SteveTheElder

I picked my car on 8th March (ex. Demo, 6 months from 1st registration) Reported the KPH issue to the dealer on 12th March, Honest John on 15th and Skoda exec office 26th. The car is back at the dealer, since 14th April; and i have a loan Octavia Mk4 SE 1st Ed; I’m awaiting a fix.

Good to hear you have a definite way forward - good luck finding a suitable replacement

I think that’s normal, the loan car (Octy 4 1.0eTec SE) I have does exactly that too. @just music you joke about driving into the garage door - my daughter did just that! Put it in 1st instead of reverse. I now have a CityGo shaped dent... 🙄

Yes, its in the User permissions setup. The more open you are with the permissions the more features become available, such as Parking Location in the smartphone app. From memory, it only displays this message if you save the S-PIN but can’t remember and my car is at the dealers at the mo.

Yes, it does. It’s mentioned in the owners manual too...

Yep. usually clears within a few seconds, very occasionally can be up to about a minute.

That’s helpful. Thank you

Do you have both keys with the same user login or two users with a key each? I want to finish getting this set up when I get my car back.

Thanks. Mine is at the dealers at the mo - and I added this to the list of niggles & issues.

So that’s different to the car I’m driving at the mo - so I can’t go and look at the settings (mine is at the dealers at the mo (kph/mph issue)) and I can’t remember the settings screens. Sorry about that. Hopefully some one on here will have the answer.

Do you have ACC (a second stalk on the left side) or is it on the end of the indicator stalk?

@Gax that’s encouraging to hear. Will give updates as and when I hear something though not expecting it until Monday earliest.

Similar work experience to you. Testing now seems to be inconvenient and expensive to the developer/implementer. Also, that testing appears to have been limited to ‘does it do what it should do’ and excludes ‘does it not do what it should not do’. Independently devised test scenarios are a must.

Took mine in yesterday and the courtesy car is another Octavia Estate. A different spec - SE 1st Ed 1.0Tsi e-Tec DSG as opposed to my SEL 1st Ed 1.5Tsi manual. Timing could be a couple of weeks, or more. I was told Skoda UK want the dealer to run some diagnostics and submit the results - which will be correlated with results form other cars. Presumably with the expectation that a common factor will be found and lead to a fix.

In common with a few others on this thread, I’m taking my car in tomorrow. Will be there for a while whilst Skoda UK do some investigations. Here’s hoping for a positive outcome as I really like the car overall - just want rid of the annoying software niggles!

Except it doesn’t in my car...

I'm tempted by this too - esp. as it showed up in the Shop on my Infotainment system. It's the £150 that's holding me back - seems like a lot of money to not have to flick a column stalk

Is that only for those seats with a Massage function? Don’t recall seeing it as an option in mine - must go and check!

Only experience I have of BMWs dates back to the 1990s so not relevant hence I can’t comment on any comparison. As for the Skoda... I would be fair to say that the majority of people posting on this forum would be those experiencing problems or like yourself researching. The trend seems to be that earlier built Mk4s are the ones with the majority of problems. I got mine at 6 months old, registered in September ‘20 but the build date is before July - a fairly early one, with all the updates applied - those that were available at the time I picked it up (early March ‘21). A few niggles remain however. No ‘show stoppers’, and most are down to my lack of familiarity with modern car technology which is a quantum leap from my previous car (and I’m not ‘computer shy’, been working with and implementing the things since the late 1980s). Yes, there is a few bugs in the Infotainment System, all of which are pretty minor, and is probably more difficult to set up that it ought to be. The most significant is the units (see the KPH/MPH thread), which in day to day driving is of little consequence - until I go [hopefully] abroad sometime, but is apparently a compliance issue. Skoda are working on it (many and varied are the opinions as to how committed Skoda are!). The Front Assist, ACC and Lane Assist are really quite good in my opinion. Yes, some ‘interesting’ experiences with warnings and brakes auto applied but in reality its a good reminder of how complacent one can be when driving! On the motorway, I’m now pulling out to overtake earlier than before, creating more space around me on the road - that can only be a good thing. Lane Assist is not intrusive (unlike a Kia hire car I had 18 months ago) and works well with the ACC and is pretty good at recognising vehicles in the lane you’re in and not those in the one to the left. Doesn’t like undertaking though, which again is arguably a good thing. Ride & Handling? I’ve come from an entry spec Mk2 Superb FL, I reckon the ride in that was a bit better - longer wheelbase and smaller wheels, not so low profile tyres and lower pressures will all contribute to that. The Octy4 is absolutely fine for me and my driving style. Headlights are way better than those on my Superb (not Xenons though). Space and value are big plus points for the Octy4 Estate, as is fuel economy (early days, but I’m getting about 55mpg from a manual 1.5Tsi). I suggest you try to find as dealer who’ll let you do an extended test drive, chat through user profiles and demonstrate it working with the different keys etc.

Very nice - and socially distanced I see

I’ll add a few answers from what I’ve found and my experience... The car has an eSIM built in and you can buy a data contract once the 1st year bundled service expires. It’s through a company called Cubic, includes European roaming. Alternatively, I believe you can connect the car to a phone hotspot. Not sure about frequency of map updates, I guess quarterly. Live traffic - doesn’t seem as quick as Waze (Google maps) Text messages - I’ve only done it through CarPlay The iPhone should auto-reconnect to CarPlay. Mine does sometimes, seemingly only when I have been listening to Spotify instead of the radio. I haven’t had it long enough to prove that scenario or work out if its a bug! A couple of taps on the SmartLink function and it’s done. iPhone battery drain is OK. Not dissimilar to Bluetooth link to my previous car. As an indication, about 4 hours driving listening to Spotify (streamed) used about 40-50% of my iPhone XR battery.

1. Same here; I have to hold the button to move the seat to the memory position - or use key association.... 2. As I understand it - Need to unlock the car with one of the keys, make the changes/settings, then lock it with the SAME key to associate with that key. Do for both keys. Considered a Volvo because of the seats - last one I drove was my Dads’ some 40 years ago. Seats were great back then!

Now that is a very good idea - especially as Wade integrates with Spotify... Thank you!

The most useful feature is the trip planner - or it would be if you could send the route to that car, which you can’t Other than that, being able see the range left in the tank could be useful - but I’ve been driving since 1976 and haven’t needed it yet

@janis I’m excited for you. First new car is something special Hopefully you’ll get it tomorrow and can enjoy it over the weekend...