SteveTheElder

Interesting. I’m now trying to work out how it would prevent ’undertaking’ without lane assist. Presumably just the input side of LA to read the white lines. I’ll try to remember to have a fiddle next time I’m out in the car.

Yeah, I think that can happen with ACC, depending on the road gradient even without a vehicle in front. Once or twice I recall mine repeatedly slightly accelerating and decelerating. This on a very gentle incline and seemed to me that the amount of throttle adjustment needed was less the smallest increment the system could make. Bit like early digital audio recordings sounding harsh compared to a smoother analogue recording. Over time systems improved and increments got finer.

Quite possibly, though to be fair the Škoda satnav is pretty good in my experience. It has the advantage of not needing a mobile signal to load a map - useful in part of the Lake District and New Forest for example (other 3/4/5G dead spots are available 😂)

Guess we’re all different; I use ACC a lot.

I just typed the phrase ‘directory structure’ (without the ‘ ‘) and this was the third item listed. Not that hard!

Adaptive Cruise Control

Speed limit signs show on my satnav and I do not have road sign recognition. Buried deep in the satnav settings you can [de]select various map and POI symbols (car park, fuel, etc).

There is a thread somewhere on here which describes the usb stick format and directory structure for mp3 files, and IIRC, playlists too. If I come across it I’ll add a link; otherwise search the forum.

The data plan is not needed unless you want to use the car as a WiFi hotspot as you drive around (wireless CarPlay still works without a data plan in the car). Care Connect and Infotainment Online are the main ones for things like map updates, Škoda App connectivity and stuff like that. The Smart Apps bundle are apps for the infotainment system so, for example the calendar app integrates with the built in satnav. Traffication improves the reporting of holdups etc from your vehicle thus enhancing the satnav routing. I tried early versions of calendar and traffication (free trials). Worked ok but painfully slow on my 2020 car. Later models have more powerful hardware and the apps are likely better optimised by now too.

I’m pretty happy with the lane assist and no problem with the nudges. I turned off the steering wheel vibration though, and would like to turn off the bong too but last time I checked that wasn’t an option. I would take unnecessary nudges any day over an inadvertent/erroneous drift out of the lane. I do think there could be a UK ‘thing’ about it. I’m recently back from five weeks driving around France, anything from autoroute to minor single track roads. Far fewer nudges even though it was active a similar proportion of the time. The nudges seemed more gentle too. Nothing scientific in that, just a gut feel. I reckon Lane Assist is required for ACC so another reason not to disable it.

A further thought. Push the importer (presumably Škoda Australia) for support. Whilst your contract of purchase was with the dealer, the importer is the link back to the factory and all their technical resources. It could be that they fund the loan car whilst the investigation goes on. That was the case with my car. Mine was one of several in the UK which had the infamous KPH/MPH issue for which there was no fix at the time. Škoda UK wanted vehicles for diagnosis, testing etc and mine was one of them; had a loan car from the dealer (whom Škoda UK recompensed) for 5 months and I covered 8500 miles in that time. I also got some compensation from Škoda UK. Hope you can get your car sorted (or maybe replaced).

That’s too many errors. I reckon the dealer should, as a minimum, give you a loan car whilst they work with Škoda factory to trace a fix the problem (not just ‘think’ they’ve fixed it).

Interestingly, when I had a Mk2 Superb, I had what I and others thought was wheel bearing noise. The Delaers' Master Technical came out on the road with me and said, yep, sounds like a wheel bearing. Took it in the workshop and found no bearing issues. A trip to my trusted tyre depot and they reckoned it was a tyre 'out of round'; took the wheel off and demo'd it. The tyres were a 30k miles old but with a reasonable amount of tread left. Anyway, new tyres fixed the noise. Shared the info with my future son-in-law as he was concerned about bearing noise. He needed new tyres and they sorted the noise too.

I've recently spent 5 weeks in France, no reboot issues crossing the border. [Off topic - but interestingly the ACC thought I was still in France till I got to about Maidstone when it started working properly again.]

But the eSIM is used for the SOS calling which doesn’t need a subscription. Like you, I wouldn’t want to pay just to set the clock, but the tech is there built in so why not use a common algorithm to improve the customer experience? Anyway, it seems that currently there is no way to automate setting timezone or DST. C’est la vie

OK, fair point. But the car has an eSIM so it is connected to the mobile network, that alone is sufficient to set time & DST - every smartphone does it.

It was through the radio, with the old [now defunct?] Traffic Master info service which would give alerts of major holdups.

Yes, Clock time is set to Automatic but it’s the Timezone and DST that are manually selected. Seems crazy to me when the car knows exactly where it is (GPS) and has an active internet connection that it can’t determine the correct time for that location.

@marcusg at 50cm up from the floor the length is as close to 77cm as I can judge from the back of the backrest to the closed tailgate. Near in mind the tailgate is slightly curved so nearer the centre is longer. I think you might be in luck - definitely worth a trip to the dealer and giving it a try…

Thanks. Thinking about it, what I am seeing is probably an initial boot up (rather than a 'resume' from sleep/standby) as it occurs mostly after being left for a while.

Has anyone found a way to automatically set the timezone and/or daylight savings settings? I find frustrating that in a modern 'connected' car this is a manual process. Even my 1990s Cavalier updated itself for summertime.

That's useful to know, thank you. I've been encouraging the family to use a VPN when out and about on public WiFi at least - but easy to leave it on when back on good ol' 4G and connecting to the car. Hopefully they'll sort it for AndroidAuto; thankfully I had no such issue with iOS and CarPlay but worth being aware of the potential. Back to 1941 update; mine sometimes reboots once when first starting the car (about one in three or four times) but the repeated reboots for the initial few minutes are gone.

Hi, and welcome to the forums. Just nipped out with a tap measure... At 60cm high, the boot is not long enough for a 77cm pushchair. So, unless you fold the [split] rear seat backrest forward it won't fit longitudinally, maybe worth a fiddle at the local dealer showroom. Without the retractable luggage cover in place it would be fine with the pushchair across the width of the car with the dog in front or behind - an option maybe? As an alternative, a Superb Estate may do the trick.

Well done getting to the bottom of that one! Just a thought, have you tried IFTTT (IF This Then That) to automate the charging?

I like both the Graphite Grey and Brilliant Silver; though whilst the grey is more contemporary (in fashion) I reckon it will go out of fashion at some point (and maybe become less saleable). On the other hand, silver is timeless, but a bit ‘samey’. If I were to get one on a two or three year lease then it’d be the grey; whereas an outright purchase on my usual six-ish year cycle then silver.