Hi, can anyone tell me if Lane Assist is standard on all Mk 3 Octavias?  I have just bought a 2015 Octavia estate and it seems to be available but does not seem to work.  I have used it before on others cars so think i know how it works and believe it does not on my car.  Can I get it fixed without going to the main dealer?  I am sure they can tell me that its not working but fixing it seems to be a problem according to other posts on this forum.

Thanks in anticipation of your help.

No, my Octavia SE from 2016 hasn’t got it. After experiencing lane assist on a courtesy Kamiq SEL, as far as I am concerned, it’s all the better for it. 

When you say it's available enlighten us , can you see it in a menu or from the manual you got with the car? My SEL 2016 dosent have it. You need particular camera. If your camera in the windscreen is square shaped then it not going to be the right one. This is mine to show you what I mean. 

Part of the Tech Pack I thought.

Its a godsend on motorways! At first it was odd but now i love it. I think its standard on vrs

Definitely NOT standard on all Mk3 Octavia, my 2015 Elegance doesn't have lane assist.

19 hours ago, nawatts said:

Hi, can anyone tell me if Lane Assist is standard on all Mk 3 Octavias?  I have just bought a 2015 Octavia estate and it seems to be available but does not seem to work.  I have used it before on others cars so think i know how it works and believe it does not on my car.  Can I get it fixed without going to the main dealer?  I am sure they can tell me that its not working but fixing it seems to be a problem according to other posts on this forum.

Thanks in anticipation of your help.

If you have the option on the multifunction steering wheel buttons & it doesn't work, you'd have an error message. As a new camera requires calibration, a dealer is really the best choice. True a 2nd hand camera could be sourced, fitted & possibly calibrated by a friendly windscreen fitter but, at 60/65% of the cost for a 2nd hand item🤔

 

Retro fitting would be stupidly expensive for what you get, other than motorways I just don't bother using mine

Best thing about lane assist is when it is switched off.

Hi all

Thank you very much for all of the replies they have been most informative.  Thank you in particular for the photo Paulski.  This is identical to mine therefore it looks as if my car does not have lane assist.  I am however interested in what it does have and how it works if anyone could help me on that matter please. 

I have attached three photos to show the sensor at the front of the car and two of the display.   What does the front assist advance warning and display distance warning mean?  I have seen a diagram of two cars come up with an exclamation mark in between them on the dash but it seems dangerously close when this comes on.  I would have thought I should be braking at that point which I assume the car does not do by itself?  Can this be adjusted?  Also what is the Driver Alert system?  Is that the thing I have been talking about on the dash.  Any help explaining this would be good as the handbook seems to deal with all generic models.

Thanks again

Norman 

 

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I am however interested in what it does have and how it works

 

I think this is a case of RTFM 

 

Nothing on those screens says "Lane Assist" 

 

You have "Front Assist" which was standard on many Octavias. That will warn you if you are too close to the car in front or it thinks you are about to crash. It will also apply the brakes to stop a slow speed impact.

 

If the car did not come with a full handbook, it can be downloaded from one of the stickies at the top of this forum. It is useful to know what these cars do before it does it to you and takes you by surprise. It is all in the manual (p133 Assist systems)

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Hi, the picture you have posted of your front grill looks to have suffered some damage in the area of the radar sensor, - very possible that this sensor is out of calibration. 

Indeed @Warrior193

 

Grill needs to be replaced, mine was missing but its only ~£7 from the dealer or use SKODA parts link below. 

 

https://www.skoda-parts.com/spare-parts/Octavia-3/grill.html

 

When it activates you get a big red symbol in the middle of the Dash on the Maxidot and an audible warning too, mine tends to not like someone close turning left sharply and others have commented on this too. 

 

Its not to be relied on you still keep your eyes on the cars in front of you , its designed to ASSIST braking in emergencies. 

 

 

Hi Paulski, +1 on the left turning traffic - seems to be a bias to the left side on this system. Agree that lots of people rely over much on 'driver aids' although I do wish that I had specced ACC for mine.

From your "Ticked" boxes on the screen 

 

1. Front assist is on

2. Front assist will warn in advance of potential collision 

3. You'll see an icon of two cars close with an exclamation mark only above  about 40mph when behind a car. It's sometimes not seen if the car has a high rear end like trucks and high wheel base Chelsea tractors. 

 

 

 

Lane assist. When I picked up my nice shiny 9 month old car from Skoda, as I did not then know all the tech and how to work it, I asked the sales guy to do two things. To link my phone to the cars system and turn off lane assist. I make use of the other side of the road to get a better safer view around left hand blind bends. Straight line S bends where you can see it's safe to do so. Go over the centre line with lane assist without a signal and it gives the steering a little pull to encourage me  to get back in. Change lanes on dual carriageways or motorways, and don't indicate, after all when there is nobody to indicate too, why talk to yourself, the steering again gets it in it's head I must be dozing off, so tries to get me back into lane again. Don't need the bloomin car to steer for me thank you. So it has been turned off since I bought the car and never will be turned on again while the car is in my ownership. Personal opinion of course guys! 

I have to admit I think Adaptive Cruise Control is a fantastic bit of kit on long motorway runs but I do not use Lane Assist as I think it is not there yet.

 

Both of the aids above make a LOT of use of when you indicate so you need to think about that.

 

Lane Assist would help if you nodded off or wandered out of lane, it would probably keep you in lane and save the usual pile-up if you had a motorway heart attack.

 

It does, however, have a couple of failings like following painted-over white lines through road works in low sun when they often shine brighter than the actual painted lines. I can't think of an easy fix for that. If you are cutting the apex of a bend it sometimes gives you a really unhelpful shove back into the middle of the road exactly mid-bend. I tend to leave it switched off.

 

I would make use of the blind-spot warning (which is one thing my Octy does not have)