Practicaldriver

After 4 days we have her back. Broken gearbox seals. What does that mean? How can they break? Anyhow, job done. For now. We had a Superb Estate as a courtesy car and I cannot believe how low it is to get into or how easy it is too bump your shoulder getting in. Is it me or am I getting older?

Just a reminder, with personalisation you need to use both keys frequently otherwise great man in cloud says I do not recognise you and you have to relog in remembering your password! At least it does not have to be 16 digits long alphanumeric etc. Yet. All part of VW's view of security which just makes life difficult for you.

Old dealer stock and so is over 12m old. We have known mechanic for years and our instincts say trust him. Lively man. Apparently he is fascinated by leak and by booking it in for a week gives him time to dismantle things, order parts as required and reassemble within a generous time frame. Superb Estates are fine by us. Two goldies fit in nicely.

P.s. Leak small, no evidence on drive but there is a cover under engine which would catch it I would imagine. Fact car booked in for 3 weeks time confirms this. I hope!!

Roottoot does me a confuse. At the start of June we had the car serviced, it's first service after circa 9,000 miles. Afterwards we noticed that the a/c did not work and since we were going touring with dogs had the car booked in for it to be replaced at short notice. The service report noted the leak and so we booked car in again for that which is where we are now. Nothing mentioned to us about any recall. We drove car for a fortnight after leak was reported at service interval and after a/c fix. I assume car is being picked up by my wife who has cycled to dealer and we will return it on 25th July. References to cover confuse me - is that the bonnet!! JR I too am cynical but have no evidence of course.

Rebooked in for a week commencing 27 July. Flat battery, failed a/c and now this. In all the years of owning Skodas, and I reckon it is 6 cars, we have had only 1 previous issue, a switch on our Roomster's heating controls! Cannot fault dealer but they do need more parking space!!

Kodiaq 2.0 TSI 190 Sport Line 4x4 5dr DSG 8,992 miles Just been informed that the garage want it for a week! A week! Courtesy car arranged of similar flexibility (Superb Estate, Hum.) so we cannot really complain about that, but this does intrigue me hence the question. Furthermore, will a similar problem appear when the warranty expires but that is for another day.

Not sure! We have 2 keys and car recognises the key which is linked to a specific user. Welcome Mandy or Welcome Me. Works fine provided each user has their own Skoda Connect portal account which assumes each user had their own email address blah, blah blah. The idea in theory is fine but execution lousy. Synchronisation failed messages when setting up user when in fact the user was set up. I do not wish to trouble anyone further since we have tamed the system but it is awful and our dealer were struggling with it too!

Barely 12 months old and now we have a second warranty issue. The first was the air conditioning which was not working and required a new compressor. Now there is an oil leak behind the gearbox. This requires dismantling, assessment of the problem and possibly new parts. It is currently Thursday so we have been advised that it could be Monday before the car is back. Does anyone have experience of a similar oil leak problem behind the gearbox? I am fascinated to know the answer. Of course, this ignores the inconvenience caused but being retired it is not so much of an issue but a few years back, it would have been then.

Personalisation is a pain in the backside. My wife uses the car most of the time using her key. It is the only car we have and every so often I am allowed to drive it! So I use my key but on one occasion it refused to recognise me because I had not used the car and had to reverify my credentials I.e. email address and password. All in the name of security. As if I have time for that. I am rather fed up of companies telling me what my security options are or making assumptions about our domestic arrangements! If I used the car more often it would not be a problem but really, why should I have my life intruded into because some clown thinks it is a good idea? Rant over but my experience of Skoda is dropping fast and the dealer too through no fault of the wonderful staff I should add.

I blame the missus! I have read that Nextbase have licensing issues preventing multiple phone use, some thing to do with Alexa?

We go for holidays in cottages in the UK. Few have charging points and in rural locations these points have few and far between. Petrol for now. One thing about specifications, I would always ask what have you lost compared to earlier versions? We bought a new Kodiaq and found we lost several useful features even though we thought that the trim was the same. For example, overtaking sensors in mirrors. This safety feature is currently not available due to a shortage of chips because of the current pandemic. It is worth looking at the latest specifications very carefully.

Mrs PD decided to order Nextbase Dash Cam. Top of range, fitted by dealer. What management decrees, you shall follow. Works brilliantly. Delighted with it she was. Except.... I too drive the car and when the car recognises my key (another subject I posted on) I would like to think I can connect to the dash cam with my phone as opposed to my wife's as she is not around. Apparently you cannot even though blurb and manual suggests you can. It is incredible how many manufacturers of cars and no dash cams assume the principle user is the only user and make it impossible for the second user to take advantage of the benefits available to the main or primary user. So if ever you want to have professionally fitted a dash cam to avoid possible battery drain, you may wish to widen your research to check that second users i.e. second drivers, have ready access to the dashcam. Check that you can actually pair multiple phones.

Does beg a question. You go going a walking trip and take a packed lunch in a cool box. Can you leave the cool box running for 3 hours say without fattening the battery?

Sadly none that I could find. If you go into User Accounts and click on the user you will see when the settings were last synced with that user. If I recall correctly you can also manually synchronise. At the moment it all works and I even added me again when the battery was replaced recently so I think I have the hang of it!