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Hi. I use a large Dometic fridge and I cannot see any major difference. Please only consider long parking or night when the socket is powered only from the 12v battery not being recharged from the high voltage battery. Look at this as, say absolutely max 100W load which over 12h journey will take of your battery only 1.2kWh. This is obviously simplification but in principle tells you - no bother! Enjoy your trip.

Hi Martin Since you are asking - in my view, from my experience - if you are desperately looking to spend some money go for a nice dinner. I really cannot see any advantage of the Skoda Connect service. The emergency call feature is going to work regardless. All other "tools" are as good as chocolate fireguard. Take it as my subjective opinion only.

Yes, the quality is below any acceptable level. Moreover the attitude of service personnel stinks even more. Two dealerships 2x poor customer service. Many think that “free coffee “ which you paid for within overpriced service charge covers what matters. Unfortunately not. Never mind.

Disc from the Superb 2.0tdi after 24k miles from new 95% motorway BUT with regular use of ACC

It is poor quality rather than anything else. Believe me I’m very conservative driver. In previous car ( Mondeo) front pads lasted 96k miles, rear never changed until sold at 126k. In this one the thickness of pads and discs was ok but either of them was badly corroded and grooved. Still got discs waiting to chuck away, will take photo later on to show how poor they are.

After reading this topic I have decided to change my rear discs and pads myself. Quotation received from the dealer (Pullman Skoda Durham) was in my view excessively high - £369. They didn’t even offer an option of fitting better quality items neither would accept me supplying what I would want. I have purchased set of Brembo discs and pads for just over £100 and installed it in approx 90 minutes. I have an OBD 11 however I’m not really sure I needed to use it. I had do wind down pistons regardless. What bothers me is an appalling quality of the originally installed items. 1st service 12k miles advised to change, 2nd definitely required at 24k. I must admit the discs and pads were in crazy bad state. May post photo later on.

LBaker24. Is your connect account set up in full, can you log in from PC? I had similar issues all down to the issue with MIB3 alone. After carrying factory reset all eventually started working. In online services list I had one entry visible on MIB screen showing some random symbols. Obviously program issue. When all cleared off car connected ok, personalisation started working.

If I may suggest - go for dedicated electrics. Obviously more expensive but give you piece of mind. Brag when done

PS Sensors may "see" the towbar so may report falsely. Depending on the design. The car I have just sold couldn't see the towbar, so sometimes I had it attached without towing anything (or carrying my bikes). Funny enough - when bar was bare sensors didn't see it, when I put the plastic cap on it sensors would spot it. Just few mm difference, different material added.

Hi From my recent experience: a month ago I have fitted with local independent supplier Witter towbar, obviously programmed, with dedicated electrics; detachable with folding out socket. Paid £597.00 (North East of UK). Exactly the same towbar priced by Skoda garage 1/4 mile down the road £970.00 - obviously I have passed this "opportunity". Quoted also in Skoda for foldable one but this was in excess of £1200.00 - out of my reach. Local fitter did excellent job. Car dropped off for "half a day" was available for collection in about 90 minutes. They did my other cars in the past, each time excellent service. Personally I wouldn't go for fixed for aesthetical and practical reasons. Saving on fixed vs detachable very modest as the towbar itself varies from £150 to £250 -ish. Electrics/installation make majority of the cost. FYI my car came without towbar preparation.

Hi IJWS15 Buggy software.... "it isn't buggy as a bug is a defect. It just doesn't do what you want it to.... ". Well, yes you are right if it comes to semantics. Lets call it semi-functioning software. Don't get me wrong, I like the car and I have 2 Skodas; I have serious sentiments if it comes to Czech Republic too, BUT comparing to other brand just because the other is worse in certain aspects isn't the way I look at things. If my company delivers crap service I do not celebrate this as "not as bad as the other one" but I work on improvements. And yes, before you bite my head off - I would go for Saab but market voted it off so I am dealing with whatever is available and within my financial reach. Naturally everything is subjective. Regards Greg

