SteveTheElder

I can understand @TheUltraRunner disliking stop/start, especially in busy places or junctions of fast roads. There is something about the lack of immediacy that bothers me too. I am getting used to it though, and in the Octavia 4 it is a lot better than early cars with the system. What I do find odd is the way the loan cars e-TEC engine cuts out and the car coasts at 0 rpm. Quite odd at 70 mph on a motorway! Lifting my foot off the accelerator will sometimes result in the car coasting (no engine braking) and sometimes leave the engine running (with engine braking). Nearly 6000 miles in and I haven’t properly worked out the logic! Has to be with the suddenness of lifting off, I think…

In theory yes. Something like Car/Settings/Units in the menus. Having said that, some of early build cars like mine, the settings have zero effect! One of numerous software glitches.

Just been out in the loan which has ordinary CC (not ACC). on the stack the incremental speed change in 1 mph with a single press up or down. A press and hold increments it repeatedly by 1 mph until I let go - a quick way to get from, say, 50mph to 70 mph but less precise than counting the clicks…

I use CarPlay and the behaviours I see are that the car resumes playing whatever was playing when I turn it off. So, if Spotify music via CarPlay was playing, it will resume when I next restart the car. Alternatively, if a DAB radio channel, then that resumes on restart even though CarPlay reconnects automatically. Similarly, whatever I had displayed on the screen (eg Vehicle Status) will show again on restart - with CarPlay/Spotify or DAB radio playing in the background, if it was when turned off. All seems to work as I’d expect. This is on the loan car, an Octavia 4 SE FE 1.0e-TEC Estate. It’s so long since I last drove my own SEL FE that I can’t remember what that did - apart from a load of weird stuff…

Actually I’m quite pleased the pictogram is silver - else I’d have a black car on a black background 😂

Yeah, my 12 plate Octavia 2 had both footrests. Surprised and disappointed the Mk4 doesn’t.

Thanks. The loan car I'm driving is a DSG and my left foot is very comfy as you describe. Like you, I found left foot braking more of a liability than a benefit and as my own car (which I hope to get back soon) is a Manual I need my left foot calibrated for the clutch! I'll try again keeping the right foot on the floor and see if I get used to it and practice a few quick moves.

Assuming your TomTom will run powered by USB, all you need is a USB-C to [whatever your TomTom has) cable.

One for us drivers of RHD cars - when using cruise control what do you do with your right foot? I'm finding that I tend to place the outside of my foot against the wheel arc but as there is no rest there my foot twists and becomes uncomfortable after a while. Moving my foot to be flat on the floor is far more relaxing but is further away from the throttle or brake pedal, and therefore feels that it's slower should I need to take a quick action. Not sure if it is made worse by the fact that I'm shoe size 11-12.

I have used it to turn on seat heating, increase temperature - both independently for driver and passenger. That was in the few weeks I have my SE L FE before leaving at the dealer for three months! Not tried it with the loan car; in fact not sure now if the SE FE includes voice control or not! Something to look up later…

As I understand it, Long Term is about 3000 miles (probably a round number of Kms) and resets itself automatically after that distance. It is manually reset-able which I use for a weekend trip/holiday. The 'Since Start' is literally that excepting for short stops (up to 2 hours IIRC). Since Refuel is again literally that. Not sure if that can be reset or not (user manual implies that you can), but as I've only every used it for what it says on the tin. If, however, it is reset-able, then there is your second trip counter.

Does anyone know how to activate the car voice control when using CarPlay? All I get is Siri - great for getting music or setting a destination but can’t change AirCon settings or the radio. Thanks

The ones on my loan car (Octy 4 estate) are the same. The hotter the weather the stronger they are.

Welcome to the forums. To answer your question, I reckon it’s just that many of us are awaiting a significant update which frustratingly is not materialising. Meanwhile we’re driving loan or hire vehicles which are working fine. Ongoing niggles/annoyances/bugs in things like the ACC & KESSEY continue to be commented on however.

Sadly typical of too many of the Mk4 Octavia.... Just a thought on the car maybe being confused about the location, do you get the same problem when using the built in SatNav? Thinking that maybe the SatNav would know the location and somehow inform the wider system and hence ACC.

