Where the hell do they come from?!  I was travelling back up North from Kent on Sunday evening and as I set off it warned me of two separate 4 mile traffic jams on the M25 on my route. I ignored them and  had the best M25 run I ever had without once having to slow down!  What's the point of wholly wrong information?  

Where's the 'T' in 'Traffic' when you want it!!

I have to agree - although I only have Amundsen. 

 

It’s forever trying to re-route me, but I ignore it and don’t experience any delays. 

Traffic reporting system is a standard called TMC, in UK it is piggy-backed on Classic FM and unfortunately its only as good as the latest data updates and how long they are persistent/remain active - nothing to do with the Skoda head unit:

 

Take a look:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_message_channel#United_Kingdom

 

This is a pretty common complaint about the Columbus, and one that happens to me quite regularly. I tend to ignore the re-routing information and like others it rarely makes any meaningful difference to arrival times. In fact, over 18 months of doing 150+ motorway miles a day, my worst journey times were never more than 15 minutes worse than my best, so I never found it worth doing 30 miles of back-road driving to save 5 minutes at best. Waze and Google maps etc are obviously more accurate for live traffic updates, but for my drive they don't give a significant improvement and I prefer using the integrated unit. Horses for courses I guess. 

You get proper updated traffic and road work info with Skoda Connect. After the free year runs out it costs £44 for a year. Gives you other stuff as well. Personal preference as to whether the £44 is worth it but the traffic reporting is accurate.

1 hour ago, Matchman55 said:

You get proper updated traffic and road work info with Skoda Connect. After the free year runs out it costs £44 for a year. Gives you other stuff as well. Personal preference as to whether the £44 is worth it but the traffic reporting is accurate.

 

Does it link in with the standard Columbus sat nav automatically?

8 hours ago, Mph25 said:

 

Does it link in with the standard Columbus sat nav automatically?

Yes it does.You need to have the phone sim in operation or tether your phone as a wifi hot spot as the car requires internet access to work.