You may be right. But when you turn up to the show room you do not ask for the "less buggy" one. I've got whatever the car has been equipped with; advertised as a newer, better etc. VAG simply put on the market half baked product. Nothing else

Hi Sasha, My bad. Just checked and you are right with the phone on maxidot. Thanks. The whole lot of other minor issues - I hope they are going to mature and updates may clear them off. They put big question mark on the car's infotainment system's functionality.

mad, just mad. Does anyone know where such things can be reported (other than Skoda's twitter account which is served by ppl having little interest in solving any problems)? It is hard to imagine that VAG committed such negligence in case of my car only. Therefore we may be talking about hundreds of thousands of cars run with described above glitches potentially bringing avoidable risks to the driver and other road users, I know, one may say - don't touch while you are driving. But, sorry I feel that finishing the call or access to mirror heating information are somehow basic elements of functionality of the contemporary car.

If I may - I own MK3 new car for just over 3 months. Overall very happy with it. However, I have found few glitches which make use of the car less pleasant than it possibly should be: 1. Heating of the mirror controlled by the same switch as mirror adjustment dial - no control light within the switch, forget the dashboard. Obviously you can look at the position of the switch itself or see the message on maxidot; provided you decide to go to the relevant screen. Nonsense in my modest view. 2. In many places of the MIB3 interface no reverse/back button. So playing with high proportion of various settings you can revert only back to the main screen, not the screen just before. 3. Phone app - if you use maxidot for say speed info and the main MIB3 screen for say NAV there is no way you can disconnect the call - other than playing with buttons/screens again. 4. Screen setting - show clock after ....10 sec - not stored after restart of the car. Why??!! Is the whole interface deliberately designed to keep the driver overly occupied playing with screens? How does this correspond with overall aim of avoiding distraction for safety reasons? Not sure if others share my (little) frustrations. OR maybe someone know solutions for the issues described above?

Hi, Does anyone know the part number for the USB C socket alone? the one located in the mirror housing? I have purchased car from stock unfortunately lacking this feature. I have only tiny blanking plate in the place of the socket.

Answering my own question - just received response form Skoda - no, you cannot use any other provider.

Adding a bit to the topic - would anyone know if/how I could configure the MIB3 to work with my operator rather than Cubic telecom? Data plan offer doesn't seem to be overly attractive ( £98.99/year for 60GB)

hi with folded seats you have about 200cm space. When the seats are up this is 114cm

If I may suggest- contact Skoda directly. I had my questions quite quickly answered messaging them over the tweeter.

Hi SuperbRaceBlue You have MIB3 I presume. There is no slots. All happens online. Are you lacking any specific functionality in your system?

If I may - delete whole lot, re set car to the factory settings. I had similar issue over number of attempts untill I have wiped off all and calmly started again. This was in my experience caused by connectivity issues. Ensure also you have 2 keys with you in the car only. Also, personalisation requires only one key around the car at the time you are setting the things up. Otherwise all ends up with wasted time. Let me know if you gotten anywhere.

Hi Propag I have learned that you should only ensure that the system is connected. Update, when available, should be announced by the notification. No, you cannot gain extra functionality buy simple update of the software. Some functions can be turned on via the service software. This is however beyond my abilities. There are gurus here able to advise.

Hi I have finished conversation with Skoda confirming my above statement. In MIB3 '21 models update happens over the air only, pushed to the head unit by VAG, notification would tell when available. Please let me know if you have learned anything else.

Hi Warkman I have solved this - well, so so. You need independent data connection. You can connect the system to your mobile OR pay Skoda's provider for the data package. This is not going to work otherwise. using my mobile data I can find every station i wanted plus long list of preloaded ones. I feel that it is cheaper to use own data rather than pay for Skoda's which comes for about £90/year for 60GB of data - if memory serves me well. You are right, the manual supplied is simply out of date = useless and the dealership - don't let me start...