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That is what I think. For me, it can happen several times in a row on a short local trip and then not for weeks. I think it is part driving style, and only happens in a few circumstances, so VAG can't be bothered to do a lot of work to fix a "minor" intermittent problem.

I don't know enough, on this particular point, to argue either way. However, your point is quite feasible and VAG could just ignore the problem if it is not clear how to solve it, or the problem doesn't warrant, in their view, the man-hours to fix it. Now I am retired, I don't get to the conferences I used to so I can have a quiet informal word with the right people. :-(

I have the same problem. (1.5 manual 2024 KAroq) I think it is driving style ingrained from over 40 years in conventional cars that are not stop/start

Just to confuse things, my 2023 Mfr, 24 plate, SE L also has an additional immobilizer/tracker. It is a Meta Trak S5-VTS which was fitted by the dealer as it was their demo car. Apparent Johnson's do this with all their demo cars, so I assume they get a good trade discount. This version with a fob requires the fob (as well as the car key) to be in the car to start it. When I bought the car, they deregistered it. Though, I also called Meta Trak to confirm the change of ownership. They also gate be a price for reactivating, but a Škoda 1.5 petrol, manual SE L is not exactly a target. So I declined. Especially as mentioned the car has an alarm, immobilizer and the phone app is a tracker.

That's interesting. So my decision to go petrol over diesel and use E10 seems justified.

I think you misunderstand. The picture I showed as the buckle stowed correctly in place. It does NOT rattle in that position. It only rattles when it is not stowed and looks like this. The buckle here is loose. People getting out do just that, and 99.9% and children/grandchildren of all ages don't think, or know, the buckle needs stowing. With the covers, you suggest the buckle won't fit the recess. Because 90% of the time it is just me and the wife, the buckles are correctly stowed most of the time and other times I remember to stow them when I get home or what ever.

Another thing is the rear seatbelts.... The metal part that plugs in will rattle if it is not seated in the holder when in the stowed position Like so It drove me made for a day when I kept hearing a rattle every now and again. Having had the problem with the parcel shelf before, I took that out and reseated it, but the rattle was still there...

indeed it is. what sort of driving is that?

I did the same guess calculations a while ago. I had a Diesel Primera 2litre when working and travelling across the UK, the wife had a petrol 1.4 Nissan Note. The Primera went first (it was 18 years old) when I stopped working as, thanks to Covid it ended up on the drive 99% of the time. Post Covid things didn't ever come back to "normal" before I retired. We used the petrol Note for a year or two thinking we need to replace it as it was 14 years old. Most of our mileage, a lot lower than when working, is short distances around town with occasion runs on dual carriageways and motorways of 40 and 80 miles each way to visit relatives. So I went for a 1.5 Petrol Karoq. Over this year we are averaging 41 MPG with a range of 37-44mpg over the months according to the Skoda App. The other factor was that we are close to Birmingham Costco. At the moment not only is unleaded less than Diesel the E10 is 1.24 a litre.

Looking at the wiring diagram and the manual it suggests only the two outer seats are heated.

Let me know how you get on. Now it is only me and the wife, the Children and Grandchildren can freeze on unheated seats when I have to act as an unpaid tazi :-)

My 2023 Mfr 2024 registered SE L rear seats are unheated. However, it is only the centre set of contacts that have the cover flap like that. All three seats have the lightweight covers that the seat plug moves aside. I assume that Škoda assumed the centre seat would be out more often and ski's, poles etc would often be inserted from the boot?

Whilst I thought about it.... If you ever want to fold the middle seat to form an arm rest or drinks holder, you end up with a gap straight through to the boot space. So I picked up a padded rear bumper cover off Temu/AliExpress. It is meant to flip out from the boot to cover the real lip and bumper when loading. I put some material from an old boot liner in the middle on the cabin side and Velcro left and right. Now, when you drop the centre seat, there is no noise or draft into the cabin. Also, it protects the bottom of the seats where the handles are.

This is the outer seat connector. You can clearly see the missing three contacts for the heated seats on mine. I hope this lot helps,

The outer two seats have two sets of connectors. This is because you can take the centre seat out and slide both the outer seats towards the middle.

This is the connector on the bottom of the seat. I don't have heated rear seats (only the front ones), So only two contacts. On the floor side there are 5 contacts. So I assume the middle three missing ones go between the two you can see. This leads me to wonder if the wiring for front and rear heated seats is there if you have the front seats heated. They just don't connect up the rear heated seats.

This is with the flap in the seat removed position. (The first time I put the seat back, I forgot to move this! But no harm done.

This is what happens when the seat is in place, it pushes the covers out of the way.

Here we go. Centre seat first. This is on the floor. The lower one has the contacts underneath, the upper thing is the cover that you use when the seat is removed.

Not yet.... today didn't quite go as planned! Sorry. They are not the thing to try and photograph in the dark :-( I will have a go tomorrow morning where things are not as busy.

There is a plug and socket arrangement with self closing flaps when the seats are folded up. I will do some photos tomorrow

Currently, have running PC's Macs and Linux systems. The Macs are all over 10 years old, and I can swap parts on the Pro and the Macbook pro's They are all 3rd party repairable. Much of it by me, even on the laptops. I went to PC's for Video Editing about 4 years ago because of the way Apple was heading. I don't like the M1 Macs at all for general purpose computing. Though I have designed many embedded systems with a similar sot of outlook where everything (or most of it) is on one MCU. It isn't appropriate for general purpose computers. So PC's it is running, currently Win 10 and 11 (also Win 7 and XP for legacy stuff) Anyway, seeing as Apple is accelerating its planned obsolescence, I will be moving to Samsung for phones.

iOS 18.5 on iPhone SE 2nd Gen. It is model MX9R2B/A from April 2020 and discontinued 2022. So obsolete for 3 years, but still works and does what I need. In the Škoda dealers yesterday, they looked at the support chart for Car play and the SE was not on it. The iPhone16e is on and that is the successor to the 3rd Gen Se. However, the support for Samsung on Car Play is much longer. Personally, I am moving away from Apple. I would not be surprised if Apple had killed the SE support themselves, they do that sort of thing. My Three Macs are now 12 years old and Intel Macs. Apple are very overrated and gone down hill since Steve Jobs. Though even he was no saint.

It appears that Apple change things, and either an update on the Škoda or the IPhone makes my 5-year-old iPhone SE no longer compatible with car play on the car. My next phone will be a Samsung. Škoda support far more of them, including older models for longer.

Thanks, as it happens, I am due my first a Service at a Škoda Main Dealer. (car is 18 months old, and I have had is 12 months) S0 I will drop in and ask them. I am sure they want the next couple of years servicing