NZsteve

last year??? oh my god...i can't remember what i had for breakfast...its an age thing, but thanks for the reminder.

morning all...and thanks everyone for the contribtions, never to old to learn new stuff so, the take-aways: car just had its first year service and i asked them to do as deep a diag of the hi-voltage system as they could - unsurprisingly, no fault found. Skoda did come back with - as many of you have pointed out - the vehicle "learns and predicts" from your driving style and usual conditions. thats as close to the algorithms as i'm ever likely to get. i have given the tyre pressures a good bump up to 38/40 psi. its summer here now so ambient about 18-20C and my usual run about a 35km return, mainly open road 100km/h, few ks urban then home again. car is still showing give or take 45km battery only range in the morning....but i'm getting home after 35km still showing about 25km battery range. (still leanring?) so...i've decided life is too short, i'll keep the tyre pressures up, half a tank of 95 in case and run electric (as opposed to hybrid which i've usually done), keep on eye on whether the figures change over time but otherwise draw a line under it. happy days!

well, now you've opened a can of worms..... i have the 22/45 R18s and the chart by the fuel filler shows this: i think using BAR for anything but scuba is a blunt tool so in psi this is 36 front and 40 rear. for decades of driving across different car the go-to has been 32/33....which i why i originally said youe pressure seemed scary high. so i erred on the side of caution and have been running 33. however, i guess i need to grasp the nettle, pump then up a bit then go for a drive e-mode and just see what happens.

noted, thks. running 33psi (manual says 32............39 seems very high??)

wow, thanks for all the contributions, what a great forum!! so a couple of additions: @imart143 - we can't get the app here in NZ and AFAIK, thats the only way to restrict max charge. you can set a "slow charge", which i do, through vehicle settings, but that's your lot in lots of configuring the charging process so i think @Edela is correct, it charges to the max. @Canth - i hadn't thought about driving patterns and how these are used to calculate (guess!) the estimated range. i will now! i thought my conditions ( car charged slowly overnight, ambient temp 18-20, relaxed driving style etc) seemed optimal for an estimated range so still can't explain the 45km the car shows on startup. and @whippersnapper thks, tyres set and checked regulalry at 33psi. but what i haven't done yet is just run it in e-mode and see the actual range achieved in real-life. but dumb of me but i've been trying to nurse it along in hybrd mode as much as possible. most of the other contributors seem to be getting 60km plus..... anyhoo....i will update with some real-world testing and anything that drops out of the diags at 1 year service next week. tune in then!!

@Canth didn't actually know this so went to check - long term averages 3.3l/100km and 13.8kwh/100km. and yeah, i do tend to baby it and it has an easy life. 25km open road to the nearest town, but of pottering about, then 25km home again open road. and @imart143 - thanks for the info, didn't know that, where did you find that good info? so - i'm picking that my range (EV) should be showing as more than 45km in optimal conditions. i'll put this to the servicing agents next week and see what drops out if they run a full diags on the battery. cheers guys.

morning/evening all! my 12/24 Octavia iv VRS is heading in for its first service soon so trying to get some info about a "maybe" problem before i get the no fault found brush-off. "manui det cognito vires" as my old unit motto used to say... anyway, specs for this vehicle say "up to 60km battery only" range. the vehicle is kept in a heated garage overnight and left to slow charge from the wall socket. temp is usually about 18-20C in there. cone the morning, the charging light is out, indicating i presume full charge on the hi-voltage battery. but when i start the vehicle, the range never shows more than 45km. now i get the "up to" part of the specs, but i would have thought that the conditions i have for charging are optimal so not sure i am getting so much less than 60km. switching between modes - eco, balanced, sport - before starting off makes no difference to the indicated range. vehicle has only done 5000km. any thoughts anyone ? i know there is an 80% degradation warranty over, can't remember over how many years exactly, so i'm pretty relaxed about this but just wondering whether i've missed the bleeding obvious here.... thanks! any thoughts anyone

hah...that makes me feel slighly better :)

i'd love to charge to 80% but appears that is not a feature on this vehicle....maybe a FW upgrade, but for now what it does have a "charge on reduced current" option which drage out the charge process but as its overnight, not an issue - unless you have the app, which we can't get in NZ. everything else i have - phone, laptops, e-bike all have the 80% max charge setting so no idea why Skoda would make this available via the app but not from the vehicle settings......

yeah, not a hill i'm going to die on :) i don't actually need the profiles....but you know how it is when there's something you want to fiddlw with but can't. but its all good, thanks for the insight!

