crankcase

Possibly coming from the radio TMC service, which covers only big stuff on big roads. Which of course may be enough for some people. That service is manufacturer agnostic of course.

Yeah, but unlike Waze you don't get warnings of police or potholes or weather, etc.

The one thing I quite like on the Skoda satnav is the first screen that shows some of your previous destinations and straight lines connecting them to the middle, like a spider web. Took me ages to suss the different colours of the lines shows you roughly how congested the route to that destination is. Nice touch.

You're right in that "drive home" works well. It's if you want an address unknown to it then it's very slow by voice. In my previous Toyota you could say things like "I'm cold" and it would increase the heat, but Laura doesn't. I also could say "I'm hungry" and it popped up nearby food places. I don't think Laura does that either. I do pay annually for the Skoda live traffic though, which in the small print says it comes from TomTom. Then I use the satnav just as a fallback to Waze on the phone. Been useful a few times.

I've never found voice control useful for anything much, and yes, it does pop up unexpectedly sometimes. I sometimes think I'll get it to play music, but usually I use "ok Google" to do that via Spotify. The actual command is different on each system, and I can never remember the Laura one. Entering nav instructions via Laura is pretty painful too I find.

Might be a simple as you've muted them accidentally? Changing the volume using the control on the steering wheel only works when it is actually talking. Or on the nav screen there is a volume change slider if you tap one of the icons bottom right. Probably not, but quick to check at least

Best as I can tell, what Skoda call "traffication" for a fiver is entirely separate to the live traffic info on the map, which is much more expensive annually. I enabled it for a fiver last year to see what it did. When enabled, you get another screen that allows you to report "an event" when you see it. If by some bizarre miracle another Skoda (only, I think) driver who has also paid their fiver reports "an event" and it's somewhere near you, it will pop up on your screen. This is nothing like traffic reports on the satnav screen, and certainly nothing like reports in Waze or whatever either. I might be wrong, but I think that's how it works.

Never done that, but the app lets you set up three plans, so I would think you can do what you want, yes.

My iV is a 2020. The build spec doesn't show wireless Android auto, but it does it. However, I can't say how reliable it is because I don't use it, not seeing its value to me.

Don't think you can adjust the time. It works it out by itself. One of the things remote access gives you is the ability to turn on preconditioning at will, as well as create departure times etc. we use that at the supermarket checkout, by the time you're paid and back up the carpark it's warm/cool. Remote access also allows you start/stop charging at will, but you can achieve that with your tapo and granny charger combo, as long as your tapo will drive the granny without overheating of course.no idea, never tried that. I've had the granny overheat in some old manky mains socket though, so personally wouldn't use it in something like a holiday cottage without checking with the owner first.

You can set heating/cooling departure time in the car. Go to e-manager. Click settings cog. Set the temperature you want by clicking on air conditioning. Go back one screen, touch a plan on the left. Now you set the time you want it be ready, and you will also see an option for air conditioning as well as charging and another to tell it when your off peak tariff is. So just click on air conditioning there if you want it pre warmed or cooled at your departure time, as well as being charged to whatever percentage charge you have chosen. Hope that makes sense!

Mine's at 33k miles. I think the DSG fluid needs doing at 40k. I'm not 100% sure I'll still have it though, vaguely looking to change, though no idea what to. Don't like the look of the inside of the new as yet unreleased Superb much, especially as it's in estate form only for the PHEV.

While you can't get android auto in the virtual cockpit, it will show the next turn direction from Waze. I don't know if it does that with Carplay as well. For mine, I prefer the sort of one pedal drive feel you get from B rather than D, so I've always used B exclusively. I don't know whether that contributes to my good consumption or not. I also usually use Comfort in the DCC, which I think runs stuff in Eco in the background. And finally, I toodle a bit on motorways, very rarely setting the ACC above 70, and often at 65. If I do get bored and set it to 75, then mpg will drop to mid fifties if I have an empty battery . I tried using the "top the battery up while driving" option just once, which killed the mpg down to twenty something. Never again.

I have a 2020 iv L&K. It has 35k on it. The worst battery range I've ever had is 24. The most was an amazing 42, when everything was perfect. Mostly, it's the low thirties. I do 14k miles a year, 7k on just electricity. 7kw wall charger at home, but remember these cars charge at 3.5kw max, so not quick. I regularly drive 320 miles to Scotland. If I set off with 30 miles electric range, at the other end it reports about 75 miles on pure electric running, as it's excellent at regeneration at every slow down. The mpg on that run is usually reported at about 60. A smaller run, say 100 miles, often yields mpg of 80 or more. It's a great car.