Using the app, the rear screen clears of frost quickly.

The front screen appears not to be affected?

  Close inspection, I'm unable to see any heating wires in the front screen?

 

Is it heated please?

Depends if your car is specced with it. Sounds like it isn’t. Mine is and works a dream

Yeah I specced it and it works very good. 

What makes you think that you have a heated front screen.

 

New technology impregnates the glass with a tiny amount of metal making the heating elements completely invisible so you wouldnt see them even if you did have them

6 hours ago, pe2dave said:

Close inspection, I'm unable to see any heating wires in the front screen

There are no wires to be seen on close inspection, simply because the heated windscreen for Octavia (and not only) uses a foil - metallic coating. All you should be able to see is a colored reflection when looking at the car from outside, in the proper light. The reflection is clearly different compared to the side windows, don't really know how to describe it; it is slightly blue-violet-ish - have a look at the picture.

Another way to check for heated windscreen is to look for a lighter rectangular-patch on the dark areas left and right of the rear-view mirror. For heated windscreens those two patches are missing the metallic layer to avoid attenuation of electromagnetic waves - checkout the 2nd picture.

 

"Another way to check for heated windscreen is to look for a lighter rectangular-patch on the dark areas left and right of the rear-view mirror. For heated windscreens those two patches are missing the metallic layer to avoid attenuation of electromagnetic waves - checkout the 2nd picture."  Thanks @SkOmk4, that makes sense.

   - when the frost clears I'll have a look 🙂 

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