@whippersnapper @jay982bea @Edela ah, the penny drops......of course, suddenly makes sense. i've tried to get the app, officially and not so officially but no joy..... i asked the dealer and he said it ewasn't going to be any time soon. cheers mate, i'm just going to plug it in overnight and it can have at it :)

@Edela - cheers, look like thats the only way to go..... @jay982bea - i obviously have a different setup, when i configure a departure plan it comes up as follows:

morning all. Octavia iV vRS - Dec 24. i am trying to find out whether its possible - and if so, how you can do it - to limit the maximum charge level of of the HV battery, in my case to 80% as that would cover pretty much all my trips and the vehicle charges on reduced current overnight. seems to make sense in terms of battery longevity..... there is a MIN charge level in e-Manager but doesn't seem to be any way to limit the MAX charge. i did see somewhere that there was a workaround by using the e-Manager scheduler, but i'm not seeing it. i even went as far as reading the manual....i know! any ideas appreciated.... cheers!

i'll bw grabbing a set soon, chuck in the back of the car. re bacon strips, these are what i was meaning... https://www.mtbdirect.com.au/products/wolf-tooth-encase-bacon-strips-15-pack

thanks all, concensus seems to be a worm kit which is exactly the same as the MTB tyre repair kit with bacon strips. i have a couple of those in the shed so into the car its going.... btw ootohere - i know wooler very well, the whole area in fact, my folks are buried there and i really need to take a trip over again, its been a while sorry - off-topic and rambling

cheers all! lot of mentions of a worm kit.....we call them bacon strips on MTB tyres but i guess the same idea. you fill the hole with a bacon strip, then dump some sealand in through the valve and inflate with a CO2 cartridge. i know this system works as i've used it very satisying to see the tyre inflate. having said that, i strongly adhere to the 7 Ps principle and always carry a spare tube, just in case. i guess one of the things you pay your money for is the roadside assist....i'd feel a bit sheepish about a callout for a puncture but hey, they didn't give me a spare so i'l get over that.

morning all, i have seen posts about aftermarket spare wheels. but for the first time in my motoring life, i no longer have one, just the small compressor and sealant for 2024 Octavia. i have used sealant for years on my bikes but always carry a spare tube for emergencies. so i was wondering if anyone has actually ever used this kit "in action" as it were...it would be nice to be able to have a few dry runs before having to use it at 3am in horizontal sleet but obvioulsy not an option. cheers!!

thanks mate......took me a while to figure out how to reply here

cheers, interesting. i have 225/45R18s and the attached fuel filler label. skoda seem to have ditched PSI for bar - which is fine at 232 bar for a diving bottle, but a bit of a blunt instrument for such low values. so, 36.2 front and 40.6 rear PSI. i hadn't paid attention to the graphic of 3 x people and luggage, so i'll be erring on the lower side, perhaps 34 and 36 as a compromise. still getting the hang of posting and replying on here but in the meantime, cheers out to Ootohere for a plausible explantion of the 42PSI all round that had me scratching my head.....

righto...cheers. didn't get PDI...i'm from the generation when we used words. got it now and that makes sense, the dealer got it straight from the distributor, hence high pressures then. glad i checked them now.....

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just had my new 2024 Octavia iV vRS wagon delivered, NZ market, 53 km in. all going well so far. went to set tyre pressures to bog-standard 32 psi as i've defaulted to, well, forever really, before saving. however, from a digital gauge all were showing as 42 psi. tyres were cold so seemed way high so confirmed on manual gauge. tyre plate inside filler cap has front 2.5 bar and rear 2.8 bar or 36.2 and 40.6 in real money. tyres are Goodyear Eagle F1 Sport. wondering if this pressure might be some sort of "delivery pressure", seems strange to be so out of whack with the filler plate.....anyone have an idea why this might be? (also, really wish they would come specced as psi, not bar...) cheers! steve