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It varies is I think the best answer! If you have the white globe symbol showing that you have an internet connection, then you are able to use the buttons for an SOS call (if it hasn't been triggered automatically), breakdown call or information call. The online system updates are received automatically with a message on screen asking if you want to install it (which can only happen when you're parked). The service scheduling will also ask you if you want to contact your preferred service dealer for a service. Other features merely send data to your phone app for you to read at your leisure (eg driving data, parking position, vehicle health). The connection to the online shop is via the infotainment screen menu, and if you send a destination to your car, you will get a message asking if you wish to navigate to it or save it (eventually... last time I tried it took several days before the Skoda server passed it on!) Other services such as the number of parking places and petrol prices pop up when you navigate to a car park or petrol station. And the online traffic information or voice control happen in the background. Note: Although the manual talks about sending complex journeys with stopovers and routes from the Skoda Connect website, for the time being it only seems able to sends the final destination. My downloaded copy of the Owners Manual has a section called Online Services which details this, but now Skoda have removed this I'm not sure how much is provided in your paper copy, or the new digital owners manual on the Skoda website. I've already given up on the owners manual in the Skoda Connect app as that doesn't cover MY21 cars!

For MY21 Karoqs in the UK, the eSim gives you: 1: eCall (the automatic or manual call to an emergency call centre) for the life of the car. 2: Proactive Services (Breakdown calls, Information calls, a vehicle health report, service scheduling, online personalisation, and online system updates - but not map updates) for the first 10 years. 3: Care Connect Remote Access (for driving data, parking position, vehicle status, area & speed notifications, honk & flash, online anti-theft alarm - and lock & unlock if activated by a dealer) for the first year. It then costs between 40 and 60 Euro a year to renew. 4: Infotainment Online (online map updates, online traffic information, parking spaces, petrol stations & prices, online route calculations, online voice control, online POI import (when this becomes available), online destination import and the online shop) for the first year. It then costs between 50 and 70 Euro a year to renew. Note that you can use a dataplug and the Skoda Connect Lite phone app to provide the driving data and parking position for the price of the dataplug if you don't want to continue to pay for the Care Connect Remote Access service.

I've not been bothering to investigate the new scheme as I bought a 5 year factory warranty with my car. But I've also noticed dealers offering a year's free free breakdown recovery when you get your car serviced with them.

When I tried it to get web radio working, all I did was set my phone up as a hotspot, and then link the car to use that data connection rather than the inbuilt e-sim. I haven't got the details available just now, but think it was via the main settings menu.

That was a major motivation for me in choosing the SportLine!

I had a Vauxhall Velox for a while which had wipers driven from the dynamo I think. They certainly speeded up with the engine revs, and when I was doing an indicated 100mph (back in the unregulated 60s, officer) one was flapping back and forth so fast it flew off!

My trip up to Ladybower didn't generate an update to my nav database - it's still at 21.2. But as I haven't spotted any errors in it yet, perhaps we're getting too hung up over the version numbers? Perhaps they become less relevant when the car is only updating part of the database rather than the whole file?? After 7 months of ownership I've nearly done a thousand miles in the car, so it's just about run in! it was nice to make a longer journey at last (50 miles out in the morning and 50 back) and to see an indicated fuel consumption of 36.2 in the morning and 44.2 in the afternoon! Not as bad as I feared the 2.0 TSI 4x4 might be

Mine doesn't have the predictive cruise control, but does have the traffic sign camera. At first I let it sound an alarm when I exceeded a speed limit (according to the speed limit sign it had detected) but I got fed up with the false alarms as it reacted to signs on junctions. Now I just have the detected speed limit on the virtual display, and ignore it when it is telling porkies. (For non-UK readers: porkies = pork pies = lies). Chris

I'm guessing you've got an older infotainment system (MIB2?) since your signature says you have a 2019 Karoq. Since the MIB3 systems in this thread can't use the Skoda Update Portal, you'll get more help from one of the other update threads.

My MIB3 Amundsen in my Karoq gives you the choice of FM/DAB or Internet Radio as a radio source - but after several months of fruitless enquiries I discovered this can only download a list of possible web radio stations if you buy an additional dataplan from Cubic (on top of the normal Skoda Connect dataplan.) But I could tell the eSIM in my car to connect to my smartphone instead and use its data connection. And then I could get web radio stations over the internet. I've not pursued it as I only saw it as a back-up to get UK radio stations when I was abroad, and that's not happening now any time soon :(

No, I'd expected to be in Brittany by now, ready to watch the first few stages of the Tour de France, but had to cancel. That's the second French holiday we've had to cancel now.

