I’ve had my Mk IV SE L FE for 3 weeks after trading in a mk3. Some issues such as the SOS failing have happened but then last week when I got in to my car there was an alarm going off in the cockpit. No warning lights anywhere in the car. VW technician came out and couldn’t find any reason, also stated he had never heard that noise from a VW group car. The same happened today when I pushed the start button and carried on for 15 mins. Stopping the car, switching engine off, locking/ unlocking don’t stop it. Anyone else ever had this happen or an idea what it might be? Apologies for the 3 sec clip, that’s the max I could upload

So this happened again today and due to calling out VW assist 3 times in 10 days they have taken it in to the workshop. The technician who came out today said there have been 4 vehicles due this since last week. 3 Octavia and 1 enyaq. Sat waiting for the hire car to arrive from enterprise and will find out on Monday what they are planning but they imagine changing the whole sos/ infotainment system. 

On 14/09/2021 at 19:12, LankyC said:

Anyone else ever had this happen or an idea what it might be?

It sounds like a phone ringing.

On 17/09/2021 at 16:36, LankyC said:

So this happened again today and due to calling out VW assist 3 times in 10 days they have taken it in to the workshop. The technician who came out today said there have been 4 vehicles due this since last week. 3 Octavia and 1 enyaq. Sat waiting for the hire car to arrive from enterprise and will find out on Monday what they are planning but they imagine changing the whole sos/ infotainment system. 

I'm never sure if mine will even get me home. So many faults, Skoda should be ashamed and need to do something very quickly to prevent all the old Skoda jokes coming back to haunt them.

 

On 17/09/2021 at 16:36, LankyC said:

So this happened again today and due to calling out VW assist 3 times in 10 days they have taken it in to the workshop. The technician who came out today said there have been 4 vehicles due this since last week. 3 Octavia and 1 enyaq. Sat waiting for the hire car to arrive from enterprise and will find out on Monday what they are planning but they imagine changing the whole sos/ infotainment system. 

To cover yourself, you should consider rejecting the car and advising the dealer that if the faults are not fixed you will reject.

 

The rules are in plenty of other threads, but basically if you list all the faults, they need to fix them all, (not just fix some, or only get something partly working), at first attempt, they don’t get multiple chances to fix, and if when you go to collect the repaired car, if any listed fault is still not 100% sorted, you can reject and not accept it back, for refund.  No need to wait for them to discuss with Skoda, that’s not your problem and not a reason to delay instant refund.

 

 

I read all these problems what people are saying,the main one am bothered about is the car braking to a full stop for no reason.a major safety problem ,wonder why no follow up And all of the motor mags and motoring media taking no notice.is it not time for people to contact there MPs over this very seriously safely defect in these cars?or is everyone waiting until people are killed?

35 minutes ago, Joss1733 said:

And all of the motor mags and motoring media taking no notice

Maybe, just maybe it's a sufficiently intermittent fault that it's never happened to a member of the Guild of Muttering Rotters?

37 minutes ago, KenONeill said:

Maybe, just maybe it's a sufficiently intermittent fault that it's never happened to a member of the Guild of Muttering Rotters?

Motor magazines and media rely on advertising so won't publish the truth if it negatively affects their income.