Though I'd expect to smell antifreeze rather than vinegar. Do you have any updates?

Can't believe what I've heard today, but they are finally changing my screen and 12V battery.

In my case infotainment reboots after a minute or two of being in on/off loop. I had no reboots before on/off thing started to happen. So I'd argue these are not unrelated things.

It is not just old, it is quite different too. Not sure what car you have, but when I got 1668 on my PHEV it lacked wireless Android Auto, remote AC and some other things.

Mine went to workshop today again, one of the reported problems is volume going up or down and on/off loop. Interesting that while infotainment turning on and off constantly, park assist pops up above and works well, while the thing goes on and off on the background. Also while parking in workshop I disconnected dashcam and on/off thing started again, like if it was triggered by disconnecting dashcam. I can only wonder if it was a coincidence. Anyway, told the guys that they should finally try to swap the screen. Not sure they won't give it back to me all the same, saying again "we applied update, see how it goes".