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The car may have been registered in May, but when was it manufactured and how long did it sit unused? My Octavia had a gap of 10 months from production to initial registration. I took ownership 9 months after registration. The battery was never amazing and Start/Stop barely activated when sitting in traffic. I had a new battery fitted a few months ago and it's like a different car. Start/Stop constantly activates now even without the car being warmed up. So could be worth checking the battery health, and maybe putting a battery charger/conditioner on it? I regularly get complaints with Front Assist, and they're always temporary. It seems to not like certain sections of road. When I take my kids to school there's always one section of road, that if Front Assist will alert, it will do it there. I've never really worked out why.

@Rhencullen Have you ruled out the tailgate dampers not being the cause of the rattle? Have a look at this thread for more details... Link to forum thread

Have a search of the forum, there's a few people who've raised this previously. I had seen a couple recently where someone had followed the path 1664 > 1941 > 1985 without any issues. I had also seen someone go direct from 1664 > 1985. But if you're at all concerned about doing it, or not confident then it may be easier to take it to a dealer. As your car is on a very early infotainment, it's very likely there are other modules that would also benefit from an update such as the OCU.

@Justo Did you get your windscreen issues resolved?

There was a post on here a while ago from a member who had their windscreen replaced. After it was done the windscreen wipers were randomly activating. It looked to be because they'd done a messy job with adhesive around the cameras. Here's the link: Link to forum post So I think you need to use the photo you've already got of the camera area, and then make sure it looks identical after they replace the windscreen or you could have issues.

Have you tried doing a factory reset of the infotainment, and then logging in again as primary user? This might help, but I've not heard of anything like this before. If that fails to resolve the issue I think you'll need to goto a dealer, especially if you can easily reproduce the fault. If not easy to reproduce I'd recommend taking a video of it happening. My dealer were receptive to video proof of an issue.

I'm on 5WA035284A and the dealer recently upgraded my OCU to 0311. No issues to report.

Mine was recently taken to 0311 by the dealer, and infotainment to 1989. Similar to @scotthugh3s I've never had any 'big' updates via OTA. App and Map updates have always been pushed OTA without an issue. However, all seems completely fine with OCU at 0311 and infotainment at 1989. The only real difference I've noticed between 1985 and 1989 is that it's displaying far more radio station logos.

Hopefully the furniture polish keeps the dampers quiet. If it doesn't you may need to upgrade to the lithium grease. Recalls such as this don't ever make it to that government website. It's internal to Skoda and the dealers. So you would need to goto the dealer and report the issue, and they should know about the recall for the specific issue. That's the theory anyway.

Have you tried unpairing and repairing the phone? Depending on the phone it could be worth trying Android Auto/Apple CarPlay instead?

I completely understand how frustrating it is when the infotainment behaves likes this. These issues are well known and understood, so the Skoda dealers do know how to fix this. It's frustrating that it keeps coming up on the forum that dealers want £100+/hour to "investigate" something they already know about. It might be worth raising this with the Skoda Executive Office. I recently had good success with them in getting a load of software updates issues paid for. My argument was that the issues were well known, and had been for several years. And they agreed to help. It did take a while to get to that point, but may be worth persisting.

@Justo Below is a picture of my windscreen. The circular section underneath the camera looks very different to your image. So if the rain sensor sits inside that circle, looking at your image I can see why the intermittent wipe function is not working. It looks like they've done a messy job in that area. Have they applied a sealant there when none is required? I would contact them.

What's your infotainment version? Also it would help to know whether you're connecting the phone via Bluetooth, or Apple CarPlay / Android Auto.

@Bobsko1 I had exactly the same issue last year, and it was the dampers that were the problem. Here's a couple of forum posts on the topic: Link to Forum Another Link to Forum The resolution for me was to use a good quality lithium grease. The first product I tried only last a week before the rattling came back. The product I've linked to below worked much better, and I've not had an issue in the 10 months since I applied the grease to the dampers: Link to Amazon Hope this helps...

@Warrior193 Thanks for the suggestion, it worked perfectly. I ended using some picture hanging wire. There was an element of luck with it as the wire had a small sharp bend on the end where it had been previously cut. As I lowered it down the gap it ended up getting caught, and wedged behind the lego. This allowed me to drag the lego up and out of the door.

That's a good suggestion. I'll have to see what I have at home. I have no idea why my 7 year old decided to do this... or tell me he'd done it while I was driving down the motorway! 😩

Hello All, So my youngest son decided to push a small flat piece of Lego between the window and door. I can just about see it, but have no idea how to get it out. I’ve not operated the window as I think will drag the Lego inside the door. Any ideas or hacks on how I can remove it without taking the trim off the door? Many thanks!

