Ok, so I own MY 2018. It's really a great car.

I had some small issues in the past but everything was covered and rectified under warranty. Nothing major - squeaking door handles, malfunctioning ignition button, depleted car's battery, foggy headlights. 

There is really little to complain about this car.  

One feature of this car is adaptive lane guidance.

I rarely use it although it is quite convenient during morning traffic jams.  The car follows the track by itself. It is not tesla obviously but it even can cover small turns. 

However during driving on motorway the car struggles keeping the center line. It slowly bounces trying to find the center of the track.

There are times it works more reliably. Perhaps it is temperature dependent. From my observations it's just missing those micro adjustments on the wheel I've observed in newer models. I don't have auto parking mode. 

What is Your experience with this system for MY 2017/18. I know the system was greatly improved in later iterations.  

Is there any way to perform some calibration/adjustment. Skoda service tried to do something but they told me that this was the very first vision of this system and really it won't be any better than this.

Thanks for Your feedback  

 

Lane guidance has two operation modes: active and adaptive.

Acive is the one when car bounces, adaptive is when it steers itself.

You can switch the adaptive mode on (if not switched already) in Car settings under driver assistance.

 

Also the road marking (lines) should be quite fresh to let the system work flawlessly.

Edited 20 February, 20224 yr by linni

The problem is with the latter one - the adaptive mode. Obviously it is on, all required options are on. It is true that road markings must be in relatively good condition. 

Still the problem is that it does not keeping the center of the road - it does for the first 10 seconds or so. But later on it struggles. It is like the wheel responses with a little bit of delay. 

From my observation it works better in hot temperatures - perhaps steering fluid is warmer and presents less friction. 

Anyway I know it works in newer models. Mine is MY2018. My question is whether it is possible to make some sort of calibration. 

And how it behaves in 2016/17 models.

I don`t think recalibration will help. There can be many faulty things - camera, some module, some sensor etc. Or may just need software uodate.

Better to get to dealer.

I have a MY17 car. I find the system helpful in giving minor adjustments to my steering, e.g., if I haven't turned the wheel quite enough to stay within the lane on a curve. That fulfills my expectations of the feature. 

 

If I do relax my grip and let the car steer on it's own (for the 12 seconds that it will allow me to do that), then yes, I find that it can sometimes feel slightly late in making an adjustment. However, this is what I would expect from a feature that is meant to assist rather than self-drive - if it intervenes earlier it risks overruling the driver's intentions, and might feel intrusive rather than helpful. It is able to do a reasonable job at keeping towards the centre of the lane. It could definitely be a bit more refined, but I wouldn't say that it bounces. It managed fine when I tried it in temps of 2-3 degrees c. this morning.

 

Are you sure that the feature was improved in later model years? I haven't seen anything that particularly mentioned this. I would've thought the same hardware was used at least until the facelift, which I believe has a different camera for the matrix headlights. 

 

Auto-parking mode isn't relevant to this by the way.

 

If you believe there is a problem with how your system is working, it might be worth asking the dealer whether there is a software update available. If they don't help, and if you're out of warranty, you could contact an independent garage or someone who specialise in retrofitting to see if they could do it for you. 

 

My camera is running software version 3Q0 980 654 H , in case that is useful for you. 

Thanks Teir, that is the feedback I was looking for. Unfortunately the car just ran past the warranty period so its now up to independent service to check out. Its not anything major but one of those things that was bothering me from the beginning but didn't feel need to do anything about it at the time. All in all it works. Like You said, the car wasn't designed to be driving by itself. I know the system evolved since I was provided with a various replacement cars during servicing periods. Each new model felt like more refined in terms of self driving. Granted, I did not compared it with another Kodiaq, but I had Passat, Karoq, Kamiq to compare with. The 'selfdriving' feature worked a little bit better there but I would exchange my car for any other. Once again thank You.