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Mine isn't new, being a 2020. I have enabled the connection between the throttle and the speed limits as read by camera or internal map. Mostly this is a joy. But fairly often it's a blinking nuisance and gets it wrong. Even in my own village there is a long stretch of 40. At two points, always the same, the car sets itself to 30. As there are no 30 roadsigns, the internal map must be wrong. I investigated and thought I found the maps were from Here mapping. But this road in Here is marked correctly as 40 throughout. My maps update OTA regularly so it's not that. There are bits of the A1 where the car suddenly decides it's 50 or 60 and then 70 again, which annoys me and probably the car behind. There are chunks of road where the car ignores the NSL after leaving a 30 and insists it's 30 all the way to the next village. All in all, as long as I can override these things manually I can live with it. If the car was more determined I should abide by its mistakes, I'd be miffed.

I had a little prod about in Google. It looks like different manufacturers can take different approaches. The first prominent hit was Ford, who clearly say their system does indeed regulate your speed automatically. So I looked for the EU legislation. An article here seems to say there is in fact a choice between "just warn" and the "actively intervene" for the manufacturer. So which Skoda have done we will know for sure when someone with a spanking new one posts in this thread I guess Article is: https://etsc.eu/opinion-will-intelligent-speed-assistance-isa-live-up-to-its-promise/

For some reason I can't determine, mine will sometimes use the three seconds thing, but other times it says Ready forever, and however long the delay is, it will then auto follow. Other times it never says Ready at all and won't follow even after one second without pulling the lever. I like the "will follow however long I wait for" behaviour best.

I'm guessing yours is different to mine, but just in case... Knock the lever up, it increases in fives. Pull it towards you, increases in ones. Mine does anyway

You know, I'm not sure it even does that. I think it just moans if you exceed the limit. Be interesting to see anyway, especially as I'm in the market for something new. I saw someone complaining about the Peugeot implementation today - boings and flashes giant red things at you for fifteen seconds if you go 1mph over. That would drive me crackers. In any event, given it's going to be pulling data from the speed you see on the dash, rather than your true speed, whatever it does will be happening under the actual limit. In my Superb, 31 on the dash is a gps 30, up to 70 on the dash is a gps 66. When the adaptive cruise adjusts for an upcoming speed limit change, it sets the car to match what the dash says, so I'm constantly nudging it up a bit to get nearer reality. It can optionally boing and flash if you do go 1mph or more over; turned that off on day one and it's stayed off. I suspect this new system is just the same but harder to turn off, and of course turns on again every drive anyway.

Don't confuse " speed limiter that automatically adjusts your speed" with what this new legislation imposes, which is "mandatory speed limiter warning that goes boing flash annoyingly but doesn't adjust your speed automatically". Yet. I think that's right.

Ah, wireless. For me I tried it once, it dropped and so on, and I thought what's the point of that. A cable works, takes one second to plug in and charges the phone battery, never mind drains it. Don't see the value of wireless for me so didn't pursue it

I have twice had Android auto start to do things like fail to connect, or drop connection, that kind of thing. On both occasions it was fixed by buying a new cable, short, and of a reputable brand. Not saying it will be the answer, but it's cheap to find out. If course, if you are using it wirelessly then that's all irrelevant.

Might be crazy, but don't you get the Christmas tree effect of everything lighting up when your 12v battery is low or at end of life?

Yes indeed. Let me be the first to ever type these words on the internet. I was wrong.

I rather suspect they will say it's not coming back to the essentials app, because "a load of reasons that really are about saving them money somewhere". I hope I'm wrong, though this new to me non essentials one is growing on me I think. I can't imagine why there were ever two in the first place. So if you get any answer, let us know.

I've been using the My Skoda Essentials app to do all the bits mentioned. Last week it stopped showing anything other than the picture of the car at the top. Assuming it was me, I then realised there is also a My Skoda app, separate to the "essentials" one. I grabbed that, and although it's laid out differently, everything is there, including stuff I didn't have before like cost of running calculations. Yesterday I looked again at my old essentials app, and it's all back except for the charging info or the ability to plan, start or stop charging. I'm sticking with the non essentials version for now, but will keep checking in case my preferred app starts again eventually.

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.