@MonkeyBoy2283 OTA does work for some updates without anyone logged in. I had a loan Octavia a few years ago that was brand new. There was only a guest user present. Within hours of me driving it, it was prompting to install various app updates. Things like map updates I would say a primary user would be required as it would need to check that you were subscribed to the service first. I would also be inclined to try another dealer. It's not good that they are making up false statements in an attempt to get out of doing the updates that should've been done before you were given the keys. If you post the area you live, then some people on here may be able to recommend a good dealer. I had this issue with being unable to login as primary user in 2023. The symptoms were the same as what you are experiencing. It was a known issue and the dealer resolved it fairly quickly with an update. OTA updates with the early cars are a bit of a mystery. Some forum members received them, but many didn't. My car has never received a "big" update such as infotainment or OCU. It receives app updates and map updates. I was told once the infotainment was taken to 1941 it would receive and apply the bigger updates. But it never has. The OCU has now been updated to 0311, so maybe it will going forward but I'm not hopeful. But certainly if your car is only very early software across all modules, it will need them updated before it stands a chance of receiving anything bigger going forward.

@MonkeyBoy2283 The Skoda dealer is talking complete and utter nonsense on this point. Skoda haven't turned the feature off. Many of us had this issue and it required a software update from the dealer to resolve. I think it was the OCU that was the culprit but I can't be 100% sure as it was a few years ago I had this issue. Ask them what version the OCU is on your car. The current version is 0311, and that has started to be pushed to some cars over the air in recent months. The previous version, 0144 was also stable. If your car is at an earlier version, then they have not updated all the modules that they are supposed to as part of the Skoda Approved Used agreement. In fact the 0311 release notes stated that it was a required update to ensure continued online functionality going forward.

@MonkeyBoy2283 Forgot to add, if you purchased the vehicle from a Skoda dealer they should've updated all the software prior to sale. The infotainment being on 1896 proves that wasn't done. So I would say you would have a case for going back to the dealer with this, as it's a known issue - and one that you would not be experiencing if they'd updated all modules are they're supposed to. In which case software updates should be free of charge. Possibly also worth contacting the Skoda Executive Office for help, as they may offer a contribution if there is anything to pay for the software updates.

Unfortunately I think you will require a visit to a dealer, or an independent garage if they have the tools to update software. I'm not 100% sure but I think it's the OCU that will need a firmware update to resolve this issue, and possibly some other modules too. This issue has come up a number of times on the forum, so all of the dealers should be very familiar with it and the steps needed to resolve it. However, many will say they need to investigate, send a report to Skoda, etc. All of which risks adding costs to your final bill. So if you can find a good dealer then that may be beneficial to you. My local dealer is Marshall Skoda Letchworth, and they have been very good over the years in sorting out all of the software issues with my car.

The dealer put my car up to 1985 when it went in for a service in February. It was absolutely fine, and my only negative experience with it was that there seemed to be far fewer radio station logos. Last week the car went in for an OCU update, and they also updated the infotainment to 1989. So far it all seems fine, and there seems to be a lot more radio station logos available now. I know looking at the threads on this forum that some people who've updated to 1989 have benefited from doing a factory reset of the infotainment after the update completes. When I picked the car up from the dealer I did have to login again, set myself as primary user, etc. So I suspect they did a factory reset (but I know the OCU update was also forcing people to sign in again).

I had a look there too - and it's not there 😃 So I've managed to answer my own question. It seems that the speed limit display is permanently on. Unless you are parked on your driveway off road. This is where the car was parked when I was logging back in, checking settings, etc. I didn't think the GPS would be sensitive enough to know that being a few metres away from the road would be enough to turn off the speed limit display. But it seems that it is. As soon as I took the car out tonight and got on the road, the speed limit appeared. Parked on driveway: Parked on a road:

Hi All, My car has come back from the dealer today after having both the OCU (0311) and Infotainment (1989) updated. On previous versions of infotainment I had the road sign display enabled in the navigation as I don't have the traffic sign recognition feature on the car. I found it quite a useful feature. As the OCU had been updated I had to log back into the car and set myself as primary user, etc. The road sign display was never on by default. However, on 1989 I cannot find any option in the navigation settings to turn it on. I've even resorted to looking in the owners manual. Where it states it should be here: Route Guidance Settings -> Road signs -> Show on map However, the option is no longer there for me. Here's what I get on my display: Can anyone with 1989 confirm if they are seeing the same thing? Many Thanks...

I'm still on 26.2, and if I recall I only received that map update a few weeks ago. That being said I live in a very poor mobile reception area, and the car hasn't been used much lately - which could explain why it took so long to arrive in my case. But good to know 26.4 has been released.