PetrolDave

That's not an accurate summary, climate change has happened over the billions of years that Earth has existed, from the much wamer climate when the dinosaurs roamed the Earth (with CO2 levels as high as 6%) and there is documented evidence of climate change in the middle ages (a warming event) and in the 17th(?) Century there was the little Ice Age when the River Thames froze over. What is well accepted is that post industrial emissions have created a man made warming event - but it is not the only warming event that has happened nor possibly the largest warming event that has ever happened.

SE trim level isn't the factor, it's whether the electronics platform is designed with OTA in mind. The Octavia 3 can't do OTA but the Octavia 4 can - given the design date of the Scala I doubt it can do OTA.

Beware of using those, you don't know what changes they are making and because Skoda make many running changes you cannot be sure they will do what you want on your car - there have been many posts on here where owners have used one of those and it's caused unwanted side effects. IMHO always do it the manual way making the changes directly yourself, then if something does go wrong you know how to revert it.

The vent plug should only need to blow out in the event of overcharging - so I stand by my comment that you need to get the charging system looked at - first step is to check the voltage with a multimeter with the engine running, if it's over 15V then you definitely have a problem.

You can buy it a 3 VIN version and purchase an extension to 10 VINs or unlimited - depending on your need. Software updates are free for as long as you own a genuine VCDS cable (so there's no reason not to keep it updated) - current cables are the HEX-V2 (USB only) and HEX-NET (USB and WiFi).

@AndyC13 I would get your alternator & BMS checked out as it might be overcharging if it can do that to a battery in only 4 weeks.

My 2016 Mk3 L&K has Lane Assist and Park Assist, so been around for at least 8 years.

I would disagree that the morality of those is questionable, they all encourage people to help improve/protect the environment and since we are officially in a climate emergency I would argue measures such as those are morally required, definitely not questionable.

GIven the complexity of the computer networks that we now drive on the road (in the old days we used to call them cars) then if the 'car manufacturers' are not willing to become 'software developers' then you have to ask whether they should be manufacturing mobile computer networks (sorry cars).

When working on a noise cancellation system for car interiors, we saw temperatures as high as 80C on the interior headlining in sunny parts of the southern USA.

It reached 40C in some parts of the UK last summer, and a few years ago I saw 36C on the M3 between Winchester and Southampton.

Great to see the Columbus 2025 map updates available, any sign of the Amundsen MIB2 2025 map updates yet?

The incinerator at Westbury has approval, but construction has not yet started, so it seems it will go ahead despite the report yesterday that emissions from incinerators is as high as the now closed coal fired power stations so it's hard to see how these incinerators can be seen as part of the greening of our energy supply system. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3wxgje5pwo

You need to get a fault code scan done, there are so many reasons why the engine management light can come on so it's really impossible to guess.

Tried doing a quick format on the card to FAT32?

Charging a battery isn't 100% efficient so the energy taken out of the battery by climbing a hill won't be fully replaced by regenerative energy put back when going down the same hill. Charging efficiency of a LiIon battery is typically 95-97%, much better than a lead acid battery which is closer to 80%.

Specifically the Amundsen will only read sat nav maps off a Skoda or VAG SD card.

Please don't misrepresent what others are saying, maybe you need to look in a mirror?

None of those say NO infrastructure but point out that the infrastructure is NOT consistent throughout the nations and regions.

Interesting, but it's north Devon I drive to so Exeter is off route. It 'amuses' me that, as Ootohere has mentioned in an earlier post, some people seem to try to expand their regional experience to the whole country - the simple fact is that public infrastructure coverage is NOT consistent throughout the whole of England, Scotland and Wales so people's experiences of the coverage will vary and it's pointless, some would say stupid, to maintain that just because one person sees good or bad coverage that will apply to all 60+ million of us.

As I said there are several, so here's a link to a search that currently shows 235 results! https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p3519243.m570.l1313&_nkw=skoda+sd+card&_sacat=0

That's not my experience where I drive in the South and South West, I have yet to see a charging hub on a major route without queues of EVs waiting to charge.

That's the problem, the Amundsen REQUIRES a Skoda (in fact any VAG branded) SD card as it has a special embedded code that isn't present on a 'normal' SD card. Skoda SD cards are available on a well known auction site at prices well below the official dealer price, I've boight all my Skoda SD cards from there!

BUt one of the reasons given by potential EV buyers for NOT buying an EV is the limited public charging network causing them "range anxiety", some people have even traded in the EV they had bought due to lack of charging infrastructure. Seems we're in a chicken and egg situation - where the public charging network won't be expanded until there is increased demand but there won't be increased demand because of the perception of limited public charging network. Someone needs to break this vicious circle...

It is possible to setup WMP to do the ripping correctly, I've been using WMP since 2005 to rip CDs to SD card for use in my VAG vehicles (Audi S4, Audi RS4, Octavia 3 Elegance & Octavia 3 L&K).