Jamesr021

I'm not going to knock them, Many years ago Skodas were known a skips. I have had Fiats as well and they were quite solid and never had any issues. I have had almost as many BWM Minis as I have had skodas and i have had just as many issues with them. I had a brand new Mini cooper and the Gearbox went after 9 months so No brand is perfect. I'm partly fed up with paying for options on a car which other manufactures put in as standard. I wanted a heated windscreen as i have cars previously with them, 90% of the second hand Kamiq's don't have it fitted as an option and then its a colour or model, engine that I don't want. I really like listening to music in the car as i spend a lot of time commuting. Most Skoda models don't have the option to upgrade the standard stereo. I just think that Skoda are going to far over towards Audi and VW and charging people for options that a Ford, Kia or Hyundai would have as standard.

I have not totally dropped it, Our family car is a 71 plate L&K Kodiaq TSI ! which is a loverly car to drive and my wife loves it. I have had numerous Skodas over the years, Mk1 Fabia VRS with a tuning box, Great Fun MK2 Fabia VRS drank oil and fuel like an alcoholic but great fun Mk2 Octavia TDI VRS masses of space, Mk2 Superb TDI even more space than the Octavia. my wife has also had 2 Fabias and 3 Kodiaqs. Out of all the skodas we have had the Kamiq has had the most faults. I specced up a Monte Carlo Kamiq and it was more expensive than the Puma. It's nearly 45minutes drive to my closest skoda dealer and as for ford I have one 5 minutes walk away. The Infotainment issues have been the most annoying, the sat nav would show me travelling 30 miles away from where i was, the emergency call would activate at random for no reason, the CarPlay would stop working for no reason. It would not let me register me as a user for several months.

I have had my Kamiq SEL for about 2 and a half years and the Kamiq is now going, as admittedly i have got bored with it. Whilst it's been a brilliant car and has been very good on the economy the Time has come to change it. It has a few things which have been good but equally more things which have outright annoyed me. Pros the Car is spacious and has good rear Leg room and great for kids. good boot space as well. the 1.5 is responsive and picks up well, it ha certainly surprised a few BMW drivers. The ACT is also very good although I have no choice when it kicks in. I have got 55MPG quite regularly on the motorway. Cons the 1.5 when cold is not very smooth when pulling away or travelling below 15mph. it can be very jumpy the windscreen mists up very quickly in cold weather and takes ages to clear. the Lane assist drives me crazy and can be quite dangerous and has pulled me in to on coming traffic a few times. the infotainment system has been extremely buggy and is not totally reliable , I also find it Slow to start with using wireless CarPlay. its been to the dealer so many times over this and they have still not fixed the issues. What will it be replaced with... Well I have considered another Kamiq but to get a vehicle with the engine and options I want would have been very expensive and i'm not convinced that i won't have similar issues again, so i will be replacing it with a Red Ford Puma ST. the Puma is a similar size. it has a 1.5 engine with the ford equivalent of ACT. It has way more standard options on it such as Heated windscreen , Heated seats, Heated steering wheel, B&O sound system. it has a full digital dash. for the standard options it was a no brainer against the skoda who appear to want to charge you for everything.

I had this with mine, the Kamiq thought that i was still in a phone call so the audio system was muted I only discovered it as the volume display on the dash had a phone symbol when I changed the volume, i could only get round it by making a call and then ending it so the system then went back to normal.

On the Top of your Display to the left of the middle is a little world icon, is it greyed out? Mine was when I got my car and the Skoda connect would not work at all or pick up any software updates, i believe the icon means that the car is connected to the internet. I went and registered the car on https://skoda.cubictelecom.com who deal with the data side of the embedded sim card and the following day after I registered the internet started working and the car started to pick up software updates and I could register on Skoda connect as it could connect to my skoda profile. It also picked up my years subscription to the connect services. The Website is actually listed in the Kamiq handbook but its not easy to see, and the handbook does not contact as much info as i thought it would for a skoda.

the removable films which protect the screen have a white tab on them to assist in taking them off, my Kamiq looks the same after i took the factory protective films off .

That may be so, but my dealer is over 20 miles away. I did mention it to them and they did suggest that i take it in. In any case the data connection which was turned off has now switched itself on, so i have been able to register the car and i'm also getting software updates coming through. The system is ok, but with out the data connection working you can't do much. The system does have its benefits esp if the car is ever stolen it would def assist in the recovery of it.

According to the dealer COVID did stop production for a bit, they told me that there was starting to be a shortage of Kamiq's coming through! don't know if i believe them, The dealer was advertising a blue 69 plate Kamiq on Auto trader which i went in for but they said it had been sold yet they are still advertising it 3 weeks later!

I went in for a new car but they told me that cars ordered in October would be looking at a March/April 2021 delivery. which was too far and considering Brexit is approaching then things may get pushed back further or prices increased. The car I got was a new car which they had not yet registered so i got in there as first owner. its only got the spare wheel , front and car parking sensors and the other alloys as options.

it drives very nicely and although a 1.5 its very good on fuel and the cylinder deactivation helps a lot. Its my first brand new car in nearly 10yrs and the buying experience has changed so much. you don't get anything for free, they even charged me for the fuel that was put in. everything is profit margins to the dealers. There is no fun in the buying anymore, I drove a 1.5DSG for a test drive and nearly bought it until I found that it had £3.5k worth of extras.

I picked up my New Kamiq Yesterday from Skoda in Aylesbury. The Car is brilliant and by far its the best skoda I have had. But the New connectivity systems they are putting on the cars are giving me a headache. The car has Skoda connect but it won't load my Skoda profile and complete the Skoda connect activation, it feels like the data connection is not working. how do i fix it..? I have been on the skoda.cubictelecom.com which is listed in the manual and created an account on there, I have tried to use my mobile as a hotspot and connect the car to that and still nothing. I have tried to do a software update but nothing happens, and if i do a new user registration on the car i also get nothing but the same screen saying that the car is activating but i have had that screen for over 45 minutes and it should not take that long.