I've done nearly 7000 miles now in about 7 weeks and the car's been great.

 

However in the last week the satnav has begun to get lost and is thinking it's somewhere nearby where I actualy am and is going in the wrong direction. Lasts about 20 mins then finds itself again, however today it got stuck and wouldn't move.

 

I've tried re-setting and removing / reinstalling the SD card but made no difference.

 

Anything else I can try or just take back to the dealers?

Edited 23 December, 201411 yr by RSgeoff

No specific help I'm afraid, but I'm launching a related rant... My Sat Nav is unusable. Has tonnes of roads missing and seems to delight in suggesting routes that are so far out of the way it's laughable. I've only tried it a handful of times and it's failed every time. Most recent test I gave it was between two simple points - literally straight up a road, onto the motorway, left at an off ramp, then straight for 2kms or so. The sat Nav decided I should go two off ramps passed the right one and weave back through two suburbs. On a 10 Min trip it's recommended route was 6 Min longer than it took me!

I've contacted the dealer twice, they said they'd talk to Skoda NZ. That was 2 months ago, nothing.

I just use my phone. Never been let down by Google maps. And they have proper traffic alerts.

I have a 2013 Superb FL so a different sat nav to yours. Mine did this just over a week ago and had never done it before, and was fine the next day and has been fine ever since. I mentioned it to the dealer who immediately said it needed a new ariel and it wasn't that uncommon - Superb and Octavia probably use the same ariel. I took it into the dealer but they wouldn't do anything as it now works fine again so I put it down to a funny 5 minutes.

I did check the MOD for disruption of sat nav signal that day but they reported no signal blocking. 

 

Not sure if you can check how many satellites yours picks up on but if you can you need to check. My Superb Columbus displays how many satellites it can see and how many it is using to determine its position. No satellites seen is a new ariel or the ariel lead has become detached from the sat nav unit.

This has happened with a few Octavia's now.  Normally turns out to be the GPS antenna or connections to it.   Either way it's a trip to Skoda.

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No specific help I'm afraid, but I'm launching a related rant... My Sat Nav is unusable. Has tonnes of roads missing and seems to delight in suggesting routes that are so far out of the way it's laughable. I've only tried it a handful of times and it's failed every time. Most recent test I gave it was between two simple points - literally straight up a road, onto the motorway, left at an off ramp, then straight for 2kms or so. The sat Nav decided I should go two off ramps passed the right one and weave back through two suburbs. On a 10 Min trip it's recommended route was 6 Min longer than it took me!

I've contacted the dealer twice, they said they'd talk to Skoda NZ. That was 2 months ago, nothing.

I just use my phone. Never been let down by Google maps. And they have proper traffic alerts.

 

The missing roads are down to the mapping provider in your country, other car makers using the same nav providers will have exactly the same missing roads. Coverage will improve over time as it has in the UK.

 

here in the UK we have no such issues now, with only very recent roads missing. Even the farm track to my house is on the mapping data, and its not even a public road.

The missing roads are down to the mapping provider in your country, other car makers using the same nav providers will have exactly the same missing roads. Coverage will improve over time as it has in the UK.

here in the UK we have no such issues now, with only very recent roads missing. Even the farm track to my house is on the mapping data, and its not even a public road.

There's another member on here from nz and his unit has the roads mine's missing, so it's not that. We have different map versions, but I think mine is newer, so not sure what's going on! Anyway, I'll chase up with Skoda in the new year.

In the end I find Google maps way better anyway. Being able to get directions to a specific shop by simply saying the name of the shop e.g. "Hammocks-r-us" (rather than having to search for the shop first, get the address, input the address...) is considerably more useful.

Don't know if it's any help but when I had my blackline this happened after a couple of weeks from new with the Amundsen unit,a new antenna was replaced under warranty ,never happened again.