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Thanks for your replies. I'm now thinking that the PDC could be malfunctioning due to a brownout condition in some electronic circuit, caused by a normal drop in battery voltage during vehicle cranking. The voltage drop would be made worse by cold conditions/battery somewhat discharged/unhealthy battery. Initialising the PDC before starting the vehicle should get around this, as we have seen. I'm not saying that the issue isn't somehow related to software as I also started experiencing the problem a few weeks after getting the 1941 upgrade - a parameter migh have been changed, or a supply line sequenced differently, which is making the system more sensitive to battery voltage dips. Just a thought at this stage.

Is anyone else still experiencing this intermittent PDC error or had it fixed by Skoda? It's still a problem on my car, but seems less frequent now during warmer weather. I've done OBDeleven dignostics scans and periodically get two trouble codes for Parking Assistance: "Null - Unknown (intermittent)" and "B10FCF0 - Front park assist sensors function limitation due to environmental influences (intermittent)" The Skoda dealer is still investigating the issue after several months.

It's been working for me too over the past week.

I was hit with the same PDC issue a few weeks after getting the 1941 software update in September 2023. I provided the Skoda dealer with video evidence of the fault when the car went in for diagnostics testing last month however, as it came back with no relevant diagnostic trouble codes present, they were initially unwilling to investigate it further. The car is now booked into one of their other branches for an extended investigation in April and I'll make the dealer aware of this forum as they don't seem to have any knowledge of this issue. I maintained a detailed log over several weeks in January and the fault doesn't appear to be related to faulty parking sensors, environmental conditions, or battery voltage. The fault mainly appears when starting the vehicle from cold, however I did observe it a few times immediately after switching the engine off-on at normal operating temperature. On the instrument cluster I get the "Manoeuvre braking currently unavailable" message showing briefly at engine switch on (white text), and the "Error: Park Distance Control" (yellow text) message when putting the car into gear or pressing the Park Assist button. The fault is also reported by the infotainment system under vehicle->status - the error is incremented each time park assist is engaged (max = 3). I changed the startup sequence this morning as described by ALBACORE and the error didn't appear - will try again over the coming days.