I've had my car 8 months now and until now hadn't found a use for the Area Notification feature in the app, which notifies you when the car moves out of a specified area.  But the other day I found a use - I thought.

 

On Saturday, we were returning from a cruise into Southampton, where our car had been valet parked.  I was wondering how efficiently the disembarkation process would join up with the valet parking and I could see from the app that the car was parked some distance from where our ship was berthed.  So, out of curiosity, I set up an area notification to tell me when the car was moved from where it was to where we were going to be.

 

Sadly nothing happened.  The car was waiting for us conveniently close to the ship, but I received no notification that it had moved from where it was...

 

...until Monday lunchtime, when I got a notification on my phone that my car had left the area.

 

So it took over two days to realise the car had moved.   Another "simply clever" feature that just doesn't work!

Whenever I've (infrequently) looked at the app the car data always seems to be a few days out of date.  Makes me wonder how much of a delay there is on the honk and flash feature!!

 

One of several reasons I won't be paying for the Skoda Connect (or whatever it's called) subscription once the free year expires.

That would be great - do a honk and flash now and have it go off in the middle of the night, later in the week!

 

Actually, I've tried that (for fun) and couple of times and it does seem almost immediate.  As does turning on the fan remotely.

My flash feature works with a few seconds delay.