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Oh, I might be doing the photos right... I pulled into the side of the road for the photo. I'm actually on the B road, just before (lower) than it's shown on the map Here I'm parked on the A3102, just past Marlow Way On the return journey, still on the A3102, pretty much on the dot under Wootton Note that heading both directions, it's placed me to the North(ish) of the road that I'm on

Ken, if that were the problem, wouldn't that mean that the "feature" would be common across all VAG cars with the same bead unit?

This is old established roads and not the same each time. The M5 has been there for a while.

That's worth knowing.

I've no idea if iOS devices with carplay work the same as Android does with AA. I often have this issue in wide open spaces - on the M5 for example when it's determined that I'm in a farm. so it's definitely not signal reflection issues

I don't think it does use DGPS though I could be wrong, after all I didn't realise that AA used the car's GPS system for years... 15m would likely be close enough, but in the example I gave, the position was about 50m out which is enough to get it to put the position way off to the side (or ahead, or behind) Both the car and the Garmin seem to be identifying the same number of satellites (and it's still 8+ when the location is wrong), however the Garmin handily says what the accuracy is. Not sure if there's a hidden menu on the head unit that provides that.

Yes, if you use AA purely on the phone then it doesn't use the car's GPS. However, as soon as you plug the phone into the car's USB socket such that you can use AA on the head unit, it swaps to using the car's GPS. I could fit a dash mount for the phone but that somewhat defeats the purpose of all the expensive tech in the car.

Cheers - I bought a couple of external antennas recently as my old Garmin won't work sat on the dash without them (heated windshield) but unfortunately I don't think they have Fakra connectors. Actually I'm sure they don't. Waze has now been updated to use the car antenna, so I can't use that to get round the problem. Whilst I'm tempted to discover how to get into the back of the head unit and try an external antenna, while this is still being treated as a warranty issue, I'm avoiding the temptation to fiddle. The car is out of warranty, but the problem was reported whilst it was in warranty but I don't want to give Skoda a get out. I'm not sure if the antenna on the car has all the wiring through to the head unit of if it decouples at the antenna base - i.e. if replacing the antenna does replace the cabling through the headlining or if that's likely still the original.

Just started a thread on the Superb III section which might have sat better here. The nav often determines my position to be up to about 50m away from where I actually am. Not all the time, but often enough to be annoying. Skoda have done a deep reset of the system (whatever that means) and then replaced the antenna when the first fix didn't work and it's still not right. Any thoughts? Am I alone?

It uses the navigation app on the phone, but the positional information from the car. It took me a long time to discover this. For months I'd been convinced that the problem I was having was a generic GPS issue as the position was off whether I was using the car navigation or the android auto navigation, but later discovered that when connected, android auto uses the car GPS signal and there's no way I've found of getting to to use its own

Please bear with - I post images so infrequently I always seem to struggle...

My Sportline has what I guess is called the Columbus (I used to under stand which radio was which) and has an interesting "feature". Whilst the navigation system works, the location is sometimes a fair way away from where it should be. By which I mean if I'm driving along, the system might place me somewhere adjacent to where I actually am. It doesn't happen constantly, but it does happen a lot. In the example here, the car things that I'm off road about 50m away from my actual position (shown by the black arrow) https://i.imgur.com/GSB40fo.jpg Whilst I can generally work out where I actually am this can be quite frustrating when I'm perhaps driving along a main road quite happily and the system is going mad trying to navigate me out of the adjacent housing estate. Using Android Auto the effect is the same because when the phone is connected to the car, it uses the car GPS position as opposed to the phone GPS. When I use the phone disconnected it gets the position correctly, and I can also navigate correctly with my 20 year old Garmin sat nav sat on the the dash. When I first took it in to Skoda, they deep a "deep reset" of the sat nav system which, other than giving me a new Sportline splash screen on start up made no difference. Since then they have replaced the roof antenna and it seems a little better but the problem hasn't gone away - the pic above is with the new antenna. Anyone else suffering the same? Anyone else solved the problem?

Pirelli are showing the original Cinturato P7 as the current fitment, and I'm sure my somewhat leisurely driving style wouldn't highlight any difference between the different versions

That was definitely my thought regarding the alignment. I've been quite happy with the original fitment Pirellis so would have no issue with fitting the same again

Last night I was getting Chrome's "Aw, snap!" error message in response to every search I tried. This morning it's not as bad with it only happening on about a 1/3 of my searches. Searching Briskoda through Google is working 100% fine though Odd.

I suspect this has been answered many times but the search function on the site seems to be broken at the moment :-( My Sportline is in to see if Skoda can work out what's wrong with the sat nav, and while it's in they have done an "inspection". In addition to a few things that I knew needed doing, they have also highlighted that the car should have the wheel alignment done... at a cost of £144. Now, with all the pot holes near here I'd not be surprised if the alignment is out so fair enough it should be resolved, but £144 sounds like an awful lot for clamping the steering wheel, clamping the alignment jig onto the 4 wheels then tweaking the steering rod ends to get the toe in right. Is there anything magical or complicated in doing the Superb III wheels or will the free check and alignment if required from my local tyre fitter do the same job? At the moment my local Skoda dealer is quoting £190 more for 2 Pirellis and alignment than the local, and very well respected, tyre fitter.

Whilst the mount won't fit, this might be of use

Welcome to Briskoda First thing to note is that the phone mount doesn't fit the same as the PID mount even though the dash hole is the same outline. Our car has the PID. We'd prefer the phone holder, but it's not a simple swap. So we haven't.

Years back there was the 500 mile then 600 mile Citigo tank range challenge which was excellent fun (except for those stuck behind the competitors). I can feel the "what's the daftest thing you've got on the roof of a Citigo" challenge is just around the corner! (could you lash the front of the kayak to the towing eye?)

If they offer that, bite their hand off! I'm thinking £2,800-£3,500.

They are going to update me on Monday. We've got the Citigo and the MX5 to potter about in in the mean time.

aaaaand it needs a new Mechatronic. Which is on backorder. With no confirmed delivery date.

one month on and it's back in for the same fault. Seems that rebooting the gearbox isn't the solution Skoda would like it to be.

50 (Sorry, couldn't resist - but when I did google it appears to be actually only 34, but a change from 3-valve to 4-valve heads and an extra 10bhp)

It doesn't look like we have key protectors... Did the Versys not work out? I note that it's still for sale.