Hi all,

 

I'm already a Skoda Superb owner, but within the next week, my nicer half will be taking delivery of a 2014 Skoda Citigo SE 5 door. Imho, it's a cracking little bit of kit, but we were wondering about whether we might be able to add a couple of little nice touches, hence the questions below. Apology if they are daft but I am wondering:

 

1. To avoid paying the hefty Skoda price for a PID system, is Ebay the best place? Or does anyone know of other outlets selling them, where a bargain can be had?

 

2. Has anyone retrofitted metallic chrome interior door handles (as factory fitted to the higher spec Citigo), to replace the plastic standard ones in the SE? Local dealer says its a factory only option, but I was wondering if this is so?

 

Many thanks for any advice

Hang on go for one of these lol

 

Reminds me of the mini - moke days, great fun.

 

Well done Skoda apprentices .

 

http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/car-news/first-official-pictures/skoda/skoda-element-concept-car-2017-pictures-and-info/

 

 

Just now, vrskeith said:

Hang on go for one of these lol

 

Reminds me of the mini - moke days, great fun.

 

Well done Skoda apprentices .

 

http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/car-news/first-official-pictures/skoda/skoda-element-concept-car-2017-pictures-and-info/

 

 

That is wonderful vrskeith  I reckon they could sell that, maybe as a ltd edition.

I got my PID from eBay, new for around £175 I think, i'd make sure you get a brand new one just to be on the safe side. It did take awhile before a decent priced one came up for sale on eBay so patience is key.  

4 hours ago, PaulJS said:

 

1. To avoid paying the hefty Skoda price for a PID system, is Ebay the best place? Or does anyone know of other outlets selling them, where a bargain can be had?

 

 

ebay should be OK, and as the new model doesn't use the same system, there should be a ready supply as folk trade up

 

However it's worth noting that it doesn't work particularly well.

 

• The sat nav is fine if a little basic and you have to pay for map upgrades.
• The hands free phone works OK but the phone book integration is poor.
• The bluetooth streaming is dreadful - we've found it breaks up with all the phones we've tried.

The lad has ended up using it for navigation but using a good old fashioned cable into the aux for music.

 

For the missus MX-5 we've just got a Garmin DriveLuxe 50 (http://www.halfords.com/technology/sat-nav/car-sat-nav/garmin-driveluxe-50lmt-d-eu-5-premium-sat-nav-with-uk-ireland-and-full-europe-maps) and it is a significantly better unit (but doesn't integrate into the Citigo radio)

Thanks for the advice guys, most appreciated

 

BTW, following a recommendation by SashaGrace (https://www.briskoda.net/forums/profile/152214-sashagrace/), I'm using this for bluetooth streaming and hands free in the MX5

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B018G9FP4W/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

Again not quite as convenient as the PID but it works

The door pulls in my 64 plate Elegance are brushed steel effect, not chrome. This seems to be the norm nowadays.

 

If you can find an unregistered PID then you should be able register it with Garmin and purchase 2 years of map updates for £20. Doesn't have to be a Skoda branded PID, SEAT or VW will do. They will rebrand themselves when first connected to the car after a factory reset.

 

Avod the early Navigon branded PIDs, they are painfully slow.

Edited 25 June, 20178 yr by ronime

The PID is nice to have just for the trip data and the splash of colour it adds to an otherwise monochrome dashboard but it's fair to say it's not exactly groundbrekaing technology and far from reliable in the Bluetooth capacity hence I recommend a KitSound MyJack as it is awesome and is far superior to the PID's BT music connection at least on the iPhone 6S Plus and 7 Plus I've had since buying my car new in January although I've had other devices work better. I've never used the sat nav for a route I don't know but I've used it to go to the Trafford Centre and the live updates using a 4G phone connection are pretty good but that's about it. The Apple maps on my phone is better IMO. The trip is the best bit of it really but if one comes up I'd have it if it were cheap.

 

My MC has the stainless door handles so I don't know but I'd imagine an internal door handle won't be hard to change and certainly it's the same handle so if you got a set they would fit it's just a case of swapping like for like but in metal instead of plastic