I recently bought a three year old Octavia from a main dealer and found that the maps were still the 2013 version. I've finally succeeded in updating to 2016/17 version but it was so difficult to get a straight forward list of instructions on how to do so I thought it worth sharing.
Background:
Do it on a pc - it just won't work if any stage is done on a mac You have to use the original Skoda SD card
The method that worked for me:
Back up the contents of the Skoda SD card to a folder (c