@alancha if I’m recalling your posts accurately (Basingstoke - Southampton return; Basingstoke - Richmond return), it seems that on the outward leg of your journeys ACC is OK, but the return it’s not. So, could it be that somehow the problem resolves itself when left for several hours overnight? But why it happens in the first place is a mystery which, hopefully, will be fixed sooner rather than later. Alternatively, maybe the car just doesn’t like driving to Basingstoke 😂😂 (sorry, couldn’t resist that one…)

Cool. HBA is tempting… What extra colours are in the bundle?

ACC is an similar to ordinary Cruise Control but with the addition of the ‘Adaptive’ feature (hence ACC). This monitors traffic in the lane ahead of you and detects if you’re travelling faster than the vehicle in front, slowing you down to match and maintain a distance behind. That distance can be adjusted to some extent. It works in conjunction with the Lane Assist so should adapt speed to traffic in the lane you’re in, not the one you are overtaking; also it should slow your car to avoid undertaking. Those cars fitted with traffic sign recognition (VRS does, I believe) has the extra feature that it detects the speed limit and adapts the speed to match; think this is called Predictive ACC but not sure. That’s my understanding of it, and am sure i”ll be corrected by more knowledge members if I’ve missed the mark.

A further thought @Coume, front passenger seat pushed fully back, backrest fully reclined, near side rear seat back (the narrow one) in ‘normal position’ whilst the other is folded forward. That ought to allow enough length for the clock and hopefully elbow room for you the driver (unless you’re well over 6’ tall like I am!). It’s things like this that reminds me of my fathers 1970’s Volvo 145 - three single mattresses inside with plenty of room to spare, and the divan bases on the roof 👍

I think it will be VERY tight or not do-able. Just been out to measure my courtesy car (1.0 e-TEC SE 1st Ed. Estate). Much to my surprise, and unlike all my previous cars) the front passenger seat does fold forward past vertical (see pic). With it pulled as far forward as it will go, and leaned forward as far as it can, the distance to the inner lip of the boot is 2.1m and the diagonal is just 2.3m. There is the recess/storage space on the driver side behind the back wheel which may give enough space for the base of the clock to fit in to. That also means folding forward all of the rear seats - so no passenger at all. So unless you have a different front passenger seat to the one I have it’s going to be very tight to say the least. Another thought, laying the passenger seat back and supporting the clock on other luggage may be an option as it could go forward to the dash. Having said that, I couldn’t work out how to remove the passenger seat headrest 🙄

I’m driving an SE 1st Edition which has a virtual cockpit, only two screens. A virtual mock-up of the speedo and tachometer dials plus digital speedo with driving data or whatever in the middle of each dial. the other does away with the dials - so a minimalist view (which I don’t like)

Likewise, almost… Not had my weekly non-update yet this week; and In the three months I’ve had the loan car I’m on 5,000+ miles. Thankfully the loan Octy4 is proving to be fault free so far.

When parking, just turning off the ignition puts the DSG ‘box in ‘P’ and applies the parking brake. Discovered it by accident one day after a few weeks of laboriously following the sequence of ‘P’, parking brake, ignition off. BTW - at the time, I was new to driving a DSG

Loving the drive of the Octavia Mk4. Currently I'm in a 1.0 e-TEC Estate DSG which is returning about 58mpg over 5000 miles. Best has been 62mpg on a gentle-ish run of about 70 miles. This is Alan car; my one 1.5TSI manual Estate, for the few weeks I was driving it before Skoda UK asked for it to go in for diagnostics (kph/mph issue)) was returning high 50s to low 60s too - but that was during Step 1 out of lockdown so traffic was light and motoring limited.

I’m driving a 1.0 e-TEC SE First Edition Estate, covered about 5,000 miles in just under three months, totally trouble free. It was registered in January 2021 so probably not one of the early ones, though I don’t know the build date. My own vehicle, a 1.5Tsi SE L First Edition, is awaiting the ‘the fix’. It was registered four months earlier with an estimated build date about June ‘20. Seems to me that the earlier the build, and the higher the spec, the more likely problems will exist. But I assume it’s not yet clear exactly which dates and models are affected else Skoda would have a fix by now. Meanwhile, I live in hope - or cloud cuckoo land depending on your point of view! ;-)