Vapor

Hi - Really liking my Octavia, very nice drive and features overall and it makes my driving better (I haven’t figured out why yet). I do have some queries/frustrations and just wanted to know if it’s just me or if others feel the same: 1. Electric Battery This gives me battery level anxiety ! I don’t (can’t) have a home charger and the nearest charge point is not a convenient distance from my house. I mostly have to rely on regeneration. The majority of journeys I take are a mixture of motorway and town driving and under 30 miles. I find I get the best regeneration on the motorway in hybrid mode with auto switched off and recharge level set to 100. But in regular hybrid mode the battery just drains ridiculously quickly even with other car features disabled. Example: I finished charging at Tesco to 100% (first time ever). With no heating or assists I reversed out and drove down the car park 100 metres and it went to 99% - that’s about 20 seconds of travel ! 2. Assists The first time lane assist kicked in I thought it was cool, but I subsequently have found it incredibly annoying so I almost always disable it. I want to drive the car, I don’t want the car to drive me! Front assist is good although on some roads near my house it randomly blares out near parked cars when I’m nowhere near them, I notice it happens more on a slight bend. In one case it automatically slammed the brakes on which was actually way more dangerous than what the car ‘thought’ was happening. 3. Save Settings I’ve seen other people comment about this too. The profile doesn’t save all the settings which I find ridiculous. I set the car up the way I want and it saves half the settings. There are always things I need to switch on and off every time I get into the car. Annoyingly Electric/Hybrid mode - it always default to electric, which I kind of get but it is not wanted. Minor gripe, it just reverts settings randomly at times. For example Laura (female voice) one morning was male again. But why ? 4. Traction control Oddly I find the traction control really bad. I’m not talking about putting it in sport mode and speeding away from a junction in the wet … I’m talking about general, non-aggressive driving, in the dry. It doesn’t seem to kick in quick enough to stop a slight wheel spin. In the month I’ve had it I’ve wheelspun slightly 7 times in situations I would never expect the car to allow. In contrast this is more spins in 1 month than I had in 5 years of my Astra CDTi. In fact I can only really recall it happening once in the Astra and that was in the wet but traction control corrected it. Anyone else finding this ? Aside from those, and it sounds like I’m more irritated than I actually am, the car is superb (no pun intended). I really enjoy driving it, it’s smooth, good interior space, the boot is amazing, and there are so many clever features.

I’ve just got an Octavia IV, Laura’s voice is male. I looked in the Settings for Language but my language is locked to UK English so I can’t access the next level down. Any ideas how I can release this lock so I can change Laura’s voice ?