I'll be driving up your way this weekend... it'll be interesting to see if my maps get updated to v21.5 as well!! Chris

I don't have the same system as you, and can only read the pathetic digital owners manual on the Skoda website. So I urge you to read the paper copy you had with your car which I hope confirms what I am about to say. I'd certainly try a 128Gb SD card, and as far as I can see, you play the MP3 files on it (or WMA etc) by pressing the MEDIA button on the side of the screen, and then selecting the media source by touching the button at the bottom left on the screen. It appears that you can play files from the SD1 port or a USB port. Hopefully someone else with a 2019 Karoq will be able to confirm this. Chris

I'm assuming you have the Bolero infotainment unit, and so it will play MP3 music files from a SD card. Your owners manual will tell you if it will also play video files or display image files. My previous Golf also had a CD player in the unit but that has probably been deleted from newer cars?

My first (air-cooled) Beetle had a valve MW/LW Motorola radio, while my MGTD didn't bother with radios or heaters!!

I can only speculate Bry that perhaps it depends on whether or not any of your local roads have been updated. I know that Customer Services told me that the maps in a car were updated when the maps for that country were updated, but then yours should have been updated as well. And others in this thread have said they are on a different version to me. I don't know how you can check that you are receiving the online updates, but if you are getting the software updates to the shop app etc the basic connection to the servers seems OK. Chris

Best of luck

In the UK (I can't speak for Italy) we have a subscription to Skoda Connect services provided for the first year with a new car. We also have to register our Skoda ID, and can see what services are provided in the infotainment system. The green LED is presumably showing that your internet connection is active, and that you can use the SOS button to report an accident or breakdown from your car. Again, I'm not familiar with the Scala, but I would expect your owner's manual to give you full details of the Skoda Connect services. It's surprising that your maps haven't updated themselves from 19.11. When my car was delivered in November 2020, it took some months to update but because of our covid lockdowns I wasn't able to drive it very much and assumed that was the cause. Perhaps you need to visit your dealer and check with him? Chris

Hi sine_nomine, First of all you're more likely to find people who know about the Scala in its own forum at BRISKODA - The SKODA Forums for Owners and Fans, But if your car has USB-C ports rather than SD card slots, it sounds like you have a 3rd generation infotainment system... which if it is like the ones fitted in the Karoq, Kamiq and Kodiaq get their map updated automatically via the car's internet connection. Again, in the Karoq you can look at the System Information to see the installed map version. In my car it has updated a couple of times and is now using version 21.02 (I think). However this varies between countries and I don't know if you are in the UK. Many of us have tried to update the maps manually via the USB-C ports, but the only owner who has succeeded was in Russia and my understanding is that their cars don't have the online updates activated. We have been told that UK cars will be able to get updated maps via the USB-C ports in the future but have no idea when yet. Best Wishes, Chris

I have previously advised new Karoq owners how to download copies of the owner's manual, and that it contained much more information about the infotainment systems fitted to their cars. But today I have discovered that Skoda have changed their website so that PDF copies of the owner's manual are no longer provided. Instead all you can do is read a digital version on screen. I have objected about this to their 'Chat' Customer Services agent who confirms this, but suggests I might be able to download a PDF copy to my phone! And since this would be pretty unreadable, hopefully copy it to my PC, and then save it out or print a copy for reference! This seems to be making owner's manuals very user UNfriendly to me, and another case of Skoda being Simply Silly! So If you need reference material about your present or new Skoda, be prepared to have to read a digital copy on screen rather than get a PDF copy to read at your leisure! Chris PS: Having now accessed the owner's manual on my phone, I see that there is no way to download a PDF copy that way. Perhaps I'm too 'old-school' but I much prefer to have paper copies to browse and refer to that have to navigate digital copies of manuals. Hell I can even remember getting my first IBM PC at work with Windows 3 on it, and opening a box with a shelf-full of A5 manuals to go with it!

Aircon drips are more common when it has been working hard, and I'd expect to see that under the bonnet rather than the boot?

It's the standard European trim levels (with a new 'Clever' trim added recently) and is also used in Ireland. It's also interesting that the 2.0TSI engine isn't offered in the Sportline as it is here.

The facelifted Karoq is due to be announced this autumn, but Skoda France have updated their Karoq brochure (here: Catalog and prices KAROQ - ŠKODA (skoda.fr) ) which shows that in the meantime there are only minimal changes to the present car. In fact as far as I can see, the only changes are that Emerald Green (2A2A) and Meteor Grey (F6F6) will be discontinued from the 1st of July. Chris

The Area View camera option was added to the UK Karoq for MY21, and it's great!

I've had that message pop up once, when I was still driving around Staffordshire. But as it was daytime I didn't see the headlight beam. Having reset then in the menu it hasn't reoccurred so I'm putting it down to yet another software glitch - like the one that thinks one particular 30mph road has a 45mph limit!