mattbacon

The app mystery is solved... my wife is the Primary User, and her MySkoda App does have the "Paid services", but I as a guest user don't. However Traffication is listed in red as "Expired February 2026" with an option to resubscribe for £4.50. The next check will be to see if the App screen has more on it if I open the car with her key and make sure she is the active user... best, M.

Thanks, MikeI... I only have one "page" of apps, and it only has three items on it (Sound, Laura and Phone). There's no swiping in either direction, and no sign of a Traffication app. Thank you, too, Rifleman. I have the "MySkoda" app (8.15.0), and there's no "Paid Services" item under Profile, (or anywhere else in the App) It remains a mystery to me. best, M.

I think you're right... my problem is that I can't FIND the Traffication app according to any of the online instructions, and I have never bought/downloaded/installed it. The car had one previous VAG fleet owner for about 6 months, so I wonder if it's some kind of hangover from their time with the car that wasn't properly removed when they handed it back and is Zombie-ing around in the memory somewhere... best, M.

Every now and then, a rather loud, serious male voice announces that there is "a five minute delay due to traffic congestion ahead" (For those of a certain age, it sounds like the guy who did the nuclear attack warning from the 80s that had a starring role on Frankie's "Two Tribes" 12" single...). It's way louder than the Car Play voice announcements (and my Siri and Google Maps are a nice northern lady), and it's not the Voice of Skoda either (which is also female, and quieter). The ONLY thing this voice ever announces is Traffic Congestion. It may be associated with Traffication, but I can't find the "Traffication" app anywhere in the menus that my online searches suggest I should be able to find it in, and I don't know why it would be turned on, anyway -- I've never signed up for or activated it. I've looked through various menus and setting screens both generic and my own user settings, and I cannot find any way to turn it off. It's frankly, annoying (and makes me jump every time it blares out), and I'd really like to know how to silence this dude... anyone had the same problem and found a remedy? best, M.

Obviously far too early to worry about this in our 2025 TDI DSG L&K, but I'm wondering what the current thinking on transmission oil changes is. On our 2012 170 TDI DSG, I think we were initially told the transmission was "sealed for life" but after a while we took to getting a full transmission oil change every 3 years at the main dealer service. Whether that had anything to do with it, the DSG operated flawlessly throughout our ownership and continues to do so for its new owner (I still do business with the repair shop owner who sold it on, so I keep up with how it's going..). So what's the expectation for the MkIV? And for anyone who had a MkIII before their IV, did you change the transmission oil at any specific intervals? best, M.

I've had several occasions with my '25 L+K estate where the tailgate hatch has started closing while I'm leaning right into the load area. I haven't climbed in -- my feet are still on the ground -- but it's when I'm leaning in to pack or unpack things at the base of the rear seatback. I haven't pressed anything on the key or the door close button. It just starts beeping and the gate starts lowering. I would have thought that sensing movement inside the boot space was no harder than detecting a foot waved underneath the bumper. is there some tailgate autoclose feature/timer that I can adjust? (Also, as I've discovered it IS possible to drive off with the tailgate open, when you would have thought that was a scenario when you WOULD want the tailgate to shut if it found itself open when you got to the speed where the parking sensors and view turn off and you're in normal drive mode!) best, M.

Got an L&K estate with Canton infotainment system. Has anyone figured out how to make the peripheral proximity sensors less hypersensitive, or at least mute the audible alarms? Every time I head up or down my drive (which has raised borders on each side), there's a cacophony of alerts and red lines on all sides. I managed it perfectly unscathed in a Mk2 Superb estate for ten years, which is not significantly smaller, so I do know where the corners of my car are. It's just kinda disconcerting when it's beeping at me all the time, and I'm worried it's going to start auto braking on me and leave me stuck! best, M.

My wife's KESSY key fob has gone missing. Can I just check a few assumptions, to narrow down the possibilities..? 1) If she drove the car home, then she must have had the key when she got back? There's no way the car would start and be driven without the key in proximity? 2) What happens if you walk away from the car and the key is still in it? If it had fallen out of her pocket somewhere invisible around the drivers seat, would the car lock itself with the key inside after some time? Or does it do something to alert you the key's inside and not lock the doors so you're not stranded? 3) Do the mirrors fold in by themselves after a while when the key has moved away from the car, or do you have to click the lock icon on the fob to fold them? I'm assuming that if the car was sitting on our drive locked and with the mirrors folded in when we started looking for the key a couple of hours after she got back to go out again, that the key must be in or around the house somewhere. Is that right? And finally... is there anything you can do with the other keys or the car to make the missing fob make a sound or something to help find it? Any corrections to the above assumptions or clever ideas about how to make it reveal itself would be much appreciated! (It's an L+K, so we have three keys in total so mislaying one is not a complete disaster, but still, it would be good to find the darn thing...) best, M.

Just getting to grips with my new Mk 4 (TDI 200 L+K estate) after 15 years with a Mk2. I've set myself up as a user in the car, but when it comes to the stage in the app setup where I have to "Activate the car" it is failing every time. Sometimes it says "Service unavailable, please try later" and sometimes it shows a sad car graphic with the helpful (not) "Error 02". My wife managed to activate the car in her app, with it parked in the same place (she did it first, since she drove it home from collecting it). I've tried deleting and reinstalling the app from my iPhone and that made no difference. I found some references online to it needing a good eSIM signal for data connectivity, so I've connected the car to the house wifi, but that hasn't changed anything.That wasn't on when my wife activated her app, though. (I tried several times before connecting the car to the wifi so it's not the wifi that's the problem). How do you see how good the mobile network strength for the eSIM is? I don't see "bars" on the main display like you'd have on a phone -- is there somewhere in the menus where I can go and find it? And if anyone has any ideas about how to get activation to work, I'm all ears. My next step, if I can find out how to see the signal strength, is drive somewhere that's definitely got good connectivity, park up and try again... best, M.