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Thanks, Kenny. I did as you suggested and discovered 1 update of no consequence (it was just clarifying some wording) which I updated with the car parked on the drive while I had lunch. Needless to say, there have been more "Update available" messages while driving, none of which I have managed to "capture2 as yet. I did email the CEO at Skoda UK with the problem and an assistant replied as below: "Re: Škoda Dear Gordon I hope you’re well. Thank you for reaching out to our Director, Eric Boutin. I’m sorry to learn that you’ve experienced issues receiving the Over?The?Air (OTA) updates to your Škoda. I’ve passed this to an Executive Office Case Manager, who will review the matter and be in touch with you within the next 48 hours to discuss it further. In the meantime, to support the investigation, I’d be grateful if you could confirm your Škoda’s registration. Thank you. Kind regards etc" I have not included the writer's name. A reasonable enough at this stage, I thought. However, before I could provide my Skoda's registration, I received this reply, from the Executive Case Manager. "Dear Gordon I hope you’re well. Thank you for your email and for explaining the issue you are experiencing with the OTA updates. I appreciate your frustration, particularly as the notification appears to be received only after you have driven away from your home and entered an area with better mobile network coverage. I understand that this then leaves you having to find somewhere safe to stop in order to carry out an update, without knowing in advance how long the process will take. The OTA update system relies on the vehicle’s built-in mobile network connection to communicate with the Škoda servers. It does not use your home Wi-Fi connection. Therefore, if the vehicle has limited or no mobile network coverage while parked at your home, it may not receive the notification until you have driven into an area with a stronger signal. This would appear to explain why you receive the notification shortly after leaving your home, although we cannot confirm the specific cause without inspecting the vehicle. If you feel that this is not related to the mobile network coverage in your area, then the only option I can really suggest is to have the vehicle booked into your local Škoda retailer so that they can investigate this further. However, as mentioned above, this can be quite common when the vehicle is parked in an area with limited or no mobile network signal, as the OTA notification may only be received once the vehicle moves into an area with sufficient coverage. If you do decide to have the vehicle inspected, please feel free to come back to us once this has been carried out and we will be happy to assist further. However, based on the information provided, I believe the behaviour you are experiencing to be normal when the vehicle has limited or no mobile network coverage. I will therefore look to close the case at this stage. You may receive a short customer satisfaction survey following the closure of the case. The survey will be available for seven days, and we would appreciate you taking the time to provide your feedback. Thank you for contacting Škoda UK. Kind regards etc." So the whole thing is my fault, I live in the wrong place (although, in the past, I have received notifications of available updates with the car parked at home). And since sending my original email to the CEO, on routes I have regularly driven on over the past 16 years without any notifications being received in that time,I have twice received notifications of updates in the past two days! Maybe, I'm being unreasonable, but my view is if motor manufacturers want to provide OTA updates, then it's their responsibility to provide adequate coverage through their servers.

I keep receiving notices that updates are available, but only when driving and usually within about half mile of home. However, the road is a busy one and there are no areas where you can pull off other than field gateways. When I get home and park the car with the ignition on or engine running, more or less opposite where the router is in the house, I don't get any notices! I can have these updates installed by a dealer, but the last time I did this it cost £145! Any advice to solve these problems would be appreciated.

In the past few weeks I've had similar problems with my 2020 Kamiq although I haven't gone into such depth investigating as here, thinking it was the return of a problem two to three years ago which ended up with my Kamiq on the dealer's computer for four or five hours being updated. I shall follow things up further.

In 2022-2023 I had problems downloading the updates fro my Skoda Kamiq and eventually it had to go in to the dealers to be brought up to date - a four or five job on the computer. I can't recall any notification of updates since then until recently when a few weeks ago the message appeared on the centre display that updates were available and I tapped on the download option and then OK to the message about sharing my position. This occurred a number of times every few days or so and I began to be suspicious that there might be a problem. However, on Saturday, 13th June, the downloads available message came up again and this time after the sharing position message the central display became simply the time and date display, as it usually does when a download is taking place. One thing that was different was that for the rest of the journey (an hour and a half) the speed warning kept sounding frequently, even when I was travelling at less than the maximum limit, and occasionally for every mile per hour the speed reduced! Eventually, this stopped, but the time and date display continued to the end of the journey. Next day, the time and date display was still the default and attempts to change to the menu screen or radio display were unsuccessful, until I remembered the hard reboot trick, which brought the usual display back but with no speed warning working. However, the next time I drove the car, the speed warning was working as does everything else so far as IO can make out. So, two questions: Does anyone know what the current release figure is for the car diosplay etc., and 2. where and how I can find it?

Yes, you can using the "equipment" volume control, i.e not the media one.

My 2020 Kamiq only gives a ping when it first detects I've gone over the limit and after that if I don't slow down it doesn't sound further. As regards a change in speed limit, I have noticed it occasionally give a ping when leaving a limited zone but never known why. Maybe the age of my car is the answer.

A strange decision. I have a 2020 Kamiq-SEL with DSG and I find o a number of occasions that changing to manual selection I can use a higher and, therefore, ore economical gear.

Yesterday (Wednesday) afternoon I had a message notification from the MySkoda app asking for consent to data transfer. (There was a grey circle on the app icon to indicate there was a message, as well as the message showing in my 'phone notifications). As the message had some reference in to improving public safety, I assumed Skoda might be planning to reintroduce the Driving Score app and opened the app and checked that I had consented to data transfer. I also noticed that I was asked to select a service partner which puzzled me as I had done this when the app first came out, selectring D M Keith at York. However, I did so again and exited from the app. The grey circle on the app remained however as did the message in my 'phone notifications, so I opened the MySkoda app again and noticed that I was again asked to select a service partner, which I did, as well as checking data transfer consent(s). Exiting the app, the grey circle and message notification were still there and so I opdened the app again and found once more that I was being asked to select a service partner, which I did, also checking data transfer consent(s). This cycle was repeated a number of times and eventually the grey circle and message notification disappeared. Has this happenedf to anyone else?

Thank you both for your replies which explain why I can no llonger find it in the app. As the driving score was an optional thing, I don't see any problem with data sharing - if you use Driving Score you share data, if you don't, then you don't. After all, in one way or another you share data just driving your car.

Has anyone tried out the Driving Score option on the Skoda app and what do you think of it?

If you haven't done already, it may be worthwhile having a word with your local dealer.

I have noticed that Lane Assist has made me aware of when I am straying towards the edge of my lane, so it is elpful in that respect and it odes sharpen your senses as regards avoiding this before Lane Assist needs to warn you. Maybe, too, we need to remember that it is not just about lane markings, it is about safe boundaries, e.g. getting too close to other "lane markers" such as banks and high verges.

Here's an English translation: I have a Skoda Kamiq MC that I imported to North Africa. I would like to know if it's possible to display MAP (GoogleMAP or Waze) from CarPlay/Android Auto instead of the compass on the MOI3 cockpit of the Skoda Kamiq MC. Thank you. Here's my version.

Agreed.

Mine is an SE L ordered in January, 2020, with delivery for March, 2020, but actually arrived June 2020, presumably because of Covid situation. There is no indent on the front door handles, so I suppose that supply problems during Covid meant that that bit was omitted. The key fob has buttons for everything locked, lock/unlock boot only and unlock everything.

Apologies readily accepted. From my experience with my 2020 Kamiq, locking and unlocking appears to be far less complicated than what has been described, but then I went for the "press the button, lock everything" and similarly for unlocking. There is a boot only button on the key fob my wife sometimes, but I don't.

I think you in part at least miss the point. You apologise to me because you think I was offended, but offer no apology for suggesting that Topbox was not a nice person, while defending your use of capitals, which I have always understood to be the online equivalent of shouting, although maybe you didn't know that. I agree that it would have been useful if Topbox had provided an explanation when he confirmed that the problem had been solved, but all that required from you was an enquiiry as to what the solution was, no need for comments on Topbox's nature or stressing the point by capitals or any other means of emphasis. Face to face with Topbox would you have said what you wrote and stressed it as you did?

Although I agree with you that it would be useful to know what the solution is in this partiocular case for future reference, your tone seems unnecessarily sharp - I am tempted to say that a nice person would have asked more politely and without the "shouting" by the use of block capitals.

Check the handbook, I think you can set the car up for different patterns of locking.

So you're agreeing with me?

And the key words are "hold the wheel lightly" because the tighter you hold it, the more powerful lane assist works, hence the problems people have and how they make it dangerous.

Is the screen shot also showing a problem with a rear light/brake light?

I've seen 63mpg on my 1.0 Kamiq on a 44 mile run from Scarborough to York with town traffic/slow traffic queues either end.

Yes, I did this by going to a mobility centre where they specialise in this and other modifications. The job took about an hour and cost (raisers and labour) £200.

It may be a bit of a nuisance, but wouldn't an answer be to just unplug the dashcam from the cigarette lighter when you leave the car?