Hello! Great info on here. I’m close to ordering up here in Helsinki, after an Octavia 2 and 3 over the last 8 years.

 

I am looking at an intriguing offer, discounted about 2k to get under our local 50€k threshold for triggering a 2k govt incentive. Also a good offer on my Oct3 valid for the 6-7 month delivery wait.

 

80, heat pump and 125 charging included standard here. I’ve added the tow mount, climate+, family+, convenience+, transport. I could not live without the electric boot! 19s.

 

Interestingly I wanted quartz grey but was told the colours are changing so the new graphite grey instead. 

 

Also I was told no blindspot warning option due to chip shortage.

 

Here we typically have a second set of winter studs but I left those off to get aftermarket.

 

But... I realise that I really want the sportline without the chrome. Let’s see if I can negotiate that!

 

The doubts I have are around potential changes to the govt incentives (might go up and include zero purchase tax from 1.1) and cold range.

 

My long trips are up north in winter, maybe minus 20 and 450km, fully loaded, ski box, fam of 4 and the cats. If a 50kw charge can be pre-booked while the fam eats all good. I worry I am being unrealistic. 

 

Shared garage for home charging. Domestic leccy now, but already spec’d for 7.4kw charge points - installation maybe end 22.

 

With the packages, I turned off the HUD in the test drive, not a fan. The lights upgrade though - any thoughts on that, given I live in the land of the midnight sun - and eternal darkness for 6 months of the year?

I have the Light and View pack on my UK car.

I didn’t want it, and wouldn’t have specified it, but it was on a car that was already built and I could get within a couple of weeks.

I have to say they are the best headlights on any vehicle I’ve ever driven. The rear lights also light up more than the standard rear lights.
The auto main beam system works well, you need to read the manual about the limitations of its use. The only thing that it struggles with is when it picks out the rear of a parked car with no lights on, facing the same way as your car, but on the opposite side of a very dark road (eg no streetlights). It will light up the reflectors of that parked car so brightly that it then thinks they are red lights and blacks out the beam around that car, which stops the reflection and so the Enyaq restores that part of the full beam and lights the reflectors up again. You get a situation where it flashes that part of the high beam on and off until you pass that parked car. For all I know it could be supposed to do this ?

 

I haven’t driven an Enyaq with the standard led headlights, they could be just as good as the matrix ones just without the auto-dimming system.

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Seems the Sportline here comes with the Matrix headlights and better rear LEDs. 

 

One thing about the lights that confused me on the test drive was the coloured light options in the display. There was some kind of disabled message. What is that feature - is it the door strips, is changeable colour standard?

(I’ll try and edit the title so this stays about lights...)

 

Crystal Face then?

On one hand the front grille IMHO is a weak design spot on the car. The lights are certainly a statement.

 

An aftermarket grille might be more up my street, thinking about the Octavia honeycomb and things like that... at some point maybe there will be aftermarket options, maybe.

 

in the meantime, who has the C Face, is it tough enough to survive years of gritty slush, and what are the control options, is it just on/off or...?

3 hours ago, mcdeli said:

Seems the Sportline here comes with the Matrix headlights and better rear LEDs. 

 

One thing about the lights that confused me on the test drive was the coloured light options in the display. There was some kind of disabled message. What is that feature - is it the door strips, is changeable colour standard?

You can customise the internal led lighting to your own choice or use some preset ones. I don’t know if this is on all models, but it is on the light and view pack.

1 hour ago, mcdeli said:

(I’ll try and edit the title so this stays about lights...)

 

Crystal Face then?

On one hand the front grille IMHO is a weak design spot on the car. The lights are certainly a statement.

 

An aftermarket grille might be more up my street, thinking about the Octavia honeycomb and things like that... at some point maybe there will be aftermarket options, maybe.

 

in the meantime, who has the C Face, is it tough enough to survive years of gritty slush, and what are the control options, is it just on/off or...?

The crystal face grill uses the same plastic as the headlights, so it should be more than good enough. I've never had a headlight break in over 20 years of driving.

 

I think it's either on or off with and controlled with the headlights. I've ordered my Enyaq with it, but it's not turning up until next year. The horizontal line may come on with the daytime running lights, but someone who already has it will be able to tell you more.

With the standard grill, I'd hope some aftermarket options appear over time, but what they end up being is anyone's guess. Maybe just a body colour vinyl wrap of the grill would be good 

I feel dirty coming back here to the Enyak forum. Because, sorry... my test drive was great. It was really fun to drive. The sales guy couldn't get the GPS to give me a sensible route and charge option so that wasn't ideal - demo effect! - but the experience with the car was great.

But... I can't face the long winter journeys knowing now that it would mean two stops and the uncertainty about charger availability and time. Plus here (in Finland) they (the dealers) are totally failing at selling the total offer. I am totally bewildered about the home charging possibilities and it is all way too much to worry about for me.
 

I started this journey thinking PHEVs were a waste of time and a temporary patch... but my few weeks seriously considering the Enyak have sent me running into the arms of the Octavia PHEV.  Basically I can have "the Octavia of my dreams" including enough electric range to do school and hobby daily driving, avoid holiday and winter range anxiety, and even get a VRS badge, and come away spending much less the Enyak... and not have to worry about home charging upgrades.

So, yeah sorry, but I am heading back to the Octavia forum (and their iV software problems that I will avoid but not taking the driving assist nonsense... I hope... ;))  

@mcdeli

Hopefully there is a 'operator error' concerning Octavia or Superb iV's and flat 12 volt batteries because if not and it is the cars then that is a real issue.

It is one thing having to charge the car or not and run it on petrol but if it needs to be put on a charger just to be sure it can start or the alarm does not go off then that is no 'simply clever'. 

Running an ICE vehicle or leaving sitting for a while when cold requires some thought,  but the Full Electric and pug in electric and simplicity seems to not be sorted that well with Skoda.

Mild hybrid has some advantage as far as a but of fuel saving and basically buy fuel, drive, park, repeat, and if you need to get someplace covering a distance you just go to car and get